RockMyMonkey.com has issued an interview with former ANTHRAX singer Joey Belladonna, conducted by Mark Carras. The following is an excerpt:

Q: Okay, so on, I guess Scott Ian has made an announcement saying that basically you guys were preparing to record, they wanted to record a new album, and basically he says that - he doesn’t make any specifics, but he said that you made the decision not to record the album, and not to continue with it.

A: "I haven’t really done anything really, to be honest with you. It’s really not my group so I don’t, I really don’t want to comment on any of that, really, to be honest with you. I think it’s all insane what’s going on. It’s not my band."

Q: But was there talk of recording a new album?

A: "They want to do a record regardless. That’s been the whole plan. They have to have a record sometime. They need a record, right?"

Q: Right, right. Absolutely.

A: "Regardless they would do a record sometime. Whether it was with me or somebody, Anthrax was going to do a record, I would assume."

Q: Was there any choice by you, was there any decision by you, or even an offer made to you to record that new album?

A: "I’m sure there’s possibilities for me to do a lot of things. It’s just-there’s always a lot of circumstance that they place when you’re doing it, When you do that stuff. I don’t think that you just make a record, you know? Unless you’re in a situation, you’ve been, you know, it’s a just an ongoing thing, you’ve been doing it for years. Like the old days, you just kind of go in and do one. It’s obviously a little different, because I wasn’t in a band for quite awhile. Likewise thing with same Danny, too. I’m not even the only one to be considered, but I don’t think it’s all about me."

Q: But you’re saying that you would be - would you be excited to record a new Anthrax album?

A: "Oh, absolutely. I would have loved to do one, yeah. I mean, but again, and all due respect, there’s a lot of circumstances that take place to do that kind of stuff. There’s a lot of things involved. Just think about it, you know. You have to have material, you have to have a reason. You have to have everything. You have to have a place to do it, the circumstance. All the basics have to be there. Again, it’s not for me to decide any of that stuff. So I don’t decide it. It’s not my band. And you have to know that I was not there. I wasn’t in that band. They asked me to come back and do a reunion. So that’s about all I know. It’s hard for me to really answer anything specific here."

Check out the full interview at this location. Audio of the interview can also be heard here.