Anthrax's release schedule in the new millennium has yielded three albums, all of which have been varying degrees of awesome. For All Kings in 2016 is absolutely the best of the three, and according to drummer Charlie Benante in an interview with Rock Talk With Mitch Lafon, the new album is coming along just as pissed off and angry as its predecessors.
It's already been started. I've been just doing demos of songs already, and I will say that, for some reason, it's just sounding very pissed off and angry again. I think maybe it's just a reflection of the world and everything in general in this so-called business. I don't know why it's coming out like that, but it's coming out very — like I said — angry and pissed off and just very aggressive.
Whatever album comes next will be the band's second with ex-Shadows Fall guitarist Jonathan Donais who joined in 2013, and will be the third with vocalist Joey Belladonna, who rejoined in 2010 after stints with the band from 1984 to 1992, and from 2005 to 2007.
We'd like to hope new Anthrax will be out in 2018, but Benante makes it sound like things are in the very preliminary stages. Plus, there's never really a set timetable for how long writing an album should take!
