Fistful of Metal

... start with Joey, and you know, I think for most people, so.

Fistful of Metal.

I don't...

Yeah, Fistful of Metal.

You know, I, I mean, I don't know.

What do you think? Do you think this, this new one is the worst, or...

... start with Joey, and, you know, I think for most people, so.

Fistful of Metal.

Yeah, Fistful of Metal.

You know, I, I mean, I don't know.

What do you think? Do you think this, this new one is the worst, or...

I can't remember how many Anthrax albums there are.

Is it 12, 13, something like that? Anyway, from the debut album, Fistful of Metal, that is Death Rider.

I'm not going to do the...

Actually, no, I might do the kind of studio but extra compilation album things that Anthrax did.

Heading over to Spain this week for a band called Hybrid.

This is a band formed in 2004, only lasted until 2013 and releasing two albums in that time.

I'm going to play you one from their debut album released in 2008 called The 8th Plague.

So this is Highbreed, this song is called Soul Prolapse.

I didn't have that feeling before.

I loved Fistful of Metal and Spreading the Disease, and I thought things were cool and we're, we're making our way forward as a band.

But then with Among the Living, I was like, this is undeniable.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, that was a lot of fun.

And sure, it was kind of like closing the circle or something, right? Because I'd been there way back in the old days and wrote most of Fistful of Metal, but I never toured with the band, except if you want to count like driving 80 miles to Pennsylvania or something like that from New York City.

So yeah, Frank was busy doing something for that South American tour, which was the spring of 2024.

And Scott had messaged me and asked if I wanted to do it.

Emerging as one of the earliest major East Coast bands in what became the American thrash metal movement.

The 1984 debut Fistful of Metal featured Neil Turbin on vocals and was still a rougher speed metal record from a band finding its identity.

The important transformation came immediately after afterward.

Lilker departed and was replaced by Frank Bello.

Every Anthrax album I like, it's the first album with that singer.

Neil Turbin, Fistful of Metal.

Joey Belladonna, Spreading the Disease.

John Bush, Sound of White Noise.

You're telling me.

I'm a bigger anti-friend.

Where I was there when Fistful of Metal came out, I was worshipping that album.

Right, and when you