ANTHRAX To Release New Song “It’s For The Kids” On Friday; Cursum Perficio Album Due In September

Anthrax will release their first new song in ten years this Friday, May 15th. The track, titled “It’s For The Kids” will be the lead single from the band’s long-awaited new album, Cursum Perficio, tentatively due September 18th via Megaforce Records.

“It’s been more than a decade… but we’re back,” they teased today on social media, while including a link to pre-save the track here. 

Anthrax – guitarist Scott Ian, drummer Charlie Benante, bassist Frank Bello, singer Joey Belladonna and guitarist Jon Donais – recently completed a cross Canada tour with Megadeth and Exodus, and are currently criss-crossing the globe until September when they hook up with Iron Maiden on their Run For Your Lives world tour. Cursum Perficio is the thrash titans’ first album since 2016’s For All Kings – produced by Jay Ruston and finished in November – had been delayed with Anthrax signing with IAG (“full-service talent representation and brand management”), the company that represents Pantera. 

Benante told BraveWords in March: “There was a whole idea going around about, all the four bands, the Big 4 bands, kind of getting to the point where, ‘Wow, this may be the time that this could be the last record’. And I was watching this Marilyn Monroe documentary. She has this plaque in her house, which said, ‘Cursum Perficio’ which means ‘My journey has come to an end’ or ‘My journey is over’. And we were talking, and ‘What about this?’. We don’t really have to say that this is the end.”

Read BraveWords feature with Charlie Benante and Scott Ian in full here.

(Photo credit above: Travis Shinn)

ANTHRAX’ CHARLIE BENANTE, SCOTT IAN Talk About New Album – “MARILYN MONROE Has This Plaque In Her House Which Said ‘Cursum Perficio’”