Anthrax

Released: October 26, 2015

Songwriter: Frank Bello Scott Ian Joey Belladonna Charlie Benante

Producer: Jay Ruston

[Verse 1]
Ideology used as a weapon
With lines that cut so deeply to the truth
Your head's on the block and still you threaten
The wretched way of life for those that choose and abuse

[Pre-Chorus]
Believe, in nothing worth believing in
Believe, stand for nothing, care for nothing
Believe empty words a false doctrine
Bloodied in your holy wars goal
Look what you did, so fucking sick
It's what you did
The evil twin of devotion
And now you're dead

[Chorus]
You represent your discontent
Slaughtering the innocent
Insolence
You're no martyrs
The arrogance to reinvent
The holy words their meaning rent
Evil twin
You're no martyrs, no martyrs
No martyrs, no martyrs

[Verse 2]
Refuse and resist dictated terror
Fighting a war with both feet in
Savage that our planet is the venue
For a festival of massacres

[Pre-Chorus]
Believe, in nothing worth believing in
Believe, stand for nothing, care for nothing
Believe empty words a false doctrine
Bloodied in your holy wars goal
Look what you did, so fucking sick
It's what you did
The evil twin of devotion
And now you're dead

[Chorus]
You represent your discontent
Slaughtering the innocent
Insolence
You're no martyrs
The arrogance to reinvent
The holy words their meaning rent
Evil twin
You're no martyrs, no martyrs
No martyrs, no martyrs

[Bridge]
Broken and sickened
By the senseless atrocity
And repulsion
For this old world reality
Forcing fear to dominate
Hate, a loaded gun
When in doubt, have no doubt
Death has just begun

[Chorus]
You represent your discontent
Slaughtering the innocent
Insolence
You're no martyrs
The arrogance to reinvent
The holy words their meaning rent
Evil twin
You're no martyrs, no martyrs
No martyrs, no martyrs

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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