page_title: John Bush (musician)
section_title: 2005–2019: Side projects
hierarchical_section_title: John Bush (musician) / Career / 2005–2019: Side projects
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: 'Rock Hard Festival 2018; Amphitheater Gelsenkirchen': 'Armored Saint'
context_page_description: John R. Bush is an American heavy metal vocalist. He came to prominence in the 1980s as the lead singer and lyricist of Armored Saint, a traditional heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California. In 1992, he joined the thrash metal band Anthrax, with whom he remained until 2005 and briefly rejoined in 2009–2010. Bush has also been active with the reformed Armored Saint intermittently from 1999 to the present.
  Eduardo Rivadavia of Allmusic praised Bush's "remarkable voice" while authors Howie Abrams and Sacha Jenkins ranked him as the eighth best vocalist in the genre.
context_section_description: Bush has done commercial voiceovers for the fast food chain Burger King.
  In April 2011, German instrumental rock band Long Distance Calling released a self-titled full-length album, which features John Bush performing vocals for the track "Middleville". "Middleville" is the only track with vocals on that album.
  In December 2011 Metallica performed a 30th anniversary show with several guests, including Bush. joined Metallica onstage to perform "The Four Horsemen", a song from Kill 'Em All where he took the lead vocal as Hetfield wanted him to do almost three decades prior. After the performance, drummer Lars Ulrich took the mic to say "It could have been a whole different story," then added in amazement at Bush's performance: "Wow!"
  Bush provided vocals for Konami's 2013 action game "Metal Gear Rising: Reveangeance". He is featured on the tracks "Return to Ashes" and "The Hot Wind Blowing". 
  Bush provided vocals for the track "Bound by Silence" from Metal Allegiance's 2018 album Volume II - Power Drunk Majesty.
  Bush appeared on the 2019 Ellefson album Sleeping Giants, supplying lead vocals for the track "If You Were God."
caption: Bush performing in 2018
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