ANTHRAX's SCOTT IAN On Next Album: 'We're Getting Close'

Revolver magazine conducted an interview with ANTHRAX‘s Scott Ian (guitar), Frank Bello (bass) and Joey Belladonna (vocals) at this year’s Rock On The Range festival, which was held in May in Columbus, Ohio. You can now watch the chat below.

Speaking about the progress of the recording sessions for ANTHRAX‘s follow-up to 2011’s “Worship Music”, Ian said: “We’re deep into it, obviously. It’s getting close. We’re out on tour right now. We’ll get home the beginning of June. And then get back in and get it all finished up. It’s really just some vocals and solos and mixing left. So we’re getting close.”

Added Bello: “You can’t really rush anything. Dude, we’re so psyched. Touring gets us away from it a little bit, and we can listen to it and evaluate it.”

ANTHRAX‘s new album, which is due in early 2016, is once again being produced by Jay Ruston (STONE SOUR, STEEL PANTHER). The CD will include such songtitles as “The Battle Chose Us”, “You Gotta Believe” and “The Evil Twin”.

ANTHRAX drummer Charlie Benante recently told Pop-Break.com about the upcoming CD: “We have a title in mind and we have a concept for it and everything. One of the first songs that written for the record, the title became ‘You Gotta Believe’. It had a part two to the song that I called ‘The Evil Twin’, because it reminded me of the other song and they flow so well into each other. Those two songs, they’re both old-school thrash metal songs, but they’re done in a modern way. Those are two of my favorite songs on the record and they’re long and really ferocious. There’s another song that clocks in at seven minutes and it’s one of my favorite songs on the record, because it takes you on a musical journey. I’m really excited about some of these longer songs, and, of course, the songs that are fast are just extremely aggressive. I’m just happy about the way this is all coming out.”

Fonte: Blabbermouth.net