ANTHRAX — Sound Of White Noise (review)

ANTHRAX — Sound Of White Noise album cover Album · 1993 · Groove Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
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Room for one more...

Genre: alternative metal / groove metal

A departure from Anthrax' thrash metal style, "Sound of White Noise" was one out of many releases by thrash metal bands in the 90s who started to gravitate towards a grunge and alternative rock inspired type of groovy metal. Some succeeded while others failed completely and ended up totally alienating their fans.

I think Anthrax were among those who succeeded (although they must surely have alienated a bunch of hardcore thrash metal fans on the way) with "Sound of White Noise", which I think contains several interesting elements and different, but catchy riffs. Especially the melodic "Only" and the heavy and groovy "Room For One More" are extremely catchy tracks (and it's not a coincidence that they were the songs chosen to promote the album.

If you like thrash metal, you will probably be sorely disappointed, as there are very few thrash elements on this album. There are some in "Potters Field" and some of the other songs, but in general this album is much more oriented towards groove and 90s alternative metal than towards all out thrash metal.
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