Best Anthrax album of all time? Not even close. PoT/AtL are both better. I think even SoE is probably a better album as a whole.
Best album since PoT? Without a doubt. Better than SoWN, if for no other reason, Belladonna is doing the vocals and he has a much better range than Bush. Even excluding the Belladonna vs. Bush arguments, I believe it is better. Earth on Hell is much better than anything off of SoWN, as is Judas Priest and In the End. Most of the other songs are better than anything off of SoWN as well.
It does destroy any album after SoWN though. Stomp, WCFYA.....all of them pale in comparison to this album.
Its not all I wanted from Anthrax. I do want them to return to their roots even more and, if they do release another album with Joey on vocals, I think they just might. No, this is not it but its a solid start.
One thing I do find absolutely hilarious is some of the vocals that Belladonna does in the lower register on this album. He nails them and shows that he could have done the vocals SoWN, Stomp and all the other Bush-era albums just as well as Bush. His lows are just as strong as Bush's and Bush can not come close to his range.
That being said, I do not ever....
EVER....want to see a GoTE 2 album because even with Belladonna singing, those albums are about 95% trash.