While writing the album, a fire caused $100,000 worth of damage in their studio. The guys formed a train to save what equipment they could. This is the band who lent some equipment to Metallica when $50,000 worth of theirs was stolen. They also had the misfortune of an earthquake while recording. No, not even Mother Nature can stop Anthrax from spreading their disease again.

Persistence of Time was released in August of ‘90, and Anthrax joined Iron Maiden on the No Prayer for the Road tour. The first single released was for their cover of Joe Jackson's "Got the Time." A video was also made for the song. It received about four weeks of support from MTV before they quit playing it because t was too heavy for them, despite countless requests from angry Anthrax fans. Again, MTV lives up to their reputation of being eMpTyV. The next single and video was for the song "In My World," a song about "sticking up for your rights," Joey would say in many live performances.

A video entitled Persistence of Video was released. It consisted of all of their music videos, two live videos, and interview footage. In place of the original "I'm the Man" video, parts of several live performances recorded by Scott's guitar tech John Rooney, who had co-written the song, were used. Needless to say, the footage was pretty terrible. But as Danny says introducing the video, "tough shit."

Anthrax joined Slayer and Megadeth on the Clash of the Titans tour. The first Clash of the Titans took place in Europe with headliners Slayer and Megadeth and openers Testament and Suicidal Tendencies. Alice in Chains were opening this tour. "There's never been anything like this in the U.S.," said Scott. "Sure there's been ‘Monsters of Rock," but there's definitely no Dokkens or Kingdom Comes on this bill." It was an enormous tour for all bands and costed $75,000 to $85,000 a week to keep going. The three bands switched turns headlining every few nights. The show was symbolic in showing that a band need not bow down to MTV and radio's every wish to be successful. Anthrax and Slayer remained friends when it was all over. The same cannot be said about Slayer and Megadeth though. To this day, they still don't get along.