Anthrax has always been one of those hard working bands that never want to let their fans down. They go out…with whatever line-up they have at the time and do their thing on stage. Last Thursday evening they were supposed to play a 45 minute set at the Red Bull Snow Scrapers event in NYC. They started late and their set was cut short to under three songs. They issues the following statement of apology for the event.

“We want to apologize to our fans that came out to the Red Bull event last night in the hellish cold to see us play. It was an awesome event that we were honored to play but things just didn’t go off quite like planned.

“Originally, we were to go on just before 9 PM and play for 45-minutes. One of the snowboarding events ran very late which caused us to delay the start of our set. That and a curfew we were not informed about until 9:30 PM snowballed into an unfortunate situation that was beyond our control. As we were walking to the stage, we were instructed to cut our set to three songs, and no one was more surprised than us when they cut the PA before we could finish the third song. We are particularly mortified that this happened when our good friend, Chuck D, had just taken the stage for “Bring the Noise”. We extend our apologies to him.

“Nothing like this has ever happened to Anthrax before, and we regret that it happened last night. Thank you to those who came out to support and once again our sincere apologies.”

No one likes their set cut short, even if it’s cold as hell (never understood that expression). Check out the video below for a sliver of the event.