Volume 8: The Threat Is Real

Performer: Anthrax
Engineer: Paul Crook
Producer: Anthrax; Paul Crook
Distributor: BMG (distributor)

Notes: This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. Anthrax: John Bush (vocals); Charlie Benante (acoustic & electric guitars, drums, percussion); Scott Ian (guitar, background vocals); Frank Bello (bass, background vocals). Recorded at Krusty's Fun House, Yonkers, New York. This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. As pioneers of thrash metal circa 1985, Anthrax supplied a soundtrack of aggression for the 80's and early 90's. The band also gained notoriety for the successful merging of rap and metal. VOLUME 8 shows Anthrax is as vital as ever. Showcasing the vocal talents of John Bush, the record combines traditional metal riffing with some new musical paths previously unexplored by the band. There are the acoustic undertones of "Inside Out," punk in "604" and the country twang of "Toast To the Extras." Yes, the band that brought us "Metal Thrashing Mad" are showing their fondness for Waylon Jennings. And it works! They have lost neither their hunger nor their creativity.

Critics of heavy metal long pointed out the genre's penchant for often taking itself far too seriously, but N.Y.C. thrash metallists Anthrax showed that metal could indeed have a light-hearted side. Besides helping to put thrash metal on the map with a slew of classic albums in the 1980s, the band was one of the first to merge rap with metal via their cult hit "I'm the Man" and their historic collaboration with Public Enemy on the 1991 remix of PE's "Bring the Noise."

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