Ladies and gentlemen, denim battalion members, pit goblins and every bloke who’s ever accidentally headbutted someone during a circle pit…
ANTHRAX ARE BACK.
After more than a decade without a brand-new studio album, the legendary New York thrash icons have officially announced Cursum Perficio — their first full-length record since 2016’s For All Kings… and honestly mun, the metal world just collectively spilled its pint in excitement. 🍺🔥
Even better?
The first single, It’s For The Kids, lands THIS WEEK.
And if that title doesn’t sound like the beginning of absolute thrash carnage, we don’t know what does.
🎸 THE BIG FOUR ARE MAKING NOISE AGAIN
Anthrax have always been the chaotic little brother of thrash metal’s “Big Four” family.
While some bands went full doom-and-gloom, Anthrax turned up in shorts, trainers and crossover riffs that felt like a skateboard smashing through your nan’s greenhouse at 40mph.
They mixed metal with hardcore attitude, punk energy and enough gang vocals to make an entire festival field scream itself hoarse.
And now?
After ten long years of fans repeatedly asking:
“OI, WHERE’S THE NEW ALBUM THEN?”
…the answer has finally arrived.
⚡ CURSUM PERFICIO
The new album is expected to drop later this year and already has metalheads frothing harder than a Download Festival campsite queue after three days without sleep.
The title itself — Cursum Perficio — translates roughly to:
“My journey ends” or “I complete the course.”
Which sounds incredibly dramatic and suspiciously like the soundtrack to surviving a 4am kebab after Bloodstock.
🚨 FIRST SINGLE: IT’S FOR THE KIDS
The first taste of the album arrives this Friday with It’s For The Kids — a title that feels both wholesome and deeply threatening at the same time.
Because let’s be honest:
Anthrax don’t write songs for polite background listening while folding laundry.
Anthrax write songs for:
- Flying beer cups 🍺
- Sweaty festival pits 🔥
- Blokes with battle jackets older than most TikTok users
- Air-drumming injuries
- Neck muscles that file official complaints by Monday morning
If the new single captures even HALF the energy Anthrax are known for live, this thing is going to hit harder than a rogue Doc Marten to the ribs in a Slayer pit.
🤘 TEN YEARS IS A LONG TIME IN METAL
Think about it.
When For All Kings came out:
- Download Festival still felt affordable
- Nobody had heard the phrase “doomscrolling”
- Half your favourite bands were still using Facebook properly
- We all thought 2020 was going to be a normal year
Since then Anthrax have toured relentlessly, celebrated anniversaries, smashed festival appearances and reminded everyone they’re still one of the tightest live bands on the planet.
But fans have been desperate for fresh material.
And now the wait is finally over.
🎤 WHY ANTHRAX STILL MATTER
Here’s the thing, butt…
Anthrax never felt like a museum-piece metal band.
Even after all these years, they still have that scrappy energy. That sense that at any moment Scott Ian might launch a riff powerful enough to knock over a merch stand.
Their music still feels FUN.
And in modern metal — where everything sometimes gets a bit too polished, serious and “cinematic” — Anthrax remain gloriously loud, stupidly energetic and proudly chaotic.
That’s why fans love them.
They’re the band equivalent of:
“One more pint won’t hurt.”
And suddenly it’s 2am and someone’s trying to crowd surf in a Wetherspoons.
🔥 THE RIFF REPORT VERDICT
This isn’t just another comeback album announcement.
This feels like a proper thrash metal event.
Anthrax returning after ten years with a fresh album and a new single is exactly the kind of news that makes old-school metalheads grin like they’ve just found a mint-condition Among The Living vinyl in a charity shop for £2.
The riffs are coming.
The pits are warming up.
The denim jackets are being repaired as we speak.
And somewhere in Wales right now, someone’s already pulled a neck muscle in anticipation.
WELCOME BACK, ANTHRAX.
Now hurry up and drop the riffs, mun. 🤘🔥
