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Former ANTHRAX singer Neil Turbin will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the band’s debut album, 1984’s “Fistful Of Metal”, by embarking on a three-date tour of Brazil in April.
The details are as follows:
April 21 – Correria Music Bar – Vila Velha, Brazil
April 22 – CDM Metal Fest – Campo do Meio, Brazil
April 23 – Jai Club – São Paulo, Brazil
To celebrate ANTHRAX‘s 40th anniversary in 2021, the band’s social media accounts offered a series of video testimonials sent in by former bandmembers, fellow musicians, colleagues, and industry veterans sharing behind-the-scenes stories of working with the band and what ANTHRAX‘s legacy has meant all these years on. These videos honored each album in chronological order beginning with the original release, “Fistful Of Metal”. The 11-week series included video contributions from former ANTHRAX bandmembers Turbin, Dan Lilker, Dan Spitz, John Bush, Neil Turbin and Rob Caggiano.
Turbin, who sang on “Fistful Of Metal”, told the “That Metal Interview” podcast about his involvement in the ANTHRAX video series: “There were some interesting things said in that docuseries that was on YouTube by the members currently in ANTHRAX and also by people that are not any longer in ANTHRAX. I was actually kind of surprised that Scott [Ian, ANTHRAX guitarist] said what he said and also Charlie [Benante, ANTHRAX drummer] said what he said. So I thought there were some positive things there. I was very surprised, actually, when ANTHRAX‘s management, when I was contacted to be included in anything that had to do with ANTHRAX officially, after not speaking with anyone officially since ’84-’85 time frame. So it was kind of shocking, really, to me that I was even… I’m just trying wrap my head around why I’m even part of this conversation at that point. But honestly and earnestly speaking, I just went at it with a very good-faith attitude and just walked into it trying to tell stories. That was all that I was doing — just telling stories. ‘Cause that’s what I was asked to do — ‘Tell some stories of your experience recording ‘Fistful’ and the first album and the first tour and anything you can think of that is a story that would be interesting or something worth knowng about.’ So I have a lot of stories, and I didn’t even tell a fraction of those stories. But I did tell quite a number of stories. We were on video for about two hours, at least — I mean, that’s how many stories. And there was a lot of detail to those stories. Not ’cause I’m trying to overtalk or overspeak but just because there was some interesting stuff. And these stories included METALLICA members, it included MEGADETH members, it included people from other bands, like THE PLASMATICS. It talked about the Roseland show that we did, it talked about the tour that we did, the recording process originally when we went to a number of studios and how we came across working with [producer] Carl Canedy and how the process with [our record label] Megaforce was and also those experiences. So there’s a lot of stories that I thought were certainly historical at the least in terms of that. And it wasn’t included — it didn’t end up in their docuseries — but I still know the stories. And what I found interesting is that they did use some of what I said in between, and even some of the things I said seemed to be clipped or edited out.
“I felt that it didn’t represent me in my best interest or in the best light that it could have,” Neil continued. “I think it did portray others and trying to make them look like a hero, so to speak. Some of the things that were said were inaccurate. I will point out that what was said by Dan Spitz [former ANTHRAX guitarist] when he said that I punched all my vocals in, that’s just complete, utter nonsense — that’s not truthful at all. He said that, and he tried to portray it that, or the editing portrayed it with what he said that… in other words that I couldn’t sing a line or something, that I had to punch in every word or something, which is just absolutely just nonsense. And it just comes across to me like some toxic attack.”
Turbin also discussed the personality clashes that took place during the songwriting process for “Fistful Of Metal” and how it eventually led to his departure from ANTHRAX.
“When I was writing those songs, there was a lot of pushback about, ‘Oh, we wanna do hardcore punk’ or ‘We wanna do it this direction or that direction,'” Turbin recalled. “It’s, like, well, ‘Armed And Dangerous’ is not hardcore punk — I’m sorry, but it’s melodic. It’s just, like, whenever I would have an idea, I would get… They just didn’t want my ideas to be included. That’s all. It was not a matter of whether it was a good idea or a bad idea or even a mediocre idea. It was, like, ‘We have our own idea. We don’t like that you have an idea.’ It was more like a jealousy thing.
“When I was in the band, there was a tremendous amount of emotional abusiveness from certain people — very much so,” Neil claimed. “When you’re in a situation where you’re being abused, it’s a difficult workplace to be in. And when other people allow it and they accept that because they’re okay with it… This was something that an accepted behavior in ANTHRAX towards me. So that was already something that I was trying to work around and deal with for the longest time. It just got worse. After Greg Walls left the band, it got a lot worse, because other people came into the band that also treated me in a way that was very abusive.
“I went into this interview for ANTHRAX in good faith, and I only told stories — I wasn’t there to put anyone down or to throw them under the bus,” Turbin added. “But I feel like to say that Dan Lilker [original ANTHRAX bassist] wrote 80 percent or 75 percent of the songs? I guess he must have written ‘Metal Thrashing Mad’ and came up with the idea and the lyrics and the title. But actually he didn’t. That was what I came up with. He had some riffs. But, actually, Greg Walls was playing riffs with those guys before he left. So I’m just trying to understand how other people’s names got on to songs when… Some people just put their name on a song that they didn’t even write a riff on, but they gave themselves credit and they wanted to get the royalties and that sort of thing. I think there was a bunch of that kind of behavior going on.”
Turbin performed and recorded with ANTHRAX on the original demo recordings and “Fistful Of Metal”. He wrote the lyrics to all songs on that LP with exception of the cover of Alice Cooper‘s “I’m Eighteen”, and also has writing credits on five of the seven songs on the band’s “Armed And Dangerous” EP, as well as two songs on “Spreading The Disease”.
ANTHRAX has had a number of vocalists — including Turbin, Joey Belladonna, Dan Nelson and John Bush — over the last four decades, with Ian and Benante remaining the sole bandmembers who have appeared on every one of the group’s studio albums.
Turbin sang on “Fistful Of Metal” before getting booted and being replaced by Belladonna.
This below is our famous eBay cheat sheet of the best KICK ASS METAL. Top 175 heavy metal albums of all-time and mostly are from the era of the golden age of heavy metal. August 1st, 1981 to October 31st, 1986, with some updates from 1997. These albums are also featured in articles called Reissue Roulette, since we collect again these titles every year, as well as every world-wide pressing of these god-tier albums.
Abattoir “Vicious Attack”
Acid “Acid”
Acid “Maniac”
Acid “Live In Belgium 1984”
Agent Steel “Skeptics Apocalypse”
Agent Steel “Mad Locut Risting”
Anacrusis “Sceams and Whispers”
Angel Dust ” Into The Dark Past”
Angel Witch “Angel Witch”
Anthrax “Fistful of Metal”
Anthrax “Armed & Dangerous”
Anthrax “Spreading The Disease”
Annihilator “Alison In Hell”
Anvil Chorus “Thought Crimes” 1983 Cassette
Anvil “Metal On Metal”
Anvil “Forged In Fire”
Anvil ” Live In Concert”
Anvil “Worth The Weight”
Artillery “Fear of Tomorrow”
Artillery “Terror Squad”
Artillery “By Inheritance”
Atheist “Piece of Time”
Atheist “Unquestionable Presence”
Attacker ” Battle At Helms Deep”
Attacker “The Second Coming”
Bathory “Bathory”
Bathory “The Return…”
Bathory “The Sign Of The Black Mark”
Bathory “Blood Fire Death”
Bitch “Be My Slave”
Black Death “Black Death”
Black Flag “Damaged”
Black Flag “My War”
Black Flag “Slip It In”
Black Flag “Live ’84”
Black Flag “Loose Nut”
Black Flag “In My Head”
Black Sabbath “Mob Rules”
Blessed Death “Kill Or Be Killed”
Blind Illusion “The Sane Asylum”
Bloodlust “Guilty As Sin”
Cage “Astronomy”
Candlemass “Epicus Doomicus Metallicus”
Candlemass “Nightfall”
Candlemass “Ancient Dreams”
Candlemass “Tales Of Creation”
Cathedral “Supernatural Birth Machine”
Celtic Frost “Morbid Tales”
Celtic Frost “Emperor’s Return”
Celtic Frost “To Mega Therion”
Cirith Ungol “Frost And Fire”
Cirith Ungol “King of the Dead”
Chastain “Mystery Of Illusion”
Chastain “Ruler Of Wastland”
Chastain “The 7th Of Never”
Chastain “The Voice Of The Cult”
Chastain “For Those Who Dare”
Chastain “In A Outrage”
Coven “Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls”
Coven “Coven”
Coven “Blood On The Snow”
Coven “Goth Metal Queen”
Coven “Jinx”
Coven13 “Worship New Gods
Cro-Mags “Best Wishes”
Culprit “Guilty As Charged”
Dark Age “Dark Age”
Dark Angel “Darkness Descends”
Dark Angel “Leave Scars”
Dark Angel “Time Does Not Heal”
Darkness “Death Squad”
Darkness “Defenders of Justice”
Deaf Dealer “Keeper Of The Flame”
Def Dealer “Journery Into Fear”
Death “Scream Bloody Gore”
Death “Leprosy”
Death “Spiritual Healing”
Death “Human”
Death “Individual Thought Patterns”
Death Angel “The Ultra-Violence”
Death Angel “Frolic Through The Park”
Death Angel “Act III”
Death Corp “Cold Blooded War”
Death Corp “Rest In Pieces”
Death Strike “Fuckin’ Death”
Ded Engine “Ded Enigne”
Ded Enigne “Hold A Grudge”
Deep Switch “Nine Inches Of God”
Destruction “Infernal Overkill”
Destructor “Maximum Destruction”
Détente “Recognize No Authority”
Diamond Head “Lightning To The Nations”
Diamond Head “Behold The Beginning” Metal Blade/ Restless Version
Discharge “Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing”
Exciter “Heavy Metal Maniac”
Exciter “Violence & Force”
Exciter “Exciter” 1989 Megaforce/ Caroline Records
Exhorder ” Slaughter In The Vatican”
Exodus “A Lesson In Violence” Advance Cassette
Exodus “Bonded By Blood”
Exodus “Pleasures Of The Flesh”
Exodus “A Lesson In Violence” — Studio 54 Live With March 1986 Paul Baloff Demos
Exodus “Another Lesson In Violence Live”
Exodus “Bonded By Baloff” A.L.I.V Remastered
Exorcist “Midnight Theater”
Exumer “Possessed By Fire”
Exumer “Rising From The Sea”
Fates Warning “Night on Bröcken”
Fear of God “Within The Veil”
Forbidden “Forbidden Evil”
Forbidden “Twisted Into Form”
The Gathering “Mandylion”
The Gathering “Nighttime Birds”
The Gathering “How To Measure A Planet”
Genocide “Mass Genocide”
Genocide “Black Sanctuary”
Grave Digger “Heavy Metal Breakdown”
Grave Digger “Witch Killer”
The Great Kat “Worship Me Or Die”
The Great Kat “Beethoven On Speed”
Griffin “Flight Of The Griffin”
Hades “Resisting Sucess”
Hawaii “One Nation Underground”
H-Bomb “Coup De Metal”
H-Bomb “Attaque”
Halloween “Don’t Metal With Evil”
Halloween “No One Gets Out!”
Halloween “No One Gets Out!” Molten Metal Version Includes “Vicious” Demo
Heathen “Breaking The Silence”
Heathen “Victims of Deception”
Hellhammer “Apocalyptic Raids”
Hirax “Raging Violence”
Hirax “Not Dead Yet!” — Raging Violence CD Compilation
Holocaust “The Nightcomers”
Infernäl Mäjesty “None Shall Defy”
Insanity “Death After Death”
Imagika “Imagika”
Imagika “Worship”
Imagika “And So It Burns”
Imagika “Devil On Both Sides”
Iron Maiden “Iron Maiden”
Iron Maiden “Killers”
Iron Maiden “The Number Of The Beast”
Jag Panzer “Ample Destruction”
Jaguar “Power Games”
Judas Priest “Hellbent For Leather”
Judas Priest “Unleashed In The East”
Judas Priest “British Steel”
Judas Priest “Painkiller”
King Diamond “Fatal Portrait”
King Diamond “Abigail”
King Diamond “Them”
Kreator “Endless Pain”
Kreator “Pleasure To Kill”
Liege Lord “Burn To My Touch”
Liege Lord “Master Control”
Malediction “Condamnés”
Manowar “Battle Hymns”
Manowar “Into Glory Ride”
Manowar “Hail To England”
Manowar “Sign Of The Hammer”
Manowar “Figthing The World”
Manowar “Kings of Metal”
Massacre “From Beyond”
Master “Master”
Macabre “Gloom”
Medieval “The Cassette Album”
Mediveval “All Knobs To The Right”
Medieval “Reign Of Terror”
Medieval “Medieval Kills”
Mercyful Fate “Nuns Have No Fun”
Mercyful Fate “Melissa”
Mercyful Fate “Don’t Break The Oath”
Mercyful Fate “Curse Of The Pharaohs”
Mercyful Fate “Live From The Depths Of Hell”
Mercyful Fate “The Beginning”
Mercyful Fate “Return Of The Vampire”
Mercyful Fate “In The Shadows”
Messiah Force “The Final Judgement”
Metal Church “Metal Church”
Metallica “No Life “til Leather”
Metallica “Kill ’em All”
Metallica “Whiplash”
Metallica “Creeping Death / Jump in the Fire”
Metallica “Ride The Lightning”
Metallica “Master of Puppets”
Metallica “Cliff ‘Em All”
Mentors “You Axed For It”
Messiah Force “The Last Judgement”
Morbid Angel “Altars of Madness”
Morbid Angel “Blessed Are The Sick”
Morbid Angel “Covenant”
Mötley Crüe “Too Fast For Love”
Mötley Crüe “Shout At The Devil”
Motörhead “Ace Of Spades”
Motörhead “Iron Fist”
Motörhead ” No Sleep “til Hammersmith”
Motörhead “Another Perfect Day”
Motörhead “No Remorse”
Motörhead “Orgasmatron”
Napalm Death “Harmony Corrupution”
Naplam Death “Utopia Banished”
Nasty Savage “Nasty Savage”
Nasty Savage “Indulgence”
Obituary “Slowy We Rot”
Obituray “From This Day Forward”
Obliveon “Nemesis”
Onslaught “The Force”
Original Sin “Sin Will Find You Out”
Overkill “Feel The Fire”
Oz “Fire In The Brain”
Ozzy Osborune “Blizzard Of Ozz”
Ozzy Osbourne “Diary Of A Madman”
Ozzy Osbourne “Tribute”
Pagan Altar “Pagan Altar” Demo
Pagan Altar “Volume One”
Pantera “Power Metal”
Pantera “Cowboys For Hell”
Pantera “Vulgar Display Of Power”
Pentegram “Pentegram”
Pentagram “Relentless”
Pentagram”Day Of Reckoning”
Pentagram “Relentless / Day of Reckoning” 2CD
Pentagram “Be Forewarned”
Piledriver “Metal Inquistion”
Possessed “Seven Churches”
Raven “Rock Until You Drop”
Raven “Wiped Out”
Raven “All For One”
Raven “Live At The Inferno”
Ravensthon “Horrors Of The Black Mass”
Razor “Executioner’s Song”
Razor “Evil Invaders
Repulsion “Horrified”
Riot “Fire Down Under”
Riot “Thundersteel”
Riot “Privilege Of Power”
The Rods “Wild Dogs”
Rush “Permant Waves”
Rush “Moving Pictures”
Rush “Exit Stage Left”
Rush “Signals”
Rush “Grace Under Pressure”
Rush “Power Windows”
Rush ” Hold Your Fire”
Rush “A Show Of Hands”
Rush “Test For Echo”
Rush “Different Stages”–Live”
Sabbat “History Of A Time To Come”
Sacrifice “Torment In Fire”
Sacrifice “Forward To Termination”
Sacrifice “Soldiers Of Misfortune”
Sacrifice “Apocalypse Now”
Saxon “Wheels Of Steel”
Saxon “Strong Arm Of The Law”
Saxon “Denim And Leather”
Satan “Into The Fire” Demo
Satan “Court In The Act”
Scorpions “Taken By Force”
Sentinel Beast “Depths Of Death”
Sepultura “Beneath The Remains”
Sindrome “Sindrome” CD
Into the Halls of Extermination/ Vault of Inner Conscience Demos on CD
Skullview ” Kings Of The Universe”
Slaughter “Strappado”
Slaughter Xstroyes “Winterkill”
Slauter Xstroyes “Free The Beast”
Sodom “In The Sign of Evil”
Sodom “Obsessed By Cruelty”
Suicidal Tendencies “Suicidal Tendencies”
Tank “This Means War”
Tension “Breaking Point”
Testament “The Legacy”
Thrust “Fist Held High”
Trouble “Psalms 9”
Trouble “The Skulls”
Trouble “Run To The Light”
Twisted Sister “Under The Blade”
Tygers Of Pan Tang “Wildcat”
Tygers of Pan Tang “Spellbound”
Unseen “Terror”Human Terror”
U.F.O “The Wild, The Willing, The Innocent”
Vainglory ” Vainglory”
Venom “Welcome To Hell”
Venom “Black Metal”
Venom “At War With Satan”
Vicious Rumors ” Soldiers of The Night”
Vicious Rumors “Digital Dictator”
Vio-lence “Eternal Nightmare”
Voi Vod “War And Pain”
Voi Vod “Rrröööaaarrr”
Warfare “Pure Filth”
Warfare “Metal Anarchy”
Warfare “Mayhem Fuckin’ Mayhem”
Wargasm “Why Play Around?”
Warhead “Speedway”
Warhead “The Day After”
Warlord “Deliver Us”
Warlord “And The Cannons Of Destruction Have Begun….”
Warlord “Thy Kingdom Come”
Warlock “Triumph & Agony”
Watchtower “Energetic Disassembly”
Watchtower “Control & Resistance”
Witch Cross “Fit For Fight”
Witchfinder General “Death Penalty”
Witchfinder General “Friends Of Hell”
Witchkiller “Day of the Saxons”
Zoser Mez “Visizer Of Wasteland”
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