Anthrax played Best Buy Theater 09.12.11.
September 13th, 2011 by chocko
I walked up to the Best Buy Theater about an hour before doors, expecting to stand in a line for about an hour, but instead I was told there were extra wristbands for the Metal Masters Clinic 2 which was in progress on the very stage Anthrax was going to play on in about 2 hours. You couldn’t turn that down, so after bumrushing the stage I notice that Kerry King (Slayer) is on guitar along with Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater) on drums, David Ellefson (Megadeth) on bass, with Scott Ian, Charlie Benante and Frank Bello of Anthrax. They’re just jamming and the crowd was losing it…headbanging all over the place. After a couple songs with Frank on vocals, Phil Anselmo from Pantera joins the band to take over the vocal duties and cranks out two Pantera songs, “A New Level” and “Fucking Hostile”. Daaaamn!
After the Clinic and after the crowd picked their jaws off the floor from the madness they just witnessed on stage, Kerry, Frank, Charlie, Mike and David signed stuff for the fans in the lobby. The line was long and people brought magazines, posters, albums and guitars to get signed. There were a lot of freebies at the table including the new Revolver magazine with Five Finger Death Punch on the cover and killer trading card sheets inside featuring the bands playing the BIG 4 at Yankee Stadium-the ultimate metal concert feat. Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax. Back on stage, Lady Starlight was on the turntables playing metal vinyl and strutting her stuff to the sounds of Iron Maiden, Ozzy and Dio.
Eddie Trunk introduced the band in fine fashion and Anthrax took to the stage and the place erupted into a sea of fists and mosh pits. Joey Belladonna is back in the lineup as the lead singer and the band sounds awesome. The last time I saw the band was many moons ago at Roseland with John Bush on vocals. It was a great show with White Zombie opening up, but fast forward to the present with Joey back on the mic…you can’t beat that. The rest of the lineup consists of the usual suspects-Rob Caggiano (guitar), Frank Bello (bass), Scott Ian (guitar) and Charlie Benante (drums). Their set started with “Fight ‘Em ‘Til You Can’t” off their highly anticipated album “Worship Music”. It just came out and every metal fan should buy it. Do yourself a favor! The band went right into “Time” then the crushing classic slab of metal, “Caught In A Mosh”. The mosh pit in the back was intense with pretty much older dudes running around throwing fists, elbows and head butts. I counted 3 fights…2 of them got a little bloody-not bad for an Anthrax show! Kerry King came back out to toast the band on the eve of the album release and Phil Anselmo showed up during the song “Indians” for a little fun at the end of the song with Bello’s bass and Belladonna doing a little metal worshipping. The band closed out their 10 song set with a crowd favorite, “I Am The Law” and during the encore, ended off the night with another track off “Worship Music” titled “Earth On Hell”.
SET LIST
Fight ‘Em ‘Til You Can’t
Time
Caught In A Mosh
Antisocial
The Devil You Know
Indians
Madhouse
Metal Thrashing Mad
Only
I Am The Law
Earth on Hell (Encore)
Tags: anthrax, big 4, heavy metal, megadeth, new album, pantera, slayer, thrash, worship music
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