Multi-Grammy  nominee Anthrax have blasted into Billboard’s Top 10 with their 11th studio album, For All Kings, bowing at #9-bullet on the Top  200 Albums Chart and selling 34,000 units.  This debut eclipses the #12  debut made by the band’s 2011 Grammy-nominated, critically-acclaimed Worship Music.

The album also topped the Hard Rock Albums chart in both  the U.S. and Canada with its #1 debuts, and landed at #5 and #7 respectively on  the U.S. and Canada’s Top Current Albums charts.  Additionally, For  All Kings debuted at #2 on Billboard’s Top Rock Albums chart, #2 on  the Independent Albums chart, #4 Physical Albums, and #5 Vinyl Albums chart.

“We share this Top 10 victory with all of our  fans,” said the band’s Charlie Benante.  “Heavy metal is alive  and well.”

Since For All Kings was released  Friday, February 26, it has held the #1  position on both the iTunes Heavy Metal Albums sales chart and Amazon’s Best  Sellers in Metal chart.  In addition, the album’s first single,  “Breathing Lightning,” debuted last week in the Top 40 on both the
Mediabase Active Rock Chart and on BDS.

Press has also been an enormous champion of For  All Kings:  “The album is thrash perfection…”    “…a near flawless album…5 out of 5 stars…”   “…one of Anthrax’s best CDs of all time, a sparkling  triumph…” “…a surefire album-of-the-year contender…”

For All Kings is the band’s 11th studio  album, was produced by Jay Ruston, and is their first album since 1990’s Persistence  of Time to be written specifically for Joey Belladonna’s soaring vocals, an integral part of Anthrax’s classic signature sound. And the album IS  classic Anthrax, with the band’s metal thrash roots clearly front-and-center,  and lyrics that tackle topics such as the struggle to grow up and be  responsible, having blind faith and selling your soul, how the way you  live your life affects everyone around you, and murder and martyrdom rooted in  an ideology.

“Thank you so much to everyone who loves the record  we made,” added Anthrax’s Scott Ian.  “The response to For  All Kings has been fantastic, seriously, thank you all so much.”

Anthrax is currently on tour in South America with Iron  Maiden and will return to the U.S. for a series of festival dates in the  Spring.