BIG FOUR TOUR: YEAH, THAT’LL HAPPEN
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 at 12:00pm by Axl Rosenberg
If any two of the big four bands tour together, I think it’d be a pretty sweet show. Any three? Fucking amazing. But all four? That would have to be some kind of miracle, right? I mean, half these dudes hate each other. King and Mustaine practically make their living talking shit about Metallica – and one another, for that matter. So it’ll never happen, right?
Well, King now tells Metal Hammer otherwise. Sort of.
Says the Reigning King:
“I’ve heard people referencing Lars… I don’t know Lars that well and I haven’t heard it from Lars but apparently he’s talking to somebody about it. Maybe us, Metallica, Megadeth (and), I think he even threw in Anthrax and I said in this day and age, I know we had that time together but how do you leave out Machine Head? There’s better options than Anthrax and that’s nothing against Anthrax, but they’ve just been in pieces for quite some time and that doesn’t make as much sense to me.”
So, um, yeah. I think right now this can only be treated as rumor – in fact, King says it’s a rumor, so you have to treat it as rumor.
And honestly, I’ll be pretty shocked if it happens. For one thing, Metallica doesn’t really need this tour. Cred with metal douche bags (like me!) is all well and good, but at the end of the day, they still make more money than God, and let’s be real, this tour probably would not change anyone’s opinion of them at this point (Unless maybe Hetfield stops honky-tonk singing and Dave Lombardo plays drums for them. That could really do it for me, actually.). Meanwhile, Anthrax don’t even have a singer right now and Dave Mustaine can’t talk about Metallica without getting all weepy, so the press conference announcing the tour would just be a total mess.
Still, we can dream. We’ll see if anything actually comes of this in the next few months. But I don’t think anyone should get their hopes up right now.
-AR
No, there is no better option than Anthrax for this hypothetical tour. Get Anthrax, invite Testament along and forget Machine Head.
I was thinkin’ Testament too. I love Machine Head but Testament would be a better option with the big 4. Them or Exodus!
Yeah…. No. Anthrax blow balls. For fuck sake, Britney Spears would be a better option than either Anthrax or Testament. Now as for the rest of it, I got the solution! Offer Metallica enough money and they would do just about anything so that’s covered, Kerry sounds like he could get Slayer on board (HUGE props with the Machine Head idea BTW…. That’s why Kerry King IS THE FUCKIN MAN!) so that’s good, then we KILL Dave Mustaine and get Megadeath a singer with some fucking balls, and FUCKING FORGET ANTHRAX EVER EXISTED!
And I guess even Britney can come, but only as a fluffer for the band members. If that slut even touches a mic I vote she gets used as a stage prop during one of Slayer’s more pyro-y sets
I refuse to even entertain this notion, as it is beyond outlandish.
But thanks for playing.
My sentiments exactly.
I neglected to mention I don’t like teases. So there’s that, too.
How can one leave out Machine Head? Simple. Leave them out. They suck.
machine were phenominal when i saw them live
how can u not love them
goddamn fucktard
You can leave them out because MH is friggin awful. I’ve seen them probably 3 or 4 times, and they’ve been awful every time.
Machine Head is shit.
Testament fucking destroys Machine Head. Machine Head are fucking SHIT!!! BAHHHHHHHHHHH!
this will be the feudin four tour
How about Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax, Testament, Exodus, Sodom, Kreator, and Destruction?
Just Metallica, Megadeth, and Slayer would kick serious ass, but it’ll almost definitely never happen.
A festival like that would make Sharon Osbourne weep.
Heh, the “THRASH METAL CLUSTERFUCK TOUR” Coming to a city near you.
How about HELL YES?! That would be awesome.
Don’t forget that tickets would cost a shitload of money.
Being I can’t travel back in time to see the GnR/Metallica tour with Faith No More opening, I’d settle for this.
I was there in Montreal back in the days……total mayhem……major riot….
It’ll probably happen since it’ll make as much money as Britney Spears coheadlining with Lady Gaga. This is a tour that can pack a stadium while selling tickets for $250 each.
Yea no shit…can we leave Metallica off the bill? Not even because they pretty much suck now, but because the tickets would go from 30 bucks for Megadeth/Slayer/Anthrax(machinehead?) to 100 dollars with Metallica in there. I would love to hear all the drama and I don’t think a tour like that would even last for the whole first leg, but c’mon, I’m poor :-)
Wouldn’t be any bigger than a normal Metallica summer tour.
Who the fuck cares about Anthrax these days? And I have nothing against Machine Head but there’s better options out there… Lamb of God being the most obvious choice.
Lamb of God is not an obvious choice, this has nothing to do with what bands you like or what bands people think are good. The point of this impossible hypothetical tour is, “The Big Four”. Not “name some bands that you think would make an awesome tour together”.
This is also why King even mentioning Machine Head is retarded.
Lamb of God lol.
Go back to your slam dancing and straight brimmed hats you fucking twat.
I was totally thinking EMMURE would be perfect to open this bitch. *sarcasm*
I LOL’ed at the mention of Lamb of God over Anthrax, I can’t wait until people figure out that LoG sucks.
I don’t think they suck, they’re just overrated. I liked Wrath quite a bit, actually.
I would have Metallica go last (not because I want them to, but because they would demand it), with direct support from Megadeth, Slayer, and Anthrax. Each band playing for an hour.
Before them would be Testament, Cavalera Conspiracy, and Over Kill each playing for a half hour.
I would absolutely pay $100 to go to that.
but only if Anthrax were the Belladonna lineup/only playing Belladonna shit
No one cared about Cavalera Conspiracy. It was a massive bust and will probably never happen in the states again. Lamb of God actually make a lot of sense since they outdraw any of the bands mentioned so far.
I saw this and nearly had a heart attack
I would rather have Vio-lence than Machine Head on a big four retro-thrash tour
How about Forbidden, Sacrifice, Tankard, Heathen, or Artillery over Machine Head….I’d even take Kreator or Destruction!
Good call, was thinking wither Forbidden or Vio-lence followed by Heathen
Who the fuck care about Machine Head, those fuckers are even bigger hypocrites than Mustain. Getting all butthurt about opening up for Lim Bizkit (No, I don’t listen nor like Bizkit), while having spiky hair and rapping a few years back. I guess noone reminded them of that, eh?
Anthrax being on the list would make perfect sense as they are considered 1 of the big 4 thrashers.
Forgot to mention that MH seems to hop on each train that’s goin to trendy town aswell.
Its possible they could all be at download festival next year if tht counts?
It would be great, but like King said Anthrax cant keep their shit together for one lineup. I understand the premise behind this is the Big four- but there could be some better combinations out there. Im sorry whether you like them or not Testament or Exodus would be a perfect slot instead of Anthrax.
This
And although i enjoyed the blackening- i truly believe that if Nu-metal was dominant right now (god fucking forbid) Robb Flynn would have his adidas track suit on and cornrows in his head. Google that shit.
Insted of Machine head they should add Exodus or Testament…
If this tour were to actually happen, I’d pay whatever people would pay to see a Lad Zep reunion.
I agree, in fact as we speak im assembling a Delorean time machine to go back to ‘91 in case this falls through.
Eat a dick …you big headed lurch looking muther fucker
I hope you get stop lossed you tool
Machine Head has only been good the past 5 years. Leave them out. The Big Four are the Big Four, don’t try and change it!
Testament WOULD be a nice replacement over Anthrax though. Their last album was ruthless.
I could easily – EASILY – see this happening next summer. Maybe 15-20 dates, probably none of them near me. You could tack a few of the big metal bands of the last few years onto it and make it another Gigantour-type thing. (Lamb of God, Mastodon, Dillinger Escape Plan, etc.)
Metallica + Slayer + Megacrap (sorry, I hate them) + Anthrax = at least $250 a seat. It’d sell out in a fucking heartbeat.
If it happens, and I happen to have LOTS and LOTS of free money at the time, I’d consider thinking about the possibility of going.
Would sell less tix than when they took Kid Rock and Korn out. This tour only does a small bit better than a typical Metallica summer tour.
it would be great but i never see it happening…
testament over anthrax simple even tho ive seen anthrax live nd stuff id still think it wud be better
you know people complain about the price of metallica tickets and I honestly dont have a clue as to what they are talking about. I have General Admission tickets and I got them for fifty bucks a peice. However being that they were from ticketmaster there were three different fee’s that they tacked on. I am pretty sure that this is ticketmaster’s doing. why not complain about ticketmaster? I mean when you go to a club show you hand them ten or twenty bucks and they give you a wristband and they dont say oh well we have to charge you a fee on the delivery of your wristband and a service charge on walking through the door…..but seriously that tour will never happen….
This will never happen. Metallica will be off the road before people stop speculating about this. Never in a million years would this tour work.
What about Venom.
Good question!
And by that I mean that Venom blows and wouldn’t have any place on this tour anyway.
This tour hardly has a chance of happening. Anthrax never really mattered, ever. They always were a second rate thrash band that got more attention than they deserved. Metallica would make the ticket price waaay too high anyway. Mustaine is an asshole without Friedman, and Slayer will keep making the same shitty, boring album over and over, just like they have been doing for years. Thrash is dead and no amount of regurgitated riffs played by shitty modern revival bands will ever bring it back.
I’d be much more excited to see Max back with Sep doing material from the Schizo/BTR/Arise era, but of course that will never happen either.
Slayer, Megadeth, Kreator, Exodus.
No other tour would matter.
Well, last year I saw Amon Amarth and Slayer the same night, it was just huge, who needs anthrax metalica and megadeth any more?
metallica, megadeth, testament, vio-lence, exodus, slayer, overkill.
Meshuggah would any day be a great bet
This would absolutly be the best concert ever. The only way that it could be better is if Iron Maiden or Children of Bodom could play along the Big Four of Thrash.
this tour would be sick but instead of anthrax testament and exodus would be sick. sould try and get down in this somehow. Maybe a pantera reunion? whatever but slayer megadeath and metallica touring is just godly in its own
A Pantera reunion? Really?!? That’ll happen right around the same time the Big Four tour hits the road, which will be shortly after Cliff rejoins Metallica. I hear the original AIC line up will be opening.
Wow Gary
That’s the most sarcasm filled comment i’ve ever seen.
Funny though.
About the tour… it just sounds to good to be true : |