| View Larger Image | Sound Of White Noise | Audio CDby Anthrax
| List Price: | $29.98 | |
| | Binding: | Audio CD | | Studio: | Elektra / Wea | | Release Date: | May 25, 1993 | | Sales Rank: | 51,369st |
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TRACK LISTING |
Disc: 1
- Track 1: Potter's Field
- Track 2: Only
- Track 3: Room for One More
- Track 4: Packaged Rebellion
- Track 5: Hy Pro Glo
- Track 6: Invisible
- Track 7: 1000 Points of Hate
- Track 8: Black Lodge
- Track 9: C11H17N202SNA (Sodium Pentathol)
- Track 10: Burst
- Track 11: This Is Not an Exit
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Album Details
Japanese Re-release featuring Four Bonus Tracks: Noise Gate, Cowboy Song, Auf Viderzen, and Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 50 reviews)
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Awesome. by Deimos (Alberta)  5 Stars
August 24, 2009
This album sets a whole new standard for Anthrax and metal music is general. New ground but awesome new ground and still staying true to the music.
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Awesome...groundbreaking...get it !!! by Gary H (PA) 5 Stars
August 02, 2009
Sound of White Noise is one of my favorite albums...clearly the best album by Anthrax, and one of the best metal albums of the 90's. Joey-era Anthrax had really hit their stride with Persistence of Time. Persistence was a great album...I saw them in Philly supporting it on the Clash of the Titans tour, and they put on a great show. But, the band knew it was time to evolve. Thrash was falling into obscurity, as bands like Metallica turn in a different direction. And evolve Anthrax did..in a big way, bringing in former Armored Saint vocalist John Bush.
It doesn't take long into Potter's Field and you know this is a different Anthrax. Everything just comes together and makes sense. John's vocals just sit perfectly with the music. And the music is a marked improvement over Persistence. It's tighter, crisper and more "on". There isn't one weak song on the album (there's an extended version with a few extra tracks, I'd say no need to bother, and if you're a completionist then you already have it). My fave would be a toss-up between Potter's Field and This is Not an Exit. Black Lodge shows that they're capable of going a different direction and somehow staying true (although it's funny to look back and see Jenna Elfman in the video for it;). They never could have pulled off this album with that other guy...umm....Joey.
Anthrax also did a six city mini tour for SOWN in smaller venues. I was fortunate enough to catch it at the TLA in Philly. Amazing to see this lineup doing this material up close and personal. If you like metal, you must have this album!
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New singer, same results, great album! by ckt_designer_14 5 Stars
May 24, 2007
Anthrax, along with Metallica, Slayer, and Megadeth were the 4 bands that converted me into a metalhead in the 80's. They always seemed to produce consistent headbanging material. However, I was a little concerned that this consistency would be broken when I heard that John Bush would be replacing Joey Belladonna at lead vocals for the 1993 release "The Sound of White Noise." Once I heard the album, I was concerned no more.
Believe it or not, I instantly preferred Bush's vocals. Every album that Joey appeared on was solid and consistent and followed the basic headbanging formula. Not that this is a bad thing, but Anthrax never really seemed to stray too far from the norm. John Bush brought a level of maturity with him and "The Sound of White Noise" became their most mature album up to that point.
With this album, Anthrax dared to challenge themselves with more complex song arrangements, much deeper melodies, and more thought provoking lyrics. It's almost as though Joey was holding them back from expanding out of the thrash box that they were in. Bush's vocals are tremendous and allow for more powerful choruses and hook lines. Each song is as memorable as the next with plenty of headbanging material to go around. However, songs like Packaged Rebellion and Black Lodge are unlike any previous Anthrax songs, but are just as great. Other high points are Potter's Field, Hy Pro Glo, Invisible, and Room For One More.
Do I think this is the best Anthrax album? It depends on my mood. If I'm looking for straight up headbanging with killer riffs and pounding drums, I prefer Among The Living. If I'm looking for the entire package, The Sound of White Noise satisfies all of my metal cravings.
As with any review, these are my opinions and not everybody will agree with them which is what makes these reviews so much fun. Enjoy!
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The best of the Bush era by Rob Martin (Jax, FL) 5 Stars
April 29, 2007
Anthrax fans can be lumpers or splitters; splitters consider there to be four anthraxes, lumpers only one. I tend to think of two Anthraxes; a Belldonna Anthrax and a Bush Anthrax. "Sound" is the first album of the Bush reign. Bush's voice is much deeper than Belladonna's, one of the reasons that I think of two separate Anthraxes. The writing of "SOWN" accommodates that difference well.
Many believe that John Bush's voice forced the band to take a more mature approach to their music, eliminating comic books, Stephen King and Mythology as their muses. However, a relisten to P"ersistence of Time" will show anyone that the boys were already headed in that direction. "POT" and "SOWN" actually transition well together because of this. In fact, C11H17N2Na02S (the chemical formula for sodium penthanol, a.k.a. truth serum) sounds like a leftover from "Persistence", and one could easily imagine Joey singing the song. Both albums veer away from the high-pitched speed riffs of the earlier albums and emphasize the rhythm section (Charlie and Frankie).
While I will not speculate as to whether I like Belladonna or Bush better, I will say that this is the best effort of the Bush Anthrax. Most metal fans will have heard the "hits": "Black Lodge", "Only" and "Room for One More", but "Hy Pro Glo", "Potter's Field" and "1000 Points of Hate" are just as strong. Music fans wishing to explore Anthrax should start with "Among the Living", still the best `thrax album, and "Sound" and compare the two lead singers themselves. Luckily, the greatest back-up singer in history, Scott Ian, is a constant on both!
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the music itself was good by Jeremy Salzman (Ocheyedan, IA USA)  3 Stars
April 15, 2007
i really licked the music on this album, but i wish they would go back and remaster it though. the sound quality on this album sucked big time. there is alot of distortion that can't be fine tuned out on any stereo system.
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