Description
LABEL: Megaforce
VINYL RELEASE DATE: 05/12/2009
VARIANT: Vinyl 3LP
While Fistful of Metal is early East Coast thrash personified, Anthrax’s debut LP is likewise a curious outlier in their hefty catalogue. While speed-metal salvos like “Deathrider” and “Panic” laid the groundwork for the act’s first wave — leaning particularly hard into the iron-plated wristwork of Scott Ian, one of metal’s most infamously locked-in rhythm riffers — Fistful is also the sole Anthrax release sporting the cat-scratch screech of vocalist Neil Turbin and the low-end fingering of bassist Dan Lilker. Catch the metal-thrashing madness of Anthrax’s first fantastic outing, now packaged as a triple-LP alongside their 1985 EP, Armed and Dangerous.