RIFF063 - Anthrax - Persistence of Time

We open with a supply-chain crisis of the highest order: no Coke Zero and no red-and-black Fruit Pastels (“it was an absolute disaster”). Then we actually talk Anthrax’s Persistence of Time: why it feels more grown-up and gnarlier, how “In My World” and “Got the Time” carried the weight, and why Joey Belladonna sounds even better under a harsher spotlight.

Detours include a burglary story where several PDAs and a relic Toshiba went missing… discovered days later (“did you have anything stolen?” “No… actually I’ve lost like three PDAs”), and the glorious chaos of Married… with Children: My Dinner with Anthrax—“very funny… not very PC.” We discuss our local tourist attraction the Barry Milner Bridge.

Come for the album, stay for the fruit pastilles drama and the unsolicited detours into life, the universe and everything.