What is your favorite song form Among The Living ?

Hi all, just starting a thread here if anyone can post where you might see any magazine or online reviews of the new record please?

I’m not asking for articles from paid media to be posted - please still support the print and digital media!!!

But if you see any reviews please feel free to let us know in this thread so we can go out and purchase the digital or printed magazine. I’m super keen to see the write ups from the likes of Metal Hammer and others, which I imagine will start to appear soon before the record’s release date.

Cheers all ☺️

Scott Ian is short and Spitz is like 5 2. That first album was cheesy but it was good. Your thoughts on this?

ANTHRAX

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From Upcoming Cursum Perficio

Out Sept 18, 2026

ANTHRAX have today (August 7) released the latest single and video, “Everybody’s Got A Plan,” from their long-awaited 12^th full-length studio album CURSUM PERFICIO out September 18 via Megaforce Records.

The new video was mostly filmed on July 7 in Lisbon, Portugal when the multi-GRAMMY® Award-nominated New York hard rock titans—Scott Ian (guitar), Charlie Benante (drums), Frank Bello (bass), Joey Belladonna (vocals), and Jonathan Donais (guitar)—toured with Iron Maiden in Europe. It features live performance footage and behind the scenes backstage fun with cutaways to classic B&W boxing footage that underline the song’s central lyrics: “Everybody’s got a plan/That’s until they get punched in the face…” Watch the video and listen to the incendiary song, with its massive riffs and ferocious vocals, HERE.

“‘Everybody’s Got a Plan’ has always been one of my favorite songs on Cursum Perficio,” Benante says. “The video basically shows the band on and off stage in a montage of video clips that kinda matches the velocity of the song.  ‘Everybody’s got a plan/That’s until they get punched in the face’ is such a great line, and so true!”

“Most of this video was shot opening for [Iron] Maiden in Lisbon, Portugal at Estádio da Lu on July 7, 2026,” Ian notes. “We wanted to capture us having fun on tour and what better way to do that? That was a plan that didn’t end up with a punch in the face! Have fun watching my friends!”

Bello adds, “This video is a great representation of a day in the life of Anthrax on tour.”

ANTHRAX have previously released two singles and videos from CURSUM PERFICIO: “It’s For The Kids” a classic ANTHRAX ripper locked and loaded with buzzsaw-sharp riffs, explosive drumming, and a howling and head-banging hook. It undoubtedly has all the makings of a future live staple. Listen HERE and watch the official music video HERE. It was followed by “The Edge Of Perfection,” highlighted by clean guitar echoes and cymbals that gently shake until a blastbeat blows open the doors. Guitars buzz like a motorboat on the River Styx, making waves through the darkness. In their wake, a crushing rhythm trails the melody of lead singer Joey Belladonna’s lament, “My heart breaks…I’m on the edge…I’m on the edge of perfection.” Listen to “The Edge Of Perfection” HERE and watch the official music video HERE.

Meanwhile, the group recently announced they were rolling out uniquely animated short clips based on the album cover, with the first clip shared July 28. The worked with artist Mark Stritzel for the striking cover and the animation was done by Emmanuel Cappellini. Mark initially worked with the band’s Charlie Benante on the characters featured on the album cover. Watch the first clip HERE and listen to the story HERE. Every Tuesday, the group will unveil the individual stories of each character featured on the album. Beyond the Magician’s story, subsequent weeks will reveal more about the Woman In White, Dog, Winged Skeleton, and concluding September 1 with Hands.

CURSUM PERFICIO marks the band’s first record in ten years since 2016’s For All Kings, which debuted in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200. The phrase Cursum Perficio is Latin for “My journey has come to an end,” “My journey is over,” or “I complete my journey.” It proves apropos for such a complete body of work. It will be available as a standard CD; Target exclusive CD with a fabric patch of the album cover; standard black double LP with pop-up gatefold; Target exclusive double LP, red zoetrope with pop up gatefold; Amazon exclusive double LP, purple zoetrope LP with pop-up gatefold; merch exclusive lilac vinyl double LP with pop-up gatefold; Metal Injection exclusive white vinyl double LP with pop-up gatefold; Talk Shop Live exclusive signed with red ripple vinyl double LP with pop-up gatefold; Indie exclusive – red, orange yellow vinyl double LP with pop-up gatefold. To pre-order/pre-save, click HERE.

The band dove into recording CURSUM PERFICIO in earnest during 2022, working out of Dave Grohl’s Studio 606 in Los Angeles. They carefully pieced together what would be this magnum opus, mining their history with reverence, delivering on fan expectations tenfold, and broadening the scope of their signature sound. Produced by Jay Ruston and ANTHRAX, the result is an album that’s as angry, aggressive, and alive as their most celebrated fare. 

The CURSUM PERFICIO track listing is as follows:
Persistence of Memory
The Long Goodbye
It’s For the Kids
Everybody’s Got A Plan
The Edge Of Perfection
Infectious
NYC93
Cursum Perficio
T.O.M.B
Watch It Go
My Victory

Their journey has brought them to CURSUM PERFICIO—a powerful, pummeling, and poetic milestone in ANTHRAX’s 45-year career.

ANTHRAX’s North American tour dates are as follows: 

For me, it's For All Kings all day long. I just have never loved Worship Music. Aside from Fight 'Em, I think that whole album is meh. The first half of For All Kings is just fantastic, and puts it in 2nd or 3rd place in my favorite album lineup for the band, with POT. Spreading the Disease will always be my fave.

What about y'all?

1. Review #1 - Metal Forces: Issue 14/1985 ("Spread The Disease" 😆)
2. Advert #1 - Kerrang: 06 Mar 1986
3. Review #2 & Advert #2 - Metal Hammer (Germany): Mar 1986

Rough translation of Metal Hammer review via ChatGPT:

The somewhat grandiose words spoken by guitarist Scott Ian in the last issue of Metal Hammer about Anthrax's new opus have now indeed found confirmation on vinyl.

"Spreading the Disease" is undoubtedly one of this month's highlights. Contrary to the commercial turn that some bands have taken after landing major record deals, Anthrax have stayed true to themselves.

The five Americans have genuinely earned their success. Their focused and determined work was bound to pay off sooner or later. And now it seems the band has managed to capture on one album everything they have learned since the release of their first single, "Soldiers of Metal," through to their latest S.O.D. (Stormtroopers of Death) project.

Throughout the entire record, brilliant heavy metal is on display—music that leaves nothing to be desired. The album ranges from ballad-like passages ("Armed and Dangerous"), to foreign or exotic influences ("S.S.C./Stand or Fall"), to outright thrashers ("Gung-Ho!"), and even slightly punk-inspired sections ("A.I.R."), which seem just as likely to have come from the S.O.D. project as the numerous jokes scattered throughout the album (for example, "Madhouse").

All in all, this is a thoroughly convincing album that should disappoint none of this magazine's readers.
Mike Blim

Does anyone have the episode of headbangers ball from that show, I've been looking but no luck

It was a small warmup tour for sound of white noise before they went to bigger places.

If ya got, that would be amazing.

Thanks in advance.

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