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When did Anthrax's first album release?
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Anthrax's first album Fistful of Metal released in January 1984.
Known as one of the Big Four of thrash metal, along with Megadeth, Slayer and Metallica, Anthrax is an American heavy metal band from New York City “who would quite literally build a genre from the ground up”. Their name was chosen after searching a biology textbook for a ‘cool sounding disease’ that sounded “sufficiently evil”. Anthrax started... Read More
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