Watch: ANTHRAX Covers SICK OF IT ALL's 'Clobberin' Time', Debuts New Songs At Intimate New York City Show

On Friday, September 4, ANTHRAX played an intimate concert at the new Brooklyn, New York location of the Saint Vitus Bar, at 428 Troutman Street in Bushwick (the onetime home of Brooklyn Made).

Saint Vitus Bar originally opened in 2011 as a 250-capacity venue that hosted everyone from local hardcore bands to surprise sets by major acts, including members of NIRVANA, BLINK-182, MEGADETH and ANTHRAX. It eventually abruptly shut down in February 2024 when the Department Of Buildings closed the venue during a hardcore show after determining it lacked the proper permits to operate as a live music venue.

ANTHRAX's setlist for last night's show was as follows:

01. It's For The Kids)
02. Got The Time) (Joe Jackson cover)
03. Madhouse)
04. Metal Thrashing Mad)
05. Keep It In The Family)
06. Now It's Dark) (first performance since 2021)
07. The Edge Of Perfection) (live debut)
08. Caught In A Mosh)
09. Lone Justice) (first performance since 2021)
10. Everybody's Got A Plan) (live debut; first time played in full)
11. Antisocial) (TRUST cover)
12. Clobberin' Time) (SICK OF IT ALL cover) (live debut by ANTHRAX)
13. Indians)
14. NYC 93) (live debut; band played along to the album version of this song for music video shoot)
15. NYC 93) (band played along to the album version of this song for music video shoot)

Formed by guitarist Scott Ian and then-bassist Dan Lilker in Queens, New York on July 18, 1981, ANTHRAX was one of the first thrash metal bands to emerge from the East Coast and quickly became regarded as a leader in the genre alongside METALLICA, SLAYER and MEGADETH.

ANTHRAX will release its long-awaited twelfth full-length studio album, "Cursum Perficio", on September 18 via Megaforce in the U.S. and Nuclear Blast in Europe. It marks the band's first record in ten years since 2016's "For All Kings", which debuted in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200. The phrase "Cursum Perficio" is Latin for "My journey has come to an end," "My journey is over," or "I complete my journey."

"Cursum Perficio" will be available as a standard CD; Target-exclusive CD with a fabric patch of the album cover; standard black double LP with pop-up gatefold; Target-exclusive double LP, red zoetrope with pop-up gatefold; Amazon-exclusive double LP, purple zoetrope LP with pop-up gatefold; merch-exclusive lilac vinyl double LP with pop-up gatefold; Metal Injection-exclusive white vinyl double LP with pop-up gatefold; Talk Shop Live-exclusive signed with red ripple vinyl double LP with pop-up gatefold; Indie-exclusive red, orange yellow vinyl double LP with pop-up gatefold.

The band dove into recording "Cursum Perficio" in earnest during 2022, working out of Dave Grohl's Studio 606 in Los Angeles. They carefully pieced together what would be this magnum opus, mining their history with reverence, delivering on fan expectations tenfold, and broadening the scope of their signature sound. Produced by Jay Ruston and ANTHRAX, the result is an album that's as angry, aggressive, and alive as their most celebrated fare.