Anthrax - Anthrology

Let's be honest for a minute. If the brainchild and lead singer of your band gets arrested for breaking into Yankee stadium, you must be a very talented band. That qualifier alone puts Anthrax in a league of their own - a thrash band that stoners love like older Queens of the Stone Age, and wankers love like Strativarius. A posthardcore band with lyrics like "I hear your momma calling you, you better stand and face the truth boy."

Genius.

Then, they collaborated with Public Enemy on Bring the Noize. In 1991, preceding race riots in LA and the start of repeated suicide bombings in the middle east, Anthrax briefly toured with Public Enemy and played to polar opposite crowds with a bone-crushing joint-track at the end. The shows were some of the worst either band reported playing, though both were excited to have made the trip together.

Also featured on the Anthrology album is a cover of French metalheads Trust's song Antisocial. Originally recorded in 1989, there's a reason you've never heard of Trust. This is bad.

Do yourself a favor and start with Fistful of Metal and work your way up until John Bush leaves the band. Joey Belladonna is the man.

Also, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath has the sexiest outro of all songs, of all time. The influences do not end. Really, listen to it sometime. Tons of bands who got their start in the 90's stole one riff or another from this track. Be All End All is also flipping sweet - and on Belladonna's second to last album with Anthrax.



Lab, the retail store in Allston, MA is redoing their walls. Stop in for a look at how much more awesome it could possibly be. If you're looking for Jess Rozek's killer eggplant parmesan pasta, she's no longer in Allston. Who knows where she could be?

Next: Devendra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon

-Scott