Search - Anthrax :: Fistful of Metal/Armed and Dangerous

BLOW UP THE VAULTS!!!!!!

wally gator | USA | 01/20/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"YES! Here's what I was hoping to find! FISTFUL OF METAL and ARMED AND DANGEROUS together on one release. This, my friends, is the ANTHRAX story chapters ONE and TWO together on one KILLER compilation.

Now, I am here to tell you not to listen to ANYBODY but me on this one. FISTFUL is such a cool record, I can't believe how many people are knocking it. NEIL TURBIN only sang vocals on the one album, and yeah, they are a bit outrageously high pitched, but the speed and killer licks will whip yo' hide. No joke. It sounds like it was recorded inside of a trash can, but man can it rock... Play loudly.

Keep the volume as loud for ARMED AND DANGEROUS. This record introduces a young sounding JOEY BELLADONNA before he really claimed his sound. Here we get him covering some TURBIN material, and we get him on a couple early live outings. I love early THRAX, SPREADING THE DISEASE is probably the best album, but I get all jazzed up when I hear a real classic early eighties metal track that was recorded on zero budget. This is underground New York Garage sh*t and it is wicked f'in awesome. If you are an ANTHRAX fan and have never heard these albums.. do yourself a favor and pick this up!"

Great Albums, Horrible Release

James Prosser | Edmonton | 06/15/2005

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Fistful of Metal is one of the all time great metal albums. Unfortunately, this release sounds like it was sourced from 96 kbps mp3s. Buyer beware. Buy the original releases instead. You'll be more satisfied with them."

Great Music, Horrible Disc Quality

David K. Barrett | 01/25/2007

(2 out of 5 stars)

"This is the simple review: the music is killer. Neil Turbin is great.



Music is 5 stars. Disc quality and editing is - 2 stars.



Here are the problems: The disc sounds bad. Also, there is an unforgiveable 2 second gap between each song. The gaps exists even when the song is supposed to blend into the following tune. It was so annoying that I put my CD on Ebay."