Amazon.co.uk Review
You'll find no rap-metal or nu-metal on
We've Come for You All--just Anthrax's inimitable thrash-metal melded with contemporary melodies, dynamics and booming, arena-worthy production. Two way-cool guests--
Roger Daltrey and
Pantera guitar mastermind Dimebag Darrell--are under-utilised on their respective songs, but with machine-gun, heart-pounding double-bass drums and vocalist John Bush's convincing snarl, it hardly matters. Bush, who has been in Anthrax since the early 1990s, has been part of much of the group's best and most mature (if not most commercially successful) material. The dynamic "Superhero" is a winner, as is the radio-ready, not-too-heavy "Safe Home", while "Nobody Knows Anything" and "Strap It On" are the best of the heaviest entries. Effective acoustic moments, Scott Ian's guitar work, smart lyrics and a seven-minute-plus title track that never drags prove that Anthrax may not be metal
du jour, but they're consistently superior.
--Katherine Turman