New album update

[poorchoiceofwords]

This is very curious indeed. If I were in the Anthrax camp I'd be holding Nuclear Blast's feet to the fire on this very much so. This is incredibly suspect.

 

[anomynous]

Apparently the albums were on spotify temporarily today.




The rest is history.

 

[Anthrax_Mosher]

Leaked already what the fuck

 

[johnnieCzech]

listening to it right now

 

[timmyc]

Don't get me wrong, I love WM. But the first half is definitely stronger

Yeah agree with you mate.

 

[johnnieCzech]

At the first listen it sounds like all the songs sound pretty much alike. Gotta give it some more spins... Joey's vocals still annoy the fuck out of me at times. So far the best song for me is probably Zero Tolerance, which is also the thrashiest one on the CD.

 

[MrF33n3y]

I won't be listening until it's actually released, but it's cool to see it's getting so much praise here - can't wait to hear it.

One of my friends on Facebook told me he thought Evil Twin was one of the weakest songs on the album - do you guys agree on that?

 

[anomynous]

I would.



Weakest is probably the title track.

 

[Anthrax_Mosher]

Evil Twin is one of the best.

 

[timmyc]

Evil Twin is somewhere in the middle for me.

Agree with Anonymous re the title track being one of the weakest tunes - although I've now spun the whole thing 7-8 times and it's grown on me heaps!! Fave tracks are You Gotta Believe, Monster At The End (Joes's vocals are amazing on this), Suzerain, All Of Them Thieves, Zero Tolerance (somehow reminds me of Imitation of Life the way it closes the record).

Absolutely loving this record. I honestly believe it's a stronger record overall than WM.

(Edit) Forgot to say - Jon Donais's lead work on the record is stunning. So good to hear him lay down some of his own contributions now. There's plenty tasty lead fills as well as solos throughout.

 

[Jono]

I second that the leads are awesome. I also love where the bass is at. I like the whole album where WM was hit and miss.

 

[poorchoiceofwords]

Jon Donais's effort on this is really something of a revelation here. I'm fucking impressed. He's all over the album just tearing it up.

They haven't written anything as straight up thrashy as Zero Tolerance since Among.

 

[anomynous]

Don't know why people are surprised about Donais, he's always been a killer guitarist.

 

[mrthrax]

Is this a joke,what the hell?

 

[mrthrax]

Looks like someone at the shitty rc ducked it up for them,they should just try and release it as early as possible now, yes the promo will be bad but may as well get it out as soon as possible , how could it have been on spotify,Scott was only bagging them out last week

 

[timmyc]

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

 

[johnnieCzech]

I would.



Weakest is probably the title track.

Don't care for the title track much either. The chorus is somewhat cheesy.

 

[johnnieCzech]

It's much better after the second listen...

 

[Anthrax_Mosher]

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

Inside job lol

 

[timmyc]

It's much better after the second listen...

You talking about the whole record?

I found I needed 4-5 spins to really start absorbing it. Definitely not as immediate of a record as WM was on first listen.