

So there'll be another drum session in the next few months."Īs for a possible release date for the next ANTHRAX album, Scott said: "I'm not gonna put any deadline or date on anything, but I'd like to think a record would be done by the end of the year.

Then there'll be another drum session somewhere down the line, probably because there are more ideas that we just haven't really had a chance to get tightly arranged yet. Then probably vocals and lead guitars will start not long after that. But Frankie and I are going to head back into the studio, like, first week of June to finish all the guitars and bass, work on some vocal ideas. Charlie recorded drums on nine songs, I've got guitars almost done on four. This past May, ANTHRAX guitarist Scott Ian told Wall Of Sound's Duane James that he and his bandmates had "gotten nine songs so far. It's gotta be exactly the record we're coming out with. And I think it was a smart move because we won't put out anything we don't live. We have to get together.' So that's what we did. And all of a sudden you're taking apart the song for no reason. Imagine just jamming like that, it's, like, 'What'd you play there?' And it stops the vibe.

And you do it like this, and I love this, but the latency - there's a second delay. But with ANTHRAX, the three of us have to be in a room and looking at each other and vibing. And everybody was doing their jamming over the Internet and all that. It was really ridiculous when it first started. But during the pandemic, when everything was locked down - I live in New York we were really locked down. But it's gotta be right."Īsked if he and his bandmates tried to put stuff together during the pandemic as far as sending files back and forth, Bello said: "We actually got together periodically. I can't wait to play new songs - all this stuff. It's been, I think, almost eight years from the last record. We're hoping - I'm praying, 'cause it's been a while, man - next year. Then we'll choose what's best for the record and how the record goes. And then we'll start writing a few more songs. Then vocals will come on and we'll have this locked up. But we still wanna have a couple of more. We have a good bulk of songs right now that we know already. That's how we did the last record, and it came out the way we wanted it to. "I think we have eight or nine right now. "What ANTHRAX does these days, we do a bunch of songs together, like a bulk of the songs," he explained. I'm actually recording my bass next month. The bassist said: "We're recording - guitars, drums.
AUGUST RUSH GUITARS UPDATE
In a new interview with Ultimate Guitar, ANTHRAX's Frank Bello offered an update on the recording sessions for the band's long-awaited follow-up to 2016's "For All Kings" album.
