Anthrax are finally pulling the pin on a brand new record.
The New York thrash icons have announced their next album, ‘Cursum Perficio’, arriving on September 18th, with the first single, ‘It’s For The Kids’, set to drop this Friday (May 15th).
For a band that’s spent the last few years teasing riffs, studio updates, and cryptic comments about new material, this feels like the moment fans have been waiting for, the album marks Anthrax’s first full length release since 2016’s ‘For All Kings’, ending a decade long gap between records.
Anthrax ‘Cursum Perficio’
‘Cursum Perficio’ tracklist
- My Victory
- Persistence Of Memory
- The Long Goodbye
- It’s For The Kids
- Everybody’s Got A Plan
- The Edge Of Perfection
- Infectious
- NYC 93
- Cursum Perficio
- T.O.M.B.
- Watch It Go
Pre Save ‘It’s for the kids’ here.
The title itself, Cursum Perficio, translates from Latin roughly as ‘my journey ends’ or ‘I complete the course’. Whether that points toward something reflective, darker, or simply Scott Ian flexing his love of dramatic phrasing remains to be seen, but it already feels heavier than your average thrash album title.
Back in March, when we caught up with Scott Ian during Anthrax’s Australian tour, the guitarist made it clear the band weren’t interested in becoming a nostalgia act.
‘Anthrax aren’t chasing trends, they’re still doing what they’ve always done, just sharper,’ we wrote at the time, and this announcement feels like proof of that mindset.
Anthrax have always sat in a strange sweet spot within the Big Four conversation. They’ve got the riffs and aggression, but there’s always been humour, weirdness, comic-book energy, and New York grit bleeding through everything they do.
Even their catalogue swings between socially charged thrash and full blown pit starters built for sweat soaked club floors, if ‘It’s For The Kids’ is anything to go by, it sounds like Anthrax are leaning straight back into that energy instead of softening with age.
With a new single landing in days and a full record locked for September, Anthrax suddenly feel very loud again, exactly how thrash should.
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