Anthrax Albums Ranked From Worst to Best

My take on the discography of American Thrash Metal band, Anthrax!

[@adneholo3326]

i think the presistanse of time was their best album in my opinion

[@JCStorm76]

Their most underrated album

[@pjcannaday6337]

@@JCStorm76 Persistence is my favorite as well…..Among and Spreading are my 2A and 2B

[@JCStorm76]

@@pjcannaday6337 They’re my favourite three also

[@benjaminquintana1198]

Amen

[@TinyLegs15243]

Idk how you could possibly have fist full of metal over Persistance of Time

[@glts8146]

Well done video! 1. Spreading the Disease 2. Among the Living 3. Persistence of Time 4. State of Euphoria 5. For All Kings 6. Worship Music 7. Sound of White Noise 8. Fistful of Metal 9. We’ve Come for You All 10. Volume 8 11. Stomp 442

[@MetalBoy-bp5eq]

11 - Volume 8 10 - State of euphoria 9 - Stomp 442 8 - For all kings 7 - We've come for you all 6 - Worship Music 5 - Fistful of metal 4 - Sound of white noise 3 - Among the living 2 - Spreading the disease 1 - Persistence of time

[@JCStorm76]

Loved them since I was 15. 1. Spreading The Disease 2. Among The Living 3. Persistence Of Time 4. State Of Euphoria 5. Sound Of White Noise 6. Volume 8 ( I knew you put it last) 7. Fistful Of Metal 8. Worship Music 9. For All Kings 10. We’ve Come For You All 11. Stomp 442

[@PETERODZZ]

Spreading the disease was my first one.

[@michaeltargowski1998]

Hey I requested this yesterday- not knowing you already did :) great honest rankings!

[@tfort66633]

Another great ranking I've seen Anthrax live at least a dozen times 1. Among the Living 2. Spreading the Disease 3. Worship Metal 4. Persistence of Time 5. We've come for you All 6. Sound of White Noise 7. State of Euphoria 8. For all Kings 9. Fistful of Metal 10. Stomp 442 11. Volume 8

[@stugramajo3197]

Dude, I really like your videos. Evidently, there’s a lot of ranking albums out there. I like it that you get right to it and keep the pace going at a good rhythm. Ok, I grew up with bands like this. “Among the Living” is my #1, “Persistence of Time” my #2 and State of Euphoria, #3. There’s a few albums I admit I never listened to.

[@elpeladorobles5013]

I’m a big fan of the Bush era so I have to put We’ve come for you all and Sound of White Noise at 3 and 4 respectively

[@markpalavosvrahotes5575]

But Stomp 442 is the worst album to me out of the Big Four aside from Lulu. Do you agree?

[@txmatt2112]

Great stuff my man! I would put for all kings #1 on my list. I love how some people’s lists can be so different. But that’s what great about music. It reminds me of how many times I’ve hated an album then picked it up later to feel different about it. We should do a video on that!? I’ll join ya! I’ve got examples.

[@jasonyoung2968]

I agree with Darcy Six Strings. Sound of White Noise deserves more love. It’s a fantastic album. My top five are 1. Among the Living 2. Spreading the Disease 3. Persistence of Time 4. Sound of White Noise 5. Fistful of Metal Great job as always Bryce! Congrats on the increasing views! You are doing a great job my friend, keep up the good work!

[@JokesOnU]

You slept on “got the time” It went hard back in the day.

[@marcbeil8342]

Killer shirt!!! Metal Messiah :) Well, I got a way different Anthrax list here :) Totally love my favourite big four... 1. We've Come For You All 2. Among The Living 3. Sounds Of White Noise 4. Persistence Of Time 5. Spreading The Disease 6. State Of Euphoria 7. Stomp 442 8. Worship Music 9. For All Kings 10. Vol. 8: The Threat Is Real 11. Fistful Of Metal

[@pinkfloydmeddle6692]

Fistful that low? Interesting

[@samwilks1872]

Among the living takes the number one for me 🤘. Thanks for another great video

[@tojorozombie]

Old Head here, frim Class of ‘85. Just found you recent and am very much enjoying the content! So cool a younger generation is diggin’ on Metal!🤘🏼 That sucks all you had was Metal Mania. I always felt MTVH1 could have easily had a channel that only showed hard rock/metal vids and would have had the viewership. Keep up the radness, Sir! Might we see an installment on Venom someday? Exactly no one has done a ranking/retrospective on them, which is odd...

[@dangjohnson_]

Love this ranking dude! I'm not a big Anthrax fan but I respect their legacy. I was going to say that since you mentioned Exciter from the Fistful of Metal ranking maybe you can do an Exciter albums ranking from worst to best ;)

[@brycetalksmetal]

Thanks man and possibly

[@Bova13]

The persistance of time it is, for me, the bes Anthrax record. The sound it is very experimental and at the same time so mature.

[@doguyucel4688]

State of Euphoria is my favorite. Happy to see in in the 4 in the list since it's really underrated amongst the fans and the band themselves. It could be higher.

[@billymercury3897]

Catharsis is quite an underrated track from Volume 8

[@darrellloudermilk7064]

Solid, well-reasoned list, There are a couple of things I personally disagree with, but of course to each his own. I really love Volume 8. If you give it another listen, key tracks include Stealing from a Thief, Killing Box, and Big Fat Deal. Sound of White Noise is my personal pick for No. 1. I'm a Bush guy, fucking LOVE Armored Saint. Among The Living is my No. 2.

[@darcysixstringsninelives3493]

Nice to see Sound Of White Noise at that spot , I think I have it at #4 in my ranking vid , regardless it’s a great album , John Bush is one of the best vocalists in metal , The song Only has to be in my top 5 favourite Anthrax songs , unreal tune ! I don’t understand why State Of Euphoria gets shit on , I bought it the day it came out & still love it to this day ! Definitely looking forward to a new Anthrax album , hope it’s soon & also new Armored Saint in October ! Keep up the awesome job Bryce ! Take care ~ Darcy 🤘

[@brycetalksmetal]

Thanks! I agree about John Bush 👍🏻

[@TinyLegs15243]

State of Euphoria has a ton of great song writing, it’s kinda their And justice for all equivalent to me, which is my favorite Metallica album. Never understood the Luke warm reception SOE got.

[@darcysixstringsninelives3493]

@@TinyLegs15243 I couldn’t agree more Brenden , you obviously have good taste lol . Cheers from Canada 🤘

[@TinyLegs15243]

@@darcysixstringsninelives3493 Cheers mate.

[@mikerankin34]

ATL is my favorite. I will say fist full of metal has held up well over the years.

[@madhatter984]

Sound of white noise is what made me love this band.

[@stefanodolara3429]

Sound of White Noise very underrated album...

[@VandelayKavorka]

Sound Of White Noise is my personal favorite followed by We've Come For You All.

[@planetbarrett6055]

My Top 11 Anthrax Albums. 11. Volume 8 10. Stomp 442 9. We've Come For You All 8. Sound Of White Noise 7. For All Kings 6. Worship Music 5. Persistence Of Time 4. Fistful Of Metal 3. Spreading the Disease 2. State of Euphoria 1. Among The Living Just 1 Bad Album From This Awesome Band.

[@shamrock32]

Great video, Top 20 Dokken songs..... 🤘

[@DiegoDeschain]

Yeah, Among The Living is just sick, 10/10 for me. Not a single bad song on the album. I Am The Law's section starting at the 3:33 mark is one of my favorite moments in all of metal.

[@grungil7570]

#1 among the living - Classic sound of white noise - Strong we come for you all - Strong state of euphoria - Fun Fun Fun worship music - Good Comeback persistence of time - Dark, too long spreading decease - Big hits, some filler for all kings - overproduced filler stomp 442 - bad experimence fistfull metal - weak ideas #11 Vol 8- uninspired

[@kyleisreal_tv]

Underrated song from Anthrax is Poison My Eyes from the Last Action Hero Soundtrack. Check that song out Bryce if you did not know about it. And great list I am 5% Indian so picking my favorite album is a no brainer lol

[@integrity101]

*Real Anthrax* #1 Spreading The Disease 🤘 #2 Among The Living🤘 #3 Worship Music🤘 #4 For All Kings🖒 #5 Persistence Of Time🖒 #6 State Of Euphoria *Bush era* #1 Sound Of White Noise 🤘 #2 We've Come For You All🖒 #3 Stomp 442 #4 Volume 8 *Overall* #1 Spreading The Disease #2 Among The Living #3 Worship Music #4 Sound Of White Noise #5 For All Kings #6 We've Come For You All #7 Persistence Of Time #8 Fistful Of Metal #9 Stomp 442 #10 State Pf Euphoria #11 Volume *OFF*

[@tomdrum1394]

Nice work!!!

[@integrity101]

@@jacowboy 🙄 What a stupid reply.

[@jackko21]

For me its the sound of white noise is my favorite of theirs

[@peir77]

Got the Time is a metal cover of a pop song written by Joe Jackson so I thought it was pretty cool. My favorite Anthrax album (though it's not really an album) is Attack of the Killer B's. That was the first one I got by them when I was 14 in 1991. It spoiled me haha I guess because nothing else they put out afterward compared .

[@rustinpolaris4074]

Great video man. Love me some Anthrax. Any chance of ranking the albums of Kreator? 🤘

[@brycetalksmetal]

Thanks!... and hmmm maybe at some point

[@rustinpolaris4074]

BryceTalksMetal No worries, I mean if you ever do get round to ranking any of the Germanic thrash bands I’d be pretty gassed... actually maybe not Destruction... they’re okay. 😂

[@aaadjf]

great albuns and great video! top sepultura albums...!

[@brycetalksmetal]

Thanks! 👍🏻... and I might

[@deanlangley4003]

ATL is also my favorite Anthrax album such a classic and Thrashterpiece

[@matthooper2905]

Great video. #1 Persistance of Time..purely for the heaviness. In my world guitar solo is great. #2 We've come for you all...again heavy..great drums especially nobody knows anything. #3 Spreading the disease #4 State of Euphoria..who cares wins should be played live..but it never has! #5 Greater of 2 evils..I think this is a great album because a lot of the pre persistance stuff hasn't aged well IMO, this has crunch, speed and heaviness. I wish all bands would do an album like this, where they ask the fans to pick songs to be replayed like Anthrax did. Anthrax was the first Thrash band I'd heard and State of Euphoria was my first introduction prior to that I was listening to motley crue and guns and roses, so it was probably the clean vocals that enabled me to transition to thrash music, I think it was joeys sarcastic singing that drew me in but I definitely think the band might have been much more successful with a different vocalist, that being said all the big 4 vocalists are different and it makes sense that Anthrax are in one corner and none of the bands are similar in that respect. It's definitely worth checking out Skeletons in the closet live in Chile..probably the heaviest song they've done live..at the same time check out some drum covers of the same song by you tube drummers. Ball of confusion is another good song where Joey and John both sing together and it works really well..I would be happy for both singers to be in Anthrax..I think that would proppell them. Finally check out Charlie Benante you tube channel...loads of interesting stuff released during lock down period. Cheers. Love your format to the list and really enjoyed the vid!

[@brycetalksmetal]

Thanks!

[@dave9732]

Sound of White Noise was my favorite on this. Great album. Better singer

[@rememberbeginning]

Oooohhhh. I haven't seen this one yet! Grew up on this band too! Which is why "State of euphoria" is my favorite. Next- "Among the Living". After that -" Persistence of time " And - "Spreading the disease" Then - "sound of white noise"

[@mikejennings4180]

Nice ranking, any chance you can do a top 20 anthrax songs vid?

[@brycetalksmetal]

Thanks… I might actually

[@mikejennings4180]

@@brycetalksmetal Awesome man! Yeah Anthrax is prob my least favorite of the “Big Four” but they still slap. Appreciate the response, looking forward to a video if you decide to do it.

[@billymercury3897]

AMONG THE LIVING 🤘🏽🤘🏽

[@koreyg5279]

Great video

[@brycetalksmetal]

Thanks!

[@randycunningham7318]

I remember State of Euphoria coming out. I listened to it all the time. I loved the lyrics too. Saw the concert.

[@napoleonbonaparte6238]

A man among the living was spreading the disease with a fistful of metal while being in the state of euphoria.

[@matthoranofficial]

Here's my list: 11. Stomp 442 10. Volume 8: The Threat Is Real 9. We've Come For You All 8. Sound of White Noise 7. Worship Music 6. Fistful of Metal 5. For All Kings 4. Spreading The Disease 3. State of Euphoria 2. Among The Living 1. Persistence of Time In my opinion I honestly think that your bottom two albums for me are switched around with each other. A lot of people think that volume 8 is their worst album but it's not. I honestly think that stomp 442 is more filler than Volume 8!

[@steelerfreak1977]

My favorite is Spreading the Disease. I never really got too big into Anthrax for some reason. They just didn’t hit the spot for me too often.

[@holspa]

Always nice this ranking videos. My fave is the debut but they have a lot of good ones like your number 1. With JOHN BUSH i like the 93 and 2003 album specialy but i think his voice fite better with ARMORED SAINT. I am not a big fan of the comeback of Belladonna with ANTHRAX. Live great but the studio albums were weak imo.

[@joshalan5125]

Spreading the disease is my personal favorite; I can listen to that album from beginning to end. Among the Living takes 2nd place because I like every song except NFL. IMO, that song has way too much "everyone in the band jump in the mic and chant" to the point where it just sounds goofy and easy to mock nowadays. Rest of the album was killer though.

[@benedictdonald4338]

1) Fistful 2) Among 3) Spreading 4) Sound of 5) Time 6) Euphoria 7) Kings 8) Worship 9) we’ve Come 10) Stomp 11) vol 8

[@JIF882]

I don't have enough Anthrax albums to rank them. My favorite is Sound Of White Noise because it sounds like Alice In Chains. They even got AiC producer Dave Jerden to produce it. He also worked on the Armored Saint album that was recorded before John joined Anthrax.

[@budthechud9795]

I must be the exception as I love VOLUME 8 THE THREAT IS REAL. The first Anthrax album I ever heard and my favs are Crush, Catharsis, Inside out, Harms way, Toast to the extras, Stealing from a thief and Pieces. A very solid album in my book.

[@attrouter1962]

Overkill please!!

[@derleichenkauer3882]

Make a Overkill Ranking please. Greetz from Germany

[@tomdrum1394]

OVERKILL ranking!!!!!! HORRORSCOPE #1 Year's of decay-under the influence-W.F.O.-I hear black-the killing kind-from the underground & below- ETC...

[@derleichenkauer3882]

@@tomdrum1394 1.Horrorscope 2. Years of Decay 3. Feel the Fire 4.Taking Over 5. W. F. O 6. Killing Kind 7. The grinding wheel 8. Ironbound

[@lucypoopies]

Thank you Bryce for giving "State of Euphoria" a respectable spot on your list. I too don't understand the disrespect that particular album receives for some reason.

[@jagsnumberone88]

Loved Sound of White Noise with Bush. Saw that tour with, of all people, Damn Yankees. Only and Room for One More are awesome metal songs.

[@WAM4EVER]

What about "Armed and Dangerous"??????

[@benjaminquintana1198]

1. Persistence 2. Among 3. Spreading 4. White Noise 5. Euphoria 6. WCFYA 7. Worship 8. Stomp 9. V 8 10. Kings 11. Fistful

[@tfort66633]

Bryce like and respect your opinions and ranking videos I always love to chime in with mine 11. Volume 8 10. Stomp 442 9. Fistful of Metal 8. Persistence of Time 7. We've come for you all 6. For all Kings 5. Spreading the Disease 4. Sound of White Noise 3. Worship Music 2. State of Euphoria 1. Among the Living

[@wadetomczyk8043]

Good list no issues here

[@reverendlee7617]

I disagree so much with your list. But I am a huge Anthrax fan. #1 Sound of White Noise #2 Persistence of Time #3 State of Euphoria #4 Among the Living #5 Volume 8 #6 Worship Music #7 For All Kings #8 Stomp 442 #9 Spreading the Disease #10 Fistful of Metal #11 We've Come for you all

[@PETERODZZ]

Damm. You got spread at 9?

Great video. Do you have a Patreon? Stay Heavy, dude. My favorite album îs State of Euphoria. 🤠🎸🤘🏻🥃

[@brycetalksmetal]

Thanks man!... and I don’t have one at the moment

[@dwaynestjohn5324]

I do agree with most of your list but I would take fistful of metal out of the top 5 and put persistence of time in the top 5 probably anthrax's darkest album and it's heavy

[@CaptainBlackBread]

If you ever start running out of content, you should consider doing like a mega video of ranking every single song. That would definitely pull out the deep cuts from the worst albums

[@GlamprinceRockking]

The threat is real is in my top 3 Anthrax albums. I love volume 8

[@michaellazor5667]

11 For All Kings 10 Fist 9 State Of Euphoria 8 Spreading 7 Vol 8 6 Stomp 5 Sound 4 persistence 3 among 2 We've Come 4U All 1 Worship

[@user-mg7kk7oq9d]

Great

[@ScubaDiverPicker]

Fistful of Metal will always be my #1 Anthrax.

[@EgoChip]

My current order. This might change in the future as these things are relative to certain things like moods and the type of music I am feeling the most at a given point in time. 11 Volume 8 10 Stomp 442 9 State of Euphoria 8 We've Come For You All 7 Among The Living 6 Worship Music 5 Sound Of White Noise 4 Persistence Of Time 3 For All Kings 2 Fistful Of Metal 1 Spreading The Disease Anyone who disagrees with me is wrong!

[@brenthrax]

Solid take, State of Euphoria is the only one that should be way lower. Stomp & Vol 8 have great deep cuts.

[@kulmakarva693]

Anthrax is the best

[@christianmarcelodelgadocan9644]

Anthrax: Gold: spreading the disease Silver: among the living Copper: persistence of time, for all kings, worship music, sound of white noise Mmmmm: fistul of metal, state of Euphoria, we've come for You all, stomp 442 Bad: vol 8

[@SuperStrik9]

Persistence Of Time is my favorite Anthrax album.

[@pvdguitars2951]

In 84, when Fistful came out, it blew me away and it has been a love affair ever since. I get it that later fans prefer the Joey era. But for me, the mosh/skater thing never really did it. Even worse when they started crossing over with rap. I am the man : ridiculous! Their albums, apart from the debut, don’t age as well as for instance Testament, Overkill, VioLence, Flotsam or Metal Church.

[@MiKeMiDNiTe-77]

Persistence,Euphoria, Disease Among The Living, White noise were the albums for me

[@Airola]

01. Among the Living 02. Fistful of Metal 03. Spreading the Disease 04. Worship Music 05. For All Kings 06. Sound of White Noise 07. Persistence of Time 08. State of Euphoria 09. We've Come for You All 10. Volume 8: The Threat Is Real 11. Stomp 442 I went through their whole catalog lately and ranked them song by song, and I was surprised how much I disliked both State of Euphoria and Persistence of Time. And I thought I would've liked Sound of White Noise more than their newest two albums, but they were both pretty good and White Noise had a bit too many average or below average tracks to get it higher. Also I kinda like the country song on Volume 8. I both like and dislike it. It's charmingly 100% pure country instead of country hard rock that for example Metallica's Mama Said was. It gets some points from me for its honesty. Volume 8 also at least has a few memorable moments (Inside Out's heaviness comes to mind), while I've already forgotten every single note from Stomp 442. That's why it's higher. Fistful of Metal is one of the greatest metal debut albums ever. Neil Turbin sounds crazy! He probably is my favorite Anthrax singer. The last couple of minutes of A.D.I./The Horror of It All on Among the Living is probably one of my all time top10 (or even top3) metal moments. Too bad the song takes forever to get to that part.

[@seanstoutgamer]

Love anthrax, And yeah I agree the 2016 is ok. I prefer their 80s stuff.

[@L_S_23]

11: Stomp 10: Volume 8 9: Worship 8: WCFYA 7: Kings 6: Fistful 5: White noise 4: Persistance 3: Euphoria 2: Spreading the disease 1: Among the living

[@alexhicks5889]

I think your ranking shows good taste. Saw another ranking vid where Fistful of Metal is number one. So, in other words, the guy doesn't really like Anthrax and prefers cliche crap over a band that matures and progresses.

[@machine-shopbilly6584]

anthrax is definitely my favorite out of the big four. state of euphoria and among the living my favorite albums of theirs

[@MultiDannyboy89]

🤘 nice to see some love for 'Thrax, they don't seem to have much respect in the metal community They're my 2nd fave of the Big 4, after 'Deth.

[@ParentsNightIn]

My ranking: 11. Fistful of Metal 10. Stomp 442 9. Volume 8 8. For All Kings 7. State of Euphoria 6. Among the Living 5. Spreading the Disease 4. Sound of White Noise 3. We’ve Come for You All 2. Worship Music 1. Persistence of Time

[@joerocks7381]

Among The Living, Persistence of Time, Spreading the Disease, Sound of White Noise, State of Euphoria, Worship Music, Fistful of Metal, For All Kings, Stomp 442, W.C.F.Y.A., Vol 8

[@docvader82]

I'm writing this as I'm halfway through yours. I definitely feel quite a bit different than you, especially on the new and Bush stuff(but who give a shit). Here goes my ranking: Honorable mentions: **The Greater of two Evils, great versions by John ***Bring the Noise...... love it **all the killer soundtrack tunes from Last Action Hero, Beavis & Butthead, Bordello of Blood, etc. 11. Stomp 442 10. State of Euphoria 9. We've Come for you All 8. Fistful of Metal 7. Volume 8 6. Worship Music 5. For All Kings 4. Spreading the Disease 3. Persistence of Time 2. Sound of White Noise 1. Among the Living

[@jerryhensley6255]

Your background has some of my favorite bands grim reaper iron maiden painkiller from Judas priest and freaking wasp you're just missing a dio one unless I just haven't seen it yet

[@brycetalksmetal]

I don’t think I have any Dio on vinyl, I do have some RJD Sabbath and Rainbow on vinyl though... have a lot of the Dio band stuff on Cassette and CD

[@scottybbadd]

Among The Living is my favorite Anthrax album

[@TheSultan79]

I would have ranked stomp 442 higher it was an underrated album and where is attack of the killer b’s

[@Almeida5]

#11 Stomp 442 #10 Vol. 8 #9 For All Kings #8 Worship Music #7 State of Euphoria #6 We've Come For You All #5 Persistence of Time #4 Fistful of Metal #3 Sound of White Noise #2 Among the Living #1 Spreading the Disease

[@ScubaDiverPicker]

1. Fistful of Metal 2. Spreading the Disease 3. Among the Living

[@jimfarrar4925]

Persistence of Time is my favorite...got the time is a joe jackson cover you should listen to the original...

[@michaeluy114]

I like vol 8 lol

[@seanthebaptist6757]

I like Persistence of Time but I just can't place in in the top 5, everyone else I know has it in their top 3

[@jameskpolk9137]

Not gonna lie I expected For All Kings to be at the top I’m surprised you didn’t like it, that’s my favorite.

[@e.d.gaming3605]

I’d rank em 1. Among the Living 2. Persistence of Time 3. Sound of White Noise 4. Spreading the Disease 5. State of Euphoria 6. Worship Music 7. For All Kings 8. Fistful of Metal 9. We’ve Come For You All 10. Stomp 442 11. Volume 8. The Threat is Real

[@jerryhensley6255]

I got kicked out of school for wearing a persistence of time shirt. Cuz it was abbreviated pot..

[@sulaimanfaisal5263]

1- Among The Living (1987) 2- Spreading The Disease (1985) 3- Persistence Of Time (1990) 4- State Of Euphoria (1988) 5- Fistful Of Metal (1984) 6- Sound Of White Noise (1993) 7- For All Kings (2016) 8- Worship Music (2011) 9- We've Come For You All (2003) 10- Stomp 442 (1995) 11- Vol 8 (1998)

[@dereks7745]

Stomp 442 really blows. But Persistence is definitely my favorite.

[@lucasbeer353]

1. Spreading the Disease 2. Among the Living 3. Persistence of Time 4. State of Euphoria 5. Fistful of Metal 6. Sound of White Noise 7. Worship Music 8. For All Kings 9. Stomp 442 10. Vol. 8 The Threat is Real 11. We've Come for You All (modern bubble gum metal) Albums with Joey are the best.

[@mikeuy1524]

Nice ranking but i would replace persistence with euphoria

[@darekogrodnik5650]

Is it odd that i like wcfya better than metallica's black album?

[@JokesOnU]

Remember when they were on married with children lol

[@razielabenzur657]

-''Bryce?!? What Happened To I Am The Law??? o.O''-

[@monkeyhouse1672]

Persistence at #6?! This guy is obviously joking. Easily their best along with Among the Living and Spreading the Disease

[@brycetalksmetal]

Not joking at all schmuck