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Anthrax Nominated for 5 Golden God Awards!

Anthrax — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:54:10 +0000

Anthrax, has been nominated for five REVOLVER GOLDEN GODS AWARDS, including the BEST DRUMMER, PAUL GRAY BEST BASSIST, RIFF LORD, COMEBACK OF THE YEAR and ALBUM OF THE YEAR categories!

There are six nominees to each Golden Gods category, with the winner to be determined by fan voting at GOLDENGODSAWARDS.COM. The winners in all categories will be announced live at the 2012 REVOLVER GOLDEN GODS AWARDS SHOW at Club Nokia in Los Angeles on April 11. The show will be broadcast live on XBOX LIVE and on the Revolver and Xbox LIVE Facebook pages worldwide.

The Devil You Know

Anthrax — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:39:24 +0000

Anthrax To Headline Mayhem Fest’s 2nd Stage

Anthrax — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:07:45 +0000

It was announced today that Anthrax is headlining the Jagermeister Stage at this year’s Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival! More information here.

2011 – A Hell of a Year for Anthrax

Anthrax — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:13:04 +0000

Anthrax’s long-awaited new album Worship Music has landed on boatloads of “Best of 2011…” lists, and the metal masters will keep the pedal to the metal in 2012. The band launches the New Year with the second single from Worship Music, ”I’m Alive,” and plans to tour extensively beginning January 22 with round two of a U.S. co-headline tour with fellow thrash titans, Testament.

A look back: Worship Music debuted on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums charts at #12; the album and the track “Fight’em ‘Til You Can’t” both went to #1 on Mediaguide’s Metal charts. Worship Music was named one of the year’s best albums in media outlets including Revolver, Guitar World, SPIN, Metal Assault, Metal Sucks, Blistering.com, the UK’s Classic Rock and Metal Hammer, Canada’s Lithium, the Copenhagen Post, JAM Magazine, Lou Brutus’ HardDrive and SiriusXM’s Jose Mangin. In addition to naming Worship Music the #1 Metal Album of the Year, Loudwire singled out the track ”The Devil You Know” as the site’s #1 Metal Song of the Year, SiriusXM’s Mangin named “Earth on Hell” as the #1 track on his Liquid Metal/Octane Countdown, About.com named Joey Belladonna as its “Man of the Year,” and Revolver celebrated Anthrax as one of the Top 10 Stories of the Year.

Twenty-eleven also saw Anthrax play two Big Four shows in the U.S. with fellow thrash/speed metal architects Metallica, Slayer and Megadeth, the second taking place at New York’s Yankee Stadium, making it an emotional hometown show for the New York born-and-bred members of Anthrax.

Last fall, immediately following The Big Four show at Yankee Stadium and in support of Worship Music, Anthrax played to SRO crowds from Philadelphia to Los Angeles, entertaining fans with brand-new songs and favorites from throughout the band’s 30 year history.

Now, Anthrax will head back out on the road in late January for Leg Two of its U.S. tour with Testament and Death Angel – Leg One was included on a number of “Best Live Shows of 2011″ lists. Worship Music, the band’s first new album in eight years, and first with “classic era” vocalist Joey Belladonna in two decades, has received stellar reviews, as evidenced below.

As Anthrax’s Scott Ian summed it up on his must read blog, “2011 was the best year of my life.”

Dates for the 2012 Anthrax/Testament U.S. tour are as follows:

JANUARY

22 House of Blues, Las Vegas, NV

23 House of Blues, Anaheim, CA

24 Marquee Theatre, Tempe, AZ

26 Midland Theatre, Kansas City, MO

27 Egyptian Room @ Murat Center, Indianapolis, IN

28 Piere’s Entertainment Center, Fort Wayne, IN

29 Expo Five, Louisville, KY

30 The Orange Peel, Asheville, NC

FEBRUARY

1 Green Iguana – Stadium, Tampa, FL

2 Tabernacle, Atlanta, GA

3 Promowest Pavilion, Columbus, OH

4 Bogart’s, Cincinnati, OH

6 Crocodile Rock, Allentown, PA

7 Rams Head Live!, Baltimore, MD

8 Best Buy Theatre, New York, NY

What the media has said about Anthrax’s Worship Music:

“…the comeback album of the year.” — Zach Shaw, Metal Insider

“One of the best albums of their career.” – Iann Robinson, Crave Online

“‘Worship Music’ is the Anthrax album fans have been praying for.” — Metal Underground

“This record absolutely smokes.” – Loudwire

“A riff-shitting, doubt-crushing monster of a record, and it’s about fucking time.” — Alexander Milas, Metal Hammer

“Not only is [Worship Music] Anthrax’s best album to date, it’s a landmark for heavy metal as a genre.” — Rick Florino, ARTISTdirect

“[Worship Music] represents the band at the absolute top of their game.” — FearNet

“‘Worship Music’ is nothing short of brilliant.” — Paul Gargano

“There is no filler on ‘Worship Music.’” — Pat Prince, Goldmime

“‘Worship Music’ is a glorious modern metal record, full of crushing riffs, machine-gun kicks and a career-best performance by returning vocalist Joey Belladonna.” — Classic Rock

“…one of the best records of the year, metal or otherwise.” — HERE Magazine

“…a thrash masterpiece from start to finish.” — Metal Delirium

“Every song a future Thrax classic, zero filler.” – Metal Exiles

“‘Worship Music’ is insanely good…” – Blistering.com

“…a crushing blend of riffs, bass and drums. Easily making my Top 5 albums of 2011.” – Maximum Metal

“‘Worship Music’ is one of the best albums of the year…easily the best Anthrax album since 1993′s ‘Sound of White Noise.’” – Heavy Metal Now

Some of the 2011 “Best of…” lists that include Anthrax/Worship Music:

Loudwire

#1 Metal Album of the Year

#1 Metal Song of the Year – “The Devil You Know”

Metal Hammer

#1 Album of the Year (Editor-in-Chief Alexander Milas and Deputy Editor Lewis Somerscales’ Top 10 lists)

#3 Album of the Year (overall Critics’ Poll)

SPIN

#7 Top 20 Metal Albums of the Year

Metal Assault

#2 Album of the Year

#5 Best Live Performances of 2011

Metal Sucks

#4 Album of the Year/Vince Nielson

#10 Album of the Year/Anso DF

Guitar World

#4 Top 50 Best Albums of 2011

Revolver

#8 Top 20 Albums of 2011

#9 Story of the Year

Lithium/Mike Bax, Publisher

#1 Top 10 Albums of 2011

JAM Magazine/Roy Turner

#1 Album of the Year

Blistering.com

#1 Album of the Year (w/ Onmium Gatherum)

HardDrive/Lou Brutus

#3 Albums of the Year

Classic Rock

#29 Top 50 Best Albums of 2011

Copenhagen Post

#2 Best Albums of 2011

Gears of Rock

#1 Album of the Year

Skulls N Bones

#5 Album of the Year

Metal Delirium

#5 Album of the year

Frank Bello Launches Blog

Anthrax — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:32:33 +0000

Here’s a note from Frank Bello to start the year:

Hey Everybody,

I know you don’t usually hear from me on a regular basis, but I’d like to change that and be a little more”social” in the future.

Can you believe it? I actually took a BIG leap recently and got MY OWN website! Come say hi here. and on twitter too here!
I suck at all this social media stuff, but I really want to try connect
with you all better..

First, I’d like to thank you- the fans for staying with us through thick
and thin. It’s been an amazing year for Anthrax- with the release and
amazing reviews of “Worship Music”, to “TheBig 4″ shows, playing Yankee
stadium, and the renewed energy and hunger this band has- WE THANK YOU!!

!I’m so psyched to see you all on tour in 2012!!

Enough of my babbling! Happy New Year!!

Frank

ANTHRAX KICK OFF 2012 WITH SECOND LEG OF THE NEW YEAR’S DON’T-MISS THRASHFEST EXTRAVAGANZA

Anthrax — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:20:43 +0000

Following what can only be described as the Rock’n'Roll comeback story of 2011, Anthrax will kick off 2012 with round two of a U.S. co-headline tour with fellow thrash titans, Testament. The dozen-plus dates that come on the heels of the bands’ five-week Fall trek that packed venues from Philadelphia to Los Angeles, will kick off in Las Vegas on Sunday, January 22 and will take in some fifteen cities over a three-week period (dates listed below). Anthrax will close all shows and Death Angel will again be main support on all dates.

Tickets go on sale this Friday, December 9 and Saturday, December 10 at 10AM local time. For all details or to purchase tickets, log onto http://anthrax.com - http://www.testamentlegions.com/ or http://deathangel.us/

Can’t wait until this weekend to grab tickets? Prior to the official on-sale dates in each city, Anthrax fans can head over to AnthraxArmy.com and Anthrax.com beginning today at 3:00PM ET, to purchase a special pre-sale ticket bundle featuring a Worship Music sticker, an official Anthrax Army sticker, and a limited edition collectible band-member fan laminate. These bundles are available for a limited time only. Additional details online.

“The first leg of the tour with Testament and Death Angel was an amazing way to end a great year for Anthrax,” said Anthrax’s Scott Ian, “and it went above and beyond my expectations! Sold out shows, raging crowds and EPIC war dances! So we figured what better way to start 2012 than to continue this thrash-fest into the new year!!! Thank you all for giving us this privilege to come and play for you. See you soon!”

The first leg of the Anthrax-Testament co-headline jaunt marked the first time the two bands had toured together in more than a decade, and proved to be a rousing success with reviews such as, “This line-up of thrash metal masters is what most metal heads’ wet dreams are made of.” Minneapolis’ City Pages summed the show up this way: ”Metal…is alive and well and will continue to be as long as Anthrax has anything to say about it.” Twenty-eleven proved to be a watershed year for Anthrax - Charlie Benante/drums, Scott Ian and Rob Caggiano/guitars, Frank Bello/bass, Joey Belladonna/vocals. On September 13, the band released its long-awaited Worship Music, Anthrax’s first new album in eight years and first studio album since 2003′s We’ve Come For You All. Worship Music features the return of “classic era” vocalist Belladonna making his first Anthrax album in twenty years. The album debuted at #12 on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums chart, has received stellar reviews and been called “the metal album of the year” by numerous critics and music tastemakers, including VH-1/That Metal Show’s Eddie Trunk, and Alexander Milas, editor of the UK’s Metal Hammer. Worship Music has also landed on copious amounts of “year-end-bests” lists, and the editors of Loudwire named it their #1 Metal Album of the Year, with the track “The Devil You Know” claiming the #1 Metal Song of the Year honors.

The return of Belladonna and Anthrax’s remarkable renewal began in 2009 in a Cleveland hotel bar with Anthrax’s Benante and Ian, and Metallica’s Lars Ulrich when he first brought up the idea of The Big Four – Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax, the four bands that served as the original architects for the “thrash/speed-metal” scene,” yet had never shared the same stage before. The first of (so far) fourteen Big Four events took place on June 16, 2010, culminating in what was Anthrax’s New York homecoming concert – The Big Four at Yankee Stadium on September 14, 2011, the day after Worship Music hit stores. “We came into The Big Four as the underdog,” said Benante. “We were the band that had the most to prove, and we’ve worked really, really hard to do that.”

With more dates to be added, the confirmed itinerary is as follows:

JANUARY

22 House of Blues, Las Vegas, NV
23 House of Blues, Anaheim, CA
24 Marquee Theatre, Tempe, AZ
27 Egyptian Room @ Murat Center, Indianapolis, IN
28 Piere’s Entertainment Center, Fort Wayne, IN
29 Expo Five, Louisville, KY
30 The Orange Peel, Asheville, NC

FEBRUARY

2 Tabernacle, Atlanta, GA
3 Promowest Pavilion, Columbus, OH
6 Crocodile Rock, Allentown, PA
7 Rams Head Live!, Baltimore, MD
8 Best Buy Theatre, New York, NY

LONDON CALLING!

Anthrax — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:28:27 +0000

Anthrax Announce London date: More at METAL HAMMER here!

Big 4 – Rolling Stone Magazine Gallery

Anthrax — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 01:21:11 +0000

If you missed the show, click here for a look back

Anthrax, Inteviewed at the Big Four

Anthrax — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:21:21 +0000

Scott Ian on Loveline TONIGHT

Anthrax — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 02:03:26 +0000

Scott Ian is appearing on LOVELINE tonight! Need we say more? Yep, we do: Click here to find it in you area!