#340 ANTHRAX featuring JOHN BUSH, aka BUSHTHRAX

“If I hadn’t have known that was Anthrax, I would have guessed it was Alice In Chains…” The early 90’s was a strange time for metal, most notably due to the change in the musical landscape with the emergence of the Seattle scene and Alice In Chains becoming one of the key crossover bands to bridge the transition from thrash to the next wave of darker, grungier sounding heavy metal. “Every time you do that, I have a less chance of getting laid…” While ANTHRAX began the 90’s with a much darker and angrier sound on Persistence of Time, the darkness and heaviness of their sound would become further amplified with the departure of Joey Belladonna and the addition of JOHN BUSH (formerly of Armored Saint) on vocals, resulting in a new era of Anthrax: BUSHTHRAX! With more grit and heft in the vocals than before, the JOHN BUSH ERA of ANTHRAX is definitely a different flavor than the band’s output throughout the 80’s with Joey Belladonna, and with the changing of the guard in the early 90’s due to the growing popularity of the Seattle sound, the time was right for a slight alteration to the thrashier sounds of 80’s era ThrashThrax, resulting in the darker, more aggressive BUSHTHRAX era that would follow for the next decade or so. “Alright, well it’s not like we’ve never done that for you before…” Always remember that “springtime LSD is the best time for LSD” and that “it’s not as fun for me when I push away”. Realize that “girls with Doc Martens are kinda cute (except for when they wear ‘patrouli’)” and imagine what it’d be like “if we bled out of our dicks for a week” when you JOIN US for some 90’s era ANTHRAX featuring JOHN BUSH, aka BUSHTHRAX!!! Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Help Support Metal Nerdery https://www.patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on your favorite Podcast app Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - TikTok Email: [e-mail] Can’t be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast Show Notes: (00:01): “Here we are…” / Jim Morrison #thelizardking / #schlongadoodledoo / “Dragon ass?” / Send Help & Fall (2 brief movie reviews…) / “When are they just gonna put those beds (Craftmatic adjustable beds) in the movie theater?”/ #acrophobia (5:11): ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!***/ “Freshly shaven and shorn…ready to be professional again…”/ Shoutout to (our former sponsor) Manscaped…/ #batterylife / #sausagewrapping / “Gotta keep moving…or you could take the shots…”/ “I think I went a little heavy on the last dose…so you get these rotten egg burps…where I can’t stand to be in the room with myself…” / #insertvomitnoisehere / #vomitnoiseASMR / “I can smell it…I can taste it…”/ “It’s like when someone says the word #Jager I can taste it…” (09:09): PATREON US at patreon.com/metalnerderypodcast / ***NEW PATREONS*** / Aussie Dave and Grandmaster V / “Is that 5? I think it’s ‘V’…”/ #onmicburp / “Hopefully they’re still listening…”/ VOICEMAIL US at 980-666-8182!!! / #Powertrip / ***GO TO METALNERDERY.COM/ARCHIVES TO TRACK DOWN OLDER EPISODES!!!*** / #NWOOSTM (“You can do it…”) / “Pot luck pickin’…”/ “Push it back!”/ “Every time you do that, I have a less chance of getting laid…”/ SOCIAL MEDIA US at #metalnerderypodcast on #YouTube #Instagram #Facebook and #TikTok (15:10): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: BUSHTHRAX – THE JOHN BUSH ERA OF ANTHRAX / “Almost sounds like spikey pubes, doesn’t it?” / #crickets / “Do YOUR thing and THEY will find you…”/ #fuckthealgorithm (19:30): Sound of White Noise (1993) / “I didn’t cup it that time…”/ “(‘Push away!’) It’s not as fun for me…” / “It took me a minute to figure out what the cover was…”/ POTTERS FIELD “That wasn’t as great an opener as I thought…I think ‘Only’ would have been a better opener…”/ ONLY / “If I hadn’t have known that was Anthrax, I would have guessed it was Alice In Chains…”/ HY PRO GLO / “I, aye, eye, hi…” / “It has a weird, opening, Twin Peaks-y vibe…”/ BLACK LODGE / “Howdy, partner…”/ “Anthrax In Chains…Alice In Anthrax…”/ “Every band adapts to any new kinda thing…” (31:21): Stomp 442 (1995) / RANDOM ACTS OF SENSELESS VIOLENCE / “Puto!” / “It’s more Pantera…”/ “That was the first year…that I ever did L.S.D….”/ “Springtime LSD…it’s the best time for LSD…”/ “Everything’s funny…”/ “She looked like a seagull, in a way…”/ KING SIZE (includes a solo from Dime) / “It doesn’t sound ...