Anthrax

Released: February 26, 2016

Songwriter: Charlie Benante Frank Bello Scott Ian Joey Belladonna

Producer: Jay Ruston

[Instrumental Intro]

[Verse 1]
You can die screaming
Or you can give me what I want
I’m gonna get it, get it either way
And I can’t let it be
Viciously
Relentless pursuit of vengeance
And I won’t let it be
Viciously

[Chorus]
Impaled
You all shall hail
You’re just a bag of blood and I’m holding the nail
You gotta believe, you gotta believe
Impaled
And I never fail
You’re just a bag of blood and I’m holding the nail
You gotta believe, you gotta believe

[Verse 2]
You’re slowly dying
There’s no more lying
I’m not your friend I never was I work alone
And I won’t let it go ‘cause you’re so
Brutal I
In your refusal
I just won’t let it be
Viciously

[Chorus]
Impaled
You all shall hail
You’re just a bag of blood and I’m holding the nail
You gotta believe, you gotta believe
Impaled
And I never fail
You’re just a bag of blood and I’m holding the nail
You gotta believe, you gotta believe

[Bridge]
Impaled
The holy grail
Your goddamned soul is my white whale
You gotta believe, you gotta believe
Impaled
And you all shall hail
You’re just a bag of blood and I’m holding the nail
You gotta believe, you gotta believe in me

[Verse 3]
In the small numbers when order sleeps and the streets are mine
It's a time and a place where I can thrive
And burn you with my demon eye
In my life the things I've seen
Inhumanly brutal the worst extreme
I torture me because I can
Obscene the soul of every man
In my life the things I've seen
Inhumanly brutal the worst extreme
I torture you because I can
I've seen the soul of every man is fucking damned to a fate
And dead if you don’t
And damned if you do
And dead if you won’t
Impaled

[Chorus]
Impaled
You all shall hail
You’re just a bag of blood and I’m holding the nail
You gotta believe, you gotta believe
Impaled
And I never fail
You’re just a bag of blood and I’m holding the nail
You gotta believe, you gotta believe
You gotta believe, you gotta believe
You gotta believe, you gotta believe
In me
In me
In me
In me
In me

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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