Anthrax We've Come For You All / The Greater Of Two Evils

2013, TV has soap operas, literature has Shakespeare, and metal - well, metal has Anthrax, that fire-breathing, thrash-spitting, multi-headed beast of a band that - 30 years since the day Scott Ian and then-bassist Danny Lilker searched a biology textbook for the disease that would become their moniker - smiles back at you with a monstrous, upturned middle finger and refuses to fucking die. But then you'll have heard of their meteoric rise in the 80s alongside the likes of Slayer, Megadeth, and a little band that once crashed on Anthrax's studio floor known as Metallica. You'll know all about their game-changing, crossover hit with Public Enemy on ,,Bring The Noise" in 1991. You'll have listened to generations of bands that owe everything to their signature stomp and crushing riffs. And in more recent times, you'll have witnessed an almost irrational will to survive in defiance of monumental odds. And that, true believers, is the story of one of the most doggedly heroic bands in metaldom to date.