Anthrax - Cursum Perficio [2LP]

Cursum Perficio is Anthrax's first studio album in a decade, a 2026 double LP that finds the New York thrash pioneers sounding hungry, heavy and very much alive.

Their twelfth studio album, and the first since For All Kings in 2016, it arrives after the longest gap between records in the band's history. The classic-era core of Joey Belladonna, Scott Ian, Frank Bello and Charlie Benante is joined again by lead guitarist Jonathan Donais, and the band recorded at Dave Grohl's Studio 606 with longtime producer Jay Ruston, who shares production credit with the group. Work stretched over several years, and that patience shows in how carefully the songs are built.

Lead single "It's for the Kids" charges out with the urgent riffing the band built its name on, while the near seven-minute "The Edge of Perfection" shows off a more expansive, epic side. "Everybody's Got a Plan" is a tight, riff-driven blast, and the title track "Cursum Perficio" stretches out into one of the record's most ambitious moments.

The Latin title translates roughly as "I finish the course", a note of reflection from a band more than four decades into its career, though they have stopped short of calling it a farewell.

For longtime fans, it is a welcome and long-awaited return to the turntable.