Label: Megaforce
Verdict: An enjoyable return to form that took years longer than it should have. 6/10.
Back in the 1980s, there were only four heavy metal bands that really mattered: the so-called “Big Four of Trash” — Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, and of course, Anthrax. Each had their own signature take on the style and a loyal fanbase that helped propel record sales in the absence of radio or television play. However, the turn of the decade proved catastrophic for these bands, with line-up changes and stylistic experimentation ravaging all of their once hallowed names.
It took over a decade for the Big Four to recover and begin to record truly great albums again. Metallica’s Death Magnetic saw the group pick-up where they had left off years earlier with ...And Justice For All, while Megadeth’s Endgame and Slayer’s World Painted Blood somehow managed to reprise the manic power of the groups’ earlier years.
Which left only Anthrax to recover.
All the way back in 2009 when I first starting writing for News Hit, the first review that I everwrote for the website was Damn The Empire’s ...With Trends Like These, a record produced by Adelaide-based indie Pee Records. Three years later when I am writing what is most likely the final music review that will ever be uploaded onto Newshit, it is only fitting that it too is a Pee Records release.
Label: Cooking Vinyl
Label: Impedance Records
Label: Pee Records
