JOEY BELLADONNA Says There Is A 'Good Chance' He Will Sing On New ANTHRAX Studio Album

Garage Radio recently conducted an interview with ANTHRAX frontman Joey Belladonna. An excerpt from the chat follows:

Garage Radio: Nowadays, when you're out walking on the street, do you still have people recognize you from ANTHRAX?

Joey Belladonna: "Yeah! Yeah! All the time. It's like I almost never left. It was just kinda lingering in the background, flowing and waiting and a lot of people asked, "Did you ever think you were gonna get back together?" And sometimes I thought really there was a good possibility that we could cross paths again. It was good. It was something that I don't think we really needed to end. But, they wanted to change for other reasons ... vocal-wise ... style-wise ... so what do you do with that?"

Garage Radio: Speaking of that ... I know you've probably read a lot of the drama that the Bush and the Belladonna camps have basically split ANTHRAX fans in half. What do you think of that?

Joey Belladonna: "I don't hear much about it right now. I mean, if I want to sit online all day and read the jibber-jabber, or whatever you wanna call it, I guess you could get caught up in it. We're so different and what are you gonna do when someone else comes in? It's like anything else. It's two different people, it's two different styles ... it's two different sets of music. We have our own styles, so all I can think of is ... no one wishes for the comparisons. I think we're all kind of like one family. We can hang out and rock. You can do no wrong by being there, but then ... yet ... he's still amazing, but he still doesn't get to do what he needs. Everybody already knows about the 'other guy.' I get my due and he gets his due, but I try not to think about it because ... what can you do to change that? It's already been said. You put it in there and now you have to live with that."

Garage Radio: This reunion you guys are doing ... I personally found it to be very good news, because this lineup was my ANTHRAX era. Are you guys talking about a future? Are you going back into the studio with more new stuff?

Joey Belladonna: "There's a good chance for things to happen. I think as we go things get closer to more developments, but we've been pretty busy since April. We've been cracking ever since. Can't go wrong there and everything we do gets better. I think everybody gets more optimistic. I guess you have to feel it out. As far as doing a record, I think it'd be a nice thing to do, but you have to get in a room. You have to decide to do something like that and you have to spend some time. So for us to do that ... we haven't gotten that far. We've been so busy that even if we wanted to write like this second we wouldn't, because nobody would have the time or even the mindset to do it."

Read the entire interview at GarageRadio.com.