Anthrax Guitarist Excited About ‘Among the Living’ Bonus Live DVD

Like his bandmates, Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian is pretty stoked that the group's 1987 classic, 'Among the Living,' has finally been remastered and reissued. But as excited as he is that the disc now sound fuller, crisper and louder, he's equally pumped that it comes with a bonus DVD of a rarely seen 1988 home video.

""It came out on VHS and was called 'Nice F---in' Video,'" Ian tells Noisecreep. "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."

Acknowledging there might not be such a strong market for a 21-year-old video on its own, Anthrax suggested to Island that they press it up as a DVD and include it as a bonus to help sell the 'Among the Living' reissue.

"I just went, "Well, why not put this on DVD and add it to the package?" Ian says. "People have been waiting for this forever. For me, finally having this on DVD is almost better than the remaster of 'Among the Living.'

In addition to putting out the expanded edition of 'Among the Living,' Island is reissuing 'Caught in a Mosh: BBC Live in Concert,' which came out in the U.K. two years ago.

"That aired on radio in England in 1987," Ian says. "It's something the label came to us about and said, 'Please can we release this in the United States?' Our initial instinct was, 'Well, why?' Because people can find it if they really want it. But it was just part of the whole thing we did with them, so it's another window into the band from that time period. And for people who aren't super fans, who don't already have it, it's something they can go out and get."