Thrash Metal’s Big Four Tour

This is pretty much a copy/paste from my pointless blog lawl

They’re all together! Well…minus Jeff Hanneman in this particular picture, but man, this is so cool! Cool if you care about these bands anyway. Bastards.

If you haven’t heard, the "big four" thrash metal bands (Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax) are playing a couple of gigs where they all share the same stage for the first time this summer. The first date on this tour of sorts is…today! Warsaw gets the first taste. If all goes well, it should be quite the event for the metal world.

A multitude of movie theaters across the globe are actually going to stream the June 22nd show in Bulgaria. If you can’t actually make it to the live show, it’s a cool idea, right? However, in my case – the nearest participating theater is about 100 miles away. Bleh. I’m sure there will be plenty of clips of the performances online though. I should be gushing about it soon enough.

I really hope this all goes down drama-free so that they’ll take this concept around the rest of the world, perhaps next year if not this one.

I’m going. Seat is booked. 🙂

Tonight’s setlists were:

Anthrax
Caught in a Mosh
Got the Time
Indians
Antisocial
Madhouse
Only
Efilnikufesin (N.F.L.)
I Am The Law

Megadeth
Holy Wars… The Punishment Due
Hangar 18
Take No Prisoners
Five Magics
Poison Was the Cure
Lucretia
Tornado of Souls
Dawn Patrol
Rust in Peace… Polaris
Headcrusher
Sweating Bullets
Symphony Of Destruction
Peace Sells

Slayer
World Painted Blood
Jihad
War Ensemble
Hate Worldwide
Dead Skin Mask
Angel of Death
Beauty Through Order
Disciple
Mandatory Suicide
Chemical Warfare
South of Heaven
Raining Blood

Metallica
Creeping Death
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Fuel
The Four Horsemen
Fade To Black
That Was Just Your Life
Cyanide
Sad But True
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
All Nightmare Long
One
Master Of Puppets
Blackened
Nothing Else Matters
Enter Sandman
Stone Cold Crazy
Hit The Lights
Seek and Destroy

Metallica playing Nothing Else Matters on a thrash band tour. Amazing levels of not giving a fuck what people expect there 😀

Megadeth
Holy Wars… The Punishment Due
Hangar 18
Take No Prisoners
Five Magics
Poison Was the Cure
Lucretia
Tornado of Souls
Dawn Patrol
Rust in Peace… Polaris

WTF????!!!!!!! The whole Rust in Peace album??? That’s metal as fuck!

btw, I always considered Exodus to be part of that thrash group; I always called it the Big Five.

That Slayer set list is damn good! I was lucky enough to see them on the South of Heaven tour and they were amazing. Dave Lombardo is a very talented drummer. Saw Metallica too but it was the Black album tour, and was a bit crap. Megadave I have no interest in after Peace Sells, and Anthrax I was once a big fan of. I’m expecting a bit of a nostalgia trip with them. 🙂

WTF????!!!!!!! The whole Rust in Peace album??? That’s metal as fuck!

Yeah they’ve been doing that since March. Dave’s voice is kinda meh live but the musicianship is there.

Those are excellent setlists, seems it would have been a nice long show the. Dont see that too often anymore