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JOHN BUSH-ERA ANTHRAX WAS THE FUCKING SHIT

 Thursday, December 6th, 2007 at 10:58am by

Anthrax - Volume 8After arguing about Avenged Sevenfold and new vs. old Metallica, I’d say John Bush / Anthrax is the most volatile topic here on MetalSucks. But arguing about it just never gets old. Last night I threw on Volume 8: The Threat is Real, and GOD DAMN, did John Bush — as well as the whole band during John Bush’s tenure — did he fucking rule, or what?? Will he please get back in Anthrax and make more awesome music? Rather than write another open letter to John, let’s try this instead:

Dear John,

What I wrote here.

Sincerely,
Vince Neilstein.

Anthrax – “Catharsis” (from Volume 8: The Threat is Real)

-VN

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  • Wayne

    “Sound of White Noise”

    That’s all you need to know.

  • ERiK

    Spreading the Disease > anything else they ever released.

  • http://newghosts.com Shnaz

    Catharsis is definitely my favorite song on Volume 8. Tops in my book from the John Bush era is “We’ve Come From You All.”

    But I have to say the original Anthrax with Belladonna is better–Persistence of Time dudes.

  • TJ

    Another vote for the Bush era.
    I think a lot of the earlier Anthrax songs were better, but Belladonna was always a negative for me.

    I actually loved that CD Anthrax did a few years ago where Bush re-sang a lot of the old songs. The newer versions of Madhouse and Indians were the balls.

  • Sammy

    My only problem with the John Bush Anthrax era is that it pretty much put the final nail in the Armored Saint coffin.

  • Dave Basement

    I was lucky to catch Anthrax at the Download festival in ’05 on the reunion tour, and I was totally gutted when Belladonna left…again. Anthrax are in a real tricky situation. They dumped a very good singer to reunite, which didn’t last. So would you go back to a band that would drop you for the original singer? I know I wouldn’t. :(

  • http://www.aversionline.com Andrew @ AVERSIONLINE

    Ehhh… “Sound of White Noise” was great and “We’ve Come for You All” was pretty damn solid, but the rest was crap. And the Belladonna years are still the greatest, without question. Neil Turbin was strong, too.

    I’m NOT enthused about this potential new singer news. If they can’t get one of the old guys back they really should hang it up. I dunno… I guess Exodus basically pulled it off, but despite WORSHIPPING Anthrax as a kid, I have less faith in their ability to make it work at this point…

  • Sammy

    “What’s wrong with going with your third lead singer?”

    ~~signed, Van Halen

  • http://verbeat.org/blogs/bereteando tiagón

    agreed. and sound of white noite is the best anthrax album. john at his best in “this is not an exit”. amazing!

  • http://DarkTwinCities.com devil

    John Bush with Anthrax is not Anthrax. John Bush with Anthrax put out a handful of decent songs. Joey Belladonna with Anthrax put out a handful of killer fucking ALBUMS. There’s no debate. There can be no argument.

    Hell, even Neil Turban was better than John Bush. I guess I’m just too old school or something. It’s just like when people say, “Sammy Hagar was better than David Lee Roth.” Ummmm, no. I can’t even justify a statement like that with an argument.

  • intensepushing

    I may never be responded to because I came in so late but John Bush has the blue collar voice and work ethic. His songs are sung with guts. Belladonna had no balls, hince the high notes he could reach. Belladonna sang some great tunes and was with the band longer so the band put out more, but quality increased and the rest of the boys put the hammer down with John and they rocked. May they all rock again. I miss their music!

  • Ben in NYC

    Another very late post, but I can’t understand how you can be so for one or the other. I grew up on Joey and Anthrax starting in 1983 (L’Amours Brooklyn). A&D, STD & ATL are three of the greatest metal albums of all time, but I was also a big Armored Saint fan and I’ve grown to like John Bush’s Anthrax even more.

    I can’t pick one over the other, but John was modern Anthrax for me and I can’t imagine them w/o him. I never bought into Joey still loving the music or the band and couldn’t see why they risked alienating John for something that was not going to last. I have faith in Scott and the band, but I think I will miss John much more than I missed Joey.