MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine hopes that there will be at least one more show featuring the so-called “Big Four” of 1980s thrash metal — METALLICA, MEGADETH, SLAYERand ANTHRAX — before SLAYER retires from touring.
SLAYER announced on Monday that it will embark on one “final” world tour before calling it quits as a touring act.
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Last night, Mustaine reacted to the news via Twitter, writing: “I hope for at least one more Big 4 Show before the end of SLAYER‘s final tour. It just wouldn’t be right. Anyone else with me?”
The four influential acts played together for the first time in history on June 16, 2010 in front of 81,000 fans at the Sonisphere festival at Bemowo Airport in Warsaw, Poland and shared a bill again for six more shows as part of the Sonisphere series that same year. They reunited again for several dates in 2011, including the last “Big Four” concert, which was held on September 14, 2011 at Yankee Stadium in New York City. Since then, METALLICA, SLAYER and ANTHRAX have played a number of shows together, including the 2013 Soundwave festival in Australia. They also performed at the 2014 Heavy MTL festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Hammett said last year that he believed that the “Big Four” idea would be revisited again. He explained: “I see those shows as kind of like a celebration — a real celebration of each other, and a real celebration of the music that we all make, and a real celebration of the audience embracing [what] we’ve done. And why not have more of that?”