To prepare myself for reviewing this CD, the latest effort from
\none of the thrash metal genre’s leaders, I spent a lot of time with
\ntheir greatest hits release
\nReturn Of The Killer A’s<\/i>, which chronicles the band’s
\ncareer. I introduced my children to the song “Indians” as well as
\nthe frantic pace of their cover of the Joe Jackson tune “Got the
\nTime.” I also enjoyed their more recent tracks like “Only,”
\nrealizing that the band has progressed from their early releases
\nlike
\nFistful Of Metal<\/i> and
\nArmed And Dangerous<\/i>. More recently, the band has found out
\nthat you don’t have to play 100 MPH to be a heavy band, a la
\nMetallica.<\/p>\n
Listening to their greatest hits gave me the perspective to
\nconclude
\nWe’ve Come For You All<\/i> is a stellar release. Anthrax
\ncontinues what worked on their last release,
\nVolume 8 – The Threat Is Real<\/i>, and throws enough references
\nto their early thrash roots to satisfy veteran and newbie fans.<\/p>\n
It’s at the 1:41 mark of “What Doesn’t Die” that the band sounds
\nlike the old days of thrash metal. The crescendo is one that makes
\nyou imagine the band playing this song live. And that’s a major
\nthrust of this release. While there are some overdubs and special
\neffects, the bulk of this material sounds like four guys that set
\nup their instruments and started jamming. Vocalist John Bush sounds
\nexcellent, especially during “Nobody Knows Anything,” which is also
\na stellar track for drummer Charlie Benante, who constructs a
\nfrantic drumbeat. The single “Safe Home” could serve as a suitable
\nintroduction to the band, who has still, despite Metallica’s radio
\nsuccess, never really made a splash on the radio.<\/p>\n
The song that I would think would make more of an impact is
\n“Think About An End,” a Charlie Benante-driven mid-tempo stomp.
\nAfter multiple listens, this is the song I come back to as
\npersonifying the progress Anthrax has made on this release. It has
\nthe trademark Benante drumming, which relies more on tom-tom
\nrhythms than a straight rock beat between hi-hat and snare.<\/p>\n
At the 2:20 mark, Benante’s bass drum stomp helps introduce a
\nretro ’80s riff, upon which Bush gives his best performance on this
\nrelease. At the end of the day, Anthrax is continues the theme the
\ntheme of their song “I’m the Man,” when they declared “We like to
\nbe different and not cliche.”<\/p>\n
In 2003, that is true. They are in the midst of a credible tour,
\nsharing the stage with bands like Lamb of God, Lacuna Coil and
\nE-Town Concrete. Chances are Anthrax mainstream fans, the ones that
\nonly introduced the band through “Safe Home,” are not familiar with
\nany of those bands. I must admit I’ve heard of all these bands, but
\nI couldn’t name a single song they recorded without looking up the
\nband on the internet. My ignorance of these supposedly stellar
\nbands holds up as an example of why Anthrax continues to be
\nimportant in the music scene of 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[5959],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-37668","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-anthrax","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=37668"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=37668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}