Joey Belladonna

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.

He just doesn't like talking.

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And to my far right, Joey B., Joey Belladonna.

How you doing?

Um, the absolute, and I don't care who wants to disagree with me, that's your opinion, you're allowed to have one, and I'm allowed to tell you it's wrong.

The, the best part of this record is Joey Belladonna is in ...

He, he's just incredible.

He, I mean, Joey's an incredible singer anyway, but it sounds to me like they didn't do much to his voice.

Uh, this is basically 10 years now since their last one, um, For All Kings, and that was only five years after Worship Music.

So this is the third album since Joey Belladonna rejoined them.

He was ...

He did his initial run, um, from Spreading the Disease through to, uh, Sence of Time.

Okay.

So they did, yeah, maybe they didn't play anything off of the other, you know, the two previous newer Joey Belladonna records.

But, you know, Cotton Amash, Madhouse, Metal Fightin' Mad.

when I'm missing something else.

Mm.

Obviously replacing Joey Belladonna with John Bush in the early part of the '90s.

I hear you.

Yeah.

You know, they were songs that were very early songs, most of them.

And, uh, then we, you know, Joey Belladonna joins, uh, in 1984, and at that point, I'm going to hardcore shows every Sunday at CBGBs.

I'm at every Sunday matinee.

If I'm home, I'm there.

I love it.

Mr. Joey Belladonna.

Yep.

He hit the cowbell [laughs].

I love the John Bush era.

I prefer the Joey Belladonna era, but I love Me Some Anthrax.

This one as well is not quite there.

I'm going to keep listening to it.

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.

Songs such as Caught in a Mosh, Indians and Island Law.

They're around.

They just changed the titles of them, but it was a little more in the John Bush sort of tenor, if you will.

Just the vocal range, but I loved what they did with Joey Belladonna because I legitimately enjoy Joey Belladonna as a vocalist.

Do you