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These songs are shit. As someone rightly said, anyone in the genre could come up with them.

Many go on the end?

Set times plz

Derek Roddy filled in last night. It'll be a case of who hasn't at this rate

https://blabbermouth.net/news/anthrax-recruits-drummer-derek-roddy-for-mexico-city-concert-as-support-act-for-iron-maiden-video

Many at it?

I kind of agree with you in some respects. I didn't buy it on release for reference SOWN would've been my first Anthrax album, I worked backwards then. Thought Persistence was tops, but Euphoria and Among I thought were both disappointing. Maybe different if you picked it up at time of release but can't help but feel I'd still think the other records I mentioned were light years ahead of Among the Living, even go down the divisions the likes of Testament's The Legacy. 

No, doesn't sound like SOWN in any respect. I don't really rate much of the Belladonna era apart from Spreading and Persistence. How Among The Living routinely appears alongside Reign In Blood, Peace Sells, Master etc is beyond me. Always thought of it as a nonsense record.

An eagle eyed friend alerted me to the fact they used an outside writer on several of these tracks - one Blair Daly.

One of his tracks is Edge of Perfection, fuckin knew that one especially sounded unlike them.

Agreed. I'd say he was given the boot

It's not St Anger bad but it is mediocre. Front loaded with the A material, the second half is full of forgettable plodders.

Persistence of Memory by the by is one of the most useless intros I've ever heard, does nothing doesn't even segue in any shape or form into the next track.

The first few songs, admittedly catchy but not to my tastes. Definitely for the festival circuit, some proper toe curling cringe there.

Lyrics are appalling. "Everyone Has a Plan Until They're Punched in The face"  Or "We put the sharpest knives in the hands of children and they cut"

Not worth the 10 year wait. 5/10

Cool thanks, will look at that now

To be fair Kam put up a post saying he doesn't know all the lyrics and will use a teleprompter so that's my decision made

That's the thing, would Rammstein or Korn be arsed with it?

Couldn't do the Sabbath show myself so naively perhaps hoping for something Sabbath adjacent even but reality is probably Yungblud.

I enjoyed the one here, Tool Slayer, Therapy I remember being great. System of a Down were shocking.