New album update

[Anthrax_Mosher]

Monster At The End is fucking epic!

 

[YOYOMOSHMAN]

FUCK the leaks! I don't want to hear it until i have the CD in my hands !!!!!! Old school !

 

[timmyc]

Monster At The End is fucking epic!

Definitely one of my favourites so far. Joey is amazing on that tune.

Is it just me, or does Jon's solo have a real Dime tone here?

 

[johnnieCzech]

TImmy: Yeah, the whole record. The thing with WM is that it was much more diverse.

 

[mrthrax]

Ok love it's,it's epic,I'm guessing it was a conscious decision for the dimebag style leads,much better than rob

 

[Anthrax_Mosher]

Zero Tolerance riffs sound a bit like POT or ATL.

 

[Mikey-Bong]

FUCK the leaks! I don't want to hear it until i have the CD in my hands !!!!!! Old school !

Agreed!

 

[Jono]

I just read online that apparently all of Nuclear Blast's February releases somehow leaked yesterday.

Yeah, if you look at the latest metal leaks at hasitleaked, it's all NB bands. Crazy.

 

[mrthrax]

It's a masterpiece I can't stop playing it,flows very well and it's so infectious, one of the only anthrax albums that's hit me like a hammer straight off the bat,monster!!!!!!

 

[Jockthrax]

It's leaked? Where?

 

[Jockthrax]

Apologies I'm not very good at downloading leaked or dodgy stuff. Is it available to stream anywhere? Needless to say I will be getting a copy 1st day in Feb when it's released the same as I have with every album since SOWN. Apart from Alive. I was still pretty sore about the reunion at that point lol

 

[poorchoiceofwords]

The fact that it leaked from Nuclear Blast through Spotify is really going to get Scott's balls. The dude has been knocking streaming for a long time and now it's fucked his entire new album release up. Holy hell.

 

[ghoststrike]

Turns out that "Impaled" and "You Gotta Believe" are the same song.

Definitely a killer tune to open the new record.

Agreed. Grabbed me a the 1st listen.Just got to the 2nd song,,LOVE the big vocals and leads...Early but so far sounds like a big step up from WM.

Yeah. While I'm stoked as hell about the record I'm a bit bummed for the band that's it's leaked so early. I'll be a first-day buyer of multiple formats so I'll be doing right by the band, but others wont!

Anyway - the record is fucking fantastic. On my 4th spin and loving it more and more each time. Anonymous is spot on that it doesn't give away in the second half (although I love WM start to finish). It's just riff after riff-tastic.

There's definitely more thrash, but also more melody and more epic songs and parts. Production is awesome too.


Donais's solos are magnificent, and Joey is again the star of the show. Bello's bass cuts through beautifully. Just wow.

My highlights on a few listens are You Gotta Believe, Monster at the End, Suzerain, Breathing Lightning, Zero Tolerance (thrash!!!!!)........ fuck - all of them!!!!!

The melodies / harmonies are MUCH better with Joey / Frank / Scott collaborating. Catchy / stronger riffs. Leads are SWEET as fuck,,,Don't get me wrong, WM was great but THIS is the album I was waiting on Anthrax to make.

 

[johnnieCzech]

Don't see any difference if the album leaks a week prior to the official release, as all albums do, or two months prior to it. If anything it's helping the hype.

 

[ghoststrike]

I just read online that apparently all of Nuclear Blast's February releases somehow leaked yesterday.

Inside job lol

Too much of a coincidence lol

I'll buy the album once its released but don't mind some early ear candy

 

[anomynous]

Breathing Lightning is so catchy

 

[timmyc]

Yeah, knowing everyone who posts on here will buy the record ( and surely some multiple times) it didn't bother me posting about the record leaking on here.

Hopefully Johnnie is right and it helps increase hype. But 2 months is a long time for the very casual average metal fan to keep excited about a record these days.

 

[mrthrax]

Probably close to ruining the last decent metal label, anthrax won't put up with that nor should they

 

[johnnieCzech]

Probably close to ruining the last decent metal label, anthrax won't put up with that nor should they

Well that's also true

 

[resumurofnikufesin]

Monster At The End is fucking epic!

I'd probably like more of these songs if they weren't so epic. It seems like some of them could've been trimmed down, but that's probably just me. I like short songs.

TImmy: Yeah, the whole record. The thing with WM is that it was much more diverse.

I'd say that upon first listen, I can see where someone would say that, but if anything this one seems even more diverse to me. Whereas WM was very obviously different from song to song, FAK's diversity seems to be spread more evenly within each song. Instead of banking wholeheartedly on making each song a stylistic departure from the last, the new material has more unexpected detours than WM did. That sort of approach can tend to make an album seem more evenhanded even though there's probably more going on. ....or maybe that's just me.

Zero Tolerance is my favorite from the new one.