Anthrax To Play Additional Set At Sonisphere

Having already been confirmed for a coveted Apollo stage performance on the Saturday of this year's Sonisphere Festival, thrash legends Anthrax will now additionally play their classic album ‘Among The Living’ in its entirety. The special performance will take place on the Friday in Bohemia.

Scott Ian said: “We love to play these songs and people love to hear them so we're really f***ing excited to be doing this special show the day before our main-stage performance at Sonisphere.”

Also newly announced are H.I.M, Comeback Kid, Sweet Savage, October File, Eureka Machines, The Bots, Straight Lines, Zico Chain, Black Dogs, Love Zombies, Stormzone Shrine, Rival State, The Wild Lies, The Raven Age and Empire Kill.

Tickets to Sonisphere are on sale right now. Head to planetrock.com/tickets to get yours!

The line-up so far:

Friday 4th July

APOLLO STAGE:
The Prodigy
Limp Bizkit
Him
Band Of Skulls
Gary Numan
Anti-Flag
The Defiled

BOHEMIA
Electric Wizard
Anthrax (Performing Among The Living)
65daysofstatic
Atari Teenage Riot
Bam  Margera's Fuckface Unstoppable
Devil You Know
Comeback Kid
Yashin  
Canterbury
Lostalone
Hounds

JAGERMEISTER & SATELLITE STAGE
Carnifex
Brutality Will Prevail
Trc
Little Matador
Max Raptor
Malefice
Straight Lines
Emp!Re
Black Dogs
Love Zombies
Shrine
Glass City Vice

Saturday 5th July

APOLLO STAGE:
Iron Maiden
Deftones
Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls
Anthrax
Ghost
Babymetal
Tesseract

SATURN STAGE:
Slayer
Carcass
The Winery Dogs
Chas & Dave
Alestorm

BOHEMIA & OTHER STAGES:
The Sisters Of Mercy
New Model Army
Dog Eat Dog Playing All Boro Kings
Sebastian Bach  
The Virginmarys   
Reckless Love 
Blitz Kids  
Voodoo Six  
Jagermeister & Satellite Stage
Bleed From Within
The Safety Fire
Stampin Ground
Eureka Machines   
Glamour Of The Kill    
The Hell
Broken Hands
The Lounge Kittens
Zico Chain
Fort Hope
Rival State
Collibus
Stormzone
The Raven Age
The Wild Lies
Empire Kill

Sunday 6th July

APOLLO STAGE:
Metallica
Alice In Chains
Mastodon
Airbourne
Devin Townsend Project
Gojira

SATURN STAGE:
Dream Theater
Dropkick Murphys
Reel Big Fish
Karnivool 
Protest The Hero
Black Spiders

BOHEMIA & OTHER STAGES:
Therapy? (Performing Infernal Love)
Gallows
The Bronx
Chiodos 
Truckfighters
Kerbdog
Bo Ningen
The Cadillac Three

JAGERMEISTER & SATELLITE STAGE
Raging Speedhorn
Trash Talk
Silverstein 
Anti-Nowhere League
Beastmilk
Dregen
Sweet Savage
Only Crime
The Bots
Itch
Palm Reader
The Hype Theory
Krokodil
The One Hundred
October File