Scott Ian of Anthrax, the band that covered approximately two thousand songs, said “Who gives a shit about cover songs? We’re so far away from that.” in a recent interview with the Miami New Times.
Who gives a shit, Ian? Your fans do. ‘Got the Time’, ‘Antisocial’ and ‘Bring the Noise’ are just three of your covers that turned into crowd favorites and made you the band you are today (which isn’t necessarily a good thing because you’re barely a band at all nowadays).
The interview question above referred to the rumors about Anthrax putting covers of Refused‘s ‘New Noise’ and some Alice in Chains song (I guess, I missed that last rumor) on their new album. Anthrax have covered ‘New Noise’ live (Video after the jump) with Dan Nelson on vocals and it turned into a shitfest. Don’t get me wrong. ‘New Noise’ is a great song and Anthrax (once were) a great band but hell… that just didn’t work.
Either way, ‘Worship Music’ will probably be the next ‘Chinese Democracy’ so we still have 11 more years before they release it and before Scott Ian has to worry about which songs to put on the album.
