{"id":697709,"date":"2026-05-27T19:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T19:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/697709\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T19:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T19:03:09","slug":"anthrax-perform-new-song-its-for-the-kids-live-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/697709\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthrax Perform New Song &#8220;It&#8217;s For the Kids&#8221; Live for First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/anthrax\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Anthrax<\/a> performed their new single \u201cIt\u2019s For the Kids\u201d live for the first time on Tuesday as part of their set opening for Iron Maiden in Sofia, Bulgaria.<\/p>\n<p>The song came at the halfway mark of the band\u2019s eight-song setlist, with the rest all being classics from the legendary thrash band\u2019s catalog.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stubhub.prf.hn\/click\/camref:1100l9Pt3\/pubref:anthrax*its-for-the-kids-live-debut-button\/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stubhub.com%2Fanthrax-tickets%2Fperformer%2F49701\" class=\"button button-ticket\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Get Anthrax Tickets Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s For the Kids\u201d is Anthrax\u2019s lead single from Anthrax\u2019s long-awaited upcoming studio album <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/05\/anthrax-cursum-perficio-single-its-for-the-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Cursum Perficio<\/a>\u00a0(due out September 18th), their first new studio LP in 10\u00a0years. We named the song our <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/05\/heavy-song-of-the-week-anthrax-its-for-the-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Heavy Song of the Week<\/a> earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>Sofia, Bulgaria has special significance as the site of the <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2010\/06\/watch-the-big-fours-ultimate-finale-in-bulgaria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">first-ever \u201cBig 4\u201d show<\/a> featuring Anthrax, Megadeth, Slayer, and Metallica, with the bands having played the same stadium in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Anthrax and Megadeth are currently supporting Iron Maiden as part of the Run For Your Lives world tour (<a href=\"https:\/\/viagogo.prf.hn\/click\/camref:1101lumwA\/pubref:anthrax*its-for-the-kids-live-debut\/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.viagogo.com%2FConcert-Tickets%2FPop-Rock%2FHeavy-Metal%2FNew-Wave-of-British-Heavy-Metal%2FIron-Maiden-Tickets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">tickets here<\/a>). The same bill is set to come to <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/10\/iron-maiden-2026-north-american-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">North America this summer<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/stubhub.prf.hn\/click\/camref:1100l9Pt3\/pubref:anthrax*its-for-the-kids-live-debut\/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stubhub.com%2Fanthrax-tickets%2Fperformer%2F49701\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">pick up tickets here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Watch the live debut of \u201cIt\u2019s For the Kids\u201d below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthrax performed their new single \u201cIt\u2019s For the Kids\u201d live for the first time on Tuesday as part&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-697709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}