dude, what’s up? Anthrax? Right, dude, anthrax? Honestly, I was thinking about this because I think anthrax was really the first band I heard heavy metal band and I was like, oh yes, but metallica was the band that made me want to play guitar. But Anthrax, joey Belladonna, dude, I don’t even know what to say, man. But let’s rank these albums.
I’m sure people have done these, a zillion of them or whatever. Everyone has their own reasons why they think things are what they are. But Anthrax has got a special place in my heart and, honestly, even going back to them now, listening to them, it’s like how are these guys not bigger, bigger than they were? And they honestly weren’t even like that big. I don’t think they sold a platinum selling album until, uh, sound of white noise, I think, or something like that. It’s something crazy. So, like you know they, so they weren’t like that. It’s like they were popular but like, not to the extent you think they were. I guess, I don’t know, I don’t know. Like that’s just the way it kind of it’s perceived. I guess Right, but they just wrote the catchiest riffs, man, like they’re heavy but catchy. And then Joey Belladonna would like, I don’t know, it was cool to hear him singing, like you know, regular over, like heavy stuff. You know what I’m saying it was. I just like that mix and that combo. I don’t like that all the time, but I I believe that that was a good combination right there. And uh, yeah, so anthrax, awesome, you know.
Here we go, let’s, let’s, let’s see what we have here. The first album for me maybe, for a lot of people possibly, but the first album number one is spreading the disease. Oh yes, there are bangers on there. Air Madhouse, I mean, it goes on and on. Like there are some almost every song on here and you just listen to this entire album. Right, it’s just. That was the first album I listened to for Anthrax and I was just like oh man for anthrax, and I was just like oh man, you know.
And so, with that being said, number two is among the living. Yeah, like I am the law caught in a mosh. Nice fucking life. I mean nice fucking life. I mean dude, it’s got so many awesome songs on that album. And charlie benante, like, again, this is what I mean by like underrated, like dude, his drumming is sick on that album and yet, like you still got people kind of like praising Lars Ulrich or whatever, like dude, and like look at what Charlie Benanti is doing now, you know what I mean. Like his drumming is incredible. So, among the Living, definitely number two on my list, 100% Like even the guitar tone. I love the guitar tone that Scott Ian gets like the dissent, especially like I’m not me. And Jen Jen, like that’s just awesome, you know. And the bass tone on it, dude, you know, dude. Awesome production, awesome songs. That’s number two.
Let’s see what we got next here. State of Euphoria. I remember buying this album. I bought it on a cassette tape with my friend. We were going away for like July 4th or whatever, and we went up to New Hampshire and we stopped at this kind of like a Tower Records not Tower Records, but you know, a Strawberries or whatever kind of place and I saw State of Euphoria and I was like I must get this and like I had like I don’t know, maybe 40 bucks that my mom gave me and I was like I bought that and I bought Persistence of Time. But yeah, dude, state Euphoria, be all end, all antisocial, anti-social. Finally, dude, there’s like a whole bunch of bangers on that freaking album also.
Um, I I don’t even know what to say right now. I’m speechless because state euphoria again is full of just catchy, catchy songs. Sick drumming, sick riffs. You know awesome singing. I love the backing vocals that they have to. I’m again. I just don’t know how anthrax wasn’t as popular or more popular than they were. Like, they’re just so catchy. They write such catchy stuff. Anyways, leap.
I mentioned persistence of time. Here we are. That’s the next one, man like. Again, it, the way it opens up to the belly of the beast, is an awesome song. Got your time. Got the time is uh, for the longest time. I didn’t even know that was a cover, like, but uh, yeah, that’s another great album.
I, you know what a lot of people said oh, persistence of time when anthrax came out, dude it, it’s a sick. That’s a sick album. It’s got heavy songs on there, man like. And of course I’m like slipping on all the title names but of the songs, because you know I’m blind and I memorize them. But yeah, again, persistence of Time is just full of just bangers all the way through. Man, you know what I’m saying. So it’s almost like the Metallica thing. It’s like these four sick albums, right, well, I mean, I didn’t get to Fistful of Metal. Yet that’s the next on the list. But I’m going to finish my thought here and you know then there’s a drop-off, but we’ll get to that.
So next for me is fistful of metal. Like a lot of people be, like dude, why is that like way down the list? Well, because I started off listening to joy belladonna and I went back and I heard that first album and I was kind of like, oh, like it’s don’t get me wrong, it’s good, it’s fine, it’s okay, right. I mean I like it okay. But Don’t get me wrong, it’s good, it’s fine, it’s okay, right, I mean I like it, okay. But I’m just happy and glad that they ended up with Joy Belladonna from the, you know Next album is out, because I just you know there’s something about those guys together, you know making music, it’s just you know so. But I respect fistful of metal and more than the John Bush era. But before we get to that, I guess I noticed I forgot to put Attack of the Killer Bees on here, so I guess Will I put it after Fistful of Metal. Is that an insult? I don’t know, you know what I mean, but I would have to say Anyways, here we go.
The next one is like we’ve come for you all Not too familiar with it, you know it’s, you know. Then the next one is worship music and then the one after that is For All Kings, you know, and that came out in 2016, I think kings, you know, and that came out in 2016, I think. So you know again the, the john bush era stuff. It’s like you know the sound of white noise, like again, I had that reaction where it was like you know, you hear fistful of my other kind like ah, yeah, it’s good, you know. But you hear julie valedon, you’re like, yeah, that’s what it should be, right. Same thing with Sound of White Noise. Don’t get me wrong. Great era of Anthrax wrote great songs.
I’m not a huge fan of them. They’re okay, they’re fine, right, they’re Anthraxy ishy, right. But like I just feel like when they’re with Belladonna, they just, you know, I don’t know something happens and I don’t know, I don’t know something happens and I don’t know, I don’t know. Again, I don’t hate the john bush stuff, but it’s like if I’m ranking it, it’s like, yeah, I’m being honest, dude. It’s like at the bottom, like I don’t even honestly like listen to it, because to me it just has a whole different like, like feel to it. I guess I don’t, I don’t know, and again, it’s, I get people that like it.
And john bush Bush has recently said how he wanted to tour with Anthrax. I think that would be awesome, honestly, because we put out three or four albums with them, at least right. So that would be cool to have Joey Belladonna singing songs and John Bush singing something. Who knows, you know what I mean. That would be pretty cool, that would be cool to see. But who knows what will happen with that? You know, who knows? But, um, yeah, I mean, so that’s that’s my ranking.
I know I went faster towards the end, but it’s like, come on, you know, like, uh, I mean they’re great albums, but it’s like, you know, does it? Does really anything exist past persistence of time? I mean, let’s be real, right, I mean, but you got to love Anthrax, they’re awesome. And if you have any album or bands you want me to rank or anything, send it to your emails, to hello at embracestormcom. Thank you for visiting the website, thank you all for participating and being with me on this crazy journey and thank you for listening and downloading. And we, oh hey, you know what Embrace your storm, see ya.