Anthrax will play Chicago on Saturday, January 30 at the Aragon Ballroom with Lamb of God. The band is celebrating its 35th anniversary in 2016
and releasing a brand new album with great backstory.
MARKING ITS 35th ANNIVERSARY,
ANTHRAX WILL KICK OFF 2016
AS VERY SPECIAL GUEST ON LAMB OF GOD U.S. TOUR
Dates to Support the Legendary Thrash Band's
Upcoming Release, For All Kings, Due Out 2-26-16
LOS
ANGELES, CA - In 2016, Anthrax will celebrate its
35th anniversary as a band, and will release its much-anticipated new
album, the aggressive and super-thrashy For All Kings,
on February 26 (Megaforce). But just before that, the band will join
Lamb of God for a four-week U.S. trek that starts on Friday, January 15,
2016 in Pittsburgh and wraps up at the Hollywood Palladium in Los
Angeles on February 12. Tour dates are below.
Anthrax recently released "Evil Twin," the first new track from For All Kings.
The song's lyrics were inspired by the terrorist attacks that took
place at the Charlie Hebdo magazine offices in Paris in January, 2015,
and the song is a full-on thrash-metal tune that blasts off with a
raging guitar riff, accelerates expeditiously and is completely
uncontrollable. The track's accompanying video is a compelling barrage
of places, victims, actions and some of the infamous zealots and others
who have perpetrated violent extremism on innocents around the world,
aptly exemplifying the song's powerful message.
For
the new release, Anthrax went into the studio with more songs than they
ever had in their career and ended up recording 20. This wealth of
material was largely due to drummer Charlie Benante's surgeries for
carpal tunnel syndrome that caused him to miss quite a number of the
band's 2011-2014 Worship Music
tour dates. Benante put the down-time to good use and came up with a
slew of foundation riffs and ideas for new songs that he took into
writing sessions with fellow main songwriters Frank Bello and Scott Ian.
The unique chemistry of this dynamic
trio is, in part, what sets Anthrax's music apart from other bands' in
the same genre. Scott Ian has a very particular way of incorporating
his intense lyrical ideas into the band's music, while Bello, who writes
the bulk of Anthrax's melodies, crafts specifically for Joey
Belladonna's breathtaking voice. Add to that the searing guitar leads
by newest member Jonathan Donais, and it's no wonder the band is so
excited for fans to hear what will be their 11th studio album.
Over
its 35-year career, Anthrax has been a pioneering band with its unique
style, sound and heavy brand of thrash metal, and, as Metallica's Kirk
Hammett put it, "one can hear their influence on any number of up and
coming bands." The band has sold in excess of 10-million
units, received multiple Gold and Platinum certifications, six Grammy
nominations and a host of other accolades from the media, industry and
fans. Anthrax helped break down the race and genre barriers in 1988
when they collaborated with Public Enemy on "Bring The Noise," became a
card-carrying member of The Big Four - with Metallica, Slayer and
Megadeth - as one of the four bands that defined the speed/thrash metal
genre, and was the first metal band to have its music heard on Mars when
NASA played "Got The Time" to wake up the Mars Rover. Anthrax has
always occupied a place out there on the edge.
Anthrax's tour dates with Lamb of God are as follows:
JANUARY
15 Stage AE, Pittsburgh, PA
16 Electric Factory, Philadelphia, PA
17 The Fillmore, Silver Spring, MD
19 Tabernacle, Atlanta, GA
22 Constant Convocation Center, Norfolk, VA
23 Hammerstein Ballroom, New York, NY
24 Oakdale Theatre, Wallingford, CT
28 Royal Oak Music Theatre, Royal Oak, MI
29 Egyptian Room at Old National Center, Indianapolis, IN
30 Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL
31 Orbit Room, Grand Rapids, MI
FEBRUARY
2 Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland, Kansas City, MO
4 Revention Music Center, Houston, TX
5 Bomb Factory, Dallas, TX
6 Concrete Street Pavilion, Corpus Christi, TX
8 ACL Live at the Moody Theatre, Austin, TX
9 Diamond Ballroom, Oklahoma City, OK
11 Brooklyn Bowl, Las Vegas, NV
12 Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, CA
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