I listened to the album “Worship Music” by the band Anthrax. It was par for the course in terms of what I expected, but maybe the tracks that I actually dug were more than expected with such low expectations. I ramble like this a lot.
The best songs on “Worship Music” are: “The Giant,” The Devil You Know,” and “In The End.”
“Worship (Intro)”: Pretty pointless, makes sense in concert to cue you in that the band will be coming to the stage soon, but as a track on a music album see word two of this sentence.
“Earth On Hell”: A cute title, a stupid song with a time bomb ticking theme.
“The Devil You Know”: The riff drags you right in and before you know it you are ready to hair band it up and lightly bang to it.
“Fight’em Til You Can’t”: Zombies are attacking humans. When the dead come back to feed you got to fight’em! Eh, I think a band like Lordi would be better at deliver a song like this. Flatlines as entertainment.
“I’m Alive”: A little more pop feeling than the average metal grindfest, but it’s still a dull grind any way.
“Hymn 1″: Just a few seconds of violins wasting space.
“In The End”: Musically a weak stomp that gets it, but don’t got it. Vocally, he’s got the one man metal choir thing down tight.
“The Giant”: At first it is a Mr. Hyde and Mr. Hyde delivery that I did not think was going to meld together as anything much, but the more you listen to it the catchier it gets! Good track.
“Hymn 2″: Drums. Snare style “hymn.” Does as much for me as the violins did with “Hymn 1.” Nothing doing.
“Judas Priest”: Weak Cheese crackers.
“Crawl”: The vocal delivery is switched up a bit, get some Creed like delivery mixed in with the higher heavy metal pitches, that don’t go high enough to crack the sky, which makes the song a nice change, but just spare change you can give away and not miss.
“The Constant”: It had promise, but did not make promises and did not live up to the expectations it never placed on itself. Boring with a couple of vocal points that struck the bell in my ear just right, but not enough to win my mind in marriage.
“Revolution Screams”: What you would probably expect from Anthrax. They do a half decent job on this for a genre piece, but it doesn’t stand up above the heads or shoulders of their genre mates, shorter than some, not taller than most, dead even drudgery. Or, maybe YOU like it?