Download Festival Australia has announced several sideshows for Brisbane and Adelaide, scheduled around the festival dates in March 2019.
Slayer will headline two shows with Anthrax and Behemoth in Adelaide and Brisbane as part of their final world tour ever.
Alice In Chains and Ghost will perform their own headline shows in Brisbane while Code Orange will also hit Queensland that same week.
In January 2018, thrash titans SLAYER devastated metalheads across the globe, announcing they were calling it a day, along with a mammoth final world tour. Now, Australians are about to get their last taste of this legendary and hugely influencal band. After 37 years, 12 studio releases, an abundance of Gold albums and countless shows, Slayer’s place in music history is secure as one of The Big Four (alongside Metallica, Megadeth and Anthrax), helping define the thrash-metal genre. Even among peers of that quality, Grammy Award winning Slayer still proudly stands alone and remains one of the most influential bands in heavy metal history. With Tom
Araya’s unmistakable vocals, Paul Bostaph’s hostile drums, Kerry King and Gary Holt’s slaughtering guitar riffs, and nasty as fuck lyrics, Slayer continues to whip its fans into anarchistic, antichrist-fuelled frenzies unmatched by any other act on the planet.
New York’s finest ANTHRAX are back in Australia for the first time since 2013. Anthrax’s latest album ‘For All Kings’ hit a career highest ARIA chart position of # 12. With over 10 million albums sold in a highly distinguished career, things don’t seem to be slowing down. The story of Anthrax is one of gritty determination in the face of outrageous odds and ‘For All Kings’ is the quintessential Anthrax record, and proof positive that you can’t keep a good band down.
Back in 1991 Adam “Nergal” Darski founded the death metal band Baphomet. Little did he know that they would evolve into the sublime beast that is the black metal band, BEHEMOTH. Over the course of the last 27 years, Behemoth have pushed the boundaries of black metal and heresy alike, and have continued to do so with their latest slab of darkness, ‘I Loved You At Your Darkest’.
ALICE IN CHAINS is touring in support of recently released album RAINIER FOG, which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Rock, Alternative and Hard Music Charts and No. 1 on the iTunes Rock Album Chart.
No one is doing what Ghost is doing. The band’s two-act live production is true rock theatre in the tradition of the great rock shows of the 70s, complete with scenery, costumes, and make up that fit seamlessly into its narrative and presentation. Ghost’s music is high-energy rock/pop that has been influenced by everything from black metal to ABBA. No wonder Tobias Forge, the mastermind behind Ghost, has been referred to as “the Andrew Lloyd Webber of rock.”
In a similar fashion to their recent Royal Albert Hall performance in London earlier this year, Brisbane fans will be treated to a two-act production featuring an elaborate church-themed stage with blackened voids and faux stained-glass windows; equal parts elegant, imposing and captivating.
Prequelle delves into the plague, the apocalypse, and dark ages – with a stage show to match. There’s no denying this one-off performance will treat Brisbane fans to a special evening with Ghost.
Since their breakthrough release in 2014 with “I AM KING”, the ever defiant Code Orange return this March for Australia’s biggest heavy music festival, Download.
As they say, nothing lasts forever. All things decay, all things change. The mightiest empires crumble to dust as their king’s bleed. Forever it would seem, is unobtainable. Yet, seeking to obtain the unobtainable and pushing against every boundary, shedding every label – Code Orange will bring their distinct edge, caustic harshness and new studio album titled, “FOREVER” Down Under this March.
Brisbane fans will be treated to a one-off headline show set to induce mayhem and draw blood – equipped with the “most punishing noise the band has recorded to date” (Rolling Stone) and songs featuring a rife number of sudden transitions and even harsher textures. Brisbane – prepare to be pounded into submission.
Slayer w/ Anthrax & Behemoth
March 7th – Riverstage, Brisbane
March 13th – Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Adelaide
Tickets – https://www.livenation.com.au/artist/slayer-tickets
Alice In Chains
March 13th – Eatons Hill Hotel, Brisbane
Tickets – https://www.livenation.com.au/show/1237844/alice-in-chains/brisbane/2019-03-13/en
Code Orange
March 10th – The Zoo, Brisbane
Tickets – https://www.livenation.com.au/show/1236905/code-orange/brisbane/2019-03-10/en
