Anthrax’s FOR ALL KINGS Makes Top Ten Debut On Billboard’s Top 200 Albums Chart!

Multi-Grammy  nominee Anthrax have blasted into Billboard’s Top 10 with their 11th studio album, For All Kings, bowing at #9-bullet on the Top  200 Albums Chart and selling 34,000 units.  This debut eclipses the #12  debut made by the band’s 2011 Grammy-nominated, critically-acclaimed Worship Music.

The album also topped the Hard Rock Albums chart in both  the U.S. and Canada with its #1 debuts, and landed at #5 and #7 respectively on  the U.S. and Canada’s Top Current Albums charts.  Additionally, For  All Kings debuted at #2 on Billboard’s Top Rock Albums chart, #2 on  the Independent Albums chart, #4 Physical Albums, and #5 Vinyl Albums chart.

“We share this Top 10 victory with all of our  fans,” said the band’s Charlie Benante.  “Heavy metal is alive  and well.”

Since For All Kings was released  Friday, February 26, it has held the #1  position on both the iTunes Heavy Metal Albums sales chart and Amazon’s Best  Sellers in Metal chart.  In addition, the album’s first single,  “Breathing Lightning,” debuted last week in the Top 40 on both the
Mediabase Active Rock Chart and on BDS.

 

 

Press has also been an enormous champion of For  All Kings:  “The album is thrash perfection…”    “…a near flawless album…5 out of 5 stars…”   “…one of Anthrax’s best CDs of all time, a sparkling  triumph…” “…a surefire album-of-the-year contender…”

For All Kings is the band’s 11th studio  album, was produced by Jay Ruston, and is their first album since 1990’s Persistence  of Time to be written specifically for Joey Belladonna’s soaring vocals, an integral part of Anthrax’s classic signature sound. And the album IS  classic Anthrax, with the band’s metal thrash roots clearly front-and-center,  and lyrics that tackle topics such as the struggle to grow up and be  responsible, having blind faith and selling your soul, how the way you  live your life affects everyone around you, and murder and martyrdom rooted in  an ideology.

“Thank you so much to everyone who loves the record  we made,” added Anthrax’s Scott Ian.  “The response to For  All Kings has been fantastic, seriously, thank you all so much.”

Anthrax is currently on tour in South America with Iron  Maiden and will return to the U.S. for a series of festival dates in the  Spring.

MAJOR LAZER take their ‘Mission’ to Cuba!

AMPED’s very own MAJOR LAZER were the first major American group to perform in Cuba “since the U.S. eased relations with the Caribbean’s largest island.” This news caps off a successful 12 month period that saw Major Lazer’s “Lean On” become Spotify’s most streamed song of all time!

You can read about this ‘major’ event HERE.

Check out a short clip of the crowed courtesy of the trio’s Facebook page!

Looks like Diplo, Walshy Fire and Jillionaire are living up to the title of their 2015 album, Peace Is The Mission!

 

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AFI side project BLAQK AUDIO to release MATERIAL on April 15!

Blaqk Audio, the electronic side endeavor of AFI’s Jade Puget and Davey Havok debuting August 14 in the form of the debut album CexCells actually had its genesis some five or six years ago even further back if one considers the duo’s shared love for the electronic music of the 1980s. Mixed by Dave Bascombe (Depeche Mode, Tears For Fears, Suede), CexCells expands upon and fully indulges the dark electronic textures that have influenced and pervaded the duo’s work for years. The results range from evocation of prime era Depeche Mode and early Ministry (“Stiff Kittens,” “Where Would You Like Them Left?,” “Bitter For Sweet”) to four on the floor club-friendly fare (“On A Friday,” “Snuff on Digital”-the latter being the first song written for the project, dating back to 2001-2002) to vulnerable balladry (“Wake Up, Open the Door and Escape to the Sea,” “The Fear of Being Found”)- all suffused with the common threads of Havok’s signature dark vocal and lyrical stylings and Puget’s epic, emotional arrangements.

TRACK LISTING:

Waiting To Be Told

First To Love

Ceremonial (Burst Into Stars)

Anointed

To Be Alone

Black at the Center

Curious Friends

Graphic Violence

I’m A Mess

Material

You Will Hate Me

TOUR

May 04 San Diego, CA House of Blues

May 05 Santa Ana, CA Observatory

May 06 Los Angeles, CA Troubadour

May 07 Sacramento, CA Ace of Spades

May 10 Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge

May 11 Seattle,WA Croc

May 13 Salt Lake City, UT In The Venue

May 14 Denver, CO Bluebird

May 16 Saint Paul, MN Turf Club

May 17 Chicago,IL Bottom Lounge

May 18 Toronto,ON Mod Club

May 20 Cambridge, MA Sinclair

May 21 Washington, DC U Street Music Hall

May 22 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom

June 4 Mountain View, CA Live 105 BFD