Re-releasing an album that's been out for just about a year. Nice.

Rock on!

Was there best album maybe ever

Lame marketing garbage. Not a bad album, better than any of the John Bush era crap but still doesn't hold a candle to Persistence of Time, Among The Living, or Spreading The Disease

Testament Dark Roots of Earth > Worship Music

I don't know, I think they stand on pretty equal ground.

I can't wait until it leaks so I can take this one for free too!

Thank god I can "Worship Music" that sucks the second time around for free....LOL

Actually the album was awful, I just want the covers to listen to once or twice.

The music business is too funny!

Interesting. The reason why Anthrax needs to re-release the album is because of people like you who ripped them off by downloading the album the first time it was released.

Yeah, life's a bitch ain't it. Maybe they'll have to get day jobs just because of me.

I hope so. More people working at Burger King with you should result in my order getting ready faster.

I'm the best Whopper maker around I'll have you know!


Hey, would you like fries or onion rings with that?

YOU MOTHERFUCKERS. I WENT OUT THE FIRST WEEK AND BOUGHT WORSHIP MUSIC AND NOW YOU WANT ME TO DO IT AGAIN?

I LOVE ANTHRAX BUT YOU CAN GO FUCK YOURSELVES OVER THIS ONE.

I AGREE. STRONGLY. THAT'S WHY I'M TYPING IN ALL CAPS TOO.

STFU and just buy the missing tracks on iTunes, losers

Btw Worship Music was awesome!

to do something not even KISS has done. Re-release any album 1 year after it was originally released.

Just shows why Anthrax will always be the weakest of the Big 4.

You are 100% right man. I would question Anthrax's management here. Have they ever had quality professional managers? It seems they make completely random business decisions, usually ending up with Charlie, Scott and Co shooting themselves in the foot.

No to re-release .
Release it as an Anthrax ep ok.

Buy the album again or Charlie's wife will hit you.

Anthrax will not be the first to have a re-release of their latest album this soon. Early re-releases with bonus discs and revamped artwork and layout have been made for other artists as well, few months after the initial sales - the tour editions of Axel Rudi Pell's The Crest and Scorpions' Sting In The Tail to name a couple of examples. Nightwish recently had a re-release (tour edition) of the latest album Imaginaerum featuring 2 CDs, a bonus DVD and a mediabook with a revamped artwork.

As far as I know, not all artists are planning these re-releases, it's mainly the label. I don't know how this is with Anthrax, though.

My opinion: all versions of the album should be made available simultaneously so that fans could make a real choice as to the version they want to have. Anniversary editions and re-issues are different, anniversary editions come after 15-40 years of time, re-issues are made when the first print is sold out and they usually are the very same album sonically and content-wise if not adding a couple of live bonus tracks, but nonetheless a re-issue is something justifiable and makes the album available again.

Unfortunately, it is common place now, but I still don't like it since I was a first day buyer.

But you're right, and back in the day, Roadrunner was the absolute worst at this. I think every release from Fear Factory and Type O Negative (too lazy to look it up) had special editions within a year or two of the original release. But now it's worse, because there's the Target edition, the iTunes edition, the regular edtion, the box set collector's edition... and if you're a super fan. you're expected to buy ALL of them because each one has one or two tracks different... it's all a bit ridiculous.

It makes people who normally wouldn't pirate feel justified, otherwise ther're getting ripped off.

No wonder the record industry is in the toilet.

Never buy an album too soon.
Nice one screwing your trve fans anthrax!

all good points, but it is annoying when labels take advantage knowing that fans will douple dip. Roadrunner were the kings of that shit back in the day. Once they realised that digi's were in demand, they would release them sometime _after_ the release of the jewel. They don't do this anymore however, which is good, but it used to piss me off back in the day. not that i'd double dip of course.

Like you suggested, there is obviously a huge difference between re-issuing an album with bonus tracks that perhaps has been around for a while or hasn't been in print, then re-releasing something 6 months later just to cash in.

The cash ins fuck me off.

They should at least just admit that they are selling the same album twice to raise money for Charlies medical bills after he got his ass kicked by his wife!

was probably Rosenfeld's idea. Turd. I'd spend my money on another copy of the new Testament first. I haven't listened to WM for a long time and probably won't. Funny how I bought all of Anthrax's records with Bush online but I could give a shit about them with Joey.

Anthrax is not one of the big four. Exodus or Testament should have been there, if anyone.

I've never bought an album more than once. I have no problem morally downloading a bonus track when I already bought the original. I'm not spending another $15 for 1-2 bonus tracks. Fuck off.

I hate when bands do this. The only was I would possibly buy this is if the packaging is better because I thought the packaging for the original WM release sucked. I hate the cardboard sleeve packaging, you always scratch the cd pulling it in and out.

What a bunch of whiney bitches some of you people are. If you want to buy it - do so. If you don't - pretty simple also I'd have thought. Fucking hell.

This album got old real quick.

Look forward to hearing the cover tunes. Rush , Boston , Journey , AC/DC great choices.

It sucked the first time nothing gonna change

There should be a special deal where you can send the original cd somewhere along with a buck or 2 and get the new version.

Do I have to own the same songs twice?
And rock musicians wonder why some folks
Download illegally. Looks like I'll be
Purchasing those individual songs on iTunes.

Iron maiden is another one, but at least they
Wait more than a year.

Re-releasing the album, almost a year after it got out, with 2 bonus tracks being cover songs: way to go! No wonder people will wait for it to leak online and download it for free. That's just stupid!!!

Worship Music is the best album since Among the Living.

I think some of you are getting a head of yourself when you assume these cover songs will be individually purchasable. I see these new songs with "Album Only" written all over them.

WTF! Hey Anthrax! Do your homework! Sacrifice already did it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6UI3aLYA1M

Yeah, since I already got Worship Music, I'm just gonna download these bonus tracks. No reason to pay for the same songs twice.

Also, Anthrax is not the first band to do this. Remember when Roadrunner used to rerelease special editions of albums like 6-8 months after they came out? Luckily they stopped doing it and release special editions the same day the regular edition comes out.

Also, go see Anthrax live. They were great at Mayhem Fest. Glad they played the side stage. Only complaint was they played like 6 or 7 songs.

"It's songs that in some shape or form we've been playing or jamming on for our whole lives. Because you really don't wanna have to work too hard on these things"

way to sell me on it dude. sounds like its worth buying for sure. I can't fucking believe this douche has the audacity to say this after he bitches so much about them not making enough money anymore. "we need the money so please buy our RE RELEASE of a NEW album that has covers added that we didn't want to work that hard on." great attitude asshole

...is that people are expected to purchase the expanded edition of an album that they may have already purchased. I will admit, I didn't legally purchase WM. in fact, I don't think I've ever purchased a brand new copy of any Anthrax albums I own... all of them were purchased as used copies; nonetheless, I haven't been impressed with a whole Anthrax record since SoWN, and even with WM, I've only listened to the whole album once since I did d.load it, and the only song on it that I can say I still enjoy is Judas Priest.

But, for example purposes, let's take Anthrax out, and place Opeth in. I purchased ghost Reveries the week it was released. i went to their show & purchased a t-shirt. A few months later, RR re-releases the album w/ the Soldier of Fortune bonus track & the "Making Of..." DVD. being a gigantic Opeth fan, I paid like, $22 for the bonus content. Now, I'll admit, things were slightly different in 05/06, but what get's my goat is the fact that as a legal & faithful consumer, you get almost no recognition for your efforts!

Another example, but different medium- Purchased Batman Arkham City when it came out for like, $60 & it came with a registration code for the Catwoman DLC for free, which was pretty cool, but now, you can purchase the same game for $30, and there's about another $30-45 worth of DLC from PSN. So, if I was to purchase all the DLC for B:AC, I would have invested about $90-100 on a video game, and I'm sorry, it's just not worth it. On the other hand, someone who bought the game 2 weeks ago can now also d.load all the DLC & pay maybe $5 more than I did, but has 30-40% more content than I do. That is just unfair to the strongest supporters of the games sales.

What I'm getting at is this: I feel that with media content, such as games, music & movies, the companies that own the rights need to start giving more "bang for the buck" when you purchase something @ full retail cost. When you buy a new album or video game it should come with a registration code, if you register within 30 days of purchase, you should be able to purchase any future release of bonus content @ a discounted cost. So anyone who purchased the original version of Anthrax's Worship Music for whatever it was, $15 bucks when it came out, shouldn't have to pay $22 for the expanded edition... maybe say $5 for the bonus content, with option for digital d.load or physical copy by mail w/ paid shipping cost. This way, people legally purchasing the music are being shown appreciation by the labels that distribute music.

Another idea I had, was that parent companies, say Sony for example... they could easily offer a service that allows one to visit their website & create a customer profile. anytime you purchase & register one of their media products, you earn X amount of "Sony Rewards" & the amount of points earned has a direct correlation with the product & the price paid. Say you purchase a $10 CD/digital d.load... you earn 100 Sony Points, and the points you earn can be used against the purchase of another product, so you pay less, or the points can be accumulated to where it costs nothing at all. So say you purchase 5 cd's @ $10 ea, you earn 500 points, which would earn you a free record by any artist under the Sony label, or it's child-companies. That's basically a "Buy 5, Get One Free" kind of deal. or, let's say you buy a $250 Sony Home Entertainments System, or a Playstation... well, that earns you 2500 points. Then you can distribute those points anyway you see fit... you can get 5 free CD's, or one free $50 video game. Or you could get 2 free CD's & pay only $20 for a game that would normally cost $50. It's a totally achievable system, and one that really promotes customer loyalty, and also treats the paying consumer with respect, showing appreciation for the people who spend their hard earned money on products that the company offers. It's just that they don't want to do it out of fear of lost profits... but there is zero profit when your products are being stolen anyway. If the situation of illegal downloading was attacked from both sides... basically in creating this Consumer Rewards program, and working w/ ISP's to prevent illegal d.loading, digital media wil gain so much more worth, and I believe will also contribute to restoring the poor economic situations not only in individual coutries, but across the globe.

I guess I see your point, sort of.

Anyway, greatest hits compilations, live albums, re-releases with bonus tracks are all bullshit cash-grabs. If you have nothing entirely new to contribute, you ain't getting my money.
Fresh meat for me, not warmed-up leftovers.