ANTHRAX - New Album Enters Billboard Charts
September 21, 2011, 13 years ago
Worship Music, ANTHRAX' first studio album in eight years and its first with vocalist Joey Belladonna since 1990's Persistence Of Time, has entered next week's Billboard Top 200 Albums chart at #12, the band's highest chart debut in two decades, and second-highest in its career, selling 28,500 copies.
Worship Music also debuted at #4 on Billboard's Hard Rock Chart, #3 on the Hard Music Core Chart, and #2 at both the Indie and Indie Core Stores charts.
Added the band's Scott Ian, "I'm absolutely thrilled with the fact that our Anthrax Army came out in force this week to show the world that good music matters. Thank you to all our friends, old and new! It's a privilege to do this for you."
While the recording of Worship Music was challenging and at some times difficult, it was at the core of an extraordinary experience for a band that had questioned its very future. Anthrax's turning point took place in 2009 at a Cleveland hotel bar with METALLICA's Lars Ulrich when he first brought up the idea of The Big 4. That led to Anthrax's decision to get Belladonna back in the band on a permanent basis, and to the complete refashioning of the previously-recorded tracks for Worship Music with Belladonna's inimitable vocal stamp.
Anthrax hits the road beginning October 14 on a five-week, coast-to-coast tour with TESTAMENT and DEATH ANGEL.
The itinerary for the Anthrax/Testament/Death Angel Fall 2011 tour is as follows:
October
14 - Orbit Room - Grand Rapids, MI15 - Congress Theatre - Chicago, IL
16 - First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN
18 - The Cotillion - Wichita, KS
19 - Summit Music Hall - Denver, CO
22 - Nokia LA Live - Los Angeles, CA
23 - Warfield Theatre - San Francisco, CA
24 - House of Blues - San Diego, CA
26 - Sunshine Theatre - Albuquerque, NM
28 - South Side Music Hall - Dallas, TX
29 - Emo's East - Austin, TX
30 - Warehouse Live - Houston, TX
November
1 - House of Blues - Orlando, FL2 - Revolution, Ft. Lauderdale - FL
4 - House of Blues - Myrtle Beach, SC
5 - Fillmore Charlotte - Charlotte, NC
6 - The Fillmore - Silver Spring, MD
8 - Northern Lights - Clifton Park, NY
10 - Electric Factory - Philadelphia, PA
11 - Palladium - Worcester, MA
15 - Town Ballroom - Buffalo, NY
17 - Stage AE - Pittsburgh, PA
19 - Rave - Milwaukee, WI
