{"id":12174,"date":"2025-04-16T10:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T15:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=12174"},"modified":"2025-04-16T10:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T15:48:10","slug":"anthrax-joins-line-up-for-black-sabbaths-back-to-the-beginning-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=12174","title":{"rendered":"ANTHRAX JOINS LINE-UP FOR BLACK SABBATH\u2019S \u201cBACK TO THE BEGINNING\u201d CONCERT"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ANTHRAX, L-R: <\/strong>Charlie Benante, Frank Bello, Scott ian, Joey Belladonna, Jonathan Donais<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo credit:\u00a0<\/strong>Ignacio Galvez<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anthrax Also Joins Slayer This Summer for Two UK Shows<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the first time in twenty years, Anthrax will share a stage with Black Sabbath when the band performs at Sabbath\u2019s \u201cBack to The Beginning\u201d concert set to take place on Saturday, July 5 at Villa Park in Birmingham, England. Anthrax toured with Black Sabbath on the band’s 1986 \u201cSeventh Star Tour,” which was also Anthrax\u2019s first arena tour. The last time they were on the same bill as Sabbath was in 2005 at the Download Festival in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m a huge Black Sabbath fan,\u201d said Charlie Benante, \u201cand Black Sabbath was so, so instrumental in the sound of Anthrax back in the day. Back in \u201986, when we were working on our third album, we wanted to do a B-side of a Black Sabbath song. \u2019Sabbath Bloody Sabbath\u2019 was the song that we chose. We did it as a B-side, we played it live, and it became a big thing for us. Growing up Catholic, in a Catholic household, my mom did not appreciate Black Sabbath. One day when I came home, my sister took me to the record store and I got one of those iron-on Black Sabbath t-shirts, it was the cover of \u2019Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath.\u2019 I got it home, my mother saw it, she made my sister take me back to the store and return it. She would not have it in the house because it had the \u2018666\u2019 on it. I was still a Black Sabbath fan so I had to kind of keep it hidden from my mom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI discovered Black Sabbath when I was about eight years old, sitting in my uncle\u2019s room at my grandparents\u2019 house,” said Scott Ian. \u201cMy uncle was 17 or 18, had a big vinyl collection and blacklight posters all over his walls, and I thought he was the coolest dude in the world. I would go through his albums, pull records out and he\u2019d play them for me. I remember pulling out this record that said \u2018Black Sabbath\u2019 on it, the album cover was kind of scary, so I asked him \u2018what\u2019s Black Sabbath?’ And he said, \u2018oh, they\u2019re acid rock\u2026\u201d and I didn\u2019t know what that meant\u2026I thought maybe that was the terminology back then for a genre. And then he put the album on. Everyone knows how that record starts, with the sound effects and the rain and the bell, and then the band kicks in\u2026there\u2019s nothing like it. At that point in time, the scariest, heaviest thing I\u2019d ever heard in my life. Maybe still to this day, when that song \u2018Black Sabbath\u2019 kicks in, there\u2019s just nothing like it. I started playing guitar when I was about 10, and Tony was definitely an influence, so I\u2019d try and figure out how to play \u2018Iron Man\u2019 or \u2018Paranoid.\u2019 Just listening to the records, Tony Iommi was essentially my guitar teacher.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m definitely a huge Sabbath fan,” said vocalist Joey Belladonna, “and over the years I have covered many Sabbath and Ozzy songs. We toured with Sabbath on the \u201986 tour, and it was so electric. That was a huge tour for us, and we were just overwhelmed to be part of it. That Anthrax was asked to be part of Sabbath\u2019s \u2018Back To The Beginning\u2019 concert is quite a big honor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI heard about Sabbath through my friends at school,” remembers Anthrax\u2019 Frank Bello, “who said the band was great. Plus, I thought the album cover was scary as hell. Although I love most Black Sabbath albums, that first one, Black Sabbath<\/em>, is still my favorite because it was my introduction to them, and the songs are still amazing. I\u2019m also a HUGE Geezer fan, I grew up on his playing, and I\u2019m honored now to say he\u2019s a friend. Geezer was and still is one of my main influences on bass. He always puts beautiful musicality & melody into everything he plays. His bass lines make you want to play bass. He is also an amazing person. “It\u2019s an honor to be part of this show and I\u2019m very grateful to Black Sabbath & Sharon Osbourne for asking us to be part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m absolutely, 100% a Black Sabbath fan,\u201d admitted Anthrax guitarist Jon Donais. \u201cI was an Ozzy fan first because I grew up in the \u201880s, and of course, Ozzy was on MTV all the time, so he\u2019s who I got into first. And then, my teen years were in the 90s, and I started getting into Black Sabbath. When I start to lean into a band, I usually get the band\u2019s greatest hits or some kind of compilation. But my first Black Sabbath album was Sabotage, <\/em>which is actually my favorite Sabbath record. Sabotage<\/em> was a little darker than the others, and I would listen to it all the way through as soon as I put it on. A good friend of mine and I went to the same college, and we\u2019d be up until three or four in the morning just listening to Sabotage<\/em> and then having to get up for school the next day, and that sucked.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anthrax\u2019s upcoming concert dates are as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

JULY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3 Blackweir Arboretum, Cardiff, Wales, UK<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Line-Up: <\/strong>Slayer, with Special Guest Anthrax<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 Villa Park, Birmingham, UK <\/strong>\u2022 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Line-Up: <\/strong>Black Sabbath, “Back to the Beginning,”<\/em> w\/ Anthrax<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6 Finsbury Park, London<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Line Up: <\/strong>  Slayer, with Special Guest Anthrax<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ANTHRAX, L-R: Charlie Benante, Frank Bello, Scott ian, Joey Belladonna, Jonathan Donais Photo credit:\u00a0Ignacio Galvez Anthrax Also Joins Slayer This Summer for Two UK Shows For the first time in twenty years, Anthrax will share a stage with Black Sabbath when the band performs at Sabbath\u2019s \u201cBack to The Beginning\u201d concert set to take place on… Read More »ANTHRAX JOINS LINE-UP FOR BLACK SABBATH\u2019S \u201cBACK TO THE BEGINNING\u201d CONCERT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12176,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12174\/revisions\/12176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}