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".