Anthrax teams up with Fall Out Boy; Judas Priest announces final tour ever

by Tim Craddock on December 7th, 2010 at 12:53 PM

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We turned our backs on metal for barely a minute and it’s already gone batshit crazy. It all started this morning (December 7) with the revelation that Anthrax is teaming up with members of Fall Out Boy for a new album.

Damien Thorn from the original Omen film is the only unholy entity that’s scares us more. This bastard child—known as the Damned Things—is the combination of Scott Ian and Rob Caggiano from Anthrax, Keith Buckley of Every Time I Die, and Joe Trohman and Andy Hurley of Fall Out Boy.

The group's first album, Ironiclast, comes out December 14. We finally understand what our parents were going through when they said, “I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed.” Does anyone else hear an evil choir chanting “Sanguis bibimus, corpus edimus, tolle corpus Satani” ominously in the background?

That eerie episode then shifted to deep dark dread with Judas Priest’s announcement on its website that the end was nigh.

“After storming the world for nearly 40 years and taking their very special brand of heavy metal to all four corners of the planet, JUDAS PRIEST - one of the most influential heavy metal bands of all time, have announced this will be their final world tour!!”

If the exclamation marks didn’t piss you off, the show schedule should. So far, there are only European dates for the Epitaph tour. Rob Halford better cross the water and sing “Breaking the Law” one last time for us or we’ll be screaming for vengeance in the streets. Either that, or we’ll just end up like the first nanny in The Omen.

"We've Got a Situation Here" by the Damned Things.