Spreading the Disease
Occupation
- Joey Belladonna: Vocals
- Scott Ian: Guitar
- Dan Spitz: guitar
- Frank Bello: Bass
- Charlie Benante: Drums
Spreading the Disease is the second studio album by American thrash metal band Anthrax. It was from December 1985 a total of 18 weeks on the Billboard 200 and reached there place 113
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With the debut album Fistful of Metal and EP Armed and Dangerous, the band caught the attention of various major label and she switched from Megaforce Records to Iceland Records. With the album, the band laid the foundations for the later commercial success by linking fast guitar work with melodic vocals and thus spoke to fans of thrash metal, the conventional heavy metal and hardcore punk. The appearance of the musicians with surfer clothing, baseball caps and skateboards was in the 1980s, the fashion trend among rock fans.
As the songwriting should start to the album, the band was without a singer and songwriter so without. By Armed and Dangerous and Gung- Ho, there were two finished tracks that were not written by the former vocalist Neil Turbin. The lyrics for the other songs wrote Scott Ian, who participated less in the compositions in return. Drummer Charlie Benante provided the basic melodies, based on which the music was written to pieces together with the second guitarist Dan Spitz and bassist Frank Bello. The text to Medusa comes from John Zazula.
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Reception
Herbert Chwalek of powermetal.de referred to the album as a " milestone of Metals" and as "the to this day still best record of the New York ". He sees the band somewhere between thrash and power metal, the titles were " fast, hard, yet melodic ." Frank from Trojan Rock Hard notes in his contemporary review that "this LP ... Setting standards [ is ] ", the album possesses compared to the previous Fistful of Metal more potential and intelligence. He sees Anthrax Spreading the Disease with "on the same level as Metallica Metal Church ". Steve Huey of Allmusic called the album with its " rhythmic and pounding guitar riffs " as a " major step forward" and called it one of the best of the band.