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title: "Altitudes & Attitude Finishing First Full-length Album"
url: https://altwire.net/altitudes-attitude-finishing-first-full-length-album/
author: "Altwire Staff"
published: 2015-05-26T11:20:00+00:00
updated: 2023-12-06T11:37:00+00:00
categories: ["News"]
tags: ["Anthrax", "Megadeth", "Metal", "Rock"]
source: "AltWire (altwire.net)"
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# Altitudes & Attitude Finishing First Full-length Album

*By Altwire Staff · May 26, 2015*

Altitudes & Attitude, the project between Megadeth bassist, David Ellefson, and Anthrax bassist, Frank Bello, are making finishing touches on their first full-length album, following their self-titled EP, which was released back in January 2014. In a recent interview with the "White Line Fever" podcast, Ellefson gives details regarding their upcoming effort:

*"Actually, Frank and I have been in the studio a lot these past six months working on finishing [the] full-length for the next release, [...] we are literally finalizing, probably in the next two weeks - getting the final vocals and final bits done on it,"* Ellefson said, continuing to describe what the project means to them.

*"It's just this thing that... me and Frank have this whole other side of us and this other spirit soars when the two of us get together and get in a room and start writing songs together....*

*"And it's a beautiful thing. And what's cool about it, we haven't left bands; it's kind of a side, vanity thing that we do... a vanity project."*

Ellefson appreciates that he and Bello get to 'do what [they] do in Anthrax and Megadeth,' and then separately expose a whole different side to themselves with Altitudes & Attitudes. For them, it's what keeps the project genuine and pure for Ellefson, as he doesn't view Altitudes & Attitudes as a "supergroup."

*"Me and Frank was not intended as a supergroup,"* he begins to explain; *"[The project] was literally born out of me and Frank doing some bass clinics together, [...] so that's how Altitudes & Attitude started- it was for us to create some of our own original content for clinics, and then it spun off into [us] going out and hiring a guitar player and a drummer and actually going out and doing our own shows together- as a legitimate act, not as a clinic."*

The difference between this project and 'supergroups' according to Ellefson is that he believes 'supergroups' are mostly formed with the intention to sell and remain famous.

*"To me, anytime the joy comes out of music, you'd better just stop, man, because really it kills... it kills the whole thing."*

Listen to the whole podcast including the segment with Ellefson [HERE](https:////whitelinefever.podomatic.com/entry/2015-05-21T00_51_18-07_00).

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From AltWire: https://altwire.net/altitudes-attitude-finishing-first-full-length-album/