Jack Antonio conducted an interview with ANTHRAX drummer Charlie Benante on the September 21 episode of "Do You Know Jack?" radio show on CKLB FM. You can now listen to the chat using the Mixcloud player below.

Speaking about the progress of the songwriting sessions for ANTHRAX's follow-up to 2011's "Worship Music" album, Benante said: "The guys [guitarist Scott Ian and bassist Frank Bello] were here. I have a studio here at my house. When we did the last record, a lot of it was done over here. And they were in this past weekend. We were working on some of the new songs."

He added: "This [album] is shaping up to be just as good as the last one."

Benante was reluctant to offer a possible release date for the new ANTHRAX CD, explaining: "If I say, 'We're looking at this date,' then it just gets [to be], 'Oh, you said that was gonna be around this date.' So… [But] it won't take eight years to make another record.

Asked about the progress of the songwriting sessions for ANTHRAX's next CD, Bello told WVOX "Metal Mayhem" host Matt O'Shaughnessy that there are "16 or 17 songs" that the band is working on right now, with plans for the bassist to get together with guitarist Scott Ian and drummer Charlie Benante in New York City "to do some more stuff — just make [the tracks] compact, just make them better and better."