I like John Bush's performance on The Greater of Two Evils . I give that whole album a listening session pretty often. But it's just understood that songs like "Deathrider", "Among the Living", "Gung Ho" etc... would've never been written during his period in the band. I mean, those songs were written during a different time and place for the band, and for metal in general.
Don't get me wrong, I am a fan of the John Bush albums. But in comparison to their earlier material, one has to struggle to find any elements of what can be considered thrash metal in them. Though, this does not mean there isn't any good song writing on them! And there are plenty of good riffs and some heavy palm-muting and fast drumming on those albums. Unfortunately, you only find it on a few selected tracks. Yeah, WCFYA has some heavy shit on there. ...but again, that's about 3 out of 14 songs. It's like the heavy parts were put in there to make up for the lack of heaviness overall. ...I know you guys know what I mean.
Scott Ian used to do a lot more palm-muting, with heavy down-picking parts and then switching to crazy fast muted tremolo-picking. He and Charlie used to write some beast riffs!! And what ever happened to the "mosh parts"? I wanna see Scott doing his trademark stomp on every song! haha!
Honestly, I am just hoping for Anthrax to start writing & performing some new material which is a nod back to the thrash metal sound which defined them in the first place. I think that is what a lot of people are looking for, regardless of who the singer is. Finally, just an observation, in the 1980's Anthrax once even had a following in the punk & hardcore scene. But from the John Bush era, you are more likely to find them attracting a Bon Jovi fan. ...and that's fucking sad.
Don't get me wrong, I am a fan of the John Bush albums. But in comparison to their earlier material, one has to struggle to find any elements of what can be considered thrash metal in them. Though, this does not mean there isn't any good song writing on them! And there are plenty of good riffs and some heavy palm-muting and fast drumming on those albums. Unfortunately, you only find it on a few selected tracks. Yeah, WCFYA has some heavy shit on there. ...but again, that's about 3 out of 14 songs. It's like the heavy parts were put in there to make up for the lack of heaviness overall. ...I know you guys know what I mean.
Scott Ian used to do a lot more palm-muting, with heavy down-picking parts and then switching to crazy fast muted tremolo-picking. He and Charlie used to write some beast riffs!! And what ever happened to the "mosh parts"? I wanna see Scott doing his trademark stomp on every song! haha!
Honestly, I am just hoping for Anthrax to start writing & performing some new material which is a nod back to the thrash metal sound which defined them in the first place. I think that is what a lot of people are looking for, regardless of who the singer is. Finally, just an observation, in the 1980's Anthrax once even had a following in the punk & hardcore scene. But from the John Bush era, you are more likely to find them attracting a Bon Jovi fan. ...and that's fucking sad.
