Madhouse: The Very Best of Anthrax

Madhouse: The Very Best of Anthrax
Compilation album by Anthrax
Released	June 26, 2001
Recorded	1985–1991
Genre	Thrash metal
Length	61:00
Label	Island
Producer	Anthrax, Mark Dodson, Paul Hamingson, Eddie Kramer, Mike Ragogna
Anthrax chronology
Return of the Killer A's (1999) Madhouse: The Very Best of Anthrax (2001) Classic Anthrax: The Universal Masters Collection (2002)

Madhouse: The Very Best of Anthrax is the sixteenth release and second compilation album by the band Anthrax.

The album was released in 2001 by the Island Def Jam Music Group without the direct participation of any band member, unlike the 1999 release Return of the Killer A's. Such was the haphazard nature of the release that guitarist and founding member Scott Ian openly criticized Island Def Jam for what he saw as the shoddy nature of the compilation, especially the accidental inclusion of the Persistence of Time track "Time" in place of the band's hit cover version of Joe Jackson's "Got the Time", which was listed on the cover. The iTunes Music Store digital version of the album, and presumably subsequent pressings of the CD version, correct this mistake but incorrectly list "Keep It in the Family" as a live version. Metallica's James Hetfield is featured on the "I'm The Man".

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Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[2]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide	[3]