Alive 2: The Music [PA]

Performer: Anthrax
Producer: Anthrax
Distributor: BMG (distributor)

Notes: Anthrax: Joey Belladonna (vocals); Scott Ian (guitar, background vocals); Dan Spitz (guitars); Frank Bello (bass guitar, background vocals); Charlie Benante (drums). This 2005 live album finds a reunited Anthrax laying down the speed-metal law they helped draft with their early albums in the late 1980s. The band's complete original line-up, including vocalist Joey Belladonna, is featured here, and the naked aggression of the band and the technically dazzling intensity of guitarists Dan Spitz and Scott Ian sound as formidable as ever. The set list comprises mostly material from the group's early albums, including some of the best moments from 1987's AMONG THE LIVING (with the title track, "Caught in a Mosh," and "I Am the Law" among them). Belladonna is in strong voice, and the band's blistering energy and furious riffing sound surprisingly vital more than 20 years after the release of their first album.

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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