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37 Years Ago: Anthrax Make Thrash History With ‘Among the Living’

Happy anniversary to Anthrax 's  Among the Living !

After Anthrax finished touring for their second album – their first with vocalist Joey Belladonna – the band was on fire. They had just experienced their first taste of mainstream exposure and had even played eight shows as the opening band on a bill with Black Sabbath on their ill-fated "Seventh Star" tour.

While they were on the road, Anthrax wrote several new songs, including “I Am the Law” and “Indians” and they couldn’t wait to get into the studio to record them for what is now widely regarded as one of the best thrash metal albums of all time, Among the Living , which came out March 22, 1987.

“We were on a roll in every way,” guitarist Scott Ian told me in 2005. “It really felt like we were being guided by the power of metal and it was out of our hands. Satan was channeling his will through us and we couldn’t help but succeed.”

Anthrax, "I Am the Law"

There are several ways Anthrax captured lighting on Among the Living . The songs they wrote in their New York practice space, like “Caught in a Mosh,” “Efilnikufesin (N.F.L.)” “A Skeleton in the Closet” and “Imitation of Life” contained infectious, razor-edged riffs as well as frantic thrash beats and barreling double-bass drums.

Then there were mid-paced stompers, including “I Am the Law” and “Indians” and “One World.” And finally, the band crafted “A.D.I./Horror of it All,” a touching tribute to late Metallica bassist Cliff Burton , who died in a bus accident in Ljungby, Sweden while the two bands were touring Europe together.

The track begins with an elegiac acoustic passage and builds into a chugging mosh riff, ending with a flailing guitar solo and a storm of hardcore beats.

“Part of the reason that song and the rest of the album sounds so angry is because Cliff died,” Ian told me in 2012 during an interview for his book I’m the Man: the Story of That Guy From Anthrax . “We’d lost our friend and it was so wrong and unfair. Yeah, we were pissed.”

Anthrax, "Caught in a Mosh"

Lyrically, Among the Living addressed a mix of real and fictional subjects. Ian wrote “Caught in a Mosh” after one of the band’s tech’s got pulled into a roiling mosh pit against his will. “Indians” is about the plight of the American Indians forced to live on reservations and “One World” is about the threat of nuclear war.

Elsewhere Ian penned songs based on tales by the U.K. comic book superhero Judge Dredd (“I Am the Law”) and Stephen King (“Skeleton in the Closet” is about the short story “Apt Pupil” and the title track was inspired by the novel The Stand ).

“I was so into, Stephen King, especially The Stand ,” Ian said. “It was such a big part of my life. Most of my world at that time was either horror books or movies and comic books.”

After they finished writing the songs, Anthrax flew to Quadradial Studios in Miami, Florida to track Among the Living with legendary producer Eddie Kramer, who had previously worked with Led Zeppelin and KISS among others. They recorded quickly and performed with urgency and enthusiasm. Belladonna’s vocals were raging, but flush with melody and the songs sounded raw, fierce and explosive.

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“I can safely say we knew who we were, and we certainly knew what we wanted to be, and we knew what we were capable of,” Ian said. “We were all completely stoked because we were making our third album, and things had only gotten bigger, and the buzz on the band was awesome. We felt the wave around us, we had caught a perfect wave and we were in the tube and it just never ended. The planets were aligned. It was the right songs at the right time.”

By the time Anthrax finished tracking the album they were convinced they had created their pièce de résistance. They recorded much of the record live in the studio and at the time, the chemistry between, Ian, guitarist Danny Spitz , bassist Frank Bello and drummer Charlie Benante was undeniable.

“We always felt like when we were in a room rehearsing, we were at our best,” Ian said. “So to be able to record this album in what was basically a live environment was amazing. We were in our element. We were killing it and we had all the confidence in the world.”

When Anthrax finished recording the album, Kramer told them to take off for a few hours while he worked on the mix. At the time, Anthrax thought they were on the same page as Kramer when it came to the brutal sound they wanted from the record. However, Kramer had something else in mind.

“At the time, the biggest record in the world was Def Leppard ’s Pyromania , and he really wanted to make a modern sounding metal album like that, which was the antithesis of what we were,” Ian recalled. “The first mix he did, I remember all of us coming into the room and listening to it and being like ‘Oh, my God, what is he doing?’ Everything was giant reverbs and just completely blown out, and we were like, ‘No, no, no, no, no.’ We want everything dry, everything raw. Everything in your face.”

At first Kramer tried to pull rank, but Anthrax held their ground. “Eddie and I actually got into a screaming fight over the direction of the mix,” Ian said. “His attitude was, ‘You need to be modern and on the cusp, using all the technology at your disposal,’ and we were like, ‘F--- that. We want it to sound like this record was made in 1977.’ It took lots of scratching and clawing and I finally had to say, ‘Look this is an Anthrax record. It’s not an Eddie Kramer record. You get to move on and do 100 more albums. This could be the last thing we ever do. It’s our album and our way and that’s all there is to it.’ In the end, he basically just turned off every f---ing reverb in the room and we were like, ‘Okay, that’s more like it.’”

Having completed his work on the album, Kramer went home and Anthrax flew to Nassau, Bahamas to work with Chris Blackwell at Compass Point Studios on the final mix. Fortunately, Blackwell understood the sound the band was going for and kept the record sounding crunchy and confrontational.

“It came out so great,” Ian said. “When you listen to that record, it has such a rawness and such an attitude to it. I can’t believe I had the nerve to stand up to one of our idols, Eddie Kramer, but if I hadn’t done that the album would have been totally ruined. And if we had out an album like Pyromania , that would have been the end of our career. We knew that, and made the record we wanted to make, and you f---in’ hear it when you listen to the album. It rips your head off.”

Among the Living entered the Billboard album chart at No. 62 and gained Anthrax the admiration of thrash diehards and attracted a new crowd captivated by the mix of catchy, melodic vocals and ferocious rhythms.

Anthrax, "Indians"

“When we finished the headlining run of Among the Living , in those four years, we went from being basically a complete unknown to selling out places that held 6,000 or 7,000 people, and even bigger in some markets,” Ian marveled. “We had no idea how it happened because we never once stopped to think about it, it was just always, ‘Go, go, go, go, go.’ Album, tour, album, tour. But at the same time we were working our asses off, everything we did was amazingly fun.”

Among the Living sold steadily through the years and on July 31,1990 the album was certified gold. In 2005, Anthrax reunited their Among the Living lineup, bringing Belladonna and Spitz back into the fold. During the world tour that followed they performed numerous cuts from the album live and performed the record front-to-back at some shows. Unfortunately, the decision to tour with Belladonna caused a rift with singer John Bush , who had replaced Belladonna in 1992. After the tour, which was fraught with tension, Spitz left the band, seemingly for good.

On Nov. 10, 2009, Anthrax released a remixed deluxe version of Among the Living , which included bonus alternate takes, live performances and the B-side from the "I Am the Law" single, "Bud E Luv Bomb And Satan's Lounge Band." The package also included a bonus concert DVD.

“It originally came out on VHS and was called ‘Nice F---in’ Video,’” Ian said. “It was our first big headline performance at the Hammersmith Odeon in London from December 1987 and it has been out of print forever. But it was never released on DVD because we could never convince Island to put it out. So I just went, ‘Well, why not put this on DVD and add it to the package?’ People have been waiting for this forever.”

While many Among the Living songs have been a major part of Anthrax’s set since the album was released, the band performed the full album again on during the "Metal Alliance" 2013 tour. And the band is currently celebrating the 30th anniversary of the album by playing it in its entirety.

“We have a killer set planned -- new stuff, old faves, deep tracks and Among front-to-back said Ian in a statement. “You’d better start getting in shape now for the epic wardance! See you soon my friends.”

Loudwire contributor Jon Wiederhorn is the author of  Raising Hell: Backstage Tales From the Lives of Metal Legends , co-author of  Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal , as well as the co-author of Scott Ian’s autobiography,  I’m the Man: The Story of That Guy From Anthrax , and Al Jourgensen’s autobiography,  Ministry: The Lost Gospels According to Al Jourgensen  and the Agnostic Front book  My Riot! Grit, Guts and Glory .

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It’s December 1987. Anthrax are starting a major US headlining tour with a show at Chicago’s prestigious, 5,000-capacity Aragon Ballroom. Support act Celtic Frost are onstage and the venue is rammed already. Anthrax founder and guitarist Scott Ian and drummer Charlie Benante are standing at the side of the stage when the penny drops.

“I looked at Charlie and pointed at the crowd and said, ‘Where did all these people come from? How did this happen?’” Scott recalls. “Just a few months before, we were stoked to be playing to 500 people. It was like I’d blinked and suddenly there were 5,000 people coming to our shows.”

Nearly 30 years on, Anthrax have long since secured their reputation as one of the best-loved and respected metal bands of all time. One of thrash’s Big 4, the New Yorkers are simply part of the furniture at this point, but it was the extraordinary and life-changing success of their third album, Among The Living , that was the catalyst for the glories that followed. Stuffed to the gills with freshly minted anthems like Caught In A Mosh , Indians and I Am The Law , it remains one of the classic 80s metal records. As they prepare to hit the UK for their first headlining tour in several years, during which they will play that classic album in its entirety, Scott and Charlie have vivid memories of the moment their lives altered forever.

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“We were already playing I Am The Law and Indians live on the Spreading The Disease tour the year before,” Scott recalls. “We knew we had those songs in our pocket going into the making of that record, and we felt that those songs were better than anything else we had at that point. I remember Charlie coming in with some of the riffs for I Am The Law and Indians , and we put those songs together and I was thinking, ‘Holy cow, we’ve got something really good going here!’ We were just in a really good place as a band. Our first two records put us on the map and we got to travel the world on Spreading The Disease . We made ourselves known to people all around the planet, and obviously things were going in the right direction for us when we made Among … People were really excited about Anthrax and we were excited because people were excited about Anthrax! Haha!”

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Among The Living was released on March 22, 1987. The band’s second album for Island Records, it was recorded in Miami, Florida, and mixed at Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas, where Iron Maiden had recorded Powerslave and Somewhere In Time . Bigger, bolder and heavier than the vast majority of likeminded records released at that time, it was instantly embraced by metalheads everywhere, turning Anthrax from well-rated contenders to bona fide world- beaters. If you were a metal fan in 1987, you owned a copy of Among The Living and knew all the words to Caught In A Mosh . It was that simple. As the near-universal positive reaction to the new record gained momentum, Anthrax found themselves playing to much bigger audiences than they had ever anticipated when Scott and former bassist Dan Lilker started the band back in 1981.

“In May, we started that tour playing to 500 kids, and by December we were playing to 7,000 or 8,000 people every night in the States,” says Scott. “That’s how fast things connected with that record. When that wave of thrash metal bands exploded, we were right at the forefront of it, riding our board so to speak, and in just a few months in 1987 things got really big, really fast, all around the planet. It was crazy. It was head-spinning. It’s not like we were on the radio or getting major love from MTV. It was just building and building, through word of mouth, and it spread far and wide, very fast, like, ‘This is the new shit! We’ve got to go check out Anthrax!’”

“We were caught up in a whirlwind and we just went with it!” adds Charlie. “We didn’t know any better. The Beatles said something like, ‘We were all part of the madness and we just had to live it, but we were glad we had each other…’, and that’s how we were going about it. The first 18 or 20 years of your life have been a certain way but suddenly you’re thrust into this whole other world. It’s so foreign but if it’s what you want to do with your life, you just hold on and enjoy the ride as much as you can.”

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Cheerfully clinging to the rollercoaster, Anthrax spent the next few years almost permanently on the road. Two further albums, State Of Euphoria and Persistence Of Time , cemented their status as members of the metal elite, while a collaboration with fellow New Yorkers Public Enemy on a new version of the hip-hop crew’s Bring The Noise ensured that history would recall Anthrax as thrash legends and rap-rock pioneers. Of course, the 90s were as troublesome and awkward to negotiate for Anthrax as they were for nearly everyone else. In 1992, Joey Belladonna was replaced with Armored Saint vocalist John Bush and, with a sound that incorporated more alternative rock influences, Anthrax released a further four studio records, culminating in the widely hailed We’ve Come For You All in 2003. John departed in 2005, replaced by newcomer Dan Nelson, before returning in 2009 when Dan himself departed amid much acrimony and confusion. Finally, in 2010, Joey Belladonna returned to the fold, just in time for the completion of long-awaited 10th album Worship Music : a joyous recalibration of the classic Anthrax sound that earned them some of the best reviews of their career.

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In truth, Anthrax’s journey from Among The Living to the present day has been far from smooth, and yet their allure has never been more potent. Having steered the ship for 35 years, Scott Ian has to admit that being a stubborn bastard has been essential.

“Oh, absolutely!” he laughs. “People ask all the time, going back to the early 80s, ‘How did you do it? What’s the secret?’ and there is no secret! If there was, I would’ve put it in my book and sold a lot more copies. But one thing I can pinpoint is that I’ve always been a tenacious motherfucker. I refuse to take no for an answer. It’s still that way. You have to make hard decisions all the time, for the sake and the future of the band, and you have to listen to your heart and what your gut is telling you. Clearly it’s worked, and it’s obviously worked for any band that has survived for 30 years.”

“We still have that New York mindset, that we’ll never crack,” adds Charlie. “We’ll never break. We’ve had so much thrown at us and we’ve always bounced back. A lot of bands seem to lose their hunger or they’ve lost the path they once followed. We found the path and we stuck with it. We know what we want, we know what the audience wants and we still have fun!”

If you’ve seen Anthrax live over the last few years, you must surely have noticed the almost celebratory vibe the band are generating now. With a seemingly secure lineup of Scott, Charlie, Joey Belladonna, long-time bassist Frank Bello and most recent recruit, guitarist Jon Donais, the turbulence and vexed progress of the past is but a distant memory. Recent album For All Kings was widely praised as one of the band’s best, and tickets for the forthcoming UK tour are selling like hot thrash metal cakes. Things could hardly be going better for these stoic veterans, and given the state of the world in 2017, it’s great to be able to celebrate with them as they bring Among The Living to life in its full glory. Meanwhile, Scott Ian has some reassuring words about the future of the metal scene.

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“I think there’s gonna be a lot of great heavy music being made in the next four years,” he avows. “Political unrest is great for art. The Big 4 came out of the Reagan era in the States. The New Wave Of British Heavy Metal came out of the Thatcher era, if I’m not mistaken. So with Trump and the political climate in the world right now, it should definitely be great for heavy music. There are tons of creative bands and the scene is strong and healthy. Will there ever be another Iron Maiden or Metallica? Maybe not in our lifetimes, but I remember people having the same conversation 10 years ago, and then over those 10 years a bunch of cool new bands have come out. I think we’ll all be fine.”

As for the future prospects of his own band, Scott is similarly optimistic and, it has to be said, every bit the tenacious motherfucker he always was.

“This is still what I love to do,” he grins. “We get to play in a band and make records and go on tour, and that’s what we love to do. If I didn’t still have that fire in me, and I hate to use that cliché, it would be easy to stop. It’s a lot of hard work and a lot of time away from our families, but it really does still burn fucking strong and I love being out there onstage with my band, showing the world what we do.”

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“I was one of the lucky ones: you hear stories of people trying for years to get into comics, but I left art university with no idea how to make a living as an illustrator, saw 2000AD were using different styles, had a crack at them and, fortunately, they gave me a job on my first submission!”

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“I submitted a few thumbnail sketches of what had been asked, and Hammer picked the one that worked best. Then it was a matter of gathering decent references of the band and getting down to pencilling it. Once that was done, I inked it by hand. At one point, there was a change to the final image, so I redrew Dredd – bigger!”

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  1. Anthrax's 1987 Concert & Tour History

    Anthrax's 1987 Concert History. Anthrax is an American heavy metal band from New York City, formed in 1981 by rhythm guitarist Scott Ian and bassist Dan Lilker. The group is considered one of the leaders of the thrash metal scene from the 1980s and is part of the "Big Four" of the genre, along with Metallica, Megadeth and Slayer.

  2. Anthrax Concert Map by year: 1987

    View the concert map Statistics of Anthrax in 1987! setlist.fm Add Setlist. Search Clear search text. follow. Setlists; Artists; Festivals; Venues; Statistics Stats; News ... Artists > A > Anthrax > Tour Statistics. Song Statistics Stats; Tour Statistics Stats; Other Statistics; All Setlists. All setlist songs (2256) Years on tour. Show all ...

  3. Anthrax Tour Dates

    ANTHRAX TOUR DATES. SPREADING THE DISEASE TOUR (1987) 05/02/1987. France. Paris. Le Zénith. 07/02/1987. Belgium. Brussels.

  4. Among the Living

    Among the Living is the third studio album by American heavy metal band Anthrax.It was released on March 16, 1987, by Megaforce Records in the US and by Island Records in the rest of the world. The album is dedicated to Cliff Burton of Metallica, who died in a bus accident six months before its release while Metallica were on tour with Anthrax as the opening act.

  5. 37 Years Ago: Anthrax Make Thrash History on 'Among the Living'

    On March 22, 1987, Anthrax issued 'Among the Living,' an album that secured their spot in thrash metal history. ... After the tour, which was fraught with tension, Spitz left the band, seemingly ...

  6. Anthrax Tour Statistics: 1987

    View the statistics of songs played live by Anthrax. Have a look which song was played how often in 1987! setlist.fm Add Setlist. Search Clear search text. follow. Setlists; Artists; Festivals; Venues; Statistics ... Years on tour. Show all. 2023 (26) 2022 (34) 2021 (10) 2020 (2) 2019 (40) 2018 (118) 2017 (98) 2016 (130) 2015 (85)

  7. Anthrax Concert Setlist at First Avenue, Minneapolis on June 16, 1987

    Get the Anthrax Setlist of the concert at First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, USA on June 16, 1987 from the Among the Living Tour and other Anthrax Setlists for free on setlist.fm!

  8. Among The Living: Anthrax look back at their classic album 30 ...

    It's December 1987. Anthrax are starting a major US headlining tour with a show at Chicago's prestigious, 5,000-capacity Aragon Ballroom. Support act Celtic Frost are onstage and the venue is rammed already. Anthrax founder and guitarist Scott Ian and drummer Charlie Benante are standing at the side of the stage when the penny drops.

  9. Anthrax

    Anthrax live at the El Mocambo, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July 30th 1987. The band is interviewed as they skateboard in the street with fans. Recorded on Pr...

  10. Flashback to December 8, 1987: Anthrax, Celtic Frost and Exodus at Mid

    Nineteen eighty-seven was undoubtedly "the year of the Anthrax." The Queens thrash metal band released their third album, Among The Living, which elevated them from underground thrash metal heroes to wider acclaim. The first show of that tour was at a club in Rochester, in May 1987. In Albany they played a half-filled Palace Theatre that...

  11. Monsters of Rock 1987 Tour Program

    Monsters of Rock 1987 Tour Program Bookreader Item Preview ... Anthrax, W.A.S.P., Cinderella and The Bailey Brothers. Donington Park Stadium, August 22, 1987. Addeddate 2020-02-07 15:38:04 Coverleaf 0 Identifier monstersofrock1987 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t61632h2g ...

  12. Damage, Inc. Tour

    Damage Inc. Tour (1986-1987) Damaged Justice (1988-1989) The Damage, Inc. Tour was a concert tour by American heavy metal band Metallica in support of the band's third studio album, ... and were the main act throughout the fall and winter with support from Anthrax and Metal Church.

  13. Anthrax Concert Setlist at Metroplex, Atlanta on July 24, 1987

    Get the Anthrax Setlist of the concert at Metroplex, Atlanta, GA, USA on July 24, 1987 from the Among the Living Tour and other Anthrax Setlists for free on setlist.fm!

  14. Headbangers Ball Tour

    History. The tour began on April 3, 1989, in Seattle, and ended on May 12, 1989, in Poughkeepsie, New York.Anthrax was promoting their platinum-selling album State of Euphoria, while Exodus and Helloween were promoting their respective albums Fabulous Disaster and Keeper of the Seven Keys, Pt. 2.. The Headbangers Ball Tour is notable for being Exodus' last tour with drummer Tom Hunting, until ...

  15. Public Enemy Concert & Tour History

    Bum Rush the Show, was released in 1987 to critical acclaim, and their second album, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988), was the first hip hop album to top The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop critics' poll. Concerts; ... Anthrax / Public Enemy / Wolfsbane Jan 15, 1992 Offenbach, Hesse, Germany Uploaded by Murmlermicha.

  16. Metallica's 1987 Concert & Tour History

    Metallica is considered one of the founding thrash metal bands alongside Anthrax, Megadeth, and Slayer. However, after the 1980s, much of their music became much more mainstream with softer hits "Enter Sandman" and "The Unforgiven" from 1991's Metallica (also called The Black Album).Nonetheless, their subsequent albums like St. Anger and the titular single provide a heavy dose of in ...

  17. Anthrax Concert Setlist at Expo Hall, Tampa on December 17, 1987

    Get the Anthrax Setlist of the concert at Expo Hall, Tampa, FL, USA on December 17, 1987 from the Among the Living Tour and other Anthrax Setlists for free on setlist.fm!

  18. Crazy Nights World Tour

    129. Kiss concert chronology. Asylum Tour. (1985-1986) Crazy Nights World Tour. (1987-1988) Hot in the Shade Tour. (1990) The Crazy Nights World Tour was a concert tour by American hard rock band Kiss in support of their fourteenth studio album Crazy Nights .

  19. TOUR

    ANTHRAX ON TOUR. Apr. 1. to Apr 17. Anthrax On Tour 2022. Fri, Apr 1, 2022 7:00 PM Sun, Apr 17, 2022 8:00 PM; Google Calendar ICS; View Event → Subscribe. Sign up with your email address to receive news and updates. First Name. Last Name. Email Address. Sign Up. We respect your privacy. Thank you!

  20. Anthrax On Tour 1987 Unisex T-Shirt, 80s Anthrax Heavy Metal Band Tour

    Anthrax Vintage 1987 Among The Living Tour Concert Men's T-Shirt S to 5XL. $13.95. + $6.30 shipping.

  21. Anthrax Setlist at Monsters of Rock England 1987

    Use this setlist for your event review and get all updates automatically! Get the Anthrax Setlist of the concert at Donington Park, Castle Donington, England on August 22, 1987 from the Among the Living Tour and other Anthrax Setlists for free on setlist.fm!

  22. Legendary metal band announces summer tour, will stop in ...

    Megadeth is recognized among the "big four" of American thrash metal bands, alongside Metallica, Anthrax and Slayer. Megadeth's North American tour dates for this summer Aug. 2 at Walmart ...

  23. No Rest for the Wicked Tour

    Background. In 1987 Ozzy Osbourne found Zakk Wylde, who was the most enduring replacement for Rhoads to date. Together they recorded No Rest for the Wicked with Castillo on drums, Sinclair on keyboards, and Daisley co-writing lyrics and playing bass. The subsequent tour saw Osbourne reunited with erstwhile Black Sabbath bandmate Geezer Butler on bass. A live EP (entitled Just Say Ozzy ...

  24. Anthrax Concert Setlist at Rock City, Nottingham on November 3, 1987

    Get the Anthrax Setlist of the concert at Rock City, Nottingham, England on November 3, 1987 from the Among the Living Tour and other Anthrax Setlists for free on setlist.fm!