The Big 4: Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax on the Big Screen!

I was a teenager again.

In 2002, I was an oddity in my high school. I, unlike 99% of the other students, listened to metal. Not only that, but I was still just getting into the genre. By the time I graduated, I had gone from listing to Winger’s Seventeen, to listening to Slayer’s Reign in Blood. Those were truly a magical time, and I had one simple vision of all these guys just getting together and playing at each other shows. That was true to some regard; Anthrax let Metallica share its space, Dave Mustaine formed Megadeth after getting kicked out of Metallica, and Kerry King formed Slayer after playing in Megadeth. The dream of everyone in the metal world was to finally, after 25 years, see all of them play the same concert. To see the Big Four in the single greatest concert ever!
Last night, we all got to be kids again.

At movie theaters around the world, The Big Four: Anthrax, Megadeth, Slayer, and Metallica were unleashed upon the world, causing not devastation, but the rarest joy you could ever see at a metal concert. It was, in and of itself a different experience than any concert anyone had been to. You’re in an air-condition movie theater with a ton of people. Do you mosh? Do you sing along? Do you act like you do at a show?

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New Anthrax Singer To Have Signing Session... Why?

Anthrax. I fucking love Anthrax!

I got into them in 2002 and the short version of why they're my favorite is that they cured me of any love and respect I had for hair metal. Why? Because Joey Belladonna was every bit as talented as the guys singing in Whitesnake and Cinderella (and the Bullet Boys, still one of my favorite bands), but with intelligent lyrics about sanity, Nazi's, and being alive in a world that seems out to get you. I speak of "Spreading the Disease", my first Anthrax album and one of the best I've ever heard. I've seen them twice and own all their albums, even Volume 8.

So, my credentials in check, this is the dumbest thing I've heard in a while.

I feel sorry for Dan Nelson. He's the new singer for Anthrax and, from what I've heard, he's nothing short of amazing. I look forward to the new album and hearing him on a proper studio track and album with the band (all I've heard so far are bootlegs), but a signing session? Sign what?

His only credentials thus far were singing in a band about 10 people heard of, and there isn't much to go on. He doesn't have much of a history, no one knows where this could go... I think it's a kinda foolish and short-sighted. If it was him with, say, Scott Ian or another member of Anthrax, I would go in a heartbeat! As it stands... sorry, Dan, good luck! Try again after the album comes out.


For those interested, check out the info here:

ANTHRAX frontman Dan Nelson will take part in a signing session at Looney Tunes in West Babylon, New York on "Record Store Day" (Saturday, April 18). The event will begin at 3:00 p.m.

The details are as follows:

Looney Tunes
31 Brookvale Ave.
West Babylon, NY 11704
(631) 587-7722

Thanks to Blabbermouth.net for the story, and mp3.com for the photo.