ANTHRAX’s IAN, BELLO Discuss New Song ‘Blood Eagle Wings’ (Video)

Louder Noise has uploaded a new video clip in which ANTHRAX guitarist Scott Ian and bassist Frank Bello discuss the band’s new song “Blood Eagle Wings”. The multipart eight-minute epic is taken from the band’s latest album, “For All Kings”, which was released on February 26 via Megaforce in North America and Nuclear Blast in Europe.

Ian told RollingStone.com about “Blood Eagle Wings”: “I think it’s our masterpiece of a song. It’s the biggest, coolest thing we’ve ever written.”

Regarding the theme of “Blood Eagle Wings”, Ian said: “Any great city, whether it’s London, Rome, Paris, New York, Los Angeles — these cities are alive because of how many people were killed to make these cities what they are, how much blood was spilled over time.”

The Jack Bennett-directed video for “Blood Eagle Wings” can be seen below.

According to music industry web site Hits Daily Double, “For All Kings”, is likely to sell between 20,000 and 23,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The SPS figure is expected to be between 21,000 and 24,000.

SPS, a practice used by Billboard magazine, stands for “sales plus streaming,” which includes album sales and converted track sales plus converted streaming data.

For those interested: 10 tracks sold equal one album sale (since $1.29, the cost for an individual track, multiplied by ten gives you $12.99, a common price for an album, and 1,500 streams is equivalent to one album sale.

ANTHRAX‘s previous album, 2011’s “Worship Music”, sold 28,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 12 on The Billboard 200 chart. The disc followed up 2003’s “We’ve Come For You All”, which opened with just under 10,000 units to debut at No. 122

ANTHRAX‘s U.S. tour with LAMB OF GOD came to a close on February 12 in Los Angeles, California.