{"id":716633,"date":"2026-06-21T02:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T02:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/716633\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T02:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T02:59:09","slug":"anthrax-pantera-drummer-charlie-benante-to-sit-out-touring-due-to-injury-darby-todd-to-fill-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/716633\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthrax\/Pantera drummer Charlie Benante to sit out touring due to injury, Darby Todd to fill in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Benante has been forced to step away from his immediate live duties with Pantera and Anthrax after suffering an injury to his right hand.<\/p>\n<p>Benante had been pulling double duty with both bands during their current European and UK runs. Darby Todd of Devin Townsend\/The Darkness fame has since been recruited to fill in behind the kit.<\/p>\n<p>Benante shared the following:<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to let everyone know that I unfortunately injured my right hand and, following my doctor&#8217;s orders, I&#8217;ll be sitting out a handful of shows from June 20 through July 4 to give it the proper time to heal.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m incredibly grateful that Darby Todd will be stepping in behind the kit for these dates and helping keep the shows rolling while I recover. I&#8217;m already focused on getting healthy and look forward to being back on the road soon. Thank you all for the support and understanding.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlie Benante has been forced to step away from his immediate live duties with Pantera and Anthrax after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[38453,88,3608,3607,1739,216,3,126558],"class_list":["post-716633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-anthrax","tag-entertainment","tag-hardcore","tag-lambgoat","tag-metal","tag-music","tag-news","tag-pantera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}