Dire que dans le temps, je voyais Scott Ian comme un des rares mecs intègres de ce business

"Rien n'est encore officiellement confirmé mais le retour de John Bush au poste de chanteur d'Anthrax est quasiment certain.
JohnBush avait déjà rejoint le groupe sur scène début août au festival Sonisphere en Angleterre, au Loud Park festival il y a quelques jours près de Tokyo, et 5 dates avec lui sont déjà prévues pour février/mars 2010 en Australie.
Charlie Benante (batterie) déclarait il y a quelques jours lors d'une interview au site NoiseCreep : "Nous sommes en train de nous remettre avec John Bush. Nous avons joué deux concerts avec John, et nous sommes impatients de continuer avec ce line-up."
Quand on lui demande si l'album "Worship Music" (qui devait sortir plus tôt cette année) sera simplement ré-enregistré ou complètement zappé, Charlie Benante répond : "On fera certainement un petit peu des deux." Le guitariste Rob Caggiano répondait quant à lui à une interview de l'émission de radio Metal "Maximum Threshold" le 24 octobre et il a largement abordé le sujet du chanteur et du nouvel album du groupe :
"Pour l'instant on se repose un peu, on se prépare à terminer le nouvel album d'Anthrax. C'est moi qui produit tout le truc.
Je suis sûr que vous connaissez toute l'histoire, mais l'album est quasiment, je veux dire, il était fini... (rires) et maintenant, ce n'est pas confirmé pour l'instant - c'est non-officiel - mais on dirait bien que John Bush va faire le chant dessus. Donc on est tous en train de croiser les doigts et normalement ça devrait bien se passer. L'album déchire, on est tous très, très excités à son sujet." Au sujet du récent split avec Dan Nelson :
"Je ne veux pas trop partir sur ce terrain-là, parce-que ça va devenir bizarre. Mais Dan est un bon gars, et c'est un super, super chanteur, il a une voix incroyable. Ça n'a juste pas fonctionné. C'est réellement aussi simple que ça. Nous avons tous essayé ce truc, cette direction, et ça ne fonctionnait juste pas. Mais tout ça n'a pas vraiment d'importance. Je veux dire, maintenant on regarde tous vers le futur. Et ça fait vraiment du bien. Je veux dire, les derniers shows qu'on a fait étaient géniaux, nous sommes très, très excités."
Au sujet de l'album :
"Je pense que les fans vont vraiment adorer ce nouvel album, quand il sera finalement terminé (rires). C'est comme une... c'est définitivement une progression de notre dernier album. Et il y a aussi quelques aspects old-school également. C'est juste en général un album très, très solide."

ANTHRAX was supposed to release its new album, tentatively titled "Worship Music", last October. However, the set has been delayed indefinitely following the departure of singer Dan Nelson in July 2009 and the return of John Bush, who fronted the band between 1992 and 2005. Guitarist Scott Ian spoke to VH1 Radio Networks' Dave Basner about the record's current status. "It's all up in the air," Ian said. "We're kind of in a standby mode right now. John is committed to touring, we're going to Australia to next week for two weeks and we've got all the Sonisphere [European festival appearances] in the summer, but it's just kind of been like baby steps as far as moving forward creatively and working on this album again."

One issue with the effort is that it was recorded with Nelson, who is believed to have contributed vocal melodies and lyrics to the LP. Now that John Bush is fronting the band again, what does that mean for the album?

"It wouldn't be a case at this point of John just coming in and re-singing the record," Ian explained. "That's not going to happen. If John sings on this album, then we're going to go back in and re-write because John Bush would then be committing to it and we would go back in and re-write stuff the way we did just like 'Sound of White Noise' [1993] or 'Stomp 442' [1995] or 'We've Come For You All' [2003]. That's how it would have to be, so we're just kind of in a standby mode waiting to see how John feels about it and what he wants to do. Maybe after these Australia dates we'll have a better idea on what we're going to do with that."

ANTHRAX's BUSH On 'Worship Music': I Don't Feel Comfortable Just Re-Recording Everything As Is - Mar. 31, 2010
Goreripper of Australia's PyroMusic.net recently conducted an interview with ARMORED SAINT/ANTHRAX singer John Bush. An excerpt from the chat follows below.

PyroMusic.net: I spoke to [ARMORED SAINT bassist] Joey [Vera] before the tour here last year and he said there was an album planned, but nothing had really been completed. How long did it take to get all the material together for [the new ARMORED SAINT album] "La Raza"?

John Bush: I don't know. I can't remember when the whole thing started coming together. I want to say that from when Joey gave me the first idea for "Blues", which was the first song we wrote... I was probably about 18 months or two years. We kind of had to fit it in with all the other things going on in our lives. It wasn't a situation where we had all this pressure and a timeline where we had a deadline to get a record out. We kind've worked at our leisure and did things that felt right. So whenever he'd give me stuff, I'd work on it and when I had lyrics completed I'd go to his house and we'd put it down in demo form, which we actually kept a lot of those vocals — I'd say we probably kept about 50% of those vocals which I sang at Joey's house on the demos, which is cool. We just took our time with it. It wasn't like the label was saying, "Hurry up guys! Get your record out!" It was none of that, which is nice.

PyroMusic.net: It must have been good being able to just take your time.

John Bush: It was fun. You know, I'm still real proud of all the records I've done with both bands I've been in. There's some that are stronger than others in my opinion of course, but this record was different because it wasn't a normal process of making a record. The normal process is there's money and time and you need to connect it with going out on tour, and that goes back to the first ARMORED SAINT album I did. You get concerned with being over budget and all the bullshit basically! But this wasn't about that. We wrote these songs, and once we had ten it was like, "OK, they're good! Let's record on them." And we got in the studio and recorded with real drums and Joey re-recorded the guitars and bass... we kept a lot of the demo stuff, guitar nuances and acoustic stuff. And Phil [Sandoval] and Jeff [Duncan] laid down leads, and it was a smooth and nice process because it was in our own timeline. That was neat. It's been a real pleasurable record from that perspective and I'm getting a lot of satisifaction out of people connecting to it. It makes me happy because as much as we really try to do a lot, we didn't really try that hard! Sometimes there's something to be said for not thinking too much and using instincts. Instincts man, instincts!

PyroMusic.net: Can I also ask you about ANTHRAX. Are you working with [Scott] Ian and Charlie [Benante] on the new ANTHRAX album?

John Bush: Well obviously, those guys have a finished record that they're sitting on, and... and... I'm not sure what's gonna happen yet. At one point they wanted me to re-record it all, and I wasn't really up to that task. And then the game changed a little bit and we came up with the idea of an EP in conjunction with these shows in the summer. But there's been some business issues with that. So, I don't know. I don't know what's going to happen yet. Obviously the guys in the band would like to have something out to correlate with these "Big Four" shows [featuring METALLICA, SLAYER, MEGADETH and ANTHRAX] and I totally understand that. It's just a matter of making something feel right. Because obviously there's been so much involved in making this one record... Dan Nelson singing on it, then Dan Nelson not being in the band, but his vocals being on it, and then me to go re-record everything and I didn't really have a hand in creating anything... I don't feel really comfortable just going in and re-recording everything as is. I want to make it my baby a little bit. And they're trying to do something with that... contrary to ARMORED SAINT, they would like to have something out by June for these shows. So I don't know. Worst-case scenario is that ANTHRAX will play the shows anyway, record or not. They were asked to participate and that was based on the band's history more than anything, so we'll see.

PyroMusic.net: Those "Big Four" shows will be a truly amazing event, don't you think?

John Bush: Yeah! It's gonna be awesome. It's total metal history. Neither of these bands have ever totally played together — I don't think they ever have. It'll be cool, really fun, some metal history goin' down and I look forward to it!