Anthrax - Sound of White Noise

I like the Blaze albums more than the post-reunion Bruce albums because the songs are better.

I liked the way James Murphy played Alex's old songs just fine but I didn't like the solos he wrote or the studio album he was on. I'm really glad Alex is back now.

sound of white noise is a good album. my fave bush era album is we've come for you all

the only Anthrax album I don't have

Sound Of White Noise is a great album. Probably my favorite of the Bush-era Anthrax. I still prefer John Bush singing for Armored Saint.

I agree. Sound of White Noise is a great album and the first album I listened to from start to finish. Good stuff. John's voice fit well with the new sound.

this ties with Persistance Of Time as the two best Anthrax albums in my book. i love them both. best of Joey & best of John.

Love Sound of White Noise. I remember being really bummed that Joey Belladonna was given his walking papers, but when I heard SoWN, I was pleased. "We Have Come For You All" is equally as good IMO.

As for the question,
I got into Iced Earth around 1998. I picked up "Something Wicked" as a new release, then soon after picked up "Dark Saga". Matthew Barlow was the man IMO. As much as I love "Ripper", he just cannot replace Barlow in that band for me. However, having said that, I love Iced Earth's first demo and self titled release.

With Iron Maiden, I was into them very early on. The self titled and "Killers" were high school favorites. However, when the brought in Bruce Dickinson, I cannot say I was disappointed. He was a powerhouse. Even though we all loved DiAnno, I don't remember any of us being disappointed with Bruce either.

I hated the Blaze albums when they were first released. However, after a couple years, and some prompting by King Fowley, I gave "The X Factor" a fresh listen and like it quite a bit more than I did when I first purchased it. I think it was the initial shock of hearing a darker Iron Maiden with a completely different vocalist.

With Judas Priest, I got into them in the very early 1980's, when I was in high school. I am a huge fan. When Halford left, I was bummed. However, upon hearing and advance single of "Bullet Train", I was pleasantly surprised by how much I liked "Ripper". I liked the stuff Ripper did with them, including Demolition. I don't think either of the Ripper studio albums are quite as good as the band's classic catalog, but at the same time feel they are decent albums.

When I got into Savatage it was Gutter Ballet I heard first. But not many years later, I also got into Edge Of Thorns, and for whatever reason, I at first didn't even notice that they had changed singers! (man was I retarded!). So now I like both.

SOWN is an awesome album. It was the first Anthrax cd I bought. Soon after I bought up all their older albums. I like both eras of Anthrax they are totally different from one another. I tend to lean more towards the John Bush Anthrax though. Im very interested in seeing how the new singer will be since he is sort of a mix between both John and Joey.

My favorite band is Helloween and some consider keepers 1 and 2 their best albums. Even though Michael Kiske is one of my favorite singers I think Helloween is better now with Deris than they ever were with Kiske. I like every Helloween song good or bad but since Deris has been with them each album as been better than the last.

The Iron Maiden changes didnt bother me too much. I liked something from every album.

I cant think of the vocalists names but Dark Moor is a great band and I like their newer stuff more than with the older singer.

Savatage I got into them when Zak was in the band but I never bought anything. I heard Hall of the Mountain King on a college radio station and went out and picked up some Savatage cds. I like both eras as well. The only album I wasnt too crazy about with Jon was Poets and Madmen.

Gamma Ray is much better with Kai. Sheepers was good but I always missed Kai singing.

Pink Cream 69 is better without Andi.

Nocturnal Rites, Sentenced, and Stratovarius are all better with their current vocalists.

Only band that I think just didnt work is Judas Priest. Ripper is awesome I liked him with Iced Earth sometimes a little more than I did with Matt but Ripper just didnt sit well with me in Judas Priest.

I really wish I hadn't traded this one away a few years ago. I liked it but just couldn't get used to Anthrax without Joey. Now I'm having a hard time finding it new unless I want to order it online and pay a good bit.

This was the beginning of the end of this band to me. I didn't like this album much at all except for a few songs.

Lurideath wrote:

This was the beginning of the end of this band to me. I didn't like this album much at all except for a few songs.

I second this emotion.

spectrefate wrote:

Lurideath wrote:

This was the beginning of the end of this band to me. I didn't like this album much at all except for a few songs.

I second this emotion.

I third it. The John Bush era of Anthrax just left me cold. I guess I was ticked off that Armored Saint got reduced to side project status.

Bush isn't a thrash vocalist in my mind. He just sounds perfect in the Saint.

I didn't get into Maiden until Fear Of The Dark and it is still one of my favorites though most people count in as one of their least. Also while I don't HATE the Blaze or DiAnno eras IMO Bruce and Maiden were meant for each other.

I didn't get into Savatage until Edge Of Thorns and prefer later stuff to older stuff though I like it all.

My first introduction to Metallica was The Black Album and I still love it (hate anything after it) even though a large amount of hardcore Metallica fans hated it when it first came out.

I only know current Nocturnal Rites, Gamma Ray, Stratovarius, and others so I can't say I prefer it or not.

Though I like Jugulator and the Ripper era Iced Earth albums, I prefer Halford with Priest and Barlow with Iced Earth.

I acutally like the Deris Helloween more than Kiske (the only Kiske ones I listen to are the first three). Keepers Pt. 2 is my favorite Helloween album but the places after it are dominated by Deris stuff.

Sound Of White Noise is my favorite Anthrax I've ever heard however, after that I prefer the Joey stuff.

I prefer old Testament stuff more than the later stuff (see poll), the darker Amorphis than the ligter stuff, Sentenced-Amok more than the others.

Though most prefer the classic Queensryche over Empire, I prefer Empire.

DallasBlack wrote:

Though most prefer the classic Queensryche over Empire, I prefer Empire.

Empire was classic Ryche. At least to me and every one I knew. It was the last classic Ryche album though.

I remember when this promo came in, I was surprised because to me it didn't sound like Anthrax anymore. Kind of like when Metallica's Black album was released-TJ

Fat Freddy wrote:

spectrefate wrote:

Lurideath wrote:

This was the beginning of the end of this band to me. I didn't like this album much at all except for a few songs.

I second this emotion.

I third it. The John Bush era of Anthrax just left me cold. I guess I was ticked off that Armored Saint got reduced to side project status.

I'll Fourth it!

thrasher73 wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

spectrefate wrote:

Lurideath wrote:

This was the beginning of the end of this band to me. I didn't like this album much at all except for a few songs.

I second this emotion.

I third it. The John Bush era of Anthrax just left me cold. I guess I was ticked off that Armored Saint got reduced to side project status.

I'll Fourth it!

I`ll fifth it then!

I'm gonna take SOUND OF WHITE NOISE out and give it a spin, thanks to this thread.

Olafsto wrote:

thrasher73 wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

spectrefate wrote:

Lurideath wrote:

This was the beginning of the end of this band to me. I didn't like this album much at all except for a few songs.

I second this emotion.

I third it. The John Bush era of Anthrax just left me cold. I guess I was ticked off that Armored Saint got reduced to side project status.

I'll Fourth it!

I`ll fifth it then!

SIXTH iT... LONG LIVE ARMORED SAINT !!!

I saw my first Anthrax show on this tour. They toured with Quicksand and White Zombie. I had the closest seats that I've ever had at a show (8th row). The band totally rocked. They played almost everything that I wanted to hear inlcuding "Thieves" by Ministry and a great cover of the Beastie Boys "Watcha Watcha Want". At the end of the show, my friend Joe Smart dove into the scrum for Charlie Benante's drum stick that was launched from the stage. Somehow he came out of that pile with the stick, and immediately shoved it down his pants. I guess he figured no self respecting metal head would go for the stick after that.

I gave this CD a ton of play, and I though Jon's vocals went very well with the band. Long live Anthrax!!!!

My favorite line up of Anthrax is with John Bush, a killer voice. IMO Bush is a better vocalist than Joey Belladonna, Sound of White Noise great album. It also helps that I was a fanboy of Armored Saint at the time.

I always thought Belladonna was the "weak link in the chain" for Anthrax...although I admit liking quite a few of the albums he was on, his voice just never did it for me. So when Bush joined I was pretty excited.

I loved Sound Of White Noise when it first came out, but it wasn't long afterward that I stopped listening to metal for almost a decade. I finally got another copy of this one recently and it's a KILLER record.

I also love the Greater Of Two Evils record with Bush, not all of the versions work, but there's some serious ass-kickin' going on. I actually don't have any of the others at this point. The only other Anthrax CDs I still own are Armed & Dangerous and Persistence Of Time (my favorite).