Big Four Tour Announcement Tomorrow
Like we predicted a while back, the Big Four of Thrash Metal will be doing a tour of the United States. The full details will be announced tomorrow at 8am PST on the Big 4 Facebook page.
In case you have been living under a rock for 20 years, the big four of thrash metal are Exodus, Megadeth, Anthrax, and Slayer. What's that? Exodus is not part of this tour and Metallica is? WTF? Metallica hasn't been thrash since 1986.
Ok, I stand corrected. The big four of thrash according to marketing assholes are Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, and Slayer. I apologize Exodus, but no one outside of REAL thrash fans know who you are.
What do we know?
In case you have been living under a rock for 20 years, the big four of thrash metal are Exodus, Megadeth, Anthrax, and Slayer. What's that? Exodus is not part of this tour and Metallica is? WTF? Metallica hasn't been thrash since 1986.
Ok, I stand corrected. The big four of thrash according to marketing assholes are Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, and Slayer. I apologize Exodus, but no one outside of REAL thrash fans know who you are.
What do we know?
- This tour has to happen in football stadiums because it is too big to be part of outdoor sheds.
- This tour will take place in the summer.
- The tour will also sound like a fat man holding a microphone too close to his lips and yelling into it because outdoor stadium shows can't manage the insane echo effect caused by the stadium or the outdoor environment.
- The festival will smell like salty semen, burned hair, stale beer, event farts (farts that contain a hint of nacho cheese, Bud Light, and hot dogs), and pungent body order.
- Will contain the ugliest fans you have ever laid your eyes upon. It will look like a Lord of the Rings Orci convention.
Posted by Craig Wettner at 1/24/2011 1:53 PM 
Categories: Megadeth, Big Four, Exodus, Anthrax, Slayer, Metallica
Tags: Metallica Exodus Slayer Big Four Megadeth Anthrax
Categories: Megadeth, Big Four, Exodus, Anthrax, Slayer, Metallica
Tags: Metallica Exodus Slayer Big Four Megadeth Anthrax
I'm kind of torn by this. On the one hand, I like the idea of seeing bands I loved as a kid still touring, playing the stuff I'm nostalgic for with a sprinkling of new stuff, and just want a good show...
...but on the other hand I think thrash metal really needs some level of anger behind it for both the musicians and the fans. That level of anger is easy to find when the kid putting in the record is 15, lives at home with no control over his life, hates school, ect. It's easy for the musician to have when he's been dicked over by the label, lived on nothing sandwiches for a while, and just hates life at 25 and channels that into his music.
But I'm not 15 anymore, Metallica isn't a band fighting for the recognition they think they deserve, Dave Mustaine isn't still pissed about getting booted from Metallica, and so on. We've all gotten older, and hopefully mellowed some.
So really where does that leave these musicians? They're kind of in a tight spot. If they let their music mature and change, they risk alienating thier audience base, espeically the new kids that weren't even born when Master of Puppets and Rust in Peace first came out. On the other hand, someone with a mortgage and kids and who has to be in bed by midnight or is useless the whole next day isn't the same guy.
I guess I'm a bit more receptive to wanting to see the Dave Mustaines and Scott Ians mature and grow up and change as musicians, but some part of me still wants to be that angry kid trying to play like Kerry King.
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