Anthrax probably filled more stadiums than any of the bands mentioned in this thread in the 80s.

But nobody ever cared after The Sound of White Noise. Although We've Come for You All is an underrated alt metal quasi-classic that's better than anything else they ever did with John Bush. The best thing the singer ever did by a good ways, and I like Armored Saint. I'd classify this as the last gasp of Bush-era Anthrax where they were legit trying their ass off to make things work and made an actual good go of it.

No wonder they fired Bush after this and went back to Joey Belladonna, cause even if they could have continued making good albums like this they had every reason to believe no one would ever care so why not go for broke and bring back the guy from the albums people actually like.

Better than I thought it would be, even if some of it sounds like Linkin Park and/or Nickelback, but still bad.

As far as I'm concerned it sounds like the best album you could ever expect to hear on the radio within any time in the last twenty years, and some of this **** is legit fire. It's not something I come back to except for nostalgia since it was the current Anthrax album when I was discovering metal, but it somehow was the best Big Four album at the time (this, St. Anger, God Hates us All, and The World Needs a Hero), and it's still pretty fun.








I like that the album title is "We've Come for You All" but the cover screams "Please Save Us". Kind of says everything.

I suppose it is.

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all the big four were coming out of their darkest period.

Yes, but at least one band actually came out with one good album without making a phony "back to their roots album". Slayer were the only band to do anything of worth from that period and on, so as far as I'm concerned as far as post-00 Big Four goes, it's basically Christ Illusion and We've Come for You All and then everything else can go **** itself. So two albums by all four bands were truly worth anything. And honestly I could take one over the other. One is a durn good thrash album while the other is a durn good song-oriented alt metal album, and depending on the day I could take WCFYA over Christ Illusion. It's not brilliant, but it's still fun.

Um, that would only be the Big Three. :bonkhead:

Nah since Metallica are clearly not being replaced. Duh.

I thought that World Painted Blood had some cool songs.

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I never noticed how they all followed the same pattern at the same time (other than Anthrax)