Anthrax has enjoyed a resurgence after 2011’s Worship Music that featured the return of singer Joey Belladonna to the band. 5 years later and the ‘Thrax machine is firing on all cylinders with For All Kings being one of the band’s strongest offerings period. For All Kings shows the New Yorkers at their melodic best and is a mature offering that shows that the band can still thrash when they want to, but they are also capable of other musical adventures. 

Drummer Charlie Benante spoke to BraveWords about For All Kings:

“I call this record a Back To The Future type of record because it’s a throwback to ‘80s thrash, but then it’s done in a modern day feel. That song has a very thrash metal type of vibe to it; then it has this breakdown that can be from 2016, and it resolves back to thrash style.”

Benante also spoke about the cover art depicting the members as statues in a place of worship:

“Right, so basically the last three albums that we did, I’m trying to almost tie-in the covers together. It’s taking place in this world – I don’t know where this world is – but it exists somehow. With this one, you really don’t know? In this hall, that these creatures are in… there’s these statues, these monuments to these kings. Were these kings there thousands of years ago? Were they responsible for music at one point? There’s not music anymore? It’s a story I’m still playing around with in my head to take it further in comic book form.”

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In his 8.0 review, scribe Martin Popoff remarked:

“Five years since Worship Music and Anthrax are firing up another set of accessible, perfectly recorded songs easy to love due to rhythmic precision, clean vocals and thoughtful, mature lyrics. Seriously, Anthrax and Megadeth are in a similar place, the main difference being one’s got the irascible voice of Dave up top and one’s got Joe Belladonna with his trademark melodic singing, although he mostly sounds like a different guy, given his lower, more aggressive registers.”

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