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Volume 8: The Threat Is Real is the eighth studio album by American heavy metal band Anthrax. The album was released on July 28, 1998, by Ignition Records and debuted at number 118 on the Billboard 200 chart. The record was produced by the band and Paul Crook. It features the song "Crush", which appeared in the video game ATV Offroad Fury for PlayStation 2 and in the game's soundtrack. Other released singles from the album were "Inside Out", "Piss N Vinegar" and "Born Again Idiot".

Volume 8: The Threat Is Real
Studio album by
Anthrax
ReleasedJuly 21, 1998
Recorded1998
StudioKrusty's Fun House, Yonkers, New York
Genre
  • Speed metal[1]
  • alternative metal[2]
Length63:37
LabelIgnition
Producer
Anthrax chronology
Stomp 442
(1995)		 Volume 8: The Threat Is Real
(1998)		 We've Come for You All
(2003)
Singles from Volume 8: The Threat Is Real
  1. "Inside Out"
    Released: 1998
  2. "Crush"
    Released: 1998
  3. "Piss N Vinegar"
    Released: 1998
  4. "Born Again Idiot"
    Released: 1998

"Pieces", the hidden track at the end of the album, was written by bassist Frank Bello as a tribute to his brother Anthony who was murdered outside his girlfriend's home in the Bronx on March 25, 1996, by an unidentified assailant. The track features Bello on vocals.


Reception


Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The A.V. Clubunfavorable[3]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal7/10[4]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[5]

Stephen Thomas Erlewine, in a mixed review for AllMusic, wrote that the album is a continuation of the band's "writing slump" which started with 1993's Sound of White Noise. He said that there aren't many "memorable songs" on the record, and went to call it "transitional album" leading the band to "new, uncharted territory".[1] Stephen Thompson of The A.V. Club found the album to be "aggressive to the point of being exhausting".[3] Martin Popoff in his Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal remarks how the band put a bit of everything in the songs, including multiple speeds, "humor scattered here and there", "big grungy guitars", "meat and potatoes riffing and roaring vocals from Bush", while "experimenting with some different textures and dynamics". The result is not just "an accessible thrash metal record", as is typical with Anthrax.[4]

In his 2014 autobiography I'm the Man: The Story of that Guy from Anthrax, Scott Ian said "I'm still proud of the songs we wrote for Volume 8: The Threat is Real. They were really diverse and heavy, modern sounding with a crushing metal groove. 1998 is the year nu metal took over but we were definitely not a part of that scene. If anything we were old metal, so getting anyone to support us was proving difficult."[6]


Track listing


All lyrics written by John Bush and Scott Ian; all music by Charlie Benante, except where noted.

No.TitleMusicLength
1."Crush" 4:21
2."Catharsis"Benante, Frank Bello4:53
3."Inside Out" 5:31
4."Piss N Vinegar" 3:12
5."604"Benante, Ian0:35
6."Toast to the Extras" 4:24
7."Born Again Idiot" 4:17
8."Killing Box" 3:37
9."Harms Way"Benante, Ian5:13
10."Hog Tied" 4:36
11."Big Fat"Benante, Ian6:01
12."Cupajoe"Benante, Ian0:46
13."Alpha Male" 3:05
14."Stealing from a Thief" (ends at 5:33, hidden track "Pieces" begins at 8:03 after 2:30 of silence)Bello ("Pieces")13:06
Total length:63:37
Bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
15."Giving the Horns" 3:34
16."The Bends" (Radiohead cover)Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Phil Selway, Thom Yorke3:52
17."Snap/I'd Rather Be Sleeping" (Dirty Rotten Imbeciles cover)Kurt Brecht, Spike Cassidy, John Menor, Eric Brecht2:17
Total length:73:20

Credits


Anthrax
Guests
Production

Charts


Chart (1998) Peak

position

German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[9] 43
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[10] 38
UK Albums (OCC)[11] 73
US Billboard 200[12] 118

References


  1. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Anthrax — Volume 8: The Threat Is Real". AllMusic. Retrieved November 19, 2013.
  2. Weingarten, Christopher R. (September 14, 2011). "Anthrax and Joey Belladonna Keep It In the Family". The Village Voice. Retrieved December 14, 2015.
  3. Thompson, Stephen (April 19, 2002). "Anthrax — Volume 8: The Threat is Real". The A.V. Club. Retrieved September 8, 2012.
  4. Popoff, Martin (August 1, 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9.
  5. Larkin, Colin (2011). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. p. 2006. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8.
  6. Ian, Scott. I'm the Man: The Story of That Guy from Anthrax. Hachette UK.
  7. "Anthrax – Volume 8 - the Threat is Real (1998, CD)". Discogs.
  8. Volume 8: The Threat Is Real! back panel. Ignition Records. 1998.
  9. "Offiziellecharts.de – Anthrax – Volume 8 - The Threat Is Real!" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved May 29, 2021.
  10. "Anthrax: Volume 8 - The Threat Is Real!" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved May 29, 2021.
  11. "Anthrax | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart. Retrieved May 29, 2021.
  12. "Anthrax Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved May 29, 2021.



На других языках

[de] Volume 8: The Threat Is Real

Volume 8: The Threat Is Real ist das achte Studioalbum der amerikanischen Thrash-Metal-Band Anthrax. Es erschien im August 1998 bei Ignition Records.
- [en] Volume 8: The Threat Is Real

[es] Volume 8: The Threat Is Real

Volume 8: The Threat is Real —en español: Volumen 8: La amenaza es real— es el octavo álbum de estudio de la banda de thrash metal: Anthrax. El álbum salió a la venta el 21 de julio de 1998 por la discográfica Ignition Records. El álbum llegó al puesto número 118 en el Billboard 200.[1]

[ru] Volume 8: The Threat Is Real

Volume 8: The Threat Is Real (в переводе с англ. — «Том 8: Угроза реальна») — восьмой студийный альбом американской группы Anthrax, выпущенный в июле 1998 года.Эта работа явилась единственным альбомом, выпущенным группой на лейбле Ignition Records.


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