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20:46 Saturday, 25 January 2025
Metal Allegiance is entering their second decade together, and unlike most other metal supergroups or collaborations, Metal Allegiance continues stronger – and heavier – than ever. Beginning as a celebration of heavy metal, Metal Allegiance is powered by the almost tribal bond shared between the extreme music community’s most revered trailblazers, armed with a list of contributors onstage (and off) that read like a Wikipedia entry on the genre itself – whose "core 4" is comprised of David Ellefson, Mark Menghi, Alex Skolnick, and Mike Portnoy.
On Thursday, January 23, 2025, the band – which in addition to the core 4, will also include Chuck Billy (Testament), Bobby Blitz (Overkill), John Bush (Armored Saint), Doc Coyle (Bad Wolves & God Forbid), Brandon Ellis (The Black Dahlia Murder), Marty Friedman, Gary Holt (Slayer / Exodus), Andreas Kisser (Sepultura), Jeff Loomis, Mark Tornillo (Accept), Angel Vivaldi and more - performed at what has become an annual event for the band at the House of Blues in Anaheim, CA.
Setlist:
"Pledge of Allegiance"
"Fast as a Shark" (Accept)
"Terminal Illusion"
"Light Up the Sky" (Van Halen)
"Liars & Thieves"
"Let Darkness Fall"
"Parasite" (KISS)
"Disposable Heroes" (Metallica)
"The Accuser"
"Bound By Silence"
"Wang Dang Sweet Poontang" (Ted Nugent)
"Symphony of Destruction" (Megadeth)
"Territory" (Sepultura)
"War Pigs" (Black Sabbath)
"Iron Fist" (Motörhead)