Zisis Petkanas from Rock Overdose recently spoke with ANTRAX vocalist Joey Belladonna. An excerpt from the chat is transcribed below:

Q: Joey, have you started working on new material? What is the direction that it follows, if you started it?

A: "We listened to music and ideas amongst each other but we weren’t in a room together so I couldn’t really tell you what to expect at this point cause we haven’t sat down and listened to it... obviously it’s going to be something that you’re going to enjoy, I think, with the style we’ve written before, and what we’ve come up with lately, we really have some nice ideas aside, but again, I didn’t hear anything yet, it’s a little early for me to describe anything."

Q: But do you believe it’s going to be a classic Anthrax classic album?

A: "With the last album, it was nice to be back and do something at the time that we did it, we did it and it was really exciting and well written... We were looking forward to doing a great record."

Q: Do you have any idea if it’s going to be released in the next year?

A: "Yes, I would think so, maybe by summer, to be realistic, maybe sooner, but it’s hard to say right now, we haven’t even got started so we don’t know how much progress we can make... it’s too early to put a timeline on it. We’re going to try to put a timeline on it without pushing ourselves into a corner, you know?"

Q: Are there any other future plans you’d like to share in this interview?

A: "We just shot a DVD, that is out there for everybody to check out. We have a full concert on this DVD. It’s the show from Chile, South America, and a bunch of others. We are recording some others, quite cool stuff; we hope to have that out by the end of the year."

Q: When it’s going to be released?

A: "Before the end of the year."

Stream the full audio interview at this location.

Back in March, Anthrax released a covers EP titled Anthems. It featured the following tracklisting:

'Anthem' (RUSH)

'TNT' (AC/DC)

'Smokin'' (BOSTON)

'Keep On Runnin'' (JOURNEY)

'Big Eyes' (CHEAP TRICK)

'Jailbreak' (THIN LIZZY)

'Crawl' (Album version)

'Crawl' (Remix)