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Former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson is the host of a new podcast.

The David Ellefson Show will stream bi-weekly via YouTube and other podcast platforms starting with its debut episode featuring Anthrax bassist Frank Bello on March 3rd.

Per a press release, the pod will give listeners “a front-row seat to captivating conversations, insightful stories, and entertaining anecdotes” from Ellefson’s 40-plus-year career. Episodes will feature an array of guests, including notable musicians, celebrities, and music industry insiders. Joshua Toomey (Talk Toomey podcast) will co-host alongside Ellefson.

“I’ve been a guest on countless podcasts over the years, and they’ve become essential in connecting artists with audiences, replacing much of traditional media,” Ellefson said via the press release. “I’m excited to build a community where we can dive into discussions about music, entertainment, lifestyle, and everything in between.”

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Anthrax bassist Frank Bello has revealed that the long-awaited follow-up to the band’s 2016 album For All Kings is set for a September/October release.

Bello dropped the intel at the Namm convention during a new interview with American Music Supply about his new signature Spector bass guitar.

“We have a new Anthrax record [coming out],” Bello said (as transcribed by Blabbermouth). “And it’s been about eight years. [Laughs] It’s been a while. So, we have a new Anthrax record. This bass [guitar] will be shown everywhere we go. We’re gonna start touring. The record’s supposed to come out September, October.”

The bassist added that the band has “big touring plans” to support the release of the new album.

“If you know Anthrax, you know what we do — we stay on the road for quite a while,” he said. “There’s some very big shows being planned right now, which I can’t talk about,...

Hammerfall have announced their 13th studio album, Avenge the Fallen, arriving August 9th via Nuclear Blast Records.

The Swedish power metal vets also offered up the lead single “Hail to the King,” a classic mid-tempo heavy metal march with a shimmering vocal performance from armor-clad frontman Joacim Cans.

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The song itself was conceived while Hammerfall were on tour, brushing shoulders with some of their fellow metal icons.

“I began working on ‘Hail to the King’ while on tour in the US with Helloween,” recalled guitarist Oscar Dronjak via a press release. “By the end of the tour, I was getting close to wrapping the song up, so straight after the Los Angeles gig I headed to the bus where I worked like a mad man to get the last pieces together.”

He continued: “That turned out to be the show where one of my favorite wrestlers,...

Anthrax played their first show with original bassist Dan Lilker in 40 years on Saturday, April 13th, in Mexico City.

Lilker is filling in on Anthrax’s South American run and Spring 2024 US festival dates for Frank Bello, who is sitting out the shows due to “personal reasons.” The band kicked of the itinerary in Mexico City at Mxmf The Metal Fest, running through a 12-song set that leaned heavily on Anthrax’s most popular songs.

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Lilker co-founded Anthrax in 1981 as the band’s original bassist and occasional guitarist. He co-wrote and performed on Anthrax’s 1984 debut Fistful of Metal before parting ways with Scott Ian and company. Two songs from that album were played in Mexico City: “Metal Thrashing Mad” and “Deathrider” (marking the first performance of the latter since 2014).

Anthrax will continue to play festivals in South America throughout the remainder of April. From there,...

Original Anthrax bassist Dan Lilker has been tapped to fill in for Frank Bello on the band’s upcoming tour dates, marking a return to the the legendary thrash act after exiting 40 years ago.

According to a press release, Bello will not accompany the band on its upcoming South American shows and US festival dates due to “personal reasons.” The US festival appearances include Welcome to Rockville on May 9th in Daytona Beach, Florida, and Sonic Temple on May 17th in Columbus, Ohio.

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“I’m really looking forward to jamming with Anthrax again,” said Lilker in the press release. “When we parted ways back in 1984, they told me to stick around because they might need me in 40 years.”

Added the band: “We’re all very excited about with playing with Danny again, and we really appreciate his filling in for Frank. It’s been way too...

Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian celebrated his 60th birthday on December 31st with an “epic” party featuring a number of his musician friends participating in a 42-song all-star jam. Among the highlights was Alice in Chains singer-guitarist Jerry Cantrell belting out the Billy Joel classic “You May Be Right.”

The festivities at Galpin Speed Shop in Van Nuys, California, got underway when Ian entered the venue as a passenger in a Batmobile as Slayer’s “Raining Blood” played over the P.A. system.

According to Blabbermouth, among the musicians attending and/or participating in the jam session were Cantrell, Anthrax bandmates Charlie Benante and Frank Bello, Gary Holt, Robert Trujillo (Metallica), Brendon Small (Dethklok), Doug Pinnick (King’s X), Andrew Hurley (Fall Out Boy), Whitfield Crane (Ugly Kid Joe), Roy Mayorga, Robb Flynn (Machine Head), Jay Buchanan (Rival Sons), Danny Lilker, John Bush, and Joey Vera (Armored Saint).

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Anthrax are currently working on their long-awaited new album at Dave Grohl’s Studio 606 in Los Angeles, and were recently paid a visit by the Foo Fighters frontman himself. Grohl even sat behind Charlie Benante’s drum kit and played a bit of Nirvana’s “Scentless Apprentice.”

Benante shared a video on Instagram of Grohl testing out the Anthrax stickman’s kit. At one point in the clip, Benante is heard saying, “Play ‘Senseless Apprentice’ once.” Despite Benante flubbing the song title, Grohl obliged. After a couple of restarts, the Nirvana drummer played the beginning of the In Utero track.

Anthrax also shared pics of Grohl hanging out with the band in the studio, including one with him posing with Anthrax members Benante, Frank Bello, and Scott Ian, along with producer Jay Ruston and Ian’s son Revel. The band captioned the pics, “New album is going to be awesome ☄️...

Thrash legends Anthrax have hit the studio to work on their new album, the long-awaited follow-up to 2016’s For All Kings.

The band revealed the news in a press release, sharing a photo of core instrumental members Scott Ian, Charlie Benante, and Frank Bello alongside producer Jay Ruston. Ian and company are currently laying down tracks before vocalist Joey Belladonna and lead guitarist Jonathan Donais add their respective parts.

Heavy Consequence caught up with Benante earlier this year for a joint interview with Exodus’ Gary Holt, and he briefly discussed the band’s recording plans and working around his own busy schedule as the current drummer for Pantera.

“Basically we’ve been working on this record but it’s been taking long to do, because we’ve been out here touring again,” Benante told us. “The plan is to get in in between the Pantera schedules and start to do the drums,...

Public Enemy’s Chuck D reunited with Anthrax last year to perform the genre-smashing rendition of “Bring the Noise” they released together in 1991. The hip-hop artist’s appearance was part of Anthrax’s 40th-anniversary livestream, which was broadcast from a Los Angeles soundstage last July. The whole celebration is available now as Anthrax Xl on Blu-ray, CD, and digitally.

Chuck bounces around the stage as he raps his verses, and guitarist Scott Ian and bassist Frank Bello shout Flavor Flav’s parts. The aerobic performance ends just like it did on the collaboration’s 1991 single,...

A clip from Greetings From Tim Buckley has been released.

The long-awaited Jeff Buckley biopic stars Penn Badgley (Gossip Girl) as the 'Hallelujah' singer, and Imogen Poots as his love interest Allie.

Directed by Daniel Algrant, the film centres on the hours leading up to Buckley's legendary 1991 performance of his father's songs.

Badgley has admitted that he was not worried about taking on the role because "he knew he could play" the late musician well on screen.

Kate Nash, Frank Wood, Frank Bello, William Sadler and Norbert Leo Butz round out the cast of the drama, which is penned by first-time writers David Brendel and Emma Sheanshang.

Greetings from Tim Buckley will be released in Us cinemas and on demand on April 16, with a UK release date yet to be set.

“Come on, now. You can’t tell grown-ups what to wear,” balked Ne-Yo. He was referring to CBS’ memo heard round the world last week, banning “side boob,” “thong type costumes” and “puffy bare skin” from Sunday’s red carpet and broadcast. Photos: Grammy 2013 Red Carpet Arrivals Gallery Many attendees noted that the rules are meant to be broken (“Just have fun, dammit. Drink!” proclaimed Anthrax bassist Frank Bello), while others stayed well within the confines of the guidelines. “In all honesty, it wasn’t really an option for me anyway,” said Carly Rae Jepsen, draped in

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Penn Badgley has opened up about his starring role as Jeff Buckley in Greetings From Tim Buckley. The film recounts the days leading up to Jeff's 1991 tribute concert for his late father Tim Buckley (Ben Rosenfield), also starring Imogen Poots, Kate Nash, Frank Wood, Frank Bello, William Sadler and Norbert Leo Butz. Badgley admitted to New York Magazine's Vulture that he knew he could portray the late musician on the big screen. "I have to choose my words carefully, but I mean this in just the most plain way - I knew I could do it," he said. "I was not concerned about the singing. I was concerned about doing it in the right way, because I actually can imitate him more than I did in the movie. I could have maybe focused more on the mimicry. "But I decided not to. I decided (more)...

Philip Anselmo (Down, Pantera, Arson Anthem, Superjoint Ritual) joined Scott Ian (Anthrax), David Ellefson (Megadeth), Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater), Frank Bello (Anthrax), Charlie Benante (Anthrax) and Kerry King (Slayer) on stage earlier this evening (Monday, September 12) at the second Metal Masters Clinic at the Best Buy Theater in New York City to perform two Pantera classics: “A New Level” and “Fucking Hostile”. Videos of the two performances can be seen below. Rita Haney, the girlfriend of late Pantera guitarist “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott, recently called on former Pantera drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott and singer Philip Anselmo to settle their differences in honor of Dimebag, who was shot and killed by...

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Toronto, On (September 13, 2010).International production and sales outfit Celluloid Dreams, headed by Hengameh Panahi, has acquired worldwide rights to the highly anticipated film Greetings From Tim Buckley starring Penn Badgley, Imogen Poots, Frank Wood, Norbert Leo Butz, Jessica Stone, Bill Sadler, and Frank Bello. Dan Algrant (People I Know, Naked in New York) is directing the script he co-wrote with Emma Sheanshang and David Brendel.

Greetings From Tim Buckley follows artist Jeff Buckley.s (Badgley) eminent 1991 performance at his father.s tribute concert in St. Ann.s Church. Through a romance with a young woman working at the concert, he comes to understand the father who abandoned him.

Music biopics are by and large formulaic, strained and unimaginative, despite sometimes featuring Oscar-winning performances (Jamie Foxx in Ray, Reese Witherspoon in Walk The Line). In fact, those two films I just mentioned perfectly illustrate my point: they have the exact same plot, despite centering on two equally great musicians who were wildly different from each other. The two competing films based on the short, brilliant life of singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley have the potential to transcend those limits and approach the epic scale of Amadeus or the mad joy of creation found in the great Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould.

The Playlist brings us updates on both of these projects. Director Jake Scott‘s take on the singer’s life – using David Browne‘s book Dream Brothers: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley “as a resource” – stars Reeve Carney, star of Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark as Buckley,...

Anthrax bassist, Frank Bello, has joined the cast of the Jeff Buckley biopic starring Penn Badgley. HitFix reports that Bello will play punk rock legend Richard Hell in the film titled Greetings from Tim Buckley. Badgley will play "a just-starting-out Jeff Buckley who performs at a 1991 tribute concert for his late father Tim." Richard Hell performed at the Tim Buckley tribute. It is not known how big of a role Bello will have in the film. Variety also reports that Frank Wood (Changeling) has joined the cast. The cast also includes Imogen Poots, Bill Sadler and U.K. singer Kate Nash. 

Filming has recently begun on Greetings. This is the second Jeff Buckley biopic in production. The other film is currently untitled film and is being directed by Jake Scott (Welcome to the Rileys) stars Reeve Carney (Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark) as the troubled singer-songwriter. That film is currenlty...

The race between the two competing Jeff Buckley biopics is heating up. "Greetings from Tim Buckley," in which a just-starting-out Jeff Buckley (played by "Gossip Girl" star Penn Badgley) performs at a 1991 tribute concert for his late father Tim, has just added Anthrax bassist Frank Bello as punk rock legend Richard Hell. Frank Wood ("Changeling") has also joined the cast, according to Variety. The film will also star Imogen Poots, Bill Sadler and U.K. singer Kate Nash. Although the folksy leanings of Tim Buckley's music seem oceans apart from the arty punk employed by Hell in seminal NYC '70s bands...

Frank Wood ("Changeling," "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3") is set to play songwriter Gary Lucas in the indie biopic "Greetings From Tim Buckley" says Variety.

The story deals with the lead up to the 1991 debut performance of Jeff Buckley (Penn Badgley) at his father's tribute concert at St. Ann's Church, a performance which was the springboard for his own music career.

Ben Rosenfield will play Jeff's titular father Tim in a film whose cast also includes Imogen Poots and UK pop star Kate Nash. Filling out smaller roles are the likes of Bill Sadler as guitarist Lee Underwood and Anthrax musician Frank Bello as punk innovator Richard Hell. Shooting kicks off today in New York.

Jake Scott's rival Jeff Buckley biopic meanwhile, which has the music rights from the Buckley estate, won't be using Jeff's recordings but will rather feature star Reeve Carney's voice according to Billboard.

While the competing Jeff Buckley pics continue their separate paths to production, they are marked by some notable differences. While the forthcoming untitled Reeve Carney/Jake Scott pic is approved by the late singer's estate with full access to its archives and rights to the songs, what it won't have is Anthrax bassist Frank Bello playing punk legend Richard Hell. Which is kind of awesome. With filming kicking off today, "Greetings From Tim Buckley" has solidified its cast led by Penn Badgley and Imogen Poots with Norbert Leo Butz and Jessica Stone as promoters Hal Wilner and Janine Nichols; Bill Sadler…...

Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea has announced some exciting new initiatives for his Silverlake Conservatory of Music.

Established by Flea and Keith Barry in 2001 to facilitate music education by providing affordable or free lessons and instruments, the Conservatory’s eight classrooms are filled with instruments, teachers and students, with instruction, discussion, laughter and, of course, lots of music. To these students, the Scm represents a future full of the joy of music and the sense of accomplishment felt by those who make it.

The charity is happy to announce that it is running an online fundraising auction for a brand new Fender guitar amp, with all proceeds going to its music facilities. The G-dec 3 Thirty model amp comes packed with presets and loops from some top artists, including Eric Johnson, Charlie Benante and Frank Bello (Anthrax), Phil Collen (Def Leppard), Joe Trohman (Fall Out Boy), Brad Paisley, Dweezil Zappa,...

Anthrax is a band that holds a special place in the hearts of many Fangoria readers. Original Fango editor Bob Martin even appeared in the band's video for "Madhouse" off of their Spreading The Disease album (more on that here). Now comes word that Megaforce Records is set to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the band's 1984 debut with a limited edition vinyl release of Fistful Of Metal.

"Anthrax's music matters.  In the pantheon of modern metal, Anthrax is certainly a cornerstone, and if one listens, one can hear their influence on any number of up and coming bands of the new generation."  -- Kirk Hammett, Metallica

"This is where we were in 1984, young adults making a musical statement.  We really didn't know what we were starting, we were just living it."  -- Charlie Benante, Anthrax

Los Angeles, CA - Wednesday, March 25, 2009 -- One of the albums that can be pinpointed...