Interview With JOEY BELLADONNA (ANTHRAX)

Joey Belladonna (Anthrax) and Mick Burgess

Among The Living was a land mark album in the history of Metal, not only did it help to define and refine Thrash Metal but also hurtled Anthrax into the big league. Anthrax are on tour to celebrate Among The Living’s 30th birthday by playing the album in full along with classics from across their career and songs from their latest album. Mick Burgess caught up with lead singer Joey Belladonna before the show in Newcastle during their recent UK tour, to talk about the making of Among The Living and their latest release, For All Kings.

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Mick Burgess

Mick is a reviewer and photographer here at Metal Express Radio, based in the North-East of England. He first fell in love with music after hearing Jeff Wayne's spectacular The War of the Worlds in the cold winter of 1978. Then in the summer of '79 he discovered a copy of Kiss Alive II amongst his sister’s record collection, which literally blew him away! He then quickly found Van Halen I and Rainbow's Down To Earth, and he was well on the way to being rescued from Top 40 radio hell! Over the ensuing years, he's enjoyed the Classic Rock music of Rush, Blue Oyster Cult, and Deep Purple; the AOR of Journey and Foreigner; the Pomp of Styx and Kansas; the Progressive Metal of Dream Theater, Queensrÿche, and Symphony X; the Goth Metal of Nightwish, Within Temptation, and Epica, and a whole host of other great bands that are too numerous to mention. When he's not listening to music, he watches Sunderland lose more football (soccer) matches than they win, and occasionally, if he has to, he goes to work as a property lawyer.
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