Released: January 7, 2016

Songwriter: Joey Belladonna Scott Ian Frank Bello Charlie Benante

Producer: Jay Ruston

[Instrumental Intro]

[Verse 1]
I have walked this world and back now
Too many times to count or stop, how?
Time is nothing, slow and focused
I stalk this land with just one purpose

[Pre-Chorus 1]
A deal made the second that you choose to force my will
An extension of my hand with the intent to kill by the white lightning

[Chorus]
You always have the chance to do the right thing
Until the right thing comes undone
And with a thunderclap I’m breathing lightning
And this world has moved on

[Verse 2]
My body broken there’s no quit
My will intact and I can’t stop it
Hearts and minds can see the end
Until it all happens again

[Pre-Chorus 2]
Like so many before you, you’ll see what death will bring
After me there’s no one else, no angels there to sing just the white
Lightning

[Chorus]
You always have the chance to do the right thing
Until the right thing comes undone
And with a thunderclap I’m breathing lightning
And this world has moved on

[Post-Chorus]
I look inside myself is this the right thing?
Is this the right thing, I don’t know

[Bridge]
Like so many before you, we’ll see what death will bring, can you hear the angels sing? Do you hear the angels sing?
Like so many before you, I’d do anything, just to hear the angels sing, just to hear the angels sing

[Chorus]
You always have the chance to do the right thing
Until the right thing comes undone
And with a thunderclap I’m breathing lightning
And this world has moved on

[Post-Chorus]
I look inside myself is this the right thing?
Is this the right thing, I don’t know

Anthrax

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.