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The Damned Things (Anthrax, Fall Out Boy, Every Time I Die) have broadened their touring schedule with the following two U.S. shows:
October 28th Los Angeles, CA – The Roxy
October 30th Sauget, IL – Pop’sMost recently the group have been putting the finishing touches on their Island/Def Jam debut with producer Nick Raskulinecz (Foo Fighters, Alice In Chains).
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The Damned Things (Anthrax, Fall Out Boy, Every Time I Die) have announced the following two UK shows for October:
October 23rd London, UK – Relentless
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An October 19th North American release date has been set for the upcoming “The Big 4: Live From Sofia, Bulgaria” DVD and Blu-ray release. The effort captures Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax’s performances at the June 22nd, 2010 stop of the “Sonisphere Festival” in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Bonus features include behind the scenes footage from the festival along with a look at the rehearsals for all four featured bands collaborative live cover of Diamond Head’s “Am I Evil?“. In addition to the above-mentioned formats, a deluxe box set version of the effort is also in the works and will feature five audio CD’s featuring all of the performances, a booklet, a poster, photos and a “Big 4″ guitar pick.
The track listing for the outing will run as follows:
Anthrax:
01 – “Caught In A Mosh”
02 – “Got The Time”
03 – “Madhouse”
04 – “Be All, End All”
05 – “Antisocial”
06 – “Indians“/”Heaven And Hell”
07 – “Medusa”
08 – “Only”
09 – “Metal Thrashing Mad”
10 – “I Am The Law”Slayer:
01 – “World Painted Blood”
02 – “Jihad”
03 – “War Ensemble ”
04 – “Hate Worldwide”
05 – “Seasons In The Abyss”
06 – “Angel Of Death”
07 – “Beauty Through Order”
08 – “Disciple”
09 – “Mandatory Suicide ”
10 – “Chemical Warfare”
11 – “South Of Heaven”
12 – “Raining Blood”Megadeth:
01 – “Holy Wars… The Punishment Due”
02 – “Hangar 18”
03 – “Wake Up Dead”
04 – “Head Crusher”
05 – “In My Darkest Hour”
06 – “Skin O’ My Teeth”
07 – “A Tout Le Monde”
08 – “Hook In Mouth”
09 – “Trust”
10 – “Sweating Bullets”
11 – “Symphony Of Destruction”
12 – “Peace Sells“/”Holy Wars Reprise ”Metallica:
01 – “Creeping Death”
02 – “For Whom The Bell Tolls”
03 – “Fuel”
04 – “Harvester Of Sorrow”
05 – “Fade To Black”
06 – “That Was Just Your Life”
07 – “Cyanide”
08 – “Sad But True”
09 – “Welcome Home (Sanitarium)”
10 – “All Nightmare Long”
11 – “One”
12 – “Master Of Puppets”
13 – “Blackened”
14 – “Nothing Else Matters”
15 – “Enter Sandman”
16 – “Am I Evil?” (Diamond Head cover) (feat. members of Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax)
17 – “Hit The Lights”
18 – “Seek And Destroy“ -
Members of The Damned Things are currently in Nashville, TN finishing up mixing their forthcoming Island/Def Jam debut with producer Nick Raskulinecz (Foo Fighters, Alice In Chains). The Damned Things of course feature members of Anthrax, Fall Out Boy and Every Time I Die within their ranks.
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The Damned Things, who feature members of Anthrax, Fall Out Boy and Every Time I Die within their ranks, have enlisted Nick Raskulinecz (Foo Fighters, Alice In Chains) to mix their forthcoming debut album which is expected out this fall through Island/Def Jam.
The band recently confirmed the pairing via the following posting on their Twitter:
“The verdict is in, Nick Raskulinecz is mixing the record. We’re very happy about this.”
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A second leg of dates has been announced for Megadeth and Slayer’s “American Carnage Tour“, this time with Anthrax joining the bill. The following press release was issued announcing the trek:
“Los Angeles, CA – (MONDAY, July 12, 2010) — Metalheads rejoice: North America’s biggest thrash tour in 20 years is announced, as 1991’s original American “Clash of the Titans” lineup – Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax – will tour together once again on Leg Two of the American Carnage Tour.
This trek kicks off September 24 at Verizon Wireless Theatre in Dallas, TX and will play 20 dates, including New York’s Nassau Coliseum, concluding at Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles on October 21.
On Leg Two of American Carnage, Megadeth will continue to roar through its landmark 1990 album Rust in Peace from front to back, while Slayer will rip the roof off by performing its much-lauded Seasons in the Abyss album, which was also released in 1990. Anthrax recently welcomed back singer Joey Belladonna, who defined the band during their heyday, and now permanently back in the band, will be front-and-center.
A special presale will launch this Wednesday, July 14, and fans should log onto to www.slayer.net – www.megadeth.com – or www.anthrax.com – to obtain the special code needed for the presale, and then go to www.ticketmaster.com (www.knowvilletickets.com for the Knoxville date) to purchase tickets.
The public on sale date will begin July 23 in most markets. In the spirit of beating the recession, there will be special pre-sale discounts on all tickets in most markets (see below for more details), and, if that’s not enough, a limited amount of $10 tickets will be available in many cities – log onto any of the bands’ websites or onto Ticketmaster’s site for those details.
But wait, there’s even more. For Leg Two of the American Carnage tour, Megadeth has teamed up with iloveallaccess.com to provide fans with VIP experiences including priority venue access, meet and greets, parties, exclusive gifts and more.Logging onto www.megadeth.com will provide those details. Plus, fans who purchase their tickets online at either www.slayer.net or www.ticketmaster.com – will receive a free download of the live audio track “War Ensemble,” set to be included on Slayer’s forthcoming, as yet unannounced “Live Intrusion” DVD release.
Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax will kick off the second leg of the American Carnage tour on the heels of the historical “Big Four” Sonisphere Festival concerts they played with Metallica in seven European cities this summer. The dates marked the first time that these four bands – acknowledged as the most influential bands the thrash metal genre – had shared a concert bill.
The original “Clash of the Titans” tour united the three forces of thrash metal for the entire summer of 1991, with then-little known Alice in Chains serving as the opener. This tour, which falls under the “American Carnage” banner, isn’t rewriting history; it’s writing a whole new chapter of headbanging history that is sure to delight fans new and old.
Megadeth and Slayer return to North America late this month to co-headline the east coast Canadian Carnage tour, and then starting August 11, the first leg of the American Carnage tour (dates below) with Testament as Special Guest. The tour was originally scheduled for a winter 2010 run, but was postponed when Slayer bassist/vocalist Tom Araya was forced to undergo neck surgery. But as is the case for anything good in life, this tour was well worth the wait.
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MEGADETH
For the past two decades, Megadeth’s storied career has not only set standards in hard rock and metal for, but defined them. Megadeth’s signature shredding and rousing lyrics have drawn fans in since the band’s beginnings, and are the very things that keep them interested, excited, and of course, headbanging, at every turn.Founding vocalist/guitarist Dave Mustaine, who was the recipient of the first annual Golden God Award at the inaugural Revolver Golden Gods Awards in 2009, is renowned for his ability to use the vehicle of music to shake things up, to make a point and to rattle your brain, literally, figuratively and sonically, which he did with 2009’s ENDGAME, which received some of the highest critical accolades of the band’s already impressive career.
The band’s fourth album, Rust In Peace, saw the band cement their status as one of the most important metal bands with masterpieces like “Hanger 18” and “Holy Wars…The Punishment Due.” The album enjoyed a top 25 debut on the Billboard charts. The album has been hailed as one of the greatest heavy metal albums of all time with IGN recently naming it one of the most influential metal albums ever. Megadeth are now rejoined by original bassist Dave Ellefson and are firing on all cylinders, as they will continue to perform the release in its entirety, something that fans have been clamoring for for years.
SLAYER
In the beginning, where there were no blueprints, no set paths, no boundaries or steps to follow, SLAYER assaulted the world with its new hybrid of metal and punk. Heavier, faster and darker than the rest, Slayer – guitarists Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman, vocalist/bassist Tom Araya, and drummer Dave Lombardo – set the new standard that all others continue to follow.And that has continued through to 2010. Revolver, SPIN and Metal Hammer have all named Slayer “Best Live Band.” Esquire presented them with an Esky Award. They’ve got two Grammys, a Kerrang! Hall of Fame Award, and multiple Revolver Readers’ Poll Awards. And Slayer continues to be a groundbreaker as they become the first major artist to have a music-themed Apple app – “Slayer: Pinball Rocks.”
Slayer’s most recent album, World Painted Blood (released 11/09), offers a Slayer-ized point of view of our world – God’s terrifying global genocide, the chaos of our broken political system, the way-too-close proximity of world horrors that technology has brought us, and a chilling hypothesis of how the rest of the world might view America. As one major daily wrote, “If Thomas Jefferson were alive today, he undoubtedly would be listening to Slayer.” For “American Carnage,” Slayer’s Tom Araya promises, “no ballads, no acoustic numbers, no slow tempos.”
ANTHRAX
With worldwide sales in excess of 10-million, Anthrax, who along with Metallica, Slayer and Megadeth, is credited with originating the thrash genre, is about to celebrate its 29th year as a band, and continues to be one of metal’s all-time great acts. Over the band’s career, Anthrax has received multiple Gold and Platinum albums, multiple Grammy nominations, and a host of other accolades from the press, industry and fans.Earlier this year, Anthrax announced that vocalist Joey Belladonna, an essential part of Anthrax’s lineup from 1985 to 1992,was rejoining the band, and has taken his place onstage this summer as Anthrax has joined Metallica, Slayer and Megadeth – The Big Four founding members of Thrash – as co-headliners of a series of Sonisphere Festivals in ten European cities. Plans are for the “classic era” Anthrax to write and record a new album for a 2011 release.
Confirmed dates for Leg Two of the American Carnage Tour are as follows:
SEPTEMBER
24 Verizon Wireless Theatre, Dallas, TX*
25 AT&T Center, San Antonio, TX*
26 Verizon Wireless Theatre, Houston, TX*
28 Lakefront Arena, New Orleans, LA*
30 Civic Coliseum, Knoxville, TN
OCTOBER
1 The Arena at Gwinnett Center, Atlanta, GA*
2 Hard Rock Live, Orlando, FL
3 Bayfront Park Amphitheatre, Miami, FL*
5 Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA
6 Eagles Auditorium, Baltimore, MD*
8 Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, Long Island, NY*
9 Toyota Pavilion @ Montage Mountain, Scranton, PA*
10 LC Pavilion, Columbus, OH**
12 Freedom Hall, Louisville, KY
14 War Memorial Coliseum, Ft. Wayne, IN*
15 DeltaPlex, Grand Rapids, MI*
16 Eagles Ballroom, Milwaukee, WI**
19 E Center, Salt Lake City, UT
20 The Pearl, Las Vegas, NV
21 Gibson Amphitheatre, Hollywood, CA** $10 discount for tickets purchased during pre-sale (excluding the special $10 tickets)
** $5 discount for tickets purchased during pre-saleCanadian and American Carnage/Leg One Tour Dates
(Slayer, Megadeth, Testament)
JULY
23 Pavillon de la Jeunesse, Quebec City, QC CANADA
24 Heavy MTL, Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montreal, QC CANADA
26 Metro Centre, Halifax, NS CANADA
27 Moncton Coliseum, Moncton, NB CANADA
29 Molson Amphitheatre, Toronto, ONT CANADA
30 John Labatt Centre Center, London, ONT CANADA
AUGUST
11 Glens Falls Civic Center, Glens Falls, NY
12 Izod Center, East Rutherford, NJ
14 Tsongas Arena, Boston, MA
15 Susquehanna Bank Center, Camden, NJ
16 Chevrolet Theatre, Wallingford, CT
18 Tower City Amphitheatre, Cleveland, OH
19 Cobo Arena, Detroit,MI
20 UIC Pavillon, Chicago, IL
21 Roy Wilkins Auditorium, Minneapolis, MN
23 Cap Fed Park @Sandstone, Kansas City, KS
25 Magness Arena, Denver, CO
26 Tingley Coliseum, Albuquerque, NM
27 Dodge Theatre, Phoenix, AZ
29 Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre, San Diego, CA
30 Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, CA
31 Cow Palace, San Francisco, CA
SEPTEMBER
1 Arco Arena, Sacramento, CA
3 Wamu Theatre, Seattle, WA
4 Washington County Fairgrounds, Portland, OR” -
Megadeth frontman/guitarist Dave Mustaine recently commented on his experiences touring with the “big four” (Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax) overseas, here’s what he had to offer on the experience:
“So now that the Big Four dates have come and gone, I feel it is time to check-in, say, “Hello” and tell you what has been going on in my world.
First off, when we left San Marcos and Mustaine Music Studios aka ‘Vic’s Garage,’ we had no idea what to expect, other than the fact that we wanted to make a point; we wanted to make the other bands feel comfortable, we wanted the fans to all leave this momentous occasion feeling completely satiated, we wanted the guys in Metallica to know that we could be depended on to pull our share…
I don’t know if we delivered for everyone, but for the tens of thousands of people each night, and ultimately hundreds of thousands of fans over the entire run of the Big Four festivals (affectionately dubbed “Sonisphere”), it seemed to me that the fans were finally able to put aside the silly stuff that the press has kept on life support for so many, many years. We did several round-table interviews with a member from each camp of the Big Four, and one thing that was a constant and that we all agreed on was that the press was the responsible parties for keeping the feuds alive.
You heard it straight from our mouths; we are all at peace with one another, and we all are friends. End of story – or in other words, several shit magazines will now have to learn how to write real interviews, reviews, and features, instead of causing so much turmoil with us four, all in the spirit of selling their publications.”
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Members of Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax recently sat down together to offer their thoughts and pay tribute to late metal icon Ronnie James Dio. You can find the footage below:
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Members of Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax all joined forces on stage yesterday in Sofia, Bulgaria for a cover of Diamond Head’s “Am I Evil?“. Fan-filmed video footage of the performance can be found below. Furthermore, all of the bands ‘big four’ overseas touring is being documented for a future DVD release.
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The Damned Things made their debut live performance last night in Brooklyn, NY. Initial fan-filmed footage of the performance has surfaced online and can be found below while the set list for the night ran as follows:
01 -- “Ironiclast”
02 -- “Excellent Time”
03 -- “Bad Blood”
04 -- “A Great Reckoning”
05 -- “Handbook For The Recently Deceased”
06 -- “Fazer” (Quicksand cover)
07 -- “Grave Robber”
08 -- “We’ve Got A Situation Here”In addition, a review of the show can be found over at Spin.com. The Damned Things are a new group featuring members of Anthrax, Fall Out Boy and Every Time I Die who will be releasing their debut album through Island/Def Jam this fall.
“Ironiclast“:
“We’ve Got A Situation Here“:
“A Great Reckoning“:
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The Damned Things have added Josh Newton of Every Time I Die fame to their lineup as their new bassist. He replaces David Karron, who previously held the position. As previously reported, the band, who also feature Every Time I Die vocalist Keith Buckley along with members of Anthrax and Fall Out Boy, recently posted rough mixes of two new songs online via their Myspace. A new album from the group is being prepared for a release through Island/Def Jam.
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The Damned Things have debuted rough mixes of their two new tracks (“We’ve Got A Situation Here” and “Ironiclast“) online via their Myspace. The band, who feature members of Anthrax, Fall Out Boy and Every Time I Die, are set to release their debut album through Island/Def Jam later this year.
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The Damned Things (Anthrax, Fall Out Boy, Every Time I Die) have inked a deal with Island/Def Jam for the release of their debut album. A number of new details about the effort can be found in the groups newly posted bio, which is now available over at their Myspace.
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Some insight into the recording for The Damned Things‘ upcoming debut effort has been made available online. Sessions for the effort have been taking place at MetroSonic Studio in Brooklyn, NY with band members Rob Caggiano and Joe Trohman overseeing the production duties. For now, an update on the sessions, complete with pictures, can be found over at Metrosonic.net.
As previously reported, The Damned Things feature Every Time I Die’s Keith Buckley, Anthrax’s Scott Ian and Rob Caggiano and Fall Out Boy’s Andy Hurley and Joe Trohman, among others. They will begin playing live next month with more details regarding their album expected in the coming weeks.
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The Damned Things recently took to Twitter to offer the following update on their progress tracking their forthcoming debut album:
“Recording status: drums, bass, Scott’s guitar, Keith’s vocals done. What’s left: Rob & Joe guitars, overdubs & misc. vox/percussion/whatever”
The band feature Every Time I Die’s Keith Buckley, Anthrax’s Scott Ian and Rob Caggiano and Fall Out Boy’s Andy Hurley and Joe Trohman, among others. They will begin playing live next month with more details regarding their album expected in the coming weeks.
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