Anthrax - Cursum Perficio
First Anthrax album in 10 years! Pretty damn good contemporary Anthrax, too - the boys are back. Groovier and plodding along unstoppably, some highlights from me are It's For The Kids, Everybody's Got A Plan, The Edge of Perfection (with some awesome drumming and even post-metal guitars), and of course, the album's title track, which I'll be linking. I try not to do whole album recommendations, but title tracks let me get away with the ambiguity lol.
Also the EP before this, Meet The Characters, is pretty wholly unnecessary to enjoy this album; it's just spoken word expounding upon this concept album.
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Mixed feelings towards this album on my side. Especially The Edge of Perfection doesn't appeal to me. IMO Joey sounds quite powerless on this one.
But there are cool songs, too.
And I really appreciate that they didn't choose the easy way in songwriting.
The cover artwork looks like Mark Ryden.
Just missing an overly cutesy-creepy animal or doll girl thing.