Long Island Part Time Singer Joins Metal Band Anthrax

December 15, 2007

(Long Island, N.Y.) Dan Nelson, a part-time singer and personal trainer from Levittown Long Island has been chosen by the veteran group Anthrax to become their latest lead singer. Nelson, 31, contacted Anthrax guitarist Rob Caggiano through a social networking site.

“We sent music back and forth, got together, and jammed for 10 hours straight,” Nelson said in a statement issued by the band’s publicist. “After 10 hours, he said, ‘I think you’d be right for Anthrax.”

The Anthrax line-up is now comprised of Dan Nelson, guitarists Ian and Rob Caggiano, bassist Frankie Bello and drummer Charlie Benante.

In an October 2007 interview with MTV.com, guitarist Scott Ian said that he, drummer Charlie Benante and bassist Frank Bello have spent most of this year writing and fine-tuning a batch of new songs, which Ian said are along the lines of the band’s critically acclaimed 2003 album, “We’ve Come for You All“. “We know that we want to make a proper follow-up to ‘We’ve Come for You All’, which we all loved,” he said. “But we want it to be even better: heavier, faster, hookier. As songwriters, you try to improve on your craft. And fortunately, we’ve got the time to make that happen. We have no deadline at all because we’ve got no label deal, so my attitude is, ‘Let’s make the most metal record we’ve ever made in our lives,’ and I would have to say that’s coming to fruition.”

Anthrax was among metal’s biggest names in the 1980s and early 1990s, known for its speed, intensity, and genre-crossing 1991 collaboration with Public Enemy on the rappers’ “Bring The Noise.”

Photo: Dan Nelson, New Lead Singler Anthrax
On the web: http://www.anthrax.com

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