Anthrax is one of the standard bearers of thrash metal, an extreme metal variant comes to the United States in the eighties. Unlike many of their peers Anthrax does not use extreme image. With their shorts and baseball caps they look more like surfing than as a dangerous metal act. even the group pioneered the combination of hip-hop and metal working with rap group Public Enemy delivers a hit on.
However, the group continues its thrash principles faithfully. The declining popularity in the nineties, partly caused by the departure of vocalist Joey Belladonna.more