Metal Thrashing Mad

Album: Fistful of Metal (1984)
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Songfacts®:

  • This is a track from Fistful of Metal, Anthrax's only album to feature Neil Turbin on vocals and Dan Lilker on bass.
  • Drummer Charlie Benante joined Anthrax in 1983, prior to the recording of Fistful of Metal. He recalled to us in an interview: "I remember that was one of the first tunes that we wrote when I was in the band. And it was just short and sweet. It didn't need to be four or five minutes. It was a short song and just pretty much got to the point. And that was like the start of the thrashier type of songs that we were venturing into."

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