Review of Anthrax - Cursum Perficio [Nuclear Blast Records]
There are two things you learn very quickly when a band has been around for 45 years. First: people will never stop asking whether they're still relevant. Second: eventually the band itself starts making jokes about death. Anthrax have apparently chosen the Latin route. Cursum Perficio translates roughly as “my journey is over”, which sounds like a fairly dramatic thing to call your twelfth studio album. Especially when you've got one of the most recognisable names in American metal attached to it, a career stretching back to the early '80s, and absolutely no indication that Scott Ian, Charlie Benante, Frank Bello and Joey Belladonna are particularly interested in sitting quietly in a retirement home. If anything, Anthrax sound rather pleased to still be here. It's been ten years since For All Kings, which is a fucking long time between albums. In the meantime, entire generations of bands have formed, split up, reunited, broken up again and released seventeen EPs about ...
