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Anthrax: Dangerous Music

Interview by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 18 April 1985

HOWARD JOHNSON climbs to the top of the Thrash Heap and contracts a lethal dose of Power Metallurgists ANTHRAX ...

Anthrax: Shake, Cattle & Roll

Interview by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 26 December 1985

HOWARD 'Never Mind The Bullocks' JOHNSON hoofs it over to the States and gets ahead off the Thrash Metal herd with ANTHRAX. ...

Anthrax: Slammers on the Shore

Report and Interview by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 19 March 1987

HOWARD JOHNSON gets among the living Dredd in the Bahamas and discovers ANTHRAX whipping up a sounds-storm with legendary rock producer Eddie Kramer at Nassau's ...

Thrash Metal: Psycho Path to the Top

Report by Mark Cooper, The Guardian, 20 March 1987

Thrash metal is the new noise of teenage horror, a vinyl equivalent of the video nasty. Mark Cooper reports on the bands that delight in ...

The Sound of Speed, Thrash & Death Metal

Overview by Simon Witter, i-D, April 1987

In 1987, against all odds, HM has become an issue again. i-D dives into the Metal underground to find out about moshing, skateboards, and the ...

Anthrax: The Mad 'Thraxmen

Interview by Paul Elliott, Sounds, 8 August 1987

Who would have believed six months ago that New York speed metal bruisers ANTHRAX would have had not one but two UK chart to their ...

Bon Jovi, Dio, Metallica, Anthrax, W.A.S.P., Cinderella: Monsters Of Rock, Castle Donington

Live Review by Steven Wells, Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 29 August 1987

THRASH TRASH ...

Bon Jovi/Dio/Metallica/Anthrax/W.A.S.P.: Monsters Of Rock, Castle Donington

Live Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 29 August 1987

MATALLIC KO ...

Anthrax: Whoops Apocalypse

Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 5 September 1987

ANTHRAX ARE ANTI-VIOLENCE, ANTI-NUKE, ANTI-DESTRUCTION. BUT THEIR MUSIC IS VIOLENT, LOUD, AGGRESSIVE AND BRUTAL. SIMON REYNOLDS ATTEMPTS TO RESOLVE THESE CONTRADITIONS. ...

Anthrax: Palatrussardi, Milan

Live Review by Neil Perry, Sounds, 7 November 1987

DROKK 'TIL YOU DROP ...

Anthrax, Testament: Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool

Live Review by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 14 November 1987

IT'S A MADSCOUSE... ...

Anthrax: 'Thrax of Life

Interview by Neil Perry, Sounds, 14 November 1987

Metal stars ANTHRAX take NEIL PERRY on the Italian Job — and present the sober philosophy of their growing success ...

Anthrax: State Of Euphoria (Island ILPS9916) kkkkkk

Review by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 10 September 1988

STATE OF THE ART ...

Anthrax: Thrash Landings

Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 17 September 1988

WITH THEIR NEW SINGLE, 'MAKE ME LAUGH', ANTHRAX CONTINUE TO LEAD THE HARDCORE CHARGE AGAINST TRADITIONAL HEAVY METAL. SIMON REYNOLDS HITCHES A RIDE ON THE ...

Anthrax: State Of Euphoria (Island LP/Cassette/CD)

Review by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 24 September 1988

LAD TIMING ...

Interview: Island Records' Chris Blackwell (1989) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by John Tobler, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 1989

This is a transcript of John Tobler's 1989 audio interview. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...

Anthrax: Anti-Metallurgists

Interview by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, 11 February 1989

ABOUT TO TOUR BRITAIN WITH LIVING COLOUR AS SUPPORT, ANTHRAX TELL DAVID STUBBS HOW THEY PLAN TO BE AS BIG AS U2 WITHOUT SELLING THEIR ...

Anthrax

Interview by Christine Natanael, Powerline, March 1989

Christine "The Writer From Hell" Natanael skateboards down the backstreets of New York with those jam mongers, Anthrax... ...

Anthrax: 'Euph Control

Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 11 March 1989

At the Manchester Apollo on March 8, ANTHRAX kicked off their headlining State Of Euphoria world tour, having already opened for Ozzy in the States, and won a ...

Living Colour: Colour Shifts

Interview by Paul Lester, Melody Maker, 25 March 1989

LIVING COLOUR'S LAST ALBUM, VIVID, IS STILL RIDING HIGH IN THE US CHARTS. THE BLACK ROCK COALITION STARS HAVE JUST SUPPORTED ANTHRAX ON THEIR RECENT ...

Anthrax, Living Colour: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Live Review by Push, Melody Maker, 1 April 1989

FAVOURITE COLOURS ...

Anthrax: Persistence Of Time (Island LP/Cassette/CD)

Review by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 1 September 1990

TICK TOCK, tick tock begins this album. Predictable or what? Then the bowels of the earth open up and you are farted via geetars and ...

Anthrax: Persistence Of Time

Review by Edwin Pouncey, Vox, October 1990

THIS TIME NEW YORK moshers Anthrax sound like they're really pissed off….at least, that's what they'd like you to believe as they hurl their third ...

Cod Piece In Our Time

Overview by Stuart Maconie, New Musical Express, 19 January 1991

Bring your good taste to be slaughtered! To mark Iron Maiden's ground-breaking success (any bleedin' excuse — Ed), STUART MACONIE investigates the subtle and many-faceted ...

Anthrax and Chuck D: Noise From The Black Stuff

Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 22 June 1991

Five years after Run DMC's groundbreaking rap reworking of Aerosmith's 'Walk This Way', rock is finally repaying the compliment with ANTHRAX'S astonishing take on Public ...

Anthrax: Bohemian Rapsody

Interview by Neil Perry, Melody Maker, 22 June 1991

When metal meets rap in the form of ANTHRAX and CHUCK D, there's bound to be some trouble. NEIL PERRY hears about the fight for ...

Public Enemy, Anthrax: Brixton Academy, London

Live Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 14 January 1992

Breaking the sound barrier: Andy Gill sees Public Enemy and Anthrax split the bill ...

Read My Apocalypse: Public Enemy/Anthrax: The Apollo, Manchester

Live Review by Paul Lester, Melody Maker, 18 January 1992

IF POWER is a turn-on and intelligence is an aphrodisiac, then Public Enemy are surely one of the sexiest groups on the planet. ...

Anthrax: Rap Metal Dealers

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 22 May 1993

Once upon a time, there was a super-competent trad-thrash band with a poodle-headed singer. They boldly entered the rock/rap crossover zone, collaborating with the cred-worthy ...

Kiss Off

Report and Interview by Rob Tannenbaum, GQ, January 1994

As the nation turns its lonely eyes to the Seventies for inspiration, they alight fondly on Kiss, who were stupider and crasser than anyone — ...

Anthrax's Scott Ian Spins Tales From the Thrash Side

Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 5 November 2014

LIKE MANY MEN currently in their mid-to-late forties, Anthrax co-founder/rhythm guitarist Scott Ian was a huge, practically obsessive KISS fan growing up. ...

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