{"id":38037,"date":"2026-09-23T15:26:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T20:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/?p=38037"},"modified":"2026-09-23T16:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T21:04:16","slug":"anthrax-cursum-perficio-album-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/23\/anthrax-cursum-perficio-album-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthrax Cursum Perficio Album Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"38037\" class=\"elementor elementor-38037\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ffb6f54 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no\" data-id=\"ffb6f54\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-04797a6\" data-id=\"04797a6\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2149a65 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2149a65\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>One of my favorite bands Anthrax finally released their 12th full-length studio album, Cursum Perficio, on September 18th.<\/p><p>I preordered a signed copy months ago and have been playing it a lot.<\/p><p>All the songs are quite heavy but also catchy, the band sounds great, and it is all well produced and mixed.<\/p><p>It fits right in with their last few albums, For All Kings and Worship Music, and dare I say even Sound Of White Noise.<\/p><p>I wish it would not have taken 10 years between album releases, but oh well.\u00a0 I&#8217;m just glad there is another Anthrax album and it rocks.<\/p><p>Joey Belladonna (vocals), Scott Ian (guitar), Charlie Benante (drums), Frank Bello (bass), and Jon Donais (lead guitar) are still going strong and if you are a fan, especially of the last few albums, you should enjoy this new Anthrax album<\/p><p>Rock on.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-780ff59 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no\" data-id=\"780ff59\" data-element_type=\"section\" 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I preordered a signed copy months ago and have been playing it a lot. All the songs are quite heavy but also catchy, the band sounds great, and it is all well produced and mixed. It fits right in with their last few albums, For All Kings and Worship Music, and dare I say even Sound Of White Noise. I wish it would not have taken 10 years between album releases, but oh well.\u00a0 I&#8217;m just glad there is another Anthrax album and it rocks. Joey Belladonna (vocals), Scott Ian (guitar), Charlie Benante (drums), Frank Bello (bass), and Jon Donais (lead guitar) are still going strong and if you are a fan, especially of the last few albums, you should enjoy this new Anthrax album Rock on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38037"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38068,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38037\/revisions\/38068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}