Gigantour (or: More Metal Than You Can Shake a Stick At)

Anyone catch this tour? From what I gather it's kind of like a less expensive Ozzfest without the reality show melodrama. I'm catching the Seattle-area show tomorrow: Fear Factory, Nevermore, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Anthrax, Megadeth (and a bunch of lesser-known metalcore bands on the second stage). I giggle with glee to imagine the profusion which with the horns will be thrown.

I'm somewhat disappointed that Dream Theater and Symphony X are off the bill, but I've seen DT a few times already and I imagine that Anthrax still puts on a hell of a show.

I guess ticket sales have been poor compared to the other big metal tours this summer (Ozzfest and Sounds of the Underground)...something about too much diversity on the bill and metal fans generally being a bunch of elitist, narrow-minded dumbasses. I am, to some extent, a fan of all those bands, though, and I expect to be thoroughly entertained.

One note Podunk. This is the old Anthrax with Joey Belladonna and Dan Spitz, not the John Bush Anthrax. Made the difference for me. I much prefer John Bush's voice to Joey Belladonna.

I saw Anthrax last year. They had a Satan thing going on, which seemed out of place.

Spleen wrote:

One note Podunk. This is the old Anthrax with Joey Belladonna and Dan Spitz, not the John Bush Anthrax. Made the difference for me. I much prefer John Bush's voice to Joey Belladonna.

Yeah, so do I. I was never much of a fan of Anthrax back in the day. But I know they put on a really high energy show, and I still dust off my copy of Among the Living on rare occasion. And who wouldn't be moved to pump their fist in the air upon hearing "Efilnickufecin: NICE F*CKIN' LIFE!"

Do you know if they are pulling out any of the Bush-era tunes, or are they sticking to "classic" Anthrax?

Alien13z wrote:

I saw Anthrax last year. They had a Satan thing going on, which seemed out of place.

That's pretty weird. I don't remember anything like that about Anthrax. They're basically 5 street type guys from New Yawk. (Or 4 New Yorkers and one guy from L.A. when John Bush is in the band) They are quite active politically and socially since 9/11. They began to use all the inadvertant hits their website got to host donations for New York Firefighters families, protesting against the Iraq war etc... Can you be more specific Alien13z?

Edit: Forget it Aliens13z, I went to their site and they appear to have incorporated some kind of upside pentagram into their logo. How long has it been like this, does anyone know?

Podunk, to my limited knowledge they'll only be performing material from the time when all 5 members were in the band.

I was supposed to go to Gigantour when it came around this area.. I think boston was the closest. But my buddies decided not to go.

Barab wrote:

But my buddies decided not to go.

I hope you kicked all of them soundly in the jimmy.

pretty disappointing how Life of Agony never crawled out from the lesser-known variety of Jello Instant Mosh.

i first noticed the Anthrax-pentagram when Alex Ross was designing artwork for We've Come For You All. all things considered a good album, but if you grab Volume 8: The Threat Is Real from the current Sanctuary pressing, it's really good with an old DRI covers medley and some other covers at the end.

it would have been REALLY cool if John Bush had agreed to be on the tour as well, but he felt it wasn't his place to join the "reunion tour."
as for his old band, check out Hellraiser 3: Hell on Earth where Armoured Saint get wiped out along with a whole club full of people.

some Alex Ross stuff:

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