Anthrax

Released: February 26, 2016

Songwriter: Charlie Benante Scott Ian Frank Bello Joey Belladonna

Producer: Jay Ruston

[Verse 1]
Everything’s been said, walk among the dead, you can see my crimes, this is my design
There’s no right or wrong, it’s the same old song, just keeps pounding me, hits so hard

[Pre-Chorus]
Hell is empty, ‘cause all my demons are here
Ever so deadly, hit so hard

[Chorus]
Darkness in my soul is taking hold and becoming
Break me from this hold as I unfold blood eagle wings
Darkness in my soul is taking hold and becoming
Break me from this hold as I unfold blood eagle wings

[Verse 2]
My whole world built on, bodies dead and gone, you ignored the signs, that was my design
And the loneliness, hits so hard in this, grey place that exists, in my mind

[Pre-Chorus]
Hell is empty, ‘cause all my demons are here
Ever so deadly, hit so hard

[Chorus]
Darkness in my soul is taking hold and becoming
Break me from this hold as I unfold blood eagle wings
Darkness in my soul is taking hold and becoming
Break me from this hold as I unfold blood eagle wings

[Bridge 1]
I ask you
Why, why fight everything?
Why can't you accept it?
You can never stop it
And I don't want to try
A weak half measured lie
I'd rather see it die
I'd rather see it die

[Bridge 2]
I showed you
Why, why fight everything?
Not what you expected?
Your dystopian epic
Of memories are a lie
I don’t have to try
Unfold your wings and fly
I’d rather see it die
I’d rather see it die

[Bridge 2]
I showed you
Why, why fight everything?
Not what you expected?
Your dystopian epic
Of memories are a lie
I don’t have to try
Unfold your wings and fly
I’d rather see it die
I’d rather see it die

[Chorus]
Darkness in my soul is taking hold and becoming
Break me from this hold as I unfold blood eagle wings
Darkness in my soul is taking hold and becoming
Break me from this hold as I unfold blood eagle wings

[Post-Chorus]
I show you
I ask you
I show you

[Outro]
Darkness in my soul is taking hold and becoming
I ask you
Break me from this hold as I unfold blood eagle wings
I show you
Darkness in my soul is taking hold and becoming
I ask you
Break me from this hold as I unfold blood eagle wings

Known as one of the Big Four of thrash metal, along with Megadeth, Slayer and Metallica, Anthrax is an American heavy metal band from New York City “who would quite literally build a genre from the ground up”. Their name was chosen after searching a biology textbook for a ‘cool sounding disease’ that sounded “sufficiently evil”.

Anthrax started out in 1981 with guitarist Scott Ian and bassist Dan Lilker. After adding vocalist Neil Turbin, guitarist Dan Spitz and drummer Charlie Benante, Megaforce Records (Metallica, Mercyful Fate, Manowar) released the band’s debut single “Soldiers Of Metal” in late 1983. Its success led to the release of the group’s first album Fistful of Metal. What set Anthrax apart from many thrash metal bands of their time was their occasionally sardonic and ludicrous lyrics, a trend that would continue for the rest of the eighties.

After a number of lineup changes, the band finally found a stable group; Ian, Benante, Spitz, Frank Bello on bass, and Joey Belladonna on vocals. This lineup then released Spreading the Disease, the first of the “classic Anthrax albums” and their first to chart in the US. Anthrax toured with Metallica on their Damage Inc Tour in late 1986. At this time, Ian and Benante also formed the side project Stormtroopers of Death, which was controversial because of its deliberately racist and misogynist joke lyrics.

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