Bummer man. I hope they get Bush back.

Belladonna's okay--I saw the Belladonna Anthrax when they did Gigantour--but he's only good for rehashing the 80's stuff. The band still has a hope of putting out new and ass-kicking material with Bush at the mic, as evidenced by We've Come For You All.

Corey Taylor, huh? I dunno. I like him with Slipknot, and I think he's a great frontman, but he's not much of a singer, at least without the aid of our friends at Antares.

I'll take the case!

You should check out We've Come For You All. It's the best of their new material IMO. The Greater of Two Evils is pretty good too, but it's not new material, it's a bunch of their 80's "greatest hits" redone with John Bush.

edit: oh you knew that already.

Also, yes, Kirk Hammet blows. Hetfield would never work as a hired gun. He's used to running the show, not taking orders from Scott Ian.

Then you REALLY need to check out my other thread.

And Podunk - I didn't know about "Greater..." until this thread. And I don't necessarily disagree with you about Hetfield - hence the need for a new band, as discussed in my new thread (link in my previous post).

Turn it up! Bring the noise!

All three bands played that song together. It was at the Orpheum with sound gear that exceeded the theater's capacity to contain it. There were times when the bass was so strong that it created wind pulses that literally affected my breathing.

That is f*cking awesome.

Haha, whenever people say "Bush," I start to think about Gavin Rossdale singing Anthrax. Or Stan Bush.

I still love "Spreading the Disease", not sure if its their first album. It was right before they hit it big with Among the Living. Medusa has some killer riffs.

Man, loudest show? Alice in Chains way back after the Clash of the Titans tour, played in a small club the size of a 4-car garage. We were up stage left, to the side of the Marshal stacks. The hum was enough to shake my earplugs loose and vibrate everything. It literally felt like you could lean towards the sound, and it would hold you up.

Also really cool when Layne Staley did the "crowd look", singing and slowly making his way around the club. Looked like he actually made eye contact with everybody in the club (maybe 150 people or so).

Second would be Carnivore / Type O Negative back in 1990 or 1991, in a garage (literally). Extremely loud. 20 people in the garage, the band came out into the crowd- nobody noticed. The keyboard player scanned the crowd, I caught his eye, and I shrugged, to which he just shook his head and looked down (was he embarassed at the size of the crowd, or that I was a fan?)..

I think when Bush left Anthrax- he was offered to be part of the reunion tour, both singers, but respectfully declined- he said "Get a BK value meal!" Seriously, though, his voice made for powerful Anthrax tracks- Hy Pro Glo, Only, Safe Home, We've Come For You All, What Doesn't Die, Caught in a Mosh (2 Evils), and much of *Volume 8: The Threat is Real (re-issue). And to throw it all into a bit of a change- Black Lodge... awesome stuff. Almost forgot about the never-looked upon Stomp 442. Not the strongest, but compared to '00s "heavy metal"?

Belladonna had a good run, but seeing Anthrax on tour with Megadeth and Slayer way back when, he was the weakest part of the whole tour. The strongest- Dave Lombardo of Slayer and Alice in Chains.

* just forget about Big Fat, Cupajoe, and Toast to the Extras.

That's a fact, Jack.

As for loudest show: I'm not sure I remember who was playing, but I think it was at the original Chicago House of Blues. Maybe it was Pennywise? Anyway, this was before I turned into a mosh pit crazy, and was pinned against the speaker by the pit. Good times?

And Elton John is that loud because the geriatric audience couldn't hear him otherwise.

Manowar would have to be the loudest I've been to. It was in a small place, and was so loud that even right at the back you couldn't actually hear anything apart from distortion.