Stomp 442

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Stomp 442 is the seventh studio album by American thrash metal band Anthrax. It was published in October 1995 by Elektra Records and was able to place only in the UK album charts at number 77 and the Finnish album charts at number 36, in contrast to the previous albums in Europe, on the Billboard 200, it peaked at number 47

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After completing a tour, and the separation from her manager Jon Zazula the band started in October 1994 with the song writing. Shortly after the beginning of the studio recordings in the spring of 1995, guitarist Dan Spitz on the advice of his bandmates anthrax, because he no longer sufficiently engaged in their opinion, for the band. His guitar recordings were taken in the studio of drummer Charlie Benante, Dimebag Darrell ( Pantera ) and the guitar roadie Paul Crook. As producers, the brothers Joe and Phil Nicolo acted under the pseudonym Butcher Brothers, who already worked for Cypress Hill, Aerosmith and Urban Dance Squad. The album cover shows a scrap formed from spherical sculpture. The exporting artist Storm Thorgerson used for this purpose only parts of American cars, because it is an American band with Anthrax. The sculpture was the size of a house.

After a promotional campaign with radio interviews and the publication of Fueled as a promo in September 1995, the album was released in October. In November 1995, Anthrax went with the support bands Deftones and Life of Agony on tour. The album proved to be not as successful as by the major label Elektra hoped for, it sold 100,000 copies in the U.S. only. The label then made hardly any publicity for the album and refused further financial support for the tour, so that both parties agreed to terminate the existing record contract.

In 2003, the German label Nuclear Blast released the album new, as bonus tracks, the music videos were included to Fueled and Nothing.

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic considers the album a continuation of the downtrend and attributes this in part to the lack of long-time band members like Joey Belladonna and Dan Spitz. Instead of aligning the new band, Show Album uncertainty about the direction the band would develop. The "hard riffs, the thundering drums or the hip-hop experiments" no longer lit, the album was a disappointment for fans of the band. Thomas copper from Rock Hard, however, certified the album " the potential ... to a classic of thrash profession to be " the guitar riffs and the vocals of John Bush complement each other perfectly. The music magazine Kerrang! called Stomp 442 " ​​over long distances dull and boring," the album cover without the traditional band logo is a symbol for the missing character of the album. The online magazine Satan Stole my Teddy Bear sees the album after the weak predecessor Sound of White Noise, a slow return to the strengths of the band. Unfortunately, the album over long distances could not maintain the quality of titles such as Random Acts of Senseless Violence and Fueled, the melodies lacked the necessary muscle to carry the songs. All in all, the album is indeed lackluster, but fancy the foundation for the creation of the band in the 1990s.

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