I would have preferred more songs like Earth on Hell and Fight'em Til You Can't, but overall it's a good album and a promising "come back".

Written by Guest on 13.09.2011 at 01:31

Written by whitepawel on 13.09.2011 at 01:14

Written by ChapuLviz on 13.09.2011 at 00:57

This Album sucks!!!... Really....

Thank You!

Still sore about Bush leaving I see.

Actually, my favorite Anthrax album is Spreading The Disease (!) but yeah, maybe they'd release a better album if Bush wouldn't leave and they wouldn't have a 7 years hiatus including all that Belladonna-Nelson-Belladonna drama.

I'm an Anthrax fan who really likes the albums 'Spreading The Disease' through to 'Persistance of Time', although I prefer Bush as a Vocalist to Joey (as you can imagine, I love 'The Greatest of Two Evils'!) and Among The Living is one of my very favourite albums. I quite like the Bush-era albums too, particularly 'We've Come For You All'.

I've only listened to 'Worship Music' once so far, but I am majorly disappointed by it. I'd say it's just as disappointing as Morbid Angel's new album, but for different reasons. I don't think MA's new album is half as bad as a lot of people make it out to be, but I definitely think it's their worst record and I generally don't like much Music of the Industrial genre. I find it at least keeps my attention for the most part, has its good moments (particularly some excellent drumming) and is catchy in places.

'Worship Music' is just plain boring for me. It barely does anything to keep my attention, besides the odd few decent moments. The song 'Judas Priest' does not deserve to be named after one of the greatest and most important bands of all time. I'll give the album at least one or two more listens, but I doubt my opinion of it will improve significantly.

Edit: To those saying it is better than the likes of 'Death Magnetic' and 'Annihilator', I couldn't disagree more. Most recent records from old-school Thrash bands have been great in my opinion, with the latest albums from Testament, Annihilator and Onslaught being particular highlights. 'Worship Music' doesn't even get close to the quality of the lesser of the latest old-school Thrash bands' albums, such as 'World Painted Blood' and 'Endgame', in my opinion.

Written by Angelic Storm on 13.09.2011 at 04:50

Written by John Shock on 13.09.2011 at 01:22

Ah Ah you actually rate it 9 ...like you said! Well, it's not perfect but it's nice!

Woah, it didn't take you very long to notice, did it! hehe "Crawl" actually has started growing on me the last couple of times I've listened to the album, but still... for me it's just not quite perfect. 9.5 I'm pretty sure is my final rating for the album, but I could only give it that, if I reviewed it... lol xD

Cant' you review something?...

Written by John Shock on 13.09.2011 at 15:15
Cant' you review something?...

I couldn't review it, no. lol If you're not staff or an elite member, I think you need to wait at least 3 months after an album's been released before you can review it. Anyways, I'm not very confident in my review writing abilities...

Written by Angelic Storm on 13.09.2011 at 17:14

Written by John Shock on 13.09.2011 at 15:15
Cant' you review something?...

I couldn't review it, no. lol If you're not staff or an elite member, I think you need to wait at least 3 months after an album's been released before you can review it. Anyways, I'm not very confident in my review writing abilities...

Well, me neither, but i like your constructive comments along the MetalStorm band data base...i've read some interesting comments of yours! I think you ca do it!

Written by John Shock on 13.09.2011 at 18:35
Well, me neither, but i like your constructive comments along the MetalStorm band data base...i've read some interesting comments of yours! I think you ca do it!

Well, thank you. That's very nice of you to say! Im always objective in my opinions on bands/music, but I feel it's difficult to write a very positive review without it coming across as being subjective, even if it's not...

Written by Angelic Storm on 13.09.2011 at 21:15

Written by John Shock on 13.09.2011 at 18:35
Well, me neither, but i like your constructive comments along the MetalStorm band data base...i've read some interesting comments of yours! I think you ca do it!

Well, thank you. That's very nice of you to say! Im always objective in my opinions on bands/music, but I feel it's difficult to write a very positive review without it coming across as being subjective, even if it's not...

disagree. a review should be subjective, otherwise it is worthless. the feelings and emotions the album inspires in you (reviewer/listener) are far more important than the vast majority of "objective" details.

does the album rock?
is it worth buying?
does it make you want to smash furniture and set your neighbor's house ablaze?

those are all far more important than:

what mode does the lead guitarist use when soloing over the I-IV-V chord progression?

a strictly objective review is nothing more than a fact sheet.


while you want the reviewer to have some objectivity in reviewing a piece, it's the subjective that give it flavor.




Back to topic - i'll be picking the album up today and doing a review at some point in the next week or so.

Written by BitterCOld on 13.09.2011 at 21:33
disagree. a review should be subjective, otherwise it is worthless. the feelings and emotions the album inspires in you (reviewer/listener) are far more important than the vast majority of "objective" details.

does the album rock?
is it worth buying?
does it make you want to smash furniture and set your neighbor's house ablaze?

those are all far more important than:

what mode does the lead guitarist use when soloing over the I-IV-V chord progression?

a strictly objective review is nothing more than a fact sheet.

while you want the reviewer to have some objectivity in reviewing a piece, it's the subjective that give it flavor.

Maybe "subjective" was the wrong choice of words there, I dunno... :\ What I was trying to say, is that I never allow any pre-conceived notions, or bias (be that positive or negative) to affect my opinion in any way when going into listen to an album I've never heard before. That's what I was trying to get at when I made that post. I guess my problem is, Im very passionate about music, and I feel like in a review, I'd need to keep that in check, at least to a degree. Or I'd just risk coming across as being OTT and silly... I do lack confidence in my reviewing skills, I think mainly because what I write comes totally from the heart, and Im not very good with wordplay. lol

Written by Angelic Storm on 13.09.2011 at 21:15

Written by John Shock on 13.09.2011 at 18:35
Well, me neither, but i like your constructive comments along the MetalStorm band data base...i've read some interesting comments of yours! I think you ca do it!

Well, thank you. That's very nice of you to say! Im always objective in my opinions on bands/music, but I feel it's difficult to write a very positive review without it coming across as being subjective, even if it's not...

Well, i think, nothing is impossible, then a "super-review", is "nothing of the other world"!

I love Anthrax, so I don't wanna sound like a dick when I say this, but..... I don't like this album. The first 3 tracks (Earth On Hell, The Devil You Know, and Fight 'Em Till You Can't) are awesome. After that though the album drops in quality pretty drastically.

Written by John Shock on 13.09.2011 at 22:40
Well, i think, nothing is impossible, then a "super-review", is "nothing of the other world"!

I'm not really sure what you're trying to say here... lol

Written by Angelic Storm on 14.09.2011 at 05:30

Written by John Shock on 13.09.2011 at 22:40
Well, i think, nothing is impossible, then a "super-review", is "nothing of the other world"!

I'm not really sure what you're trying to say here... lol

What i mean is tha, a review is nothing special to do, it's not impossible to do a nice review!

But why do a nice review when the album is average at best?

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 14.09.2011 at 23:36

But why do a nice review when the album is average at best?

If I reviewed the album, and said it was average, I would be being (personally) dishonest. lol

Aha the Belladonna fangirl is answering

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 15.09.2011 at 00:20

Aha the Belladonna fangirl is answering

Hey! lol

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a huge fan of Joey's vocals, but even a great singer can't save an album if it's lacking musically. (Rob Halford and Ronnie James Dio for example, both sang on more than one sub par albums in their careers...) For me, Joey singing on the album is just the icing on the cake. Had John Bush been the vocalist for it, I'd still be calling it a great album, because I feel musically, it's their most consistent set of material in 2 decades. The fact that Joey happens to be singing on it as well, is just pure coincidence. lol

Discovered Anthrax back in 2007 because i was listening to Metallica, Slayer and Megadeth so should really check out the last of the big 4. I absolutely fell in love with the band and they became my favorite. At the time they had Dan nelson and were rumored to be recording a new album so i looked forward to this with much anticipation. 3 years later i saw anthrax with the big 4 with still waiting for this album. So its fair to say i've been waiting for this for most of my teenage years. While not the masterpiece my wait justified, this is still a solid album and along with endgame and death magnetic, Keeps in the thrash style while still sounding like a modern metal record. I belive this record to be one of anthrax's best since Sound of white noise and probably a runner up for best of 2011 surely.

The more I listen to this disastrous brainfart, the less I like it. Initially I rated it 6, but now it's a 5. I guess I should stop listening to this shit before my rating goes even lower

I just can't get into this one. I've listened to it quite a few times all the way through and can only find parts that catch my ear every so often. I love Joey being back and for the time his voice is sounding pretty good. But the majority of the riffs just don't speak Anthrax to me. There are even a lot of points where I can't help but think that the riffs are more similar to "The Damned Things"... that is what a side project is for, dudes.

I thought that this was a pretty decent album. I would have preferred these particular songs sung by John Bush. It's not that I don't like Joey, his old stuff was awesome. John Bush has more of a comanding voice (I feel that way anyway) than Joey. At least it wasn't Dan Nelson.

Interesting little album... Not sure quite what to think yet but I can tell you Fight 'Em is going to be racking up serious plays on the ipod in the near future

The more I listen to it the more I like it. Joeys voice is phenomenal and he has some serious vocal melodies going on. I wasnt expecting another Among The Living. They changed their sound years ago but for what it is its a catchy, fun, head bang'able listen.

For the moment i like it quite, really not bad, not bad. By the way reminds me to the style of the last disc of Annihilator.

Finally got my copy, and it's worth noting they've made good efforts on the packaging (nice shiny digipack with cool pictures, plus the single cover with Anthrax fighting zombies printed behind the disc). That in addition to a nice album and I'm glad I've spent my money for it.

No covers, guess it's 4 sips then.

I don't like this album. Nothing here that amuses me, but I'm not gonna rate it

Metal Storm always have the scores too low, i give this album a clear 9 and I don't want trolls saying it sucks because of stupid things.

Liked the production and overall the sound feels like a mixture of the two anthrax eras with a heavy modern production, my problem is, despite SOME good ones, I didn't find any of the songs to be particularly memorable or strong Anthrax songs, especially in the second half: better than stomp and volume, but not as memorable or as enjoyable as WCFYA or the classics

Written by RuiQuental on 09.10.2011 at 17:08

Metal Storm always have the scores too low, i give this album a clear 9 and I don't want trolls saying it sucks because of stupid things.

Are you talking about specific people or are you of the opinion that everyone who rates it lowly does so because of "stupid things"?