SCOTT IAN Names Five Essential ANTHRAX Songs (Video)

In the clip below, guitarist Scott Ian talks Metal Hammer through the five tracks that have defined the band's career so far.

Scott's second choice: "Madhouse', reason being that record (Spreading The Disease) came out in 1986, that was our first music video, and we shot it in an insane asylum in Staten Island, New York. It hadn't been used in decades but you could film stuff there. We had a whole bunch of our friends dressed up as patients that would have been living in that hospital. It was submitted to MTV, which was going to be a bit of a long shot in 1986 for a band named Anthrax that played the music we played. MTV came back to us and very politely said 'We will never air this, you are banned from MTV because we feel that you are making fun of the mentally impaired.' We wore it as a badge of honour." 

Anthrax recently wrapped up their 2024 European Tour with Kreator, and special guests Testament. On December 11th they played at Spodek in Katowice, Poland. Fan-filmed video of the entire show can be viewed below.

Setlist:

"A.I.R."
"Got the Time" (Joe Jackson)
"Caught in a Mosh"
"Fight 'Em 'Til You Can't"
"Madhouse"
"Metal Thrashing Mad"
"Be All, End All"
"I Am the Law"
"Medusa"
"Antisocial" (Trust)
"Indians"
"Efilnikufesin (N.F.L.)"