It’s been a decade since thrash metal icon Anthrax released a full-length album. But this fall, the group will return with the long-awaited follow-up to 2016’s For All Kings when they drop their twelfth LP, Cursum Perficio, on Sept. 18.

The news was revealed in an Instagram post on Monday (May 11) in which the band’s members assembled for a pic, with the caption reading “It’s been more than a decade … but we’re back ☠️ 5.15.” The photo featured founding rhythm guitarist Scott Ian, singer Joey Belladonna, bassist Frank Bello, drummer Charlie Benante and lead guitarist Jon Donais.

The album’s title appears to be a reference to the Latin phrase engraved on tiles in cement at the front door of Marilyn Monroe’s house, which was widely believed to mean “my journey ends here,” though it could also mean “I will persevere.” The first single from the LP, “It’s For the Kids,” is due out on Friday (May 15); you can pre-save it here.

In an interview with Metal Hammer in 2024, drummer Benante said the band had written “13 or 14” songs for the album, describing a few of them; no official tracklist has been announced yet. “There’s a song which has the same kind of epic feel as “In The End” [from 2011’s Worship Music] and “Blood Eagle Wings” [from For All Kings],” Benante said at the time. “It revolves around the journey we’ve been on in the band. And there are three songs that don’t sound like anything we’ve done before. One called “The Edge Of Perfection” I had way before Covid, and it has just stayed with me – the melody and the chords, but also the aggression.”

The plan at the time was to record the album at Foo Fighters leader Dave Grohl’s Studio 606, which Ian said was a “bit of a Foo Fighters and Nirvana museum, but it’s awesome … It’s like being in the most rock clubhouse ever, but it’s also inspiring being surrounded by the success of somebody who has only ever done it ’cos he f–king loves to do it.”

Back in March, drummer Benante told the Everblack podcast that the upcoming album was a “very important release” for the group. “So we’re gonna, of course, make the time to fulfill doing as many shows as we possibly could in support of this record.”

After opening for Megadeth on the Canadian run of their final tour in February and March of this year, Anthrax will hit a run of European festivals and outdoor venues this summer. Check out the dates below.

Lamb of God and Trivium are heading to Australia this October for a five-city co-headline arena tour, presented by Destroy All Lines. Scottish metalcore outfit Bleed From Within will serve as special guests across all dates.

The run opens at Perth HPC on Oct. 2, followed by AEC Theatre in Adelaide on Oct. 4, John Cain Arena in Melbourne on Oct. 6, Hordern Pavilion in Sydney on Oct. 9, and Riverstage in Brisbane on Oct. 11. Artist early bird presale tickets go on sale Friday, May 15 at 9 a.m. local. Multiple presales open Tuesday, May 19, including Destroy All Lines, venue and My Ticketek early bird presales, followed by a Spotify early bird presale on Wednesday, May 20. General tickets go on sale Thursday, May 21 at 9 a.m. local via destroyalllines.com.

For Lamb of God, the tour marks their first full headline Australian run in nearly a decade. The Richmond, Virginia band — Grammy-nominated five times over — last performed for Australian crowds in 2024 as part of Knotfest Australia.

Formed in the mid-1990s, the band have built one of heavy metal’s most enduring legacies, with fan favorites including “Laid to Rest,” “Redneck,” “Walk With Me in Hell” and “Now You’ve Got Something to Die For” serving as cornerstones of the genre. Their latest studio album, Into Oblivion, arrived earlier this year.

Trivium, formed in Orlando, Florida in 1999, have spent over two decades building a reputation as one of modern metal’s most technically accomplished and restlessly creative live acts. The band’s catalog spans thrash, progressive, melodic death and groove metal, and their 2017 single “Betrayer” earned them a Grammy nomination.

They have also scored multiple top 20 debuts on the Billboard 200 and multiple No. 1 entries on the Billboard Hard Rock Albums chart. Trivium were last in Australia in 2023 for the inaugural Knotfest Australia, with their Brisbane sideshow drawing significant critical praise. Their latest release is the 2024 EP Struck Dead, following their 2021 album In the Court of the Dragon.

Glasgow’s Bleed From Within bring 20 years of metalcore to the support slot, having recently released their seventh studio album Zenith in 2025. The band have shared stages with Slipknot, Bullet for My Valentine and Megadeth throughout their career.

Stephen Colbert brought the band back together on Monday night (May 11), welcoming fellow late-night hosts Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, John Oliver and Seth Meyers to The Late Show for a reunion ahead of the show’s May 21 series finale.

The gathering marked a significant moment for the group, who previously united in 2023 during the writers’ strike to launch a limited-run podcast called Strike Force Five, which raised money for their out-of-work staffs. In a similar spirit, the five hosts announced a new video episode dropping Wednesday, May 13, which will again benefit nonprofit World Central Kitchen, which provides meals for humanitarian, climate and community crises globally.

The conversation touched on the impending end of The Late Show, the future of late-night television, and the current political climate.

When Colbert asked the group whether they’d ever imagined having a job that the president of the United States would have strong feelings about, Kimmel interjected: “You know what’s even weirder? We’re doing a job that his wife has strong feelings about.” Meyers deadpanned: “Most of us have avoided that part.”

Colbert also put to the group a question he said he’d fielded repeatedly in recent months — whether they could make the case for late-night television to continue to exist. Kimmel pushed back on the premise entirely: “Why should you have to defend late night? Ryan Seacrest doesn’t get asked that question about Wheel of Fortune or whatever the hell he’s hosting.” Oliver added that he was “gonna be leaning forward” waiting for Seacrest’s answer.

The show closed with a round of “How Well Do You Know Your Fellow Late-Night Hosts?”, featuring questions written by Late Show writers. Colbert claimed the title of most-likely-to-have-made-out-with-the-most-guests, name-dropping Helen Mirren, Sally Field and Andrew Garfield among others. Fallon admitted to receiving “full tongue” from Martin Short during an SNL skit — “more than I’ve ever made out with anyone in high school.”

Colbert noted that all four of his guests had been hosting their respective shows longer than he had been at The Late Show, and that they would all continue after his departure. “You’re like the candy shell, I’m the nougat filling — and then somebody came along and just sucked it out,” he said. Kimmel offered a characteristically blunt eulogy: “It’s like when your young wife dies. It’s such a tragedy. It is ‘gone too soon.’”

CBS announced last July that The Late Show with Stephen Colbert would end after its current season in what the network described as “a purely financial” decision. The series finale airs May 21 on CBS at 11:35 p.m. ET/PT.