Volume 8: The Threat Is Real - Anthrax

'Volume 8' is probably the most unusual Anthrax album ever released (outside of 'Attack of the Killer B's' of course), and while certainly not up to the standard of their classic period of the eighties, it's an interesting and entertaining enough oddity to allow the former thrashers to reclaim some of the dignity they lost with their rubbish albums of the mid-nineties. That's not to say that Anthrax have come back to metal with this release, in fact it's probably the furthest they ever went into alternative hard rock, but at least this time around they aren't obviously trying to rip off whichever loud bands happen to be trendy at the time. The experimental ...  Read the complete review