Editing Persistence of Time (section)

==Reception==
{{Music ratings
|rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="AM">{{cite web|last=Huey|first=Steve|title=Anthrax: Persistence of Time|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=persistence-of-time-mw0000309272|pure_url=yes}}|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=March 18, 2013}}</ref>
| rev2 =''[[Martin Popoff|The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal]]''
| rev2Score = 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=26 |isbn = 978-1-894959-62-9}}</ref>
|rev3 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
|rev3Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|year=2011|title=[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|publisher=[[Omnibus Press]]|page=2006|isbn=978-0-85712-595-8|edition=5th}}</ref>
|rev4 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide|(The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
|rev4Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="New RS">{{cite book|last1=Brackett|first1=Nathan|last2=Hoard|first2=Christian David|title=[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide|(The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide]]|date=2004|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/20 20]}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[Select (magazine)|Select]]''
| rev5Score = {{rating|4|5|full=U+25A0.svg|empty=U+25A1.svg|rating=medal}}<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Perry |first=Neil |date=September 1990 |title=Killing Time |magazine=[[Select (magazine)|Select]] |issue=3 |page=74}}</ref>
}}

''Persistence of Time's'' highest position on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] chart was No. 24.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.allmusic.com/album/persistence-of-time-mw0000309272/awards | title = Persistence of Time Billboard Albums | access-date = March 18, 2013 | work = [[AllMusic]] | publisher = [[Rovi Corporation]]}}</ref> It was certified gold by the [[RIAA]] on January 17, 1991.<ref name="RIAA" >[https://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?resultpage=3&table=SEARCH_RESULTS&action=&title=&artist=Anthrax&format=&debutLP=&category=&sex=&releaseDate=&requestNo=&type=&level=&label=&company=&certificationDate=&awardDescription=&catalogNo=&aSex=&rec_id=&charField=&gold=&platinum=&multiPlat=&level2=&certDate=&album=&id=&after=&before=&startMonth=1&endMonth=1&startYear=1958&endYear=2008&sort=Artist&perPage=25 RIAA Gold and Platinum Search for albums by Anthrax]. Retrieved on May 19, 2013.</ref>

Steve Huey of [[AllMusic]] gave the album a favorable review, saying that it "rivals ''[[Among the Living]]'' as Anthrax's best album". "The more cartoonish side of the band" is substituted by a "dark, uncompromising examination of society's dirty underbelly", which makes ''Persistence of Time'' "their most lyrically consistent album".<ref name="AM"/> Kim Neely of the American magazine ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' underlines the social tone of the lyrics and describes ''Persistence of Time'' as "a foray into the dreary, gray bowels of urban hell", praising singer Joey Belladonna for "railing against every societal ill known to city-bred man". He concludes saying that the album "ain't the most uplifting thing to listen to, but it's real."<ref>{{cite magazine | url = https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/anthrax/albums/album/302316/review/5946559/persistence_of_time | title = Album Reviews:Anthrax - Persistence of Time | access-date = March 24, 2013 | last = Neely | first = Kim | date = October 4, 1990 | magazine = [[Rolling Stone]] | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080108121842/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/anthrax/albums/album/302316/review/5946559/persistence_of_time | archive-date = January 8, 2008 | url-status = dead }}</ref> A similar concept was explained by a review by ''[[The New York Times]]'' of November 18, 1990, which said that "the music carries the exhilaration of a desperate struggle."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Pareles|first1=Jon|author-link1=Jon Pareles|title=Home entertainment/recordings: and keep in mind|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/18/arts/home-entertainment-recordings-and-keep-in-mind.html|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=June 13, 2016|date=November 18, 1990}}</ref> Canadian journalist [[Martin Popoff]] praised the "admirable Prong/Pantera/Metallica '90s minimalism at work here", but found "the overall effect just so dense and relentless that it just wears you out by hangover's end."<ref name="martin" />  ''[[Loudwire]]'' ranked the album #25 on their list "Top 90 Hard Rock + Metal Albums of the 90's".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://loudwire.com/top-hard-rock-metal-albums-1990s/|title=Top 90 Hard Rock + Metal Albums of the '90s|website=[[Loudwire]]|date=April 26, 2023 }}</ref>