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Posted by: zen May 29 2010, 12:05 AM

For those who are not aware ....

THE 'BIG FOUR' COMING TO SELECT MOVIE THEATERS IN JUNE! For one night only, metalheads around the world can experience history: On Tuesday, June 22, Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax perform on one stage together, and through the wonders of satellite technology, you can be part of this historic concert event, bro...adcast exclusively to select movie theatres around the world. Beyond the limited European festival dates, there are not additional tour dates planned for this extraordinary line-up. U.S. tickets on sale now; International tickets on sale May 28. For more information, go to http://www.TheBigFourLive.com





They haven't announced the theater in Australia yet

Posted by: jafomatic May 29 2010, 12:45 AM

Not being a real metal fan I guess I'm probably wrong about this, but I swear this really looks like "The big TWO ...and some other groups that are still really well known but not terribly successful anymore."

Are anthrax and slayer really at the same level as the M-bands?

Posted by: zen May 29 2010, 12:53 AM

Yea, Success-wise not really.. the organizers just want to milk the Big 4 of thrash for whatever they are worth as none of them are getting any younger.

It would be interesting to see how this goes down

Posted by: jstcrsn May 29 2010, 01:51 AM

What have any of these bands done =recently-The last couple of metallica CD's aren't even worth mentionong IMO

Posted by: jafomatic May 29 2010, 06:46 AM

I was thinking of attendance rather than quality. From a very outside point of view, it seems that the M-groups never really went completely away or dormant; yet those others seemed rather quiet the last 20 years. Frankly, I didn't think Megadeth was still working until I found out otherwise just last year.

just seemed odd to lump them together as "big four" by the promoters, that's all.

Posted by: Gitarrero May 29 2010, 11:46 AM

I think they are the big four of thrash metal, though there are some newer and imo better bands nowadays. Looks like some kind of "legend" line-up, buth absolutely worth watching.

Posted by: Bogdan Radovic May 29 2010, 12:05 PM

I think this will be a very good and unique concert! Idea to broadcast gig live in movie theaters is really innovative and cool! Too bad Serbia is not on the list though....I'm sure this would be a fun to watch/listen to!

Though I'm pretty sure there will be a DVD out with the recording I guess?

Posted by: Lale Nikic May 29 2010, 01:43 PM

MASTODON.... day two!!!!....the first day is not bad either though...xaxaxa

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic May 30 2010, 04:10 AM

Awesome, this is by all means a monster show, definitely for the history books!

I doubt there will be any theatre coverage in Serbia tho..

Posted by: Daniel Realpe Jun 14 2010, 11:58 PM

It's hard to find other two bands as big a the M ones,

I wonder how this is going to turn out

Posted by: Todd Simpson Jun 15 2010, 02:30 AM

Here in the states we are seeing something of a "Thrash Revival" scene. Newer bands like Lazarus A.D. are direct musical descendents of band like Metalica and Anthrax. It's still a fairly underground thing which is good as every time heavy music gets "popular" in gets really silly. It's great to see bands wearing Iron Maiden T-Shirts again and thrashing away.

Todd

Posted by: Shime Jun 15 2010, 07:35 AM

I saw Megadeth in concert in Brussels last week. They were AMAZING. Dave Mustaine is 48 but his live guitar playing matches that of, say, Jeff Waters and the guys from Trivium. I kid you not. They played the whole R.I.P. album and blew everyone away.

Metallica is a fun band to watch when you know all the songs, but I never liked them playing live. Slayer is OK, they are one big routine live but they're getting old, the punch is missing. Never watched Anthrax though. Are they worth anything live?

Posted by: Jesse Jun 15 2010, 11:15 AM

who would even want to listen to mustaine's voice?

Posted by: Shime Jun 15 2010, 11:21 AM

Yeah. Actually the Brussels concert was that good because they turned the volume of his mic down, so you mostly just heard the guitars and he let the audience do part of the singing anyway