[Cover photo credit to Travis Shinn]
Anthrax have just released their 12th full-length studio album, Cursum Perficio, via Megaforce Records, along with a video for the album’s title track. To celebrate the album’s release, the multi-Grammy Award-nominated band took part in a late night in store signing at Louisville’s Guestroom Records following their performance at the city’s annual Louder than Life festival.
For the album’s title track, “Cursum Perficio,” the band have revealed a new black and white video that captures the song’s tone and message. Director Don Argott (Taylor Swift docu-series) utilized footage with narrative elements for the video, which stars actor London May (musician, actor, drummer and bassist for Glenn Danzig’s band Samhain).
London May says of the video:
‘Cursum Perficio’ brought out the beast in me. I broke my finger the very first day and had to beg them to keep shooting. That was real chain [the chain he is shackled with in the video was real metal…heavy and real…not a prop chain] and real pain. I went through hell and back for Anthrax and Don Argott—and I’d happily do it all again!
Scott Ian comments:
The video for ‘Cursum Perficio’ captures all of the themes I’m exploring in the lyric. They’re epic in scope…how do you quantify your life? How do you measure oceans of time and what did you do with it? And were all the struggles worth it in the end?
Charlie Benante adds:
What I love about this video is that it matches the tone of the song so well. This song has always been the dark horse of the record, this video may be as well.
| ANTHRAX’s North American tour dates, are as follows: |
| DATE/ LOCATION/ VENUE Friday, September 25 Los Angeles, CA BMO Stadium Sunday, September 27 Los Angeles, CA BMO Stadium Tuesday, September 29 San Antonio, TX Alamodome Friday, October 2 Mexico City, Mexico Estadio GNP Seguros |
