ANTHRAX Shares Music Video For 'The Edge Of Perfection'
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ANTHRAX will release its long-awaited twelfth full-length studio album, "Cursum Perficio", on September 18 via Megaforce in the U.S. and Nuclear Blast in Europe. It marks the band's first record in ten years since 2016's "For All Kings", which debuted in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200. The phrase "Cursum Perficio" is Latin for "My journey has come to an end," "My journey is over," or "I complete my journey."
The official music video for the LP's second single, "The Edge Of Perfection", can be seen here. The new single is highlighted by clean guitar echoes and cymbals that gently shake until a blastbeat blows open the doors. Guitars buzz like a motorboat on the River Styx, making waves through the darkness. In their wake, a crushing rhythm trails the melody of lead singer Joey Belladonna's lament, "My heart breaks…I'm on the edge…I'm on the edge of perfection."
For the video, the multi-Grammy Award-nominated titans — Scott Ian (guitar),Charlie Benante (drums),Frank Bello (bass),Joey Belladonna (vocals) and Jonathan Donais (guitar) — teamed up with director and Academy Award winner Joel Harlow ("Star Trek" and "Alice In Wonderland") to create a spectacular cinematic experience that takes the hero from a dream into an evening of magic where he encounters underworld evil, interspersed with live performance footage. The clip includes appearances from martial artist Wes Scarpias, actress Ashley Edner-Tancharoen, actor Troy James, actor and Academy Award-winning make-up and special effects creator Rick Baker, actor Rod Maxwell and actor Fedor Steer.
"It's the apex predator of ANTHRAX songs," grins Ian. "I think it's the best song we've ever written and the best thing I've ever been a part of creatively. What's the most powerful emotion that moves me more than anything? Of course it's love. Nothing moves me like the deep feeling that I get from my wife and son. I'm living on that edge for the rest of my life. This is mine, but there are a lot of ways to ruin it. I've ruined it in past iterations of my life, but it got me to where I am. Love is perfection, and I like being on the edge of it. I don't want everything to be about all of the same shit. This record has a whole bunch of love, a whole bunch of fun, and a little hate."
Benante adds: "When I think about songs like 'Only' and 'Indians', you know that you hit something and you can feel it. That's the way I felt about 'The Edge Of Perfection'."
In a recent interview with Full Metal Jackie's nationally syndicated radio show, Ian described "The Edge Of Perfection" as "the greatest ANTHRAX song in the history of ANTHRAX. We have not written anything this great in our career. And to do that all these years in makes it all the more special."
The guitarist went on to say that the song was written about his family and striving to maintain "the edge of perfection", as the title suggests. "I think that I've never had any real other goal in my life except to be happy. And I am," he explained.
In August 2024, Benante told Metal Hammer magazine that he had written the music for "The Edge Of Perfection" "way before COVID, and it has just stayed with me — the melody and the chords, but also the aggression."
"Cursum Perficio" will be available as a standard CD; Target-exclusive CD with a fabric patch of the album cover; standard black double LP with pop-up gatefold; Target-exclusive double LP, red zoetrope with pop-up gatefold; Amazon-exclusive double LP, purple zoetrope LP with pop-up gatefold; merch-exclusive lilac vinyl double LP with pop-up gatefold; Metal Injection-exclusive white vinyl double LP with pop-up gatefold; Talk Shop Live-exclusive signed with red ripple vinyl double LP with pop-up gatefold; Indie-exclusive red, orange yellow vinyl double LP with pop-up gatefold.
The band dove into recording "Cursum Perficio" in earnest during 2022, working out of Dave Grohl's Studio 606 in Los Angeles. They carefully pieced together what would be this magnum opus, mining their history with reverence, delivering on fan expectations tenfold, and broadening the scope of their signature sound. Produced by Jay Ruston and ANTHRAX, the result is an album that's as angry, aggressive, and alive as their most celebrated fare.
(Source: www.blabbermouth.net)
