Anthrax Announces New World Tour Dates

In the final stages of recording the follow-up to 2011's "Worship Music," Anthrax will hit the road beginning August 28 for a 42-city global trek that will see the band playing three major festivals as well as sharing stages with the likes of Motorhead and fellow Big Four comrades, Slayer.

Anthrax's Bello, Benante and Ian started the new album writing process back in late 2013 when they began exchanging suggested riffs and other ideas for the new songs. With producer and "sixth member of the band" Jay Ruston, formal writing sessions started last fall, culminating with about 20 original songs, almost twice as many as the band had ever brought to the recording studio in the past.

According to Benante, "'Worship Music' started a new chapter in our career, and it has served as an inspiration for this new album. 'Worship' was made up of a lot of different types of songs, some thrashy, some very mid-90s Anthrax-sounding, but this new one is really thrashy."

Said Bello, "The thing about Anthrax...we have this heavy, thrashy music and Joey's powerful and melodic vocals. I love heavy music, but I also love melody, so the challenge is to blend them together so they sound like Anthrax, and I think we've done a really good job of that on this new record."

Confirmed dates for Anthrax's upcoming tour schedule are as follows:

8/28 Riot Fest & Rodeo, Mile High Stadium, Denver, CO
9/11 Riot Fest and Carnival, Humboldt Park, Chicago, IL
9/12 The Fillmore, Detroit, MI*
9/13 Madison Theatre, Covington, KY (headline)
9/15 The Dome, Wallingford, CT*
9/16 Nikon at Jones Beach Theatre, Wantagh, NY*
9/18 Theatre Olympia, Montreal, QC*
9/19 Shindig Festival, Carrol Park, Baltimore, MD
9/20 Food and Truck Festival, Oak Ridge Park, Clark, NJ
9/22 Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, PA*
9/23 The Fillmore, Charlotte, NC*
9/25 House of Blues, Lake Buena Vista, FL*
9/26 Pompano Beach Amphitheater, Pompano Beach, FL*
9/28 - 10/2 - Motorboat 2015 Cruise*
10/10 Loud Park 15, Tokyo, Japan
10/25 Theaters Tilburg, Tilburg, Netherlands**
10/26 Zenith Paris, Paris, France**
10/28 La Cooperative De Mai, Clermont-Ferrand, France
10/30 Santana 27, Bilbao, Spain**
10/31 Coliseum, La Coruna, Spain**
11/1 La Riviera, Madrid, Spain**
11/3 Razzmatazz, Barcelona, Spain**
11/5 Alcatraz, Milano, Italy**
11/7 Planet.tt Bank Austria Halle Gasometer B, Vienna, Austria**
11/8 Haus Auersee, Leipzig, Germany**
11/10 Zenith, die Kulturhalle, Munich, Germany**
11/12 Columbiahalle, Berlin, Germany**
11/13 RuhrCongress, Bochum, Germany**
11/14 MHPArena, Ludwigsburg, Germany
11/16 Jahrhunderthalle, Frankfurt, Germany**
11/17 AB Main Hall, Brussels, Belgium**
11/19 Rockhal, Esch Sur Alzette, Luxembourg
11/21 Newport Centre, Newport, UK**
11/22 Plymouth Pavilions, Plymouth, UK**
11/24 O2 Apollo Manchester, Manchester, UK**
11/25 O2 Academy Glasgow, Glasgow, UK**
11/27 O2 Academy Birmingham, Birmingham, UK**
11/28 O2 Academy Leeds, Leeds, UK**
11/30 O2 Academy Brixton, Brixton, UK**
12/3 Kulturvaerflet, Helsinger, Denmark**
12/4 Sentrum Scene, Oslo, Norway**
12/5 Lisebergshallen, Goteborg, Sweden**
12/9 Stadium Live, Moscow, Russia**

* w/ Motorhead
** w/ Slayer