Released: February 26, 2016

Songwriter: Frank Bello Scott Ian Charlie Benante Joey Belladonna

Producer: Jay Ruston

[Verse 1]
Do you think that you’re worth anything?
Do you think that you had everything?
Or was it just another dream
With a monster at the end
Promised you’d get what you want
But instead you’re getting what you need
This ain’t just another dream
With a monster at the end

[Chorus]
Down and under where the damned are riding
Down and under where you pay
Your golden halo is burned and melted
Crown the monster at the end

[Verse 2]
The wall of sleep is crumbling
And your conscience is left fumbling
A massive sleeping serpent
Uncoiled and awake
In this place, this sun-bleached Hell
Your sins were yours no angel fell
A monster hiding in plain sight
It’s the monster at the end

[Chorus]
Down and under where the damned are riding
Down and under where you pay
Your golden halo is burned and melted
Crown the monster at the end

[Post-Chorus]
It’s coming, it’s coming, it’s coming, it’s coming
The monster is unleashed

[Verse 3]
Now that crown is on your head
You’re that monster at the end
It’s coming, it’s coming, it’s coming, it’s coming
Down and under where the damned are riding
Down and under where you pay
Your golden halo is burned and melted
Crown the monster at the end

[Chorus]
Down and under where the damned are riding
Down and under where you pay
Your golden halo is burned and melted
Crown the monster at the end

[Post-Chorus]
Crown the monster at the end
It’s coming, it’s coming, It’s coming, it’s coming

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.