During an appearance on the Everblack podcast, Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante offered an update on the band’s upcoming album. According to him, the effort is now scheduled to be released in September.
Benante said the following when asked if the group were still aiming for a May release:
“No, it doesn’t come out in May. We’re putting out our first song and video in May. The record is not coming out till September. We pushed it back a little bit. We just had to do a couple of other things to it. And then we had to, of course, get a release date set. So it got moved to September. And that’s it. It’s coming out in September, but the first song and video will be out in May.”
He continued when asked about the song the band teased during their recent live shows:
“We play a little piece of one of the songs. We played it on this Canadian run [with MEGADETH and EXODUS] that we just came back from. But I could see us kind of expanding it a bit for our friends in Australia [on the upcoming Australian tour in late March], maybe playing a little more, because, for me, it’s become so hard to just contain this, because I’m so excited about it. I’m so happy about it. This record is really, really good.”
He also discussed touring plans:
“The ANTHRAX record is a very important release to us. So we’re gonna, of course, make the time to fulfill doing as many shows as we possibly could in support of this record.
It’s such a different time nowadays. If this was 20 years ago, we’d be talking differently about how we’re going to march this record out. But these days it’s, like, I often said, what does a new record mean to people these days? I just feel like music has become so disposable that if I was gonna make a record, another record, and put my heart into it, I want people to anticipate, I want them to get ready to hear it. Because this record is not three or four songs deep of good songs and then the rest is shit. Every song on this record stands on its own. I mean, when one song finishes and the next one comes up, it’s just, like, ‘Holy shit. This one’s fucking just as good as the last.’”
[via Blabbermouth]
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