ANTHRAX guitarist Scott Ian has issued the following update on his official blog:

"I hope you all had a great weekend. I’m just about recovered from the crazy jet-lag coming home from Australia. The Soundwave festival was amazing! The shows were great, biggest we’ve ever played in Australia. The pit during Indians in Sydney was incredible! Now I have two great memories of that stadium; seeing AC/DC there in 2010 and playing to you crazy fuckers in it in 2013. A huge thank you to everyone involved in SW13 especially our man Nick Tkalac for taking such good care of us and AJ for having us!

I’m taking a break at home right now getting ready for the Metal Alliance tour that starts here in the states March 22. You don’t want to miss this tour. It’s our last time through on the Worship Music album cycle so we won’t be back for a while and our main man on the skins Charlie Benante will be back with us!!!

And we’re playing all of Among The Living!!! We also have our old buddies Exodus coming with us as well as High On Fire, Municipal Waste and Holy Grail. THRASHTASTIC.

You can check out all the dates and tix/meet and greet by clicking here.

Today I am actually checking out the prototype for my new Randall signature amp designed by Mike Fortin. It’s sounding sick. It’s going to be all new, totally different direction but powerful as hell, like Bruce Lee’s fist to your ribcage. More info, pics soon as soon as I know when it’ll be finished. I heard Kirk’s new Randall heads in Australia. His tone is great and he told me he’s never been happier with his guitar sound. His new amps are coming soon as well.

My talking tour, or Speaking Words tour is coming up in May/June in the UK/Ireland. I’ve had to re-route some of the dates and in the case of Liverpool, I had to cancel. Why you ask?

Because Anthrax got offered the Sonisphere Spain shows with IRON MAIDEN and well, do I really need to say any more? There’s not really anything much better than playing shows with Maiden. Hope to see all of you at these shows. I did two talking shows in Australia and they went great. And I know you’re all wondering how tomato sauce on pizza can cure any STD. I’ve got the answer for you, you’ll just have to come out to a show to find out.

That’s all for now my friends. The revised Speaking Words Tour Routing is below- so stay tuned and I’ll see you all somewhere very soon!"

Anthrax' upcoming Worship Music Special Edition / Anthems will be released in North America on March 19th (MRI/Megaforce) and March 22nd in Europe (Nuclear Blast). The special edition will contain both the regular album as well as the brand new Anthems EP. Anthems' tracklisting features RUSH's 'Anthem', THIN LIZZY's 'Jailbreak', 'T.N.T.' by AC/DC, BOSTON's 'Smokin'', 'Big Eyes' by CHEAP TRICK, JOURNEY's 'Keep On Runnin', as well as the album version and a special remix of Anthrax's 'Crawl', from Worship Music.

Check out audio streams below:

Thin Lizzy's 'Jailbreak':

Rush's 'Anthem':

AC/DC's 'T.N.T.':

Cheap Trick's 'Big Eyes':