Worship Music (album)

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Worship Music
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 12, 2011 (2011-09-12)
Recorded2008–2011
Genre
Length65:43
Label Megaforce, Nuclear Blast
Producer Rob Caggiano, Jay Ruston
Anthrax chronology
The Greater of Two Evils
(2004)
Worship Music
(2011)
For All Kings
(2016)
Singles from Worship Music
  1. "Fight 'Em 'Til You Can't"
    Released: June 24, 2011
  2. "The Devil You Know"
    Released: August 9, 2011
  3. "In the End"
    Released: November 17, 2011
  4. "I'm Alive"
    Released: January 4, 2012
No.TitleLength
1."Worship" (instrumental)1:40
2."Earth on Hell"3:10
3."The Devil You Know"4:46
4."Fight 'Em 'Til You Can't"5:48
5."I'm Alive"5:36
6."Hymn 1" (instrumental; unlisted)0:38
7."In the End"6:48
8."The Giant"3:46
9."Hymn 2" (instrumental; unlisted)0:44
10."Judas Priest"6:24
11."Crawl"5:28
12."The Constant"5:01
13."Revolution Screams" (ends at 6:08; hidden track "New Noise" begins at 11:08 after 5 minutes of silence)15:54
Total length:65:43
Japanese edition additional track [61]
No.TitleLength
14."Crawl (Orc Mix)"5:02
Total length:70:45

Personnel

Credits are adapted from AllMusic. [62]

Anthrax

Additional musicians

Technical personnel

Charts

Chart (2011)Peak

position

Australian Albums (ARIA) [63] 35
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [64] 30
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [65] 65
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [66] 55
Canadian Albums (Billboard) [67] 33
Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI) [26] 28
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [68] 64
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [69] 6
French Albums (SNEP) [70] 62
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [71] 13
Irish Albums (IRMA) [72] 62
Italian Albums (FIMI) [73] 37
Japanese Albums (Oricon) [74] 28
Scottish Albums (OCC) [75] 35
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE) [76] 70
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [77] 25
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [78] 28
UK Albums (OCC) [79] 49
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [80] 7
UK Rock & Metal Albums (OCC) [81] 1
US Billboard 200 [82] 12
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [83] 2
US Top Hard Rock Albums (Billboard) [84] 4
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard) [85] 5
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard) [86] 2

Release history

RegionDateLabel
InternationalSeptember 12, 2011 Nuclear Blast
United StatesSeptember 13, 2011 Megaforce Records

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