ANTHRAX's CHARLIE BENANTE Talks Next Studio Album, 30th-Anniversary Reissue Of 'Spreading The Disease'

ANTHRAX is currently putting the finishing touches on its new album for a tentative early 2016 release. The CD, which is once again being produced by Jay Ruston (STONE SOUR, STEEL PANTHER), will include such songtitles as “The Battle Chose Us”, “You Gotta Believe” and “The Evil Twin”.

Speaking to the Examiner about the recording process for the follow-up to 2011’s “Worship Music”, ANTHRAX drummer Charlie Benante said: “There’s a lot of songs, so it’s taking long because of the quantity. I was out in L.A. a week and a half ago, I spent two days in the studio there working with Jon [Donais] on guitar leads and stuff. That was smoking; that’s coming together really well.”

Asked how Jon, who is also a member of SHADOWS FALL, is working out as the new ANTHRAX lead guitarist, Benante said: “Great. Jon‘s a great guy — very mellow, but his guitar style and the guitars he’s putting on the record is just fucking awesome.”

Benante also talked about the musical direction of the new ANTHRAX material, telling Examiner: “It’s sounding like ANTHRAX. The songs that were heavy on the last record are heavy on this one; the songs that were fast on the last record are faster on this one. So it’s definitely moving in that direction. For some reason, it just flowed. The songs, and the amount of them, just flowed. I think it was because I was inspired by the last record, and the success of the last record. Good momentum goes a long way.”

Another project that ANTHRAX is currently working on, according to Charlie, is the 30th-anniversary reissue of the band’s classic second album, “Spreading The Disease”. “I’ve been working on this other project where I’m doing the ‘Spreading The Disease’ 30th-anniversary thing, where I’m putting a bunch of bonus material on the second disc,” he explained. “It’s going to be really good.”

ANTHRAX recently completed a six-week North American tour with VOLBEAT. The band’s setlist included the new song “Soror Irrumator (Lords Of The Rock)”, ANTHRAX‘s contribution to the the second installment of “Catch The Throne: The Mixtape”, for HBO‘s Emmy– and Golden Globe-winning series “Game Of Thrones”.

Fonte: Blabbermouth.net