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It's Official: JOEY BELLADONNA Rejoins ANTHRAX For Tour, Studio Album

With rumors swirling since ANTHRAX drummer Charlie Benante and bassist Frank
Bello were seen together with former ANTHRAX vocalist Joey Belladonna late
last month in New York, the band — Benante, Bello, and guitarists Scott Ian
and Rob Caggiano — is elated to announce that Belladonna has officially
rejoined the band. In his once and current capacity, Belladonna will make his
first appearance with ANTHRAX this summer when the band joins METALLICA,
SLAYER, and MEGADETH — the "Big Four" founding bands of the thrash genre —
 to co-headline a series of Sonisphere Festivals in ten European cities, as
well as playing a handful of ANTHRAX-headlined shows (itinerary is below).

"I am super-excited about this," said Scott Ian. "Joey and the rest of the
band came to see me play at a club in New York, I hadn't seen Joey for years,
since the end of the reunion tour. Joey taps me on the shoulder, instant big
hug, it felt like no time had gone by. The band dynamic is an interesting one
— in ANTHRAX, Joey and I spent so many years of our lives together, we grew
up together, we know each other so well, so it was like no time was lost."

Belladonna, an essential part of ANTHRAX's lineup from 1985 to 1992, sang on
some of the band's most popular albums including "Spreading the Disease",
"Among the Living" and "Persistence of Time". He had reunited with original
members of ANTHRAX for the 2005-2007 "Among the Living Tour", but this
situation is different. Explained Belladonna, "I had been in touch with
Charlie and Frank, then I got a call from their manager who said that
everyone wanted me back in the band. I thought, 'are you guys for real? You
want me up there, fronting the band like it was before?' I was thrilled.
We've already started to reconnect with the old ways of having conversations.
Everything is easy going and feels really good."

"We're going to do these summer shows and gel as a band," explained Charlie
Benante, "get comfortable playing with each other again, and the energy from
that should go right into making new music."

Immediately following the final Sonisphere festival in early August, the band
will fly back to the U.S. and begin writing and rehearsing for a new album
that's expected to be out in early 2011.

"We've got an unusual luxury of hindsight," added Ian. "We finished an album
a year ago, we've lived with those 12 songs since then, and we can look back
on them and see what we really love and what we can make even better,
especially with Joey back in the fold."

Added Benante, "There are five or six songs from a year ago that we don't
want to change, we love them the way they are, other than having Joey making
them his own with his vocals. Then there's another five or six that we may
want to rework, and then there are a bunch of other tunes that are still in
the early stages, that we want to finish.

"The band has been on an emotional roller coaster since last summer," Benante
continued, "but I think everything that we've had to deal with during that
time was pushing us toward this, to Joey being back in ANTHRAX, and the
timing couldn't be more perfect or appropriate. To have Joey with us playing
these shows with METALLICA, SLAYER and MEGADETH is the way it should be — as
ANTHRAX's vocalist from '85 to '92, he was part of the 'Big Four.'"

"John was a real stand-up guy about the situation," said Ian, about John
Bush, ANTHRAX's vocalist from 1992 to 2005 and for some of ANTHRAX's most
recent live shows. "He knew we wanted to move forward at full speed, that we
needed a total commitment to ANTHRAX, and he knew that wasn't what he wanted.
We certainly wish John well. We've had so many great times with him, and we
appreciate his stepping in last summer at the last minute, and performing
with us since then. He will always be an integral part of the ANTHRAX family."

With worldwide sales in excess of 10-million, ANTHRAX is about to celebrate
its 29th year as a band. Over its career, ANTHRAX has received multiple gold
and platinum albums, multiple Grammy nominations, and a host of other
accolades from the press, industry and fans.

Anthrax早期主唱Joey Belladonna宣布正式回歸該團，
並且將會在四大天王的歐洲巡迴演唱會登台，
Anthrax去年就已經錄好的新專輯，也會重新挑歌並由Joey重唱。


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