ANTHRAX — Persistence Of Time (review)

ANTHRAX — Persistence Of Time album cover Album · 1990 · Thrash Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
Warthur
Anthrax tended, with some justification, to be viewed as the most light-heartedly cheesy and least serious of the Big Four bands of thrash metal. Persistence of Time, their last album with Joey Belladonna until 2011's Worship Music, seems to have been crafted as a deliberate attempt to prove that they could bring to bear a bit more gravitas. It's not that they were always frivolous, mind - but the odes to comic book characters and songs about the joy of mosh pits are more or less absent this time, with the band tackling more serious subject matter of the sort which Metallica or Megadeth had been tackling on recent albums.

It's still a competent Anthrax album and their sound doesn't suffer massively from the shift in emphasis, but at the same time it's very slightly more anonymous and generic than, say, Among the Living or Spreading the Disease, where they seemed more able to balance serious subject matter with their chirpier, more upbeat nature.
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Unitron wrote:
more than 2 years ago
I love this album, it's a thrash classic. It's also one of the heaviest albums I've ever heard, that crunching stomp in Keep it in the Family says it all.
siLLy puPPy wrote:
more than 2 years ago
This is one of my favorite Anthrax albums for some reason. Just catchier tracks for me

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