Editing Volume 8: The Threat Is Real (section)

==Reception==
{{Music ratings
|rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1Score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}<ref name="Allmusic">{{cite web|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|title=Anthrax — Volume 8: The Threat Is Real|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=volume-8-the-threat-is-real-mw0000040092|pure_url=yes}}|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=November 19, 2013}}</ref>
|rev2 = ''[[The A.V. Club]]''
|rev2Score = unfavorable<ref name="AV">{{cite web|last=Thompson|first=Stephen|title=Anthrax — Volume 8: The Threat is Real|url=http://www.avclub.com/articles/anthrax-volume-8the-threat-is-real,17926/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130908162913/http://www.avclub.com/articles/anthrax-volume-8the-threat-is-real,17926/|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 8, 2013|work=[[The A.V. Club]]|date=April 19, 2002|access-date=September 8, 2012}}</ref>
|rev3 =''[[Martin Popoff|Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal]]''
|rev3Score = 7/10<ref name="martin" >{{cite book | last1 = Popoff | first1 = Martin | author-link1 = Martin Popoff | title = The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties | publisher = [[Collector's Guide Publishing]] | date = August 1, 2007 | location = [[Burlington, Ontario]], Canada | page=27 |isbn = 978-1-894959-62-9}}</ref>
|rev4 = ''[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
|rev4Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|year=2011|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|publisher=[[Omnibus Press]]|page=2006|isbn=978-0-85712-595-8|edition=5th}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[Rock Hard (magazine)|Rock Hard]]''
| rev5score = 9.0/10<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kupfer |first1=Thomas |title=ANTHRAX - Volume 8: The Threat Is Real |url=https://www.rockhard.de/reviews/anthrax-volume-8-the-threat-is-real |website=[[Rock Hard (magazine)|Rock Hard]] |accessdate=March 10, 2023 |date=July 29, 1998}}</ref>
}}
[[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]], in a mixed review for [[AllMusic]], wrote that the album is a continuation of the band's "writing slump" which started with 1993's ''[[Sound of White Noise]]''. He said that there aren't many "memorable songs" on the record, and went to call it "transitional album" leading the band to "new, uncharted territory".<ref name=Allmusic/> Stephen Thompson of ''[[The A.V. Club]]'' found the album to be "aggressive to the point of being exhausting".<ref name="AV"/> [[Martin Popoff]] in his ''Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal'' remarks how the band put a bit of everything in the songs, including multiple speeds, "humor scattered here and there", "big grungy guitars", "meat and potatoes riffing and roaring vocals from Bush", while "experimenting with some different textures and dynamics". The result is not just "an accessible thrash metal record", as is typical with Anthrax.<ref name="martin" />

In his 2014 autobiography ''I'm the Man: The Story of that Guy from Anthrax'', [[Scott Ian]] said "I'm still proud of the songs we wrote for ''Volume 8: The Threat is Real''. They were really diverse and heavy, modern sounding with a crushing metal groove. 1998 is the year [[nu metal]] took over but we were definitely not a part of that scene. If anything we were old metal, so getting anyone to support us was proving difficult."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ian |first1=Scott |title=I'm the Man: The Story of That Guy from Anthrax |publisher=Hachette UK}}</ref>