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Among The Living by: Anthrax List Price: £5.99 CD-Charts Price: £2.98 You Save: £3.01 (50%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0042284244725 Label: Mercury Records Ltd (London) Manufacturer: Mercury Records Ltd (London) Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Mercury Records Ltd (London) Release Date: March 29, 1994 Running Time: 50 minutes Studio: Mercury Records Ltd (London) Sales Rank: 2191 MPN: 842447 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: If Metallica and Slayer invented speed metal, Anthrax brought it to the East Coast and imbued it with the attitude and excitement of New York hardcore. Among The Living is their finest hour--a roaring, adrenaline-pumped collection of flailing beats, precise, razor-edged riffs and shout-along refrains. Unlike most full-throttle metal vocalists of the era, Joey Belladonna chose to sing as well as shout, giving songs such as "Among The Living", "Indians" and "Efilnikcufecin" ("nice fuckin' life" spelled backwards) a decided melodic edge. Yet Scott Ian and Dan Spitz's buzz saw guitar flurries, and Charlie Benante's insistent drumming, prevented the songs from ever degenerating into the run-of-the-mill heavy metal they so despised. --Jon Wiederhorn Description: When Anthrax released AMONG THE LIVING in 1987, the band was a part of a then-burgeoning heavy metal sub-genre called speed or thrash metal. This was an inversion of glam metal. The band members wore worn-out jeans and T-shirts, their longhair was hairspray-free, and not a smudge of make-up was applied to their unsightly mugs. Their music was dense, borrowing speed from punk and hardcore and mammoth guitar riffing from metal, and featured thought-provoking lyrics. AMONG THELIVING not only served as Anthrax's commercial breakthrough, but (along with seminal releases by Metallica, Megadeth, and Slayer) the album brought this new musical form to the forefront. The members of Anthrax were a bunch of comic-book-reading, jam-wearing heavy metal fans from NYC, and the music reflects the lifestyle. The band based it's U.K. Top-30 hit single "I Am the Law" on a favourite comic-book character (Judge Dread). "Imitation Of Life", a song about phony people that contains one of thrash metal's strongest riffs, waspointedly directed at '80s glam metal bands. The frantic "Caught In A Mosh" is an album highlight, as are "Indians" (which deals with the plight of the Native American), "N.F.L".,"Skeletons In The Closet", and the title track. Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - WEAK PRODUCTION...An average album let down by a very weak production - a few good songs but nothing in the same class as Master Of Puppets or Reign In Blood. 1988's State Of Euphoria & 1990's Persistence Of Time are FAR superior despite lacking the iconic status of this vastly overrated 1987 effort. Very mid tempo with a tinny drum sound and thin guitars - not this band's finest hour........... Rating: - 4 Stars for the fantastic standout tracks, still sounds fresh. This album is worth 4 stars easily for the standout tracks, which raised Anthrax above many of the thrash bands of the day. The album came out when people were buzzing about 'Thrash' and Metallica and Anthrax graced the cover of Kerrang. There were a few big bands, some harder ones, and some serious rubbish, but Anthrax were different enough to stand out. Joey Belladonna's vox were one of the things that did this, his style being more rock based and more flexible than many bands of the time(Metallica, Megadeth, Kreator, Exodus, Suicidal Tendencies to name just a few), but the band still sounded harder than than the hair-bands. The playing is as tight as a Gnat's chuff, with some fantastic metal\punk drumming from Charlie Benante ... Read More: Rating:  - Good fun and attitude in one gem of a thrash record!Among the living is my personal favorite Anthrax full length. In fact, I will be so brave as to say it's in the top 5 thrash albums of all time. Previous output, 'Spreading the Disease', was coming on nicley, hinting at what they would be fully capable of given the right budget and time to mature. Among the Living is a landmark album in the world of not only thrash metal, but metal in general. One of the few albums where the music media have got it right about blending musical styles, in this case thrash and NY Hardcore. The music is very aggressive skater style thrash, but the attitude and mob choruses scream hardcore. If 'Spreading the Disease' was the appatiser, then ATL was the full on seven course banquet. Rivalling ... Read More: Rating: - Awesome thrash record!I remember buying this album along with Slayer's Seasons in the Abyss in the summer last year. I had decided to boost my collection of thrash metal with these two albums and I listend to them almost non-stop on my summer holiday in Italy. I thought that both albums were great but I slightly preferred this one. Even though I have bought scores of cds since then I still hold this one in very high regard. Among the living contains alot of sharp, forceful riffs from guitarist Scoot Ian and, true to the thrash metal stlye, very fast tempos. There are also lots of killer tempo changes and guitar solos to make the songs even more interesting. Anthrax also ensured that their music was still fairly original. Joey Belladonna actually sings ... Read More: Rating:  - Pretty good but can get boring after a whileWhen I first got this album two years ago, I was only just getting into thrash metal, so at first this album seemed amazing with nearly all the songs being superb. But now I rarely find myself listening to it, not saying it's a bad album but since then I've got many other better thrash metal albums to give me my fix. It's still got some good tracks such as "One World", "A.D.I./Horror Of It All" and "Imitation Of Life". Also there are lot of humorous undertones though nothing gut busting. |
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