Leg Two of Anthrax-Testament-Death Angel U.S. Tour Announced

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

Red Hot Chili Peppers Announce More Dates For Upcoming U.S. Tour

Multi-platinum rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers have announced several more dates and ticket-onsales for the North American leg of their I'm With You World tour. Tickets for 11 more shows go on sale on December 10th. The 2012 arena tour is the band's first full-scale tour of the U.S. since 2007 when they hit the road in support of 2006's Stadium Arcadium.

Red Hot Chili Peppers are touring in support of I'm With You, which debuted atNo. 2 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart and No. 1 on Billboard's Rock and Alternative album charts, as well as on the Top Internet Albums and iTunes Top Alternative Albums chart. The first single "The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie," hit the top spot at Modern Rock radio, giving the band its 12th No. 1 at the format. A second single, "Monarchy of Roses" is currently the No. 2 greatest gainer on Mediabase's Alternative chart.

Tickets on sale now for the following shows:

01/25  Charlotte, NC         Time Warner Cable Arena

01/27  Raleigh, NC             RBC Center

01/28  Columbia, SC          ColonialLife Arena

01/30  Duluth, GA              Gwinnett Arena

01/31  Greensboro, NC     Greensboro Coliseum

02/03  Memphis, TN          FedEx Forum

  Tickets on sale December 10th:

01/20 Sunrise, FL                Bank Atlantic Center

01/21 Orlando, FL              Amway Arena

01/23 St. Petersburg, FL    St. Pete Times Forum

02/04 New Orleans, LA     New Orleans Arena

03/06 San Antonio, TX      AT&T Center

03/08 Houston, TX            Toyota Center

03/09 Dallas, TX                 American Airlines Arena (*on sale 12/9)

03/13 Tulsa, OK                  BOK Arena

03/15 Oklahoma City, OK Chesapeake Energy

03/16 Little Rock, AR         Verizon Center

www.redhotchilipeppers.com

Lamb Of God: New Song Streaming On Metalsucks

Lamb of God are premiering a brand new track called "Ghost Walking" exclusively on MetalSucks.

 

The track is the first to be released from their forthcoming album Resolution, out January 24th, 2012, via Epic Records.

Stream the track here:

http://www.metalsucks.net/2011/12/05/exclusive-metalsucks-track-premiere-lamb-of-gods-ghost-walking/

Resolution can be pre-ordered in several different configurations and bundles here:

http://www.myplaydirect.com/lamb-of-god/

Chthonic Release New Video

CHTHONIC recently released their latest music video for "Quell The Souls In Sing Ling Temple." The song comes off the band's sixth full-length, Takasago Army, released earlier this fall via Spinefarm Records. The video was shot in Taiwan at a the band's special outdoor concert at Sing-Ling Temple in October where more than a thousand people from around the country gathered. Sing-Ling Temple is a historical landmark located on an ancient battlefield in the town of Puli and serves as the most essential scene in CHTHONIC’s trilogy story. The full concert will be released on DVD next year.

Check out "Quell The Souls In Sing Ling Temple" HERE.

In related news, CHTHONIC will kick off a short European tour next week alongside Arch Enemy and Warbringer. Commented bassist Doris Yeh: "We toured with Arch Enemy, DevilDriver and Skeletonwitch in North America this past September and saw good crowds and great fans. We had a lot of fun with those bands! We then went to the UK tour with Turisas and Kiuas from Finland. I really enjoyed Turisas' joyful performance and Kiuas is a very good band also who always made us laugh backstage. And finally, the European tour is waiting for us! We will play with Arch Enemy and Warbringer over the UK, Germany, France, Switzerland and the Netherlands. This is the second time for us to tour European countries since 2007, so we're really looking forward to it!"

CHTHONIC Khaos Over Europe Tour Dates

w/ Arch Enemy, Warbringer
12/06/2011 Shepherd’s Bush Empire - London, UK
12/07/2011 Paradiso - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
12/09/2011 013 - Tilburg, The Netherlands
12/11/2011 Rosenhof - Osnabruck, Germany
12/13/2011 Essigfabrik -  Koln, Germany
12/14/2011 Le Cartonnerie - Reims, France
12/16/2011 Le 106 - Rouen, France
12/17/2011 L’Echonova - Vannes, France
12/18/2011 CC John Lennon - Limoges, France
12/20/2011 Backstage Werk - Munchen, Germany
12/21/2011 Garage - Saarbrucken, Germany
12/22/2011 Z7 - Pratteln, Switzerland

 

"This should certainly challenge all competition for metal album of the year." -- Popdose

 

"CHTHONIC have made metal that’s traditional in so many ways, but finally provides a breath of fresh air from your normal death metal stomp-fest." -- Revolver

 

"CHTHONIC's distinctive style is fascinating. They have found a way to draw the audience into their world, the soundtrack to which is a sound unequaled." -- Blistering

 

 "Infusing ethnic elements into metal is a recurring sound in the global scene, yet CHTHONIC cross boundaries with their Zen-like heaviness..." -- Exclaim

"CHTHONIC have undoubtedly raised their level of musicianship with this release, and it comes as highly recommended from me to any heavy metal fan." -- Metal Assault

http://www.chthonic.tw

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Original Trouble Drummer Jeff "Oly" Olson Pens Debut Column

Original TROUBLE drummer and RETRO GRAVE main man Jeff "Oly" Olson has penned his debut column this month for Germany's bi- monthly music magazine, BIG FIVE. The column titled 'Jeff's Heady Metal' will be a regular feature in the magazine with Olson re-capping his most memorable interviews with musicians, and his personal thoughts about them, from his Internet radio show HEADY METAL WITH JEFF OLSON.

The first column entails Olson's thoughts about his first year as a radio show host as well as memorable chats with such musicians as Dave Chandler (SAINT VITUS), Vinnie Paull Abbott (PANTERA, DAMAGE PLAN, HELL YEAH), Bobby Liebling and Victor Griffin (PENTAGRAM), Oderus Orungus (GWAR), Aaron Stainthorpe (MY DYING BRIDE) and more.

The December/January 2012 issue of BIG FIVE is on German newsstands now.

Olson has been writing and recording in the music industry since the formation of TROUBLE (1979) and holds a Bachelor of Music degree in film scoring, cum laude, from Berklee College Of Music.

www.headymetalwithjeffolson.com