Dinner's over, get out the desert. It's been officially confirmed from ANTHRAX's manager, Izvor Zivkovic that Dan Nelson is officially out of Anthrax. Izvor (sweet name!) released the following statement to the site with more Anthrax messages than the F.B.I. in 2001, BLABBERMOUTH.NET:
"As announced last week, thrash legends ANTHRAX regretfully cancelled the first three dates on the second leg of their European tour due to new vocalist Dan Nelson's unexpected illness. An additional seven European dates are also cancelled, those scheduled from July 22 to July 30.
"ANTHRAX is thrilled to announce that they will play the August 1 Sonisphere festival in Knebworth, England, with their good friend John Bush [by good friend they mean 'treated him like shit'] joining them for a very special one-off performance.
"The members of ANTHRAX have confirmed the departure of vocalist Dan Nelson. In light of this development, ANTHRAX's slot on the U.S. SLIPKNOT dates set for August and September, has also been cancelled. ANTHRAX is already actively considering lead singer candidates, and looks forward to hitting the road before the end of the year."
Wow. So that's that. It will be fun to get details on this and see what really happened. Nelson went from playing Long Island bars to opening up for Iron Maiden, so I assume it would take A LOT of bullshit for him to give that up. Either that, or his drunk ass was fired.
I think this is a big sign for Anthrax that it's time for them to throw in the towel. ....and I hope John Bush gets a lot of money for taking them back and appearing at Sonisphere!
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