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Anthrax Announces 2012 Tour Dates By CrpnDeth, Staff Photographer/Writer Monday, December 5, 2011 @ 7:28 PM
ANTHRAX, TESTAMENT, DEATH ANGEL KICK OFF
2012 WITH SECOND LEG OF THE NEW YEAR'S DON'T-MISS
THRASHFEST EXRAVAGANZA "Here is another chance to see what some have called
'the Best Metal Tour of the Year.' We are very excited to continue the Worship
Music tour in 2012, so see you in Metal Church." -- Anthrax's Charlie Benante LOS ANGELES,
CA - Monday, December 5, 2011 -- 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
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