In a new interview with About.com, ANTHRAX guitarist Scott Ian discusses the band's new album, Worship Music. An excerpt follows:

Q: It's an exciting time with the release of Worship Music, but is it also a relief that fans will finally get to hear it after so many years?

A: "Not so much relief as satisfaction. I never questioned that it was going to come out. I never had any fear that this record wouldn't eventually see the light of day. I just knew whatever hurdles we had to face over the past few years, we would make it. We would get through it and find out way out of this maze that we got stuck in for a little bit.

It's a sense of satisfaction, because I know how great this record is. When we first started writing it, it was special. The material felt great, and it's obviously something we stuck with and kept working on to the point that we got this record out of it. It feels awesome that the rest of the world is finally going to get to hear it."

Read the full interview at this location.

Worship Music is out today, September 13th, in North America via Megaforce Records and September 14th in Europe via Nuclear Blast Records. It will be available as a regular CD, CD digi, vinyl and MP3 download. Nuclear Blast Germany is also offering the album as a mail-order edition with 7" (featuring the REFUSED cover song 'New Noise') and two different double-LPs: splatter and orange vinyl.

Worship Music tracklisting:

'Worship' (intro)

'Earth On Hell'

'The Devil You Know'

'Fight 'Em Til You Can't'

'I’m Alive'

'Hymn 1'

'In The End'

'The Giant'

'Hymn 2'

'Judas Priest'

'Crawl'

'The Constant'

'Revolution Screams'

Worship Music is the first new studio album from Anthrax in eight years, and the first with vocalist Joey Belladonna since 1990's Persistence Of Time.

Check out a brand new BraveWords.com review of Worship Music here.