Anthrax Interviewed by Chuck D: 40 Years of Thrash, Part 1

To celebrate Anthrax’s 40th anniversary, Revolver enlisted Public Enemy’s Chuck D interview the thrash OGs' own “Big 4”: Joey Belladonna, Frank Bello, Charlie Benante and Scott Ian. Watch part 1 of their candid, insightful and hilarious conversation - which covers everything from their “Bring the Noise” collab to the 1991 tour.
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[@monkeytailhock2295]

When Public Enemy and Anthrax released Bring The Noise together I was stoked. 14 year old Mexican kid that wore rap and metal shirts back when the genres seemed separate.

[@mikeshoe74]

I was slightly older than you, but same difference. I grew up around metal heads, but all the metal heads I grew up with, myself included, had Public Enemy, N.W.A., Run DMC, Beastie Boys, etc in our music collections as well. We weren't afraid to cross and mix up genres ever. I feel like some of that mentality got lost in time somewhere.

[@danielbrown1724]

I think Joey Belladona’s screen is frozen 🤣🤣🤣 Spreading the Disease and Among the Living Nuff said……

[@bigdave8932]

Scott turned me onto both PE and Fishbone wearing their shirts…my life is better because Scott wore his loves, literally.

[@FourPawsInTheGrave]

Thanks for reminding me of Fishbone!

[@9326metal]

Thats another reason i love anthrax. They're not just a band. They're music fans. They love music and they play what they want to hear. Thats why their music comes off so genuine. Need more bands like them.

[@rolemodlin]

Same here

[@ctb3386]

Love it. As a kid from Yonkers / Bronx in the 80s 90s you guys represented us metalheads who also loved rap.

[@zombiemosher1139]

Anthrax & Public Enemy, two of my fave bands ever.

[@csircy]

I got to see Anthrax & Public Enemy with Primus opening for them. All three bands were incredible.

[@dcarr70]

@@csircy I caught that tour! It was amazing! One of the best tours I have ever seen.

[@multijamesbondfan]

Hey just wondering 🤔 are you into Skateboarding 🛹 at all? I ask since your profile picture looks allot like this old Rob Roskop Skateboard graphic from the 1980s from Santa Cruz Skateboards.

[@zombiemosher1139]

@@multijamesbondfan I used to be back in the day, not these days but I still love all the art from those days & cover guitars & cases etc with this stuff.

[@multijamesbondfan]

@@zombiemosher1139 Cool. I'm a skateboarder. I don't skate as often as I used to but every once In a while I get the urge, and am just Like, I gotta skate. Do you get into watching X Games at all since you used ti skate?

[@samcoady3075]

The RESPECT between the two outfits is amazing,30+ years later!!True OG's of rap & rock,thank you P.E & ANTHRAX 👍🇭🇲

[@superglou913gomez3]

Joey looked like he'd rather be getting a root canal than participating. I get it,he didn't have a whole lot to do with the collaboration.

[@aboutthemetal8783]

I found the public enemy album,it takes a nation of millions to hold us back, when I was 11years old ,in a Woolworths shop in 1985 for £4.99, and I found state of euphoria in a local metal record shop in 86/7 and I have never stopped listening to both of those bands, still got my original vinyl records.

[@danewing4658]

I Loved Bring the Noise back then and now my 4 year old heard it and we Jam it all the time. We also went back and listen to public enemy. Thanks guys, Love ya!!!

[@earthcitizen3939]

It's one of the rare times when a song works in two different versions.

[@noellander9318]

I can totally understand why Joey didn't talk that much on this interview, it was mainly about the whole Public Enemy/Anthrax collaboration in Bring The Noise, a song where Joey is preety much an spectator, he doesn't sing on the song or play an instrument (like in I'm the Man) even in the videoclip he's just dancing all the time... I even think he's not so much into that song either IMO

[@stevebarnard8580]

Yeah he should have not been in the video shoot to be honest, one of the best voices in metal relegated to prancing behind a turntable and embarrassing himself...one of the most cringe moments in metal history.

[@ngonsainti]

I’m not sure that you really listened to the conversation and got what it was about… HE did talk and said what he had to say. He obviously is a quite guy and doesn’t talk void. He was very attentive to what was being said. Chuck said they were their mentors and he was one of them obviously…

[@edgcrushr]

An expectator?

[@stevebarnard8580]

@@ngonsainti He looked completely bored. They probably told him they would talk about 40 years of thrash and then spent the whole time talking about 30 years of Bring The Noise. Even I was bored.

[@t702942]

Anthrax is one of the best metal bands of all time! Cool interview 😀

[@fjmization]

Damn, this clip served up some flashbacks-was at the Poughkeepsie show they talk about here. Mid Hudson Civic Center with Primus and Young Black Teenagers opening, and took my little brother for his first concert ever with all my hesher friends. During “Bring The Noize” we talk him into his first crowd surfing attempt-we toss him up and he’s immediately bounced around like a beach ball and heads right towards security. Back then they just straight tossed ya if caught, so he got booted outside. Long story short, he lost his glasses almost immediately after we chucked him, finally located him pressing his face against the window out front trying to spot one of us, and a security guard took pity on us and let him back in to fruitlessly scour the floor for his glasses. Good times.

[@danielbrown1724]

I think Joey Belladona’s screen is frozen 🤣🤣🤣 Spreading the Disease and Among the Living Nuff said……

[@Larryluvvv23]

I saw this tour in Oakland Ca!!! Primus was the opening act and it was the day of the Oakland fires. I didn’t think the show was going to happen, but it did. This show was fire!!! PE bass was so loud it shook my insides!!! Such awesome memories!!!!

[@magneticlarry]

Hell yeah! I was there too. Watching the fire get closer and closer to my house all day, then went to the show not knowing if I’d have a home to come home too. Chunks of ash floating down as we walked into the venue. Moment of silence in the middle of Burn Hollywood Burn. When everyone started moshing during Anthrax, a young black teenage girl looked at me all confused and scared asking what are they doing? I tried to explain it was just the metal vibe. Saw her later in the set flying across the top of the crowd with a huge grin on her face! Loved how those bands brought people together.

[@shroudbass]

Oh my goodness, Scott Ian!!! I was listening to Run DMC and Iron Maiden in the early 80’s also!! I was in middle school at the time, but DAMN!! Then I end up leading a death/black metal band and while I was in college for music production, I met a hip hop producer that wrote some great rhymes and had DJ scratching skills - and before i ever heard your take on Bring the Noise - I laid down metal music with my guy StingRay for his song “The Zone of Saturation” and we brought him to a show and the pit was completely INSANE!! Thanks for sharing!

[@Scottjf8]

Frankie always looks baked asf

[@jeffreypullis696]

Great interview! Perform and train like an athlete!

[@flyinpolack6633]

best collaboration of all time. Brought 2 genres and 2 cultures together. And made many of us realize just how alike those cultures were. Thanks guys

[@RELOAD880]

Chuck d has always been one of those cross over dude's,were he got his idea from maybe run D.M.C but his own success come from he's still doing his thing in this millinal age,by fighting the power by keeping music clean on both sides, so he's always worth the click.

[@jeffreypullis696]

Joey got the chance to play drums too!

[@clarencedudley1494]

I have a cousin who is a popular dj in Chicago he has been at for 40 yrs. Back in the 80 one of his fave records that he used to play was billy Squier's The Big Beat!! This is that first time I have heard it mention in 30 yrs!!

[@jjennings1209]

Great interview! The tour in 92 was just awesome!

[@metalheadmike774]

Chuck D is the best EVER! His powerful voice and messages. I loved Public Enemy so much in 1989, 90. And i was full on metal by then. They were everything I loved in rap. They were exactly what most us metalheads loved. They will always be in my heart, i just wish more young people knew who they are and what they did so long ago. Anthrax and Public Enemy were the perfect storm and they were the first to do it. These pups have no idea...lol!

[@multijamesbondfan]

I'm 29 years old born in 1993 and I'm a fan of Anthrax, and some Public Enemy as well. I have some videos about Anthrax and one on Public Enemy on my channel you and anybody else can feel free to check out.

[@metalheadmike774]

@@multijamesbondfan thank you!

[@multijamesbondfan]

@@metalheadmike774 Your welcome!

[@clifton250]

Yeah i do indeed remember buying the 12 inch collab when it was originally released. That's what got me into Anthrax. Already was a fan of Public Enemy and i remember PE name checking them. Have been a super fan of both ever since. In fact just this afternoon i was listening to the Worship Music CD so yeah two great artists still peforming and delivering the good. Excellent!

[@JB0528]

Anthrax listens to Chuck D reminisce and get to speak a couple of times. Still, loving this.

[@CTCAC2000]

I remember when bring the noise anthrax/public enemy collaboration came out. It was the biggest song of the summer (at least in my 13 year world).

[@longonemil4359]

It really was big. In my country it was played on all genres top list on tv, sometimes in top 10(but whole summer it was hit)

[@multijamesbondfan]

The first time I heard Bring The Noise that I know of for a fact was while playing Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 on Nintendo 64 around 2001 or 2002. Not sure I realized that the song was over 10 years old at the time.

[@9326metal]

Is part two hetting posted soon? This is interesting.

[@MauricioCastel007]

Nice Joey pic 🤣

[@AaronWebsterII]

🤘 Anthrax ☠ Public Enemy 🤘 Turn it up! Bring the noise!

[@leeving1685]

im not saying i predicted this but i was into anthrax and public enemy = so hard to get thrash friends to like RAP but the music still felt the same for me - amazing how they joined

[@TheGunt]

Thanks for doing this Revolver. Long live the Thrax

[@damotographywales29]

THANK YOU :)

[@damotographywales29]

Joey & Chuck D for colab President :)

[@dwilson2548]

Am I the only one that wished that public enemy and anthrax had put out a whole album together not only one song bring the noise. ??

[@multijamesbondfan]

That would have been interesting.

[@earthcitizen3939]

There is still time

[@johnnyblitzkrieg8985]

Anthrax, Run DMC, Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, fucking Blondie, Grandmaster and Ramones, even young Madonna. That's the sound of NYC.

[@johnnyblitzkrieg8985]

You made NYC

[@johnnyblitzkrieg8985]

Larry and Seinfeld too.

[@svenstereo8461]

I know it wasn't a collab, but I feel like PE's She Watch Channel Zero also helped establish the rap/metal genre.

[@dcarr70]

You are indeed correct.

[@earthcitizen3939]

Run-DMC and Aerosmith was earlier, so that must have had some sort of importance.

[@FourPawsInTheGrave]

Yeaaaahhhhh boooooyyyyy!

[@Scottjf8]

BASS!!!

[@jeffreypullis696]

Chuck D is a great guy!

[@earthcitizen3939]

Probably the smartest lyrics that I've read

[@fasteddie777666]

Nice shirt Charlie.....SO FUCKING METAL !!!!

[@shaunbritton939]

This is awesome revolver are putting out some gold ATM

[@jim62000]

meanwhile Greg Walls crying in the corner...

[@PaulWildstar]

Casablanca's in tha House!!

[@InnerCityOrganicz]

@6:55 someone let off a rip 💨 and it wasn't Charlie 😂

[@johnnymoody4967]

Joey - You're the man. Anthrax aint real without you.

[@aboutthemetal8783]

Couldn't agree more,I like the we've come for you all album with bush singing,but I still think it would have been so much better if Joey had been in the band, I'd like to hear them re record some of the songs from that album with Joey's vocals, especially on the song,you can not kill what doesn't die.

[@scurrie666]

This was totally dope

[@alifrombenhill3374]

I'm pretty sure dude in bottom left is like Weekend at Bernie's. He just stays in same position with same face.

[@ngonsainti]

But when he talks he shows he is listening and participating.

[@ivi13]

Good one Chuck NY Legends

[@thomascampbell9171]

When I was in school in 83, record day on Friday in the projects, I'm one of 30 white people in the school,p funk and a kiss record, everyone brings a p funk and a kiss record

[@mcmacshalfilya]

Hear the drummer get WICKED

[@GantzIsSloppy]

19:08 Joey speaks!!!

[@ralphdarc3094]

Chuck D is the greatest rapper of them all !!

[@deanleonard9984]

Maybe of that era..Even that is debatable..But the greatest,naw,but def a rap legend.Eminem and Tupac are the greatest

[@earthcitizen3939]

When it comes to the lyrics yeah, about what kind of rap-voice that one prefers that's a subjective thing. About the voice I like the mixes of the Beastie Boys, their voices were different compared to each other.

[@smgs4life2]

🔥🔥🔥

[@u.s.m.c.fewproudthemarines2987]

Gd times back then

[@lyfestile7]

DOPE

[@peyotecody]

HELL YEAH

[@babybahj6568]

Hi hi hi hi!!!!guys!!!!

[@kevinhegarty5775]

Had to pause again. Ok cool points for giving Johnny Z his props, but why is Overkill and Nuclear Assault always skipped in these conversations???? Forget about when the Albums were released (we all know bands played their material years before any album.... fk doing a album was the goal) they were around

[@FourPawsInTheGrave]

Or Exodus and sepultura

[@fjmization]

@@FourPawsInTheGrave true, but Overkill and Nuclear Assault also being from NY/NJ is what he’s saying.

[@troublemagnet1]

@@fjmization Whiplash and Carnivore.

[@WickedKnightAlbel]

So many legends

[@aboutthemetal8783]

If anthrax and PE hadn't done that song we wouldn't have rage against the machine, and everything else that came from that one song.( Although I have to say,I wish limp bizkit had picked a different approach lol).

[@earthcitizen3939]

RATM is good, Limp Bizkit isn't totally rotten either.

[@milannis73]

For the first 12 minutes of this video there were four guys and a mummy

[@stuartewoldt1513]

None of these people were in tha band in the beginning except Scott Rosenbaum

[@bodhi8297]

Bring Tha Noise! 🤘🏻😝

[@muaythaiironfighter8420]

Bring the noise

[@darklight4815]

i don't think joey's mic is on

[@kevinhegarty5775]

Had to pause it for a second halfway through......is Joey dead? Is Scott and Charlie doing a "Weekend At Bernies"??? Does Chuck know Joey's dead or are they tricking him too?

[@kevinhegarty5775]

HA. Just as I restarted it Joey answers a question 😂 or is it a Hollywood puppet that one of Hollywood Char B's friends made??? It doesn't seem tan enough to be Joe!!!

[@WickedlNl]

@@kevinhegarty5775 This is a perfect example of how not to be a frontman. Dont get me wrong Joey is great but as a frontman, he is faceless instead of being in the front and center. Im pretty sure 90% of people when you tell them about Anthrax you think of Scott and his red beard (back in the day).

[@davidkoblentz]

that this only has the views it does makes me think john q public has no idea.

[@cimerians]

Respect \m/

[@boramsey5122]

Why is there metal still, But no rap like Public Enemy anywhere?

[@Neal_YouTube]

Could be that Rap is going through it's version of the late 90's very early 2000's where metal kind of went away and it was just grunge and hard rock.

[@dcarr70]

I agree! its a shame we don't have more rap groups like PE.

[@earthcitizen3939]

Maybe there is, but that they don't get a lot of attention?

[@magneticlarry]

Criminalization of sampling changed the sound

[@lemon_curry_]

Joey feels the complete opposite on stage than here

[@societydwellingifd766]

*_10 mins in and Joey is just sitting there. WTF?!?_*

[@theskipgilberto]

He had nothing to do with the rap stuff. Don't know why he was there.

[@jamesennis8837]

Joey c’mon dude

[@corycourtney8923]

Joey literally did not speak in this video

[@damiien2684]

I hear him speaking.

[@Renoroc]

The silence was deafening

[@butter9669]

"Not" literally, actually said a few words. I'm disappointed he did not, talk about playing the drums on I'm the man. NOT!

[@scotprather9855]

Talk to joey

[@babybahj6568]

👽👻😈🖤🤩

[@chejones8858]

Unfortunately, When Chuck D teamed up with Anthrax, it Killed Public Enemy Popularity With Most of Their Black Fan's, I Remember the Hood Turned on Them, Sad but True 😫

[@nc9726]

Scott: “We we’re ahead of the pack in 82/83.” Overkill 1981: “lol”

[@mikemars2112]

Definitely not

[@stuartewoldt1513]

Damn is Joey asleep

[@autopsy72]

Joey is not amused 😀

[@golfgrabu]

Joey is not a very talkative guy....

[@misterarcane3863]

Joey ain't paid to talk....he's paid to sing.

[@golfgrabu]

@@misterarcane3863 if we follow your "logic" the other guys aren't supposed to be talking as they're paid to play their respective instruments????? Doesn't make sense bruh

[@misterarcane3863]

@@golfgrabu no....joey was brought back as an employee...as they had no other choice.Joey is a great singer,but even he knows the deal.

[@misterarcane3863]

@@golfgrabu bush turned em down,they had to go with joey for that big 4 money.

[@noellander9318]

I can totally understand why Joey didn't talk that much on this interview, it was mainly about the whole Public Enemy/Anthrax collaboration in Bring The Noise, a song where Joey is preety much an expectator, he doesn't sing on the song or play an instrument (like in I'm the Man) even in the videoclip he's just dancing all the time... I even think he's not so much into that song either IMO

[@tedhetfieldakapatrickdonat92]

Gave the Clip a 👍for the Respect ofAnthrax…but ist was sooo boring …Solo chuckD Show with an almost speechless Joey 😿

[@michaelisbell9482]

Sorry, I hated Anthrax during this period. Not a Nu Metal fan.

[@OriginalWhiteDevil]

The reason Anthrax is considered a joke band is because of their fascination with rap. Out of the big 4, they're the weakest link that could easily be replaced with Testament or Overkill, and should be.

[@9326metal]

Nah. Thats just purist talk.

[@OriginalWhiteDevil]

@@9326metal Call it what you will. They were serious band up until they did that god awful "I'm the man" crap. I blame Scott Ian.

[@9326metal]

@@OriginalWhiteDevil uh bro they never took themselves seriously. They were always about having fun and doing what they wanted. Not what everyone else was doing or wanted them to do. Plus if you read listen to the lyrics from everything up to state of euphoria alot of their lyrics are about boarderline goofy subjects like comic book stuff, horror movies and novels, and other things people considered goofy or weird at the time. They didn't really start writing very serious stuff till Euphoria and Persistence of time lol. I mean i understand hating the rap stuff they did but don't pretend they took themselves too seriously and didn't write "goofy" stuff before im the man cameout lol. They were always about having fun. Unlike some of their peers at the time.

[@9326metal]

I love testament and overkill but you couldnt be anymore biased and wrong about the history of anthrax. Its cool though. Alot of people share youre sentiment. So ill just keep on keeping in. Anthrax is my favourite because they were different from the rest. Its funny though you claim they were serious when the number one reason older cats give for not liking Anthrax as much as the other thrashers because they weren't serious enough. Differences of opinions i guess. Btw Joey didnt quit he was given the boot at that time Scott does admit is was a dick move though because he was being too critical of Joey at the time and Spitz left not because of the sound he's said in the past he loved the bush era but he was just burnt out and wanted to persue watch making and follow in his frand fathers foot steps. I found all that out from interveiws btw.

[@9326metal]

@@OriginalWhiteDevil ps if you think i am the law( the judge dredd song) was the only comic or horror story based song you need to pay attention to lyrics. Gun Slinger, NFL, and Medusa for example among many others.

[@sliptrikk3018]

For a vocalist Chuck D's microphone sucks