ANTHRAX’s SCOTT IAN On Status Of New Album – “It’s Not Even Close To Being Finished”
January 13, 2015, 9 years ago
Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian was interviewed by Kaaos TV before his Speaking Words show at Bio Rex in Helsinki, Finland on January 9th. Regarding the status of the new album Ian said “It’s not even close to being finished. We’re just tracking the record right now; some drums are done and guitars done. We’re working on bass guitar right now and leads.”
Anthrax are currently working on a new studio album, their follow-up to 2011's Worship Music. A new from of Charlie Benante's drum tracking sessions can be viewed below:
Anthrax, along with producer Jay Ruston, is currently in a Los Angeles studio recording the follow-up to their 2011 Grammy-nominated album, Worship Music.
The band - Charlie Benante/drums, Frank Bello/bass, Joey Belladonna/vocals, Scott Ian/guitars and Jon Donais/guitars - have been writing and demo'ing new songs over the past few months and plans to record well into the year.
The as-yet-untitled album, the band's eleventh full studio collection, is set for a 2015 release (Megaforce Records). This video clip was filmed the first day of recording:
Stay tuned for updates.