Artisan News Service has issued a video report regarding The Big Four - METALLICA, SLAYER, MEGADETH and ANTHRAX - who announced yesterday (Tuesday, January 25th) that they will play one exclusive show on Metallica's home turf on Saturday, April 23rd at the Empire Polo Club, Indio, CA.

During the report, Anthrax' Scott Ian discusses the significance of The Big Four, stating: "Under the umbrella of hard rock and heavy metal, you've had so many different branches come off that tree. We're just another branch, we created something new in the early 80s. We were all influenced by the same thing, we all came from the same school, so to speak, and, you know, we created thrash metal. We started something new."

Check out the report below:

During an appearance on yesterday's edition of The Kevin & Bean Show on the Los Angeles-based radio station KROQ-FM (106.7), Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich explained why there is only one US show:

"Let's take baby steps here. We did seven or eight dates last year, we're doing one show in England and one show in France.

Listen, we don't wanna cram this down people's throats., we don't wanna sort of overstay the welcome, and we don't know what kind of response there's gonna be to this in America, so we're starting, obviously, without being disrespectful to the rest of the wonderful country...

We have a history in Southern California, Slayer has a history in Southern California, (Dave) Mustaine has a history in Southern California, so there's a lot of history in California. And we picked the Coachella site where this is going down the week after the Coachella, which is probably - along with Bonnaroo - the favorite festival site to go to in North America.

If there is enough demand for it, obviously there's a very strong possibility that there'll be more shows, but we don't wanna overextend the welcome and we also don't wanna turn it into something that becomes just this whole nostalgia trip. So it's a balancing act, you know."

Listen to Ulrich's appearance on The Kevin & Bean Show here.

Tickets for The Big Four show in Indio, CA will be available on Friday, January 28th at 10am PST via Ticketmaster.