Anthrax's New Record, The Legacy of Venom, and the Loss of Cronos

This week on The Heavy Metal Hangover, Rex and Duff give our honest, unfiltered review of the long-awaited new Anthrax album. We’ve had it on repeat, and the results are complicated. We break down the production, the riffs, the pacing, and why we’re left with mixed feelings about where this record lands in the band's catalog compared to their classic thrash benchmarks.

Then, we shift gears to honor the monumental legacy of Cronos following his passing. We dive into a retrospective on Venom, looking back at how Welcome to Hell and Black Metal fundamentally warped the underground music landscape forever. We talk about their raw, chaotic aesthetic, how they laid the blueprint for speed, thrash, death, and black metal, and what losing Conrad Lant means for the history of heavy music.