The Big Four (Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer & Anthrax) - Sonisphere Bulgaria - 9/2010

[anomynous]

Press Release

The "Big Four" of 1980s thrash metal - Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax — played together for the first time this year as part of the Sonisphere festival. A Blu-ray is set to be released in September showcasing the entire concert they held on June 22 in Sofia, Bulgaria: two hours of Metallica, and one hour each of Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax.

The two-disc release will include the "Am I Evil?" finale jam, where all four bands joined forces onstage to cover the Diamond Head classic.

Special features will include backstage footage and interviews.

The set lists for that concert were as follows:

Metallica

* Creeping Death
* For Whom The Bell Tolls
* Fuel
* Harvester Of Sorrow
* Fade To Black
* That Was Just Your Life
* Cyanide
* Sad But True
* Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
* All Nightmare Long
* One
* Master Of Puppets
* Blackened
* Nothing Else Matters
* Enter Sandman
* Am I Evil? (with the Big Four)
* Hit The Lights
* Seek and Destroy

Slayer

* World Painted Blood
* Jihad
* War Ensemble
* Hate Worldwide
* Seasons In The Abyss
* Angel of Death
* Beauty Through Order
* Disciple
* Mandatory Suicide
* Chemical Warfare
* South of Heaven
* Raining Blood

Megadeth

* Holy Wars... The Punishment Due
* Hangar 18
* Wake Up Dead
* Headcrusher
* In My Darkest Hour
* Skin O' My Teeth
* A Tout Le Monde
* Hook In Mouth
* Trust
* Sweating Bullets
* Symphony Of Destruction
* Peace Sells

Anthrax

* Caught In A Mosh
* Got the Time
* Madhouse
* Be All, End All
* Antisocial
* Indians
* Medusa
* Only
* Metal Thrashing Mad
* I Am The Law

The best part? This is the entire concert, no songs cut at all.

[dobyblue]

Wow that is awesome. Cool to see Anthrax did "Only", that's a great tune.
Wish Metallica's set had "Call of Ktulu" on it, but looks like a pretty sweet set all round.

This piece sells, and I'm buying.

[P@t_Mtl]

That will be one ultra loud rock concert

[Geezer00003]

Hoping for a quality presentation here.
Well purchase this for Metallica alone!

[notman]

Originally Posted by P@t_Mtl

That will be one ultra loud rock concert

I will buy this for Anthrax alone, but I like all the other bands too. Anthrax is desperately in need of a quality live video. NFV was put on DVD with the Among the Living remaster, but the video is terrible. It's worse than a DVD made from Youtube, let alone being worse than the VHS. The audio was greatly improved, at least. (Audio was DTS at 1.5 mbps.) Alive 2 sucked. Music of Mass Destruction had good audio but terrible video. Live Noize is only available on VHS and that's my least favorite era of the band, the Public Enemy era. I know there's a DVD available, but it's not authorized. I really had hoped the Sonisphere 2009 at Knebworth (sp?) would have been released because I'm more of a John Bush fan, but I like Joey too. I know the whole thing was shot in HD and I saved the two songs they played on Palladia on AVCHD.

Hopefully they have time to fix the audio on this. In the theater it didn't sound very good until Metallica's part, and Slayer sounded especially terrible in the beginning. My friend watched in another city and experienced the same thing.

[notman]

It's a shame that this will be the fifth official Megadeth live video (assuming it comes out after Rust in Peace live) and they all have so many songs repeated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rude_Awakening_(DVD)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_On..._track_listing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warches...five_.28DVD.29
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=4791 (tracklist in the comments)

Don’t get me wrong, some Megadeth songs are classics, but the same old setlists are boring. I didn’t even try to argue with my wife to go see Megadeth the last time they came to my hometown because they were only playing two new songs and then the standard hits I’ve seen so many times before.

I wonder if That One Night: Live in Buenos Aires was shot in HD or just video. It has been a long time since I have watched it, but I remember the performance and the crowd were very good. I would upgrade if given the opportunity.

[anomynous]

Originally Posted by notman

It's a shame that this will be the fifth official Megadeth live video (assuming it comes out after Rust in Peace live) and they all have so many songs repeated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rude_Awakening_(DVD)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_On..._track_listing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warches...five_.28DVD.29
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=4791 (tracklist in the comments)

Don’t get me wrong, some Megadeth songs are classics, but the same old setlists are boring. I didn’t even try to argue with my wife to go see Megadeth the last time they came to my hometown because they were only playing two new songs and then the standard hits I’ve seen so many times before.

I wonder if That One Night: Live in Buenos Aires was shot in HD or just video. It has been a long time since I have watched it, but I remember the performance and the crowd were very good. I would upgrade if given the opportunity.

Be thankful you're saying that here and not on the Megadeth forums, because you'll be attacked, your post will be deleted, and you'll possibly be banned.

Even though it's true. That's one thing nobody can knock Metallica about. Except for the few "core" songs, Metallica switches up the setlist a lot.

[PurpleJesus74]

Originally Posted by dobyblue

Wow that is awesome. Cool to see Anthrax did "Only", that's a great tune.
Wish Metallica's set had "Call of Ktulu" on it, but looks like a pretty sweet set all round.

This piece sells, and I'm buying.

Call Of Ktulu is so rarely played live by them,i know they played it at the S & M Concert,that was probably the last time they've played it.I can't wait for this blu ray it should be incredible.Wonder what the price will be,it'll be worth it.

[anomynous]

Wow, I put 2 pretty obvious typos in the thread title


If a mod that reads this could fix the Four and change it to Sonisphere, that would be appreciated.

[zombeaner]

Really looking forward to this. A friend of mine went to the theater to see it and said it was amazing.

[Steel Panther]

I hope for everyone's sake they do something to Mustaine's vocals. He sounded HORRIBLE. I've seen the Megadeth portion in 720p and my ears won't ever forgive me for that. But, I love Megadeth just the same anyway =)

[Lepidopterous]

I turned down $16 tickets to this concert

[pro-bassoonist]

Originally Posted by anomynous

Wow, I put 2 pretty obvious typos in the thread title

If a mod that reads this could fix the Four and change it to Sonisphere, that would be appreciated.

Pro-B

[DaleDark]

Saw it in theater here in Milwaukee, and I too can report that the sound mix was abysmal. I chalked it up to either the projectionist set the levels wrong (there was way too much mid range, not enough low end), or a rushed mix due to the short turn around between the actual event and the live simulcast (8 hrs, give or take).
Despite the audio problems, and a couple songs they didn't show (would have loved to have heard Joey singing "Only") it was a pretty cool show. The only thing that could have made this show even sweeter would have been if Heaven & Hell had been able to perform as scheduled. Anthrax was awesome enough to break into "Heaven & Hell" in the middle of "Indians", and they showed interviews w/ some of the guys telling Ronnie James Dio stories.
All in all, this might actually trump Flight 666 as the most awesome metal blu.

[TheAbsorbant]

Originally Posted by DaleDark

Saw it in theater here in Milwaukee, and I too can report that the sound mix was abysmal. I chalked it up to either the projectionist set the levels wrong (there was way too much mid range, not enough low end), or a rushed mix due to the short turn around between the actual event and the live simulcast (8 hrs, give or take).
Despite the audio problems, and a couple songs they didn't show (would have loved to have heard Joey singing "Only") it was a pretty cool show. The only thing that could have made this show even sweeter would have been if Heaven & Hell had been able to perform as scheduled. Anthrax was awesome enough to break into "Heaven & Hell" in the middle of "Indians", and they showed interviews w/ some of the guys telling Ronnie James Dio stories.
All in all, this might actually trump Flight 666 as the most awesome metal blu.

The sound in the cinema I was in was awful as well. And not very HD. I've since found a BD of it in 1080i and it's waaaaaay better, although the sound mixer schmuck managed to, up to Metallicas section, put the right guitar in the center speaker instead of the right speaker, which totally threw the balance of the mix off.

Besides all that, Metallica's "Fracais Pour Une Nuit" is by far the most awesome metal Blu-Ray so far.

[ChuckT43]

I too would buy this just for Anthrax. I hope they do a good job on the A\V. I'm very happy with the set list from each band. I would like to see Anthrax release a really solid show featuring alot of music from the early to mid history of albums. Maybe that can happen now that they have Joey and if this does well in sales. I'm even breaking out the old metal posters for this release.

[Ray O. Blu]

Originally Posted by TheAbsorbant

Besides all that, Metallica's "Fracais Pour Une Nuit" is by far the most awesome metal Blu-Ray so far.

Agreed! Stunning on Blu and excellent AQ.
Can't wait for the Big 4 Blu, but it will be hard to top Metallica in Nimes.

Oh yeah... ...SLAYERRRRR!

[anomynous]

Originally Posted by pro-bassoonist

Pro-B

Thank you sir


Anyways, I like Belladonna singing Only, it's great. This is a video of it from the show on 6/16

[bandit29]

Will buy it for Slayer mostly. The best of the so-called "Big Four".

Megadeth musically sounds great still but Mustaine's voice has become more annoying live. Their newest CD "Endgame" is their best in years.

At least Metallica is getting back to their roots. Pretty good setlist for the most part.

Anthrax..meh..

[Awesomo4000]

Any news on this? I highly doubt this will be a September release now.