One of the thrash metal’s Big 4, New York’s Anthrax are celebrating their 40th anniversary this year. being formed in Queens in 1981. What better way to celebrate it than with brand new full length album? This one contains eleven songs with opener Persistence Of Memory being an instrumental intro to the songs on this album. Besides groove and thrash metal guitar work this album contains lots of melody and catchy guitar hooks topped with Joey Belladonna’s great vocal lines who sounds more convincing than ever. Charlie Benante is one of best metal drummers out there and listen to this record and it will show you this fact. Also, guitar solos on this one are just perfect. The Long Goodbye is one of my personal highlights of the album containing both superb almost melancholic melody and great guitar riffs and solo. There are of course some faster songs like great It’s For The Kids which was smartly chosen as a single from the album. The second longest song besides fantastic almost seven minutes long The Edge Of Perfection on this album is just above six minutes long title song which I must also emphasize as being one of my favorites on this album. Also, NYC 93 and My Victory did move and shake my sorry ass around the room while listening. But, Anthrax released a good album for their anniversary, it is not definitely in my top three of their albums, but it is in top five or six. Thrash metal forever!

7/10