Frank Bello

This is another effin' podcast.

Frank Bello.

Frank Bello! Anthrax is coming up.

Um, it is just me.

I'm flying solo.

Yeah.

Yeah.

'Cause you guys, you guys said, Frank Bello from Anthrax, ladies and gentlemen.

So let's get to it right now.

Joey Belladonna, Frank Bello, John Dolmayan, Charlie Benante, and of course Scott Ian in studio with me from the SiriusXM studios in LA following the band opening for Iron Maiden.

All five members of Anthrax this week on the Eddie Trunk Podcast.

[explosion] All right, we're back live from LA, and four-fifths of Anthrax are here.

I'm dead excited to talk about it.

So starting off, we have the two of the Frank Bello models.

Of course.

Would you like to tell us a bit about these?

Anyway, moving on.

[laughs]

Um, very, very different to the, uh, the Frank Bello models, but we've got some of the 50th anniversary SP1-

Yeah

Yeah, it's a good metal color.

Plus, Frank Bello's got a purple bass.

That thing looks rad as fuck.

Yeah.

The important transformation came immediately after afterward.

Lilker departed and was replaced by Frank Bello.

Joey Belladonna became a singer, and the lineup of Belladonna, Ian Bello, Charlie Benant, and Dan Spitz developed the sound most people still think of when they hear the name Anthrax.

Spreading the disease in 1985 established that version of the band, but 1987's Among, Among, Among, Among the Living was the breakthrough.

Guitarist Jonathan Dinesh joined after Caggiano's departure, and that lineup made For All Kings in 2016.

This is where the reunion era finally felt less like a reunion.

unlike worship music anthrax knew belladonna was a singer while the new material was being written and frank bello described the band as having rediscovered a comfortable understanding of who they were as writers we liked for all kings by god it sounded recognizably like anthrax without pretending that the previous 20 years had never happened Belladonna's melodic voice over heavier modern production, plenty of thrash, but also broader, more deliberate songwriting, the band had developed over time.

We did not treat it as another among the living or sound of white noise.

The Hidden Track Pieces is particularly significant.

Frank Bello wrote and sang it in memory of his brother, Anthony, who was murdered in the Bronx in 1996.

There's also some industry drama surrounding this album.

Anthrax's label, Ignition Records, ran into serious financial problems shortly after the album came out.

Like, you can see Scotty in the horror world.

You can see, like, even Frank Bello sort of turns up in random sort of, like, monoculture things.

You know what I mean? Like, they have that sort of foot in the real world, which a lot of metal bands don't do, right?

Yeah.

Let's get into this new album a bit.

Let's talk about Save Us, featuring Tobias Forge from Ghost, Frank Bello from Anthrax, and Ray Luzier from Korn sitting in.

First, how did you end up with that trio for the song? And then what is the biggest challenge in trying to reimagine the track with new collaborators?

Yeah, I mean, the whole idea started, I mean, I was our producer, Zeus and I, we were we were like basically brainstorming a which songs are we going to do, which are the most important ones and maybe the deep cuts that might be the most interesting.

You know, it's much better than the original in my mind and much more interesting.

Wolf Hoffman of Accept With Us from Teutonic Titans, 1976 to 2026.

Again, this one features Tobias, Forge of Ghosts, Frank Bellow of Anthrax, and Ray Luzier of Korn.

This is Save Us.