Anthrax/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Broken Base: Hoo boy. You've got your Joey Belladonna fans, your John Bush fans, the occasional lonely Neil Turbin fan...Dan Nelson is by and large left out of the discussion, however, as he never released any recorded material with the band and thus hardly anyone actually heard him.
  • Ear Worm: Practically every song on Worship Music.
  • Face of the Band: Despite being the rhythm guitarist, Scott Ian is considered this due to his being the only member of the band who has been with them for their entire tenure and also largely due to his appearance in various VH-1 commentary shows.
    • Casual rock and metal fans can typically name Scott Ian first as a member of Anthrax. His Face of the Band status is probably reinforced by him singing lead vocals on the band's Breakaway Pop Hit, and biggest commercial hit to date, "Bring The Noise".
  • It's Popular, Now It Sucks / They Changed It, Now It Sucks: They got this treatment and were accused of "selling out" when they chose John Bush as their new lead singer and with their more mainstream sounding album "Sounds of White Noise". The band's rhythm guitarist, Scott Ian commented on this in an interview saying, "The bottom line is, everyone in this business is in it to make money. Myself included."
  • Take That: A nuclear-level, Cluster F-Bomb-laden one to the PMRC in "Startin' Up a Posse".