{"id":72995,"date":"2026-09-17T14:45:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T14:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/17\/see-anthraxs-new-cursum-perficio-video\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T14:45:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T14:45:29","slug":"see-anthraxs-new-cursum-perficio-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/17\/see-anthraxs-new-cursum-perficio-video\/","title":{"rendered":"See Anthrax&#8217;s New &#8216;Cursum Perficio&#8217; Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Rhythm section ace literally tries to break the chains that bind him in clip for title song on thrashers&#8217; new album<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tChains drag a man through fog, smoke, water, and brick tunnels until he\u2019s drawn and quartered in the video for \u201cCursum Perficio,\u201d the title track of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/anthrax\/\" id=\"auto-tag_anthrax\" data-tag=\"anthrax\">Anthrax<\/a>\u2018s album out Friday. \u201cNow it\u2019s over,\u201d frontman Joey Belladonna sings over crunching guitars and stabbing drums, seemingly taunting this victim of unseeable menace. Then he sings, \u201cYour journey\u2019s over,\u201d which is a rough translation of the song\u2019s title from Latin. But things take a turn halfway through the video as Belladonna sings, \u201cRise,\u201d and the man gets control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tDocumentarian Don Argott, who directed Lamb of God\u2019s <em>As the Palaces Burn <\/em>film and co-directed Taylor Swift\u2019s <em>The End of an Era <\/em>film, helmed the black &amp; white clip, which stars London May, best known as the sometime drummer and bassist for Samhain, Glenn Danzig\u2019s goth-punk band between the Misfits and Danzig. The way May tells it, the video shoot was as brutal as it looks. \u201c\u2018Cursum Perficio\u2019 brought out the beast in me,\u201d he tells <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cI broke my finger the very first day and had to beg them to keep shooting. That was real chain and real pain. I went through hell and back for\u00a0Anthrax\u00a0and Don Argott \u2014 and I\u2019d happily do it all again!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sJopVPdbPJk\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sJopVPdbPJk<\/a><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tFor the band, the song and video summarize everything the musicians are saying on their 12th album (and first in a decade). \u201cThe\u00a0video\u00a0for \u2018Cursum Perficio\u2019 captures all of the themes I\u2019m exploring in the lyrics \u2026 they\u2019re epic in scope \u2026 how do you quantify your life?\u201d guitarist-lyricist Scott Ian says. \u201cHow do you measure oceans of time and what did you do with it? And were all the struggles worth it in the end?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cWhat I love about this\u00a0video\u00a0is that it matches the tone of the song so well,\u201d drummer Charlie Benante says. \u201cThis song has always been the dark horse of the record. This\u00a0video\u00a0may be as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe video follows the release of clips for the album\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uqbhWhN4F74\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u201cThe Edge of Perfection,\u201d<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Pj5u8OagODo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u201cIt\u2019s for the Kids,\u201d<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rr-GVF_Qzdw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u201cEverybody\u2019s Got a Plan.\u201d<\/a> In addition to playing the Louder Than Life festival on Thursday night, the band still has two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anthrax.com\/tour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">tour dates<\/a> in Los Angeles and one in San Antonio supporting Iron Maiden in the U.S. before they head to Mexico for a final gig with Maiden on Oct. 2.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/anthrax-cursum-perficio-video-london-may-1235627267\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rhythm section ace literally tries to break the chains that bind him in clip for title song on thrashers&#8217; new album Chains drag a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":72996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}