Fistful of Metal

Fistful of Metal is the name of the debut album by the band Anthrax. The album was released in January of 1984 by Megaforce Records in the United States and by Music For Nations elsewhere. The band and Carl Canedy produced the album, which was released as a double album (along with the Armed and Dangerous (EP)) in Germany in 2000. The album includes the single, "Soldiers of Metal".

The song "I'm Eighteen" was originally recorded on Alice Cooper's Love it to Death album.

This is the only Anthrax album to feature Danny Lilker on bass guitar and Neil Turbin on vocals, Dan left shortly after its release to form Nuclear Assault. However, he did reunite with his bandmates Scott Ian and Charlie Benante again in 1985 to form Stormtroopers of Death and record their first album Speak English or Die.

[edit] Track listing

"Deathrider" (Neil Turbin, Dan Spitz, Scott Ian, Danny Lilker, Charlie Benante) – 3:30
"Metal Thrashing Mad" (Turbin, Spitz, Ian, Lilker, Benante) – 2:39
"I'm Eighteen" (Alice Cooper, Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway, Neal Smith) – 4:02
"Panic" (Turbin, Ian, Lilker) – 3:58
"Subjugator" (Turbin, Spitz, Ian, Lilker, Benante) – 4:38
"Soldiers of Metal" (Turbin, Ian, Lilker) – 2:55
"Death from Above" (Turbin, Ian, Lilker) – 5:00
"Anthrax" (Turbin, Ian, Lilker) – 3:24
"Across the River" (Ian, Lilker) – 1:26
"Howling Furies" (Ian, Lilker) – 3:55

[edit] Personnel

v • d • e Anthrax
Dan Nelson \| Scott Ian \| Rob Caggiano \| Frank Bello \| Charlie Benante
Former members: Neil Turbin \| Dan Lilker \| Joey Belladonna \| Dan Spitz \| John Connelly \| Paul Crook \| John Bush \| Greg D'Angelo \| Matt Fallon
Discography
Studio albums: Fistful of Metal \| Spreading the Disease \| Among the Living \| State of Euphoria \| Persistence of Time \| Sound of White Noise \| Stomp 442 \| Volume 8: The Threat Is Real \| We've Come for You All
Live albums: The Island Years \| Music of Mass Destruction \| Alive 2
Compilations: Attack of the Killer B's \| Return of the Killer A's \| Madhouse - The Very Best of Anthrax \| The Greater of Two Evils \| Anthrology: No Hit Wonders (1985-1991)
EPs: Armed and Dangerous \| I'm the Man \| Penikufesin \| Inside Out \| Summer 2003