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Charlie Benante

Charles Lee "Charlie" Benante (born November 27, 1962, in The Bronx, New York) is an American musician best known as the drummer for thrash metal band Anthrax, as well as crossover thrash band Stormtroopers of Death. Alongside rhythm guitarist and band leader Scott Ian he has composed the majority of the music throughout Anthrax's discography.

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I've been obsessed with The Beatles since I was two.

Two, Obsessed, Beatles

The afterlife I'm not so sure about. So, I don't understand why you'd want to hurt other people in thinking that you'll go on in the afterlife to have bliss. I just don't understand it.

Afterlife, Bliss, Hurt, Thinking

If something inspires you, try and hold on to that inspiration because if you lose that inspiration, what do you have left?

Inspiration, Inspire, Inspires, Lose, Trying

We live in a time where everybody has an opinion and everyone's opinion can be featured somewhere, whether it's an online column and everybody has their form because of the internet.

Everybody, Internet, Online, Opinion

I struggled with carpal tunnel for about 15 years to the point where I was going anywhere from acupuncture to chiropractor to actually getting a shot or two of cortisone to dipping my hand in a bucket of ice water during a show to buying a can of air. You turn it upside down and spray it on your wrist to get the frozen aspect of it and hopefully it wakes your hand up so I could get the feeling back in my hand.

Dipping, Down, Hands Up, Spray, Tunnels, Two

Every time we have been drunk on Jager it's been - either we didn't remember or it's been insane.

Drunk, Insane, Jager, Remember, Time

I couldn't deal with anything. I wasn't enjoying what I was doing because of the situation. My Paiste rep, a symbol company, referred me to this doctor in LA. I went there and had a consultation done. So, he examined exactly what the problem was and I went for the operation and it was a success.

Company, Deal, Doctors, Done, Problem

Mostly every shirt and cover you see has come from my mind.

Mind, Over You, See, Shirt, Shirts

I'd have to say that the 1994 Woodstock completely destroyed anything that came after it.

1994, Completely, Destroyed, Woodstock

I had demos that I'd send out of the songs and I'd get, "Great, can't wait to get in a room and actually play this and work on the album. " So, it was good all-around because they knew even though I wasn't with them for some of the shows, I was being productive, which was really important because I didn't want to just sit on my ass. Once I was able to use my hand again, I would go right into it.

Ass, Hands, Play, Song, Songs, Work

I think you set up certain standards. I've always kind of believed in the Neil Pert way of making records where I'm trying to step it up every time I do something. You're trying to better yourself. You're also trying to make your audience or your listeners more interested. So, if you can up it, I think that's important.

Audience, Important, Listeners, Thinking, Trying, Way

Everybody is afraid to touch the topic of religion, especially with the extreme muslims. It's such a touchy subject. You can attack any other religion and nothing bad will come about, but I think those that are extremists, the way they are taught or the way, as I'd like to say, "brain-washed. " they're not of sound mind, They're of a different mind.

Afraid, Brain, Like, Mind, Think, Thinking

In the long-run I think we lost some of our audience because of noise. I don't think people were ready for it, OK? And after we did it nothing really happened, but then 4-5 years later when there was a rap-rock emergence, we were already over it. We could have made Bring the Noise part 2, Bring the Noise part 3 - but like I said we're a METAL band, we didn't want to do that.

Lost, Nothing, Rap, Ready, Running, Thinking

I mean if it wasn't for The Beatles, none of this, none of the music we listen to would even exist. They're my favourite band of all time.

Band, Favourite, Listen, Mean, Music

My friends are coming up - they run this tattoo parlour out there and they're gonna ink me up with the tattoo I've been wanting since I was two, right here, upper arm.

Arm, Parlour, Running, Tattoo, Two, Upper

So biggest pussies in METAL, I'd say a lot of these emo bands come off as pussies. They have those beards and tight jeans and to me they all look so fake.

Beards, Emo, Fake, Jeans, Say

I think you should enjoy this life that you are given on this earth because we really don't know what it is in the afterlife. We can definitely prove that this life is this life here because we wake up every day and do the same thing that we do.

Afterlife, Earth, Know, Thing, Thinking, Wake Up

I don't like streaming. I hate all that crap. I'd rather be a fan and have the piece in front of you where you could read the liner notes and everything about it instead of just consume. Enjoy it that way. It's just a digital file.

Enjoy, Fans, Front, Hate, Notes, Pieces

Everybody is afraid to touch the topic of religion, especially with the extreme muslims. It's such a touchy subject. You can attack any other religion and nothing bad will come about.

Attack, Bad, Muslims, Nothing, Subject, Touchy

The Bring the Noise buzz was so strong, so we put it out on a release called 'Attack of the Killer B's' which was a record made up of B-sides and things like that - so it wasn't out on our new album, you know what I mean? But we always felt strongly about it.

Albums, Attack, Felt, Mean, Noise, Strong

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