Frank Bello

A year ago, Anthrax took the metal world by storm with ‘Worship Music,’ the band’s tenth studio album and first in eight years. ‘Worship Music’ also marked the return of vocalist Joey Belladonna, whose prior disc with Anthrax was 1990’s ‘Persistence of Time.’

Anthrax fans know Frank Bello as a talented and charismatic bassist onstage, but what they may not know is that he recently delved into one of his other passions, acting. Bello made an appearance at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival to support and promote the movie ‘Greetings From Tim Buckley,’ in which he portrays punk icon Richard Hell.

The Metal Masters clinics offer a truly unique blend of influential careers, songs and accomplishments from within metal music. As Metal Masters 4 blazed it's way into New York City on Sept. 7, we had the chance to chat with Anthrax bassist Frank Bello, veteran bassist Billy Sheehan and Exodus guitarist Gary Holt, who is also filling in for the recovering Jeff Hanneman during Slayer's live gigs. R

Hard rock fans descended upon Toronto over the weekend for the Heavy T.O. Festival, and they now have a reason now to come back in September.

Ever since the 2012 Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival lineup was announced, many fans have loudly voiced their opinions about thrash icons Anthrax not performing on the main stage alongside Slayer and Slipknot. In a new conversation with Frank Bello though, the Anthrax bassist explains that they landed as the headliner on the second stage by design.