Metallica Wins Its Billing by The High Four

The concert, or visiting, or the concept is called the Big Four, and you need an asterisk. Long ago, one of the four has become much larger than the rest.

In alphabetical order, anthrax, Megadeth, Metallica and Slayer – who played at Yankee Stadium in a deep and unforgettable seven-hour concert on Wednesday night – were the most popular in the mid 1980’s trash metal. (. Some prefer a Big Five, and include the Exodus or Testament) Thrash was a powerful dog, ran at the speed of hardcore punk and hyper-articulated solos caught fire pump in small spaces.

Now that all these groups are touring together, under the old banner, the order of billing is an important issue. Imagine all the lawyers all the cold logic. (Metal of the 80s, was a boys’ game built on aggression, not love, and there are well-documented squabbles within some of these bands – especially between Metallica and Megadeth, as Megadeth is led by Dave Mustaine , who had been expelled from Metallica.) Finally, in order of appearance Wednesday was the Slayer Megadeth Anthrax Metallica.

Of course, Metallica is increasing. Self-titled fifth album in 1991 with the ballad of the sections and expensive production values, broke the logic of thrash metal and came to a large number of rooms in adolescents. It sold over 15 million copies in the United States. While the operation of the fleet of Metallica. Metallica No, not Yankee Stadium.

Issue of Wednesday was the seventh in the Big Four concert tour this year, which began in April at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California (The bands played together several times last year in Europe, the Big festivals Four or large.) Before Metallica is set on Wednesday, Jose Mangin came they cry host of “liquid metal” on Sirius XM Radio on stage – located on the outfield wall – to declare this metal the greatest show ever on East Coast. Could it be true? It probably depends on your definition of metal. (Metallica headlining a show at Giants Stadium in 1998, with groups of rap-metal, Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit.) Anyway, to Metallica, or any other metal band strictly the concert was a big deal.

No wonder that the group wanted the tour thus surrounded and rule over his own past. For a long time been concerned about their own history to start in the 80’s scrappy, she has to prove its authenticity. Metallica and put two or more hours earned his top billing, with lasers, fireworks and flashpots, each group member played scene antics owners, individual solos and crowd pumping strategy. After 30 years, who are good at that.

Calibrated the set list was almost identical to the one who played Coachella. It ’started with the old (”Creeping Death”), the transition to the new (”All Nightmare Long”), and we deserved, § instrumental (”Orion”), then strikes, and landmarks (”One” “Master of Puppets”) and back again to the old (”Seek and Destroy”). And it was the right retroactively, the songs of fast and slow and medium-sized enterprises, compassionate and ruthless. The last set is also a song, in which members of all four bands. Cleverly, it was a version of Motörhead “Overkill”, a song that must be stopped and restarted. Every time I revived it, took a different drummer Lars Ulrich and Metallica, Dave Lombardo, Slayer, Anthrax Charlie Benanti, guitarists traded off as well.

Anthrax, with heavy vibrato vocalist Joey Belladonna was the least popular of the four bands: a logic dictates that the first thing. But its members are New Yorkers, while the remaining bands are from the West Coast, who are also serious Yankees fans. It would have been good to give them a bigger place. However, they have always been lower than their counterparts in the California primary, the opposite of the way these things usually play in American music, and easily used in your favor. Mr. Bell turn on the stadium’s video camera for a while, wandering the edge of the stage, and guitarist Scott Ian anthrax hung a banner on the basis of the logo of the Yankees.

Mr. Mustaine of Megadeth has just set aside some space in his autobiography, “Mustaine: A Memoir heavy metal.” Addressing the issue of adjustment in the group of four to assure the. reader who was offended that up behind Slayer But he said an internal monologue in his own italics: “OK, let’s play for you on this journey, and God willing it again in the near future and we can change things … “

He explained that he had been hospitalized the day before the neck surgery. “I will not play right now,” he told the audience, “but I do it for you.” And as always, it was fascinating to see: a serious and Flint’s voice, a guitar player generous and hard work when he acted out solos with Chris Broderick, the latest in a line of second-order Megadeth soloists. Mr. Mustaine is a character skeptical of what we now consider a naive time when firm and resolute, self-taught virtuoso wore spandex, he sang one song after another controversy, paranoia and demagoguery and religious wars. But the problem was his neck or something, there was a feeling of remoteness of its performance. It has not get all the way in.

Slayer does not. The set is just one of four without a light source not only step: the sun had set, “South of Heaven” and the singer Tom Araya, motionless and staring straight ahead, spit out his lyrics so fast that it will not be displayed outfield players for digital display, because they were in other bands. For a memorable 40 minutes or so, Yankee Stadium was a dark and contemplative performance that has run almost continuously, except for a few moments of silence.

The group is always a tight machine that makes every move compressed, even when the guitarists Kerry King and Gary Holt have their instruments, screaming. Rhythmically swaying, unlike Metallica, whose pace has often volatile and persistent, especially in his later songs. I felt unstoppable and armored, and the bizarre circumstances, playing to tens of thousands of people on a golf ball has not changed.