Stomp 442

Stomp 442

Track Listings

1. Random Acts of Senseless Violence

2. Fueled

3. King Size

4. Riding Shotgun

5. Perpetual Motion

6. In a Zone

7. Nothing

8. American Pompeii

9. Drop the Ball

10. Tester

11. Bare

Tracks:

Random Acts of Senseless Violence
Fueled
King Size
Riding Shotgun
Perpetual Motion
In a Zone
Nothing
American Pompeii
Drop the Ball
Tester
Bare

Album Description

Re-release of 1995 album packaged in a digipak features 13 tracks including 2 bonus video clips, 'Fueled' & 'Nothing'. Nuclear Blast. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

Great re-issue, highly overlooked album.......2007-04-11

This is the second re-issue of this album, from their european carrier Nuclear Blast. It features the full 11 track album and 2 videos for Nothing, and Fueled, great additions to my collections since I do not have them any where else. This album was put out during a time when metal was not at the top anymore, and it sticks true to anthrax's fast, heavy brand that had come together with the addition of John Bush. I highly recommend this along with the "Sound of White Noise" re-issue on nuclear blast that comes with a separate 4 video VCD. You will not be dissapointed.

Not the best Stomp 442 reissue.......2007-04-10

Originally released in 1995, Stomp 442 was the second album of "the Bush era". I was always aware of Anthrax growing up, but aside from their goofball "I'm the Man" single, the band never really made much of an impact on me until they replaced vocalist Joey Belladonna with Armored Saint's John Bush. Bush's energetic and intense yet still melodic vocal style just seemed like such a better fit for Anthrax's brand of thrash, and I still view that lineup's debut - 1993's Sound of White Noise - as the best Anthrax album ever.

Stomp 442 carries on the same tradition of Sound of White Noise. It's great to hear an album so unrepentantly metal at a time when metal had become a 4-letter word to most music buyers. This was not some weak attempt at grunge. Despite the absence of founding guitarist Dan Spitz, Stomp 442 had all of Anthrax's signature thrash style, but with an intensity that would have been right at home on a hardcore punk album. Songs like "Riding Shotgun" and "Drop the Ball" are just punishing. Bush's vocals are as good as ever, and seem to me to be the glue that holds the whole album together. Stomp 442 doesn't have the immediate impact that Sound of White Noise had, but it doesn't take too many spins before you realize you're getting a first-rate metal album, and one that is more than worthy of the Anthrax name.

NOTE: This particular reissue of Stomp 442 features some multimedia content. If you're looking for the best possible version of the album, you'll want to look for the 2001 reissue, which features 4 bonus tracks, including covers of Celtic Frost's "Dethroned Emperor", Huskur Du's "Celebrated Summer", and KISS's "Watchin' You".

Check out the new model & see.............2005-11-23

Accept no substitute! Stomp, Volume 8 & White Noise are the true/mature Anthrax. Forget the shorts, forget Joey(no offense). The Bush era 'Thrax far outshines anything they've done before or since!

Average customer rating:

Great Reissue
"Stomp This ! "

Stomp 442
Anthrax
Manufacturer: Import [Generic]
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000087XY
Release Date: 1998-03-10

Tracks:

Random Acts of Senseless Violence
Fueled
King Size
Riding Shotgun
Perpetual Motion
In a Zone
Nothing
American Pompeii
Drop the Ball
Tester
Bare
Remember Tomorrow [*]
Grunt and Click [*]
Watching You [*]
Dethroned Emperor [*]
No Time This Time [*]
Celebrated Summer [*]

Album Details

Japanese Re-release featuring a Bonus Track: Bare.

Customer Reviews:

Great Reissue.......2007-04-10

Originally released in 1995, Stomp 442 was the second album of "the Bush era". I was always aware of Anthrax growing up, but aside from their goofball "I'm the Man" single, the band never really made much of an impact on me until they replaced vocalist Joey Belladonna with Armored Saint's John Bush. Bush's energetic and intense yet still melodic vocal style just seemed like such a better fit for Anthrax's brand of thrash, and I still view that lineup's debut - 1993's Sound of White Noise - as the best Anthrax album ever.

Stomp 442 carries on the same tradition of Sound of White Noise. It's great to hear an album so unrepentantly metal at a time when metal had become a 4-letter word to most music buyers. This was not some weak attempt at grunge. Despite the absence of founding guitarist Dan Spitz, Stomp 442 had all of Anthrax's signature thrash style, but with an intensity that would have been right at home on a hardcore punk album. Songs like "Riding Shotgun" and "Drop the Ball" are just punishing. Bush's vocals are as good as ever, and seem to me to be the glue that holds the whole album together. Stomp 442 doesn't have the immediate impact that Sound of White Noise had, but it doesn't take too many spins before you realize you're getting a first-rate metal album, and one that is more than worthy of the Anthrax name.

The 2001 reissue of Stomp 442 features 4 bonus tracks, all of which are impressive. I love a good cover song, and Anthrax serves up three - Celtic Frost's "Dethroned Emperor", Huskur Du's "Celebrated Summer", and KISS's "Watchin' You". All are quite good, but Celebrated Summer alone is worth the price of the disc if for no other reason than that it is just about the last song you'd expect a metal band to cover. If you're one of the faithful who bought Stomp 442 the first time around, you may want to consider replacing your old version. My only complaint, however minor, is that they didn't include the song "Poison My Eyes", which was originally featured on the Last Action Hero: Music From The Original Motion Picture soundtrack.

NOTE: The Japanese version of this album features yet another bonus track. Sometimes I think I'll never catch up as long as I refuse to pay those import prices.

"Stomp This ! ".......1999-12-05

Written off as a disappointment, "Stomp 442" rages with as much intensity as previous efforts such as "Among the Living" or "Sound of White Noise". Highlights include "Fueled" "In a Zone", and "Tester", a blistering track about staying true to your roots and not submitting to fads! Bonus tracks include "Grunt and Click", a great cover of Iron Maiden's "Remember Tomorrow", Kiss' "Watching You", a cover of Celtic Frost's "Dethroned Emperor", a cover of the Police song "No Time this Time", and Husker Du's "Celebrated Summer". A must have for true metal fans.

Average customer rating:

Great Reissue
Unexpected (nearly) masterpiece
Another good set from Anthrax
darn good album!
MY PERSONAL FAV......

Stomp 442
Anthrax
Manufacturer: Beyond Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Sound of White Noise
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ASIN: B00005NHJQ
Release Date: 2001-08-28

Tracks:

Random Acts Of Senseless Violence
Fueled
King Size
Riding Shotgun
Perpetual Motion
In A Zone
Nothing
American Pompeii
Drop The Ball
Tester
Bare
Grunt & Click
Dethroned Emperor
Celebrated Summer
Watchin' You

Customer Reviews:

Great Reissue.......2007-04-10

Originally released in 1995, Stomp 442 was the second album of "the Bush era". I was always aware of Anthrax growing up, but aside from their goofball "I'm the Man" single, the band never really made much of an impact on me until they replaced vocalist Joey Belladonna with Armored Saint's John Bush. Bush's energetic and intense yet still melodic vocal style just seemed like such a better fit for Anthrax's brand of thrash, and I still view that lineup's debut - 1993's Sound of White Noise - as the best Anthrax album ever.

Stomp 442 carries on the same tradition of Sound of White Noise. It's great to hear an album so unrepentantly metal at a time when metal had become a 4-letter word to most music buyers. This was not some weak attempt at grunge. Despite the absence of founding guitarist Dan Spitz, Stomp 442 had all of Anthrax's signature thrash style, but with an intensity that would have been right at home on a hardcore punk album. Songs like "Riding Shotgun" and "Drop the Ball" are just punishing. Bush's vocals are as good as ever, and seem to me to be the glue that holds the whole album together. Stomp 442 doesn't have the immediate impact that Sound of White Noise had, but it doesn't take too many spins before you realize you're getting a first-rate metal album, and one that is more than worthy of the Anthrax name.

The 2001 reissue of Stomp 442 features 4 bonus tracks, all of which are impressive. I love a good cover song, and Anthrax serves up three - Celtic Frost's "Dethroned Emperor", Huskur Du's "Celebrated Summer", and KISS's "Watchin' You". All are quite good, but Celebrated Summer alone is worth the price of the disc if for no other reason than that it is just about the last song you'd expect a metal band to cover. If you're one of the faithful who bought Stomp 442 the first time around, you may want to consider replacing your old version. My only complaint, however minor, is that they didn't include the song "Poison My Eyes", which was originally featured on the Last Action Hero: Music From The Original Motion Picture soundtrack.

Unexpected (nearly) masterpiece.......2007-03-28

At a time when being left field was mandatory Anthrax pulled an awesome move by ... not being left field! Instead the band let fly with perhaps their best ever album in terms of pure metal though thrash devotees may still prefer earlier stuff like State of Euphoria. Instead of trying to encapsulate the entire album in a review I'm going to just point out a few reasons that I love this ablum.

Passion - There is oodles of passion here, a missionary zeal in love of metal, a hearty raising of the fist as proof of a rejuvenated band setting out to throttle the naysayers. Top flight self belief in their mission and it shows in the gusto with wich these songs are attacked.

Talent - Anthrax were never a band which rose or fell on their musical chops but with a lot of the songs it's hard to see where they could be improved. A couple of the songs - Drop the Ball and Riding Shotgun for instance, aren't top notch while American Pompeii and In A Zone are only dragged into the 'very good' category through John Bushs' force of will, but as for the rest it's all cruising in top gear.

Professionalism - Apart from the above two points this album reeks of professionals doing a job. That's actually a compliment in this case - the band putting out good product and then refusing to bow to the grunge tidal wave, talking to every and any media outlet that would give them the time of day and touring any and every toilet to promote the album (including The Palace in Newcastle, Australia - man, the thought makes my neck ache all over again!).

This is a great metal album that deserves a place in the 'A' section of your collection. Hard driven songs with heft and heart. The sort of (almost) masterpiece that can convert people to the enjoyment of metal.

Another good set from Anthrax.......2005-11-10

I think there was a period in the 90's where Anthrax ended up in a bit of a rut, as far as the critics may have seen it. The series of recordings with Jon Bush at the mike continued to be strong, with high-powered rhythms and great songs, but with the glut of other bands and a lot of pretenders, some of the stuff got lost.

"Stomp 442" had another slab of great heavy metal rock, with "Random Acts," "Fueled" and "Tester" among the stellar tracks.

You have with Anthrax a band that chooses to continue to pound away with heavy sound, but the songs stretch out from the ludicrous to the dead bloody serious.

There is really nothing wrong with this album. I still like it, and it fits in well with others such as "Sound of White Noise" and "Among the Living," as well as "We've Come For You All."

darn good album!.......2003-09-26

From begining to end the album is fresh, fast, and has flow. The songs on the album have a unity which makes the track progression completely in sync. I didnt feel any of the songs were filler or forced in nature they all felt as though they belonged. My negatives about the album: the cover art is terrible which probably aided in the demise of the album sales, and some of the lyrics were mediocre. Aside from that the album is really good. How does it stack up against previous efforts? I think its one of their best however, I am not going to rank it with previous efforts because all of the bands albums seem to fit a different niche or tone. It gets 5 stars from me because I felt it was a complete album with a great payoff.

MY PERSONAL FAV.............2003-02-01

If We've Come For You All is half this good, It would blow me away. From beginning to end blistering riffs. "Tester" and "In a Zone" rule...

Average customer rating:

Anthrax's new era continues
Careful now...
A shot of Petrol
The bridge between heavy metal and hard rock
Still good but not great

Stomp 442
Anthrax
Manufacturer: Edoya
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Similar Items:

Sound of White Noise
Volume 8: The Threat Is Real
State of Euphoria
Spreading the Disease
Fistful of Metal

ASIN: B000006Z49
Release Date: 1996-11-07

Tracks:

Random Acts of Senseless Violence
Fueled
King Size
Riding Shotgun
Perpetual Motion
In a Zone
Nothing
American Pompeii
Drop the Ball
Tester
Bare

Customer Reviews:

Anthrax's new era continues.......2007-04-10

Careful now..........2006-08-22

I don't like this stuff. In fact, I hate it when I have to tell my neighbors to turn their music down constantly when they blast it through their stereos, as I can't concentrate when this is blasting. It is so grating to my ears, I would rather listen to a fire alarm.

In fact, this is the album that David Merrell used when he did his study on mice and music. For the hard rock, he used this album. The mice had difficulty with it--not only did the mice exposed to this music have more difficulty going through the maze than the other mice, after the study was over the mice turned bitter toward each other and killed themselves!

If you like this album, or hard rock music in general, that's fine, but please be careful. This album may be hazardous to your health!

A shot of Petrol.......2006-08-20

Damn this album is good. I am biased because I dig the John Bush era of Anthrax so much - but still this album smokes. Why is this album so underrated? I think Elektra buried this album after it was released because Elektra was going in a new direction and Anthrax got thrown under the bus.

Anyway Dan Spitz gets booted and the band brings in part time guitarist Paul Crook and the band does not miss a beat.

Tons of hooks, heavy riffs, melodies and it all comes together. Totally missed by most people because it came out when Metal was not surging in popularity. Anyway this album still rocks - even if the reunited Anthrax sucks.

The bridge between heavy metal and hard rock.......2005-11-20

I have no doubt: After listening the entire Anthrax catalog, my conclusion was instantaneous: Stomp 442 is the best Anthrax effort. I guess why many people (religious metalheads) overlooks this album: it's not thrash (like Anthrax 80's model) but heavy hard rock (really hard)... ready to smash your head. This album was the best moment of Anthrax, the most original... there is no similar album on the genre (except "We have come for you all"). And John Bush... he is a true hard rock singer.

Still good but not great.......2005-09-12

While not being a bad album, there was some really good stuff on here but some is not rememberable. To me a great album is one that you remember even if it's been weeks to years of hearing it. Great production and still worth having in the collection.