Greetings from Luzern Switzerland!
Sunday, June 28, 2009 - Scott Ian
I’ve been in Europe since May 31, all over the place. I spent the first two weeks doing promotion for the new record. Basically traveling from city to city doing interviews and photo shoots (UB shirts in every shoot!)12 hours a day. London, Paris, Madrid, Milan, Helsinki, Stockholm and Oslo. It was a brutal schedule but the reaction to the new songs has been amazing!!!! I have an iPod with the new mixes on it and the writers get to hear them right before they sit down to talk to me. The instant reactions are great. It really makes me excited for all of you to hear it!!! It really feels like the press/media is hearing the songs the same way I hear them. They can hear all the energy and time and blood and sweat and hard work that we put into this record. The two years we spent writing and then the six months we spent recording were some of the toughest and best times I have ever had in Anthrax and listening back to the finished songs now I can say it was well worth it. This new record is the best representation of our career that I could ever imagine and our new singer Dan Nelson sounds like he’s been with us forever.
Anyway, wait until you hear this record. Worship Music is a fucking great metal record and it will be out on October 12.
After the two weeks of promo we started our summer tour in Estonia. It was our first time in Tallinn and we had a blast!! Found a killer bar called Hell Hunt and we drank a hellish amount of beer! My friend Renee offered to take me to a poker room but I was too drunk and thought it would be a bad idea to be playing with hardcore Estonians and Russians drunk. The show in Estonia was great (even though it was raining really hard) and the new songs went over great. We’ve been playing three new ones; “Fight’em ‘Til You Can’t”, “New Noise”, and “Earth On Hell” and the reactions everywhere have been thrash-fucking-tastic.
We played the Metal Hammer Awards in London and that was great. Since then we’ve been in Paris, Luxembourg, Clisson France for Hellfest (which was amazing!!), Bilbao, Bologna and now Switzerland. Somehow amongst all of that I cashed in Sundays 200K, 41st place.
At the Hellfest in France after our show I got to watch Heaven & Hell from the side of the stage and they were incredible. Ronnie Dio is metal perfection. He really is the best singer ever. And, getting to stand so close to Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler is so surreal. I know these guys and have had conversations with them and I know they are just normal guys but they INVENTED HEAVY METAL. It’s like standing next to Gods.
That’s it for now. See you on UB and I’ll be in Vegas for the WSOP Main Event and don’t forget to WORSHIP MUSIC!!!
Cheers,
Scott
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