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If thrash metal pioneers ANTHRAX weren\\\\\\\'t survivors, their career certainly would not have lasted 13 powerful years. They wouldn\\\\\\\'t have forged the speed metal bible Among the Living, created the highly influential metal rap crossover \\\\\\\"I\\\\\\\'m the Man\\\\\\\" or recorded with Public Enemy. They wouldn\\\\\\\'t have lasted through metal\\\\\\\'s lean years in the \\\\\\\'90s and revamped their sound to lash out anew with the firepower of Sound of White Noise or the criminally underrated Stomp 442. But it took more than survival instincts to grind their way through the past two years, and create VOLUME 8: THE THREAT IS REAL, one of the freshest, most emotional metal albums of the decade. It took patience, strength and exhaustive determination. \\\\\\\"We had so much adversity going into this record,\\\\\\\" says guitarist and songwriter Scott Ian. \\\\\\\"We recorded it without a record deal, and there were all kinds of personal stuff I ...