The new Anthrax Euro store has arrived- and just in time for the UK onslaught happening now!

check it out here.

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.

 

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

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

Anthrax Announce London date:  More at METAL HAMMER here!

Anthrax is back!

Not the white powder mailed to The Post and other news organizations a decade ago. But rather New York City’s hometown heavy-metal heroes, who bashed out their first power chord in 1981 but were lambasted for their ill-conceived moniker in the wake of the 2001 terror attacks. At the time, they joked about changing their name to something friendly, like “Basket Full of Puppies.”

Their name remains the same, and they still thrash with incredible force, but nobody would have predicted that they’d still be around today. Just two years ago, the group had no singer and was haphazardly trying to finish a half-baked album that was already two years old and about to be shelved. Anthrax was ready to call it quits….

-Read the entire story here.

The Bronx Welcomes ‘The Big 4′

As Borough Natives Anthrax come home, Food & Drink Specials Await Metal Heads Visiting the Bronx

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. is rolling out the welcome mat for fans coming to town to see iconic heavy metal bands Metallica, Anthrax, Megadeth and Slayer, “The Big 4,” all performing live right here in the Bronx on Wednesday, September 14 at Yankee Stadium.

Borough President Diaz, whose love of hip hop is well known and who initiated the first-ever “Bronx SalsaFest” this past summer, is “moshing” to a much heavier beat this month.

“This mega concert, one of the most anticipated events in recent memory, will bring thousands of new visitors to the Bronx,” said Borough President Diaz. “We’re inviting concert goers to come early and count down to the start of the show at our great neighborhood restaurants and bars, and take in a little of what the Bronx has to offer.”

The “Big 4” concert also represents a homecoming for Anthrax, which features three native Bronxites among their members–Charlie Benante, Frank Bello and Rob Caggiano. Both Benante and Bello grew up in Throggs Neck, while Caggiano is a native of Pelham Parkway. In honor of the band’s return home, Borough President Diaz will officially declare September 14 as “Anthrax Day in the Bronx.”

“The Bronx may be known as the home of hip-hop and salsa, but make no mistake, our musical contributions are much more expansive. These heavy metal legends grew up right here in our borough, and I am proud to welcome Anthrax back to their Bronx home,” said Borough President Diaz.

In the build up to the concert, the Bronx Tourism Council at BOEDC is spearheading the Metal Heads Welcome promotion, which spotlights the businesses in the 161st Street neighborhood surrounding the stadium. Restaurants and bars will offer choices like “Metallica Martinis” and “Metal Mayhem Meatball” specials and pipe in music by the world-famous bands. Baltimore-based radio station 98Rock FM will also broadcast live from the neighborhood, capturing the energy and enthusiasm of the Bronx crowds gathered for this historic heavy metal event.

“Concerts at Yankee Stadium like the ‘Big 4’ and college football games later this year are providing an unprecedented opportunity for more foot traffic and increased business for area merchants,” said Doris Quinones, executive director of the Bronx Tourism Council. “We’re delighted to be working with these great local businesses to attract visitors and to redefine what constitutes busy season at 161st Street.”

Echoing the Borough President’s enthusiasm is Joe Bastone, owner of Yankee Tavern, who went to school with some of the Anthrax band members and who is participating in the tourism council promotion.

“All of these events are great for neighborhood merchants,” said Bastone. “The more of them, the better.”

For more information on things to see and do in the Bronx, visit ilovethebronx.com.