Whereas Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante is out on tour with the present iteration of Pantera and Scott Ian’s busy with some Mr. Bungle dates, Anthrax is in the course of engaged on their observe as much as 2016’s For All Kings.

Just lately, numerous members of the band have mentioned that work’s been regular as she goes on the brand new report. Whereas talking with Final Guitar, bassist Frank Bello gave one more replace on how the method has been going.

t”What Anthrax does lately, we do a bunch of songs collectively, like a bulk of the songs. I feel we now have eight or 9 proper now. And we’ll hold writing. I feel that’s necessary. That’s how we did the final report, and it got here out the best way we needed it to. We’ve a very good bulk of songs proper now that we all know already. However we nonetheless wanna have a few extra. In order that’s the best way we go. We’ll digest these for some time. I’ll do my bass subsequent month. Then vocals will come on and we’ll have this locked up. After which we’ll begin writing a couple of extra songs. Then we’ll select what’s greatest for the report and the way the report goes. We’re hoping — I’m praying, ’trigger it’s been some time, man — [to have the album out] subsequent 12 months. It’s been, I feel, nearly eight years from the final report. I wanna have a report out. All of us do. I can’t wait to play new songs — all these items. I wanna go on tour. Nevertheless it’s gotta be proper.”

Given the truth that we’ve skilled a pandemic and the ensuing lockdowns for the reason that final Anthrax album, Bello was requested in the event that they’d managed to make use of that point to start prototyping the brand new music.

“We really received collectively periodically. However throughout the pandemic, when every part was locked down — I reside in New York; we had been actually locked down. It was actually ridiculous when it first began. And all people was doing their jamming over the Web and all that. That’s nice. I feel that happy lots of people. I assumed that was nice. That was enjoyable. However with Anthrax, the three of us must be in a room and one another and vibing. And it’s spontaneous and it’s locked in. And also you do it like this [via video], and I really like this, however the latency — there’s a second delay. Think about simply jamming like that, it’s, like, ‘What’d you play there?’ And it stops the vibe. And unexpectedly you’re taking aside the track for no cause. It’s, like, ‘All proper. This isn’t the best way to do it. We’ve to get collectively.’ In order that’s what we did. And I feel it was a wise transfer as a result of we gained’t put out something we don’t reside. And it’s gotta be proper. It’s gotta be precisely the report we’re popping out with. That’s who we’re.”

So there you’ve got it. Should you’re ready for brand spanking new Anthrax album, you’ve received some time to go. Right here’s hoping the brand new one will probably be a banger.