ANTHRAX 40 Episode 1 - ANTHRAX BEGINS - THE GENESIS OF FISTFUL OF METAL

Episode 1 - Anthrax Begins.
Directed & Edited : Jack Bennett
Featuring : Scott Ian, Charlie Benante, Frank Bello, Dan Spitz, Danny Lilker, Johnny Z, Henry Rollins, Neil Turbin
Friends, Music Elite & Former Members To Contribute Series Of
Video Testimonials Starting May 3rd
Leading Up To Official July 18 Anniversary
Celebration To Culminate With A Special Anthrax Livestream Event
Offering A Set List That Will Span The Band’s Career
For all info Head to - Anthrax.com
Each week beginning May 3, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and wrapping on the band’s official founding anniversary of July 18 Anthrax will offer “Anthrax 40 for 40," a series of episodes that features former band members, fellow musicians, colleagues, and industry veterans sharing behind-the-scenes stories of working with the band, and what Anthrax’s legacy has meant all these years on.
These videos will honor each album in chronological order beginning with the original release, Fistful of Metal
MAY 3 - FISTFUL OF METAL
MAY 10 SPREADING THE DISEASE
MAY 17 AMONG THE LIVING
MAY 24 STATE OF EUPHORIA
MAY 31 PERSISTENCE OF TIME
JUNE 7 SOUND OF WHITE NOISE
JUNE 14 STOMP 442
JUNE 21 VOLUME 8
JUNE 28 WE’VE COME FOR YOU ALL
JULY 5 WORSHIP MUSIC
JULY 12 FOR ALL KINGS

[@AnthraxBandOfficial]

Thanks for joining us on this journey - 40 Years! Here we go!!!

[@efogg3]

Wasnt there a member of Anthrax from Greece N.Y. ? Doesnt he work at a record shop now or something? Is there a Greece N.Y. connection? Someones cousin maybe? ...

[@JohnnyJay881]

Please go on tour w/ Testament and Exodus. If you could add Lamb of God, Gojira, and Behemoth......that would be a dream come true!

[@weforever137]

Here here, one in . Love Anthrax im the man was my first musical memory

[@tyrellprovost740]

Gregg Walls?

[@garyduda5400]

🤘🏻 Im from Minnesota & was introduced to Spreading the Disease in Summer of 1986 wen I was 14 ... Along with the other BIG 3 in 8th grade. IT HAS BEEN A "YENRUOJNIKCUFECIN". I LOVE YOU GUYS. Scott, Charliie, Frankie, Joey ... See Y'all in 2031. 🕉

[@xsisterwifex]

Dan Spitz never gets recognition for not only a supreme shredder but a major melodic force!

[@marinhrabric6162]

Yeah one of the best guitar players in the thrash scene

[@cristianlopez_8486]

That's for sure. Danny was the one of the reasons I opted to pickup a Randy Rhoads V (along with Jackson) as my preferred axe. Never looked back since.

[@Joker-cr6jt]

This is awesome 🤘 glad to see Danny Spitz and former members involved

[@mikemurray3962]

Yes it was cool of Danny to make the time to be a part of this. No pun intended

[@ThemFuzzyMonsters]

I did not expect Neil Turbin to be in there.

[@1000poundsguitar]

Danny Spitz is a great dude. I hung with him every day for a year before the reunion. A great friend and wonderful person to me always.

[@Joker-cr6jt]

@@1000poundsguitar he was very cool the couple of times I met him in the 90's, an awesome guitar player..the last 2 albums were killer but would have been so much better with him on them.

[@1000poundsguitar]

@@Joker-cr6jt agreed the last couple would be great with Dan. He is a really good dude and I love him like a brother. We hung everyday and I was able to hang at their NJ reunion show. I was able to watch him play 2 feet away every day in my house.

[@sadboi7537]

Always love hearing Charlie’s “Fast as a Shark” story. Every metal documentary he’s in he talks about it. Fuck yea dude! Accept is the shit!

[@C64SX]

That was the song that made me a metalhead back in 1982. Both my 'Restless and Wild' and 'Breaker' albums are really worn out :)

[@bread-circuses]

Growing up in the 80's was 2nd to none the greatest time to be a teenager!!!😁

[@Iver-pr1wo]

56 and still listen to these guys! 1ST Anthrax album I got- Fist full of metal. Favorite Anthrax album- Among the living.

[@gabbyperez9662]

Fan for life!!..Anthrax is my all time favorite thrash metal band...🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@nosajiksnektoouglyforporn3204]

Dan Lilker.....one of the coolest dudes in metal, Met him a few times at shows here in Detroit, and he's ALWAYS talked to me, like I was an old friend.

[@C64SX]

Met him in Copenhagen in 2016, when he was playing the first Stormtroopers of Beer gig outside of the Warpigs brewpub (there's a couple of crappy clips on my page). A great evening, and a very nice guy.

[@Anuduin]

Say what you want about Fistful of Metal but I think it's a masterpiece. I think it's one of their best.

[@mackguerraiii6136]

Thank you for injecting thrash into my veins when I was twelve!!!!

[@thrashnicity5913]

Thrash is the greatest and most powerful drug that cannot be stopped

[@albrankovic4854]

@@thrashnicity5913 yes it is true for 30 years.

[@darkjester2713]

I was 15 had the wild bunch compilation and was addicted..Neil Turbin could Rip `em with the best of `em like Eric Adams meets Guy Sperenza from Riot

[@DAVEDEATH1000]

Same story here in Scotland Mack Guerra III!! THRASAASH!!!

[@twostuped2dy464]

Holy shit, I never thought I would see Dan spitz involved with a anthrax thing again

[@gunner.]

Come on dude they got Turbin to feature in this episode so Spitz is no big deal!

[@Skycladatdusk78]

Would have really been surprised if they got Greg D'Angelo to contribute.

[@tence_6965]

All these guys are older now, they don't care about grudges from 30+ years ago

[@massttrshrdrharmonicminor2002]

Man, I was born too late. None of my friends stuck to playing guitar. I still play everyday and I'm obsessed with music. If you have to jam with ppl you dont know, just do it. I would love to play guitar 5 nights a week

[@hescher997]

Do it bro! Dont ever stop

[@HardRockMaster7577]

My HS in the early 70's was so repressive, that a court case had to be filed and won over being able to wear long hair, so that kids could be kids. I'll never forget that.

[@whiplash1903]

I will never forget xmas of 1987, when I was 15 years old. Bought two milestone albums (without really knowing it) at the only shop in town that sold heavy metal at the time: Mariposa in Milan. I put them under the xmas tree so I had to wait to listen to them..... It was Appetite for Destruction and Among the Living. I still have the original vinyls with me, after countless times moving around Europe. Soundtrack of my life. And watching Scott playing the Madhouse riff a couple of weeks ago in a video convinced me to learn that song on guitar, so heavy!

[@kobrien6657]

As a drummer that grew up in Queens, these guys were and still are super influential. I've seen them live a few times, Amazing every time! Even got to meet them briefly at Jones Beach, super cool fellas. THANK YOU ANTHRAX, for all the great tunes, times, and fond memories of being a young metalhead from the same neighborhood.

[@K1ng1995]

Being from Queens were you influenced by Ramones and a Spiderman fan

[@kobrien6657]

@@K1ng1995 an ex girlfriends mother used to hang out with the ramones. And not really a big 'comic book/superhero' guy, personally. I don't hate em, but certainly don't give two shits about em either.

[@marksullivan39]

The build-up to Scott screaming WARDANCE during a live show is indescribable.

[@OaktownPirate510]

Hey guys, y’all meant so much to a Rockaway Beach metalhead going to high school in 80s-disco Brooklyn. And as someone who grew up to be a career bartender, it does my heart good to see Scottie sitting in front of that rack of bottles, healthy, happy and still rocking. Intense and life-long love, respect, and good wishs to everyone in the extended Anthrax family. I am here for every album, every era, every iteration, every version. You tell me it’s a Basket Full Of Puppies show, I will... show up and stand at the edge of the mosh pit and watch the young kids mosh, like an old man afraid of crippling himself. 😝 But I will be there, and I will help up every kid who stumbles and loses his shoe. 🤘

[@K1ng1995]

Isn't Rockaway where George Carlin grew up?

[@SaintMartins]

My 1st Anthrax album was Spreading the Disease which i bought the year it came out in 1985. Back then Scott Ian influenced me in so many ways. He would talk about comics like "Judge Dread", i'd go out & buy it. He talked about albums he liked, i'd go out & buy them.

[@thisismescotthathawayistha4071]

I have been a fan if anthrax since early 85 I was 14 years old and I'm still a huge fan...Great to see a documentary like this I look forward to seeing the rest...

[@maxlhetvxhywxvxbm7645]

One of my favorite bands, and I'm glad that the members are safe and happy.

[@abraxasvoice440]

Let's not take that for granted and go to the next show!!👊

[@starblaster77]

I love Anthrax! A staple of my childhood and has never stopped!

[@WeGachaMetal]

Being from Newark, NJ, Anthrax (and Overkill too) was like my high school soundtrack!

[@virus3103]

My first album, bought in 1984, at Merci Discos, São Bernardo, São Paulo, Brazil, was Fistfull of Metal. Still today one of my all time favorite thrash album. Great memories.

[@llongone2]

I can remember being 15 or 16 and wearing my Among The Living shirt at the eye doctor's office. My optometrist was like, "Anthrax? Is that the name of a band? That band is named after a sheep disease! Hee hee hee...". It was like nothing could be funnier to him.

[@mackguerraiii6136]

Haha! My math teacher in 8th grade did the same thing!

[@entelikey1]

The name reflects the venom of the riffs!

[@cheranguista]

8th grade, my first real metal cassette i own was a mix tape of Among the living and SOD .... now i am 47 still loving this shit

[@joshuaadamsharakaly7134]

Life began for me December 29 1981. Been thrashing since my younger years and will continue to thrash. Happy 40 years and many more!!!

[@ianlyle-BMW-E46-F82]

🤘Anthrax will always rule 🤘 Listening for nearly 35 years

[@shawntennant6588]

Finally got to see Anthrax on the last Slayer tour. I’ll never forget the looks on the faces of the 20 somethings that watched me mosh among them to a band they didn’t know. It was in Toronto at the amphitheater. Anthrax’s circle pit on the hill was fuckin epic!

[@kittysofdoom6968]

ANTHRAX was the only metal band i would Listen to when I was in my Punk rock days in the 80's I was Anti metal back then but i loved ANTHRAX. ANTHRAX and SOD were a huge influence in my Guitar playing and song writing

[@jackwhited1734]

Anthrax are my all time favourite band ,I'm 58 now and have grown up with them🤘🤘

[@SheaRecordmetal]

Fistful of Metal still KILLS to this day!

[@ValleyofEndar]

Classic! "our own little corner in the lunchroom...". Sounds like me and my friends back in 1983, total metalheads!

[@jonpike9502]

Will NEVER understand why Scott let them fire Danny Lilker. Anyways, 40 years! Unbelievable 👏🤘

[@thrashmetalambassador]

Anthrax is one of the best metal bands in the world. 🤘🏼

[@Bernz66]

Watching the whole series for the third time……..

[@kapuda9364]

Same lol

[@Webgkil]

I still remember EXACTLY how I found out about Anthr ax!!! It was in 1993, I was 11, and was living for a year in a foreign country(Norway).All I had for company , was a b/w TV that was playing European MTV, non stop! I had just discovered metal, or any hard sound for that matter.I kept seeing a band named "Anthrax" (I guess it was Only???).That name stuck.Not the song so much, but the name!!! Anyway, ffw 1 year, I get back home (Greece) and dad says he's going to the city to get some cds. Asks if I want anything and, since I already had 2 Metallica albums, I remember that name.Anthrax. With the help of the guy working there, dad comes back with Spreading and Euphoria(and Testament's best of, I love you unknown Virgin Megastore employee)!!!!! To this day, those 2 albums (and Anthrax ofc) hold a very special place in my heart! Can't wait for the next episode!

[@sirgodua]

I wish I forgot about these series and remembered just when all of them were out. Now I will be restless for the next couple of weeks. I love Anthrax!

[@whoami7721]

Wow, it's been forty years and I've been there for more than thirty. Hard to believe I've been a fan of Anthrax longer that some people have been alive.

[@marshfilm]

I was a teenager playing 80's top 40 music with a bunch of guys approaching 30 in 1987. My favourite music (after Maiden) was the Thrash Metal, particularly Anthrax at the time, but couldn't find a common soul anywhere. One day I met a funny long-haired kid who played guitar. He also loved Anthrax and knew how to play a bunch of songs. We hit it off big time and started our own Thrash band. Great times!!

[@zlymaciek]

*One of THE BEST*

[@MrLordax]

Maciuś, tobie bardziej z charakteru pasuje Rudy :D

[@cristianperez784]

Scott Ian is my favorite Anthrax member 🤘

[@JustAPairofLegs]

Frank bello is mine!

[@cristianperez784]

Cool man Frank bello is a great bass player

[@CYCOxFOX13]

@@JustAPairofLegs same

[@albrankovic4854]

Singer is best

[@CYCOxFOX13]

@@albrankovic4854 joey

[@samueljorge3171]

Anthrax is the greatest band of all time and I will stand by that my whole life

[@731trident]

Anthrax changed my life! I was at an impressionable age when I heard about this awesome, fun, heavy band that unabashedly put it out there that they didn't do drugs. I feel like I had musical heroes that gave me the cover to never try any drugs! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[@altestic9436]

7th grade probably 1990 English class my buddy threw a anthrax pot cassette in the recorder that we we're supposed to listen to some narration of a book or something.. that was my first experience and I was hooked

[@twikirobot6897]

✊ Fistful of Metal ✊ ....best Anthrax album.

[@creepygeorgie148]

LEGENDS

[@todddreed3107]

Let's go boys episode 2 can't come fast enough

[@nolifetilmetal1]

I was living in NJ during this era. Use to go to NY to see shows all the time. We were the group of denim & leather nuts from Trenton and we could not wait for Anthrax to release something. Then they release the Soldiers of Metal single and we were all in! Painted that Anthrax logo on the back of my denim vest. People in high school at that time had no idea who Anthrax were, no less Saxon or Motorhead. It was a fun time to be a metal fan and Anthrax were a big part of that.

[@allanlazaro9334]

I really like anthrax one of my favorite thrash metal band

[@herbertwest9626]

Frankie looks like he isn't getting any older. He's on his way to 60 and he looks like maybe 40. Probably no drugs, no alcohol, no cigarettes. A healthy diet and some workout. Unbelievable. By the way, congratulations for 40 years of Anthrax, guys. Which then makes Frankie look as old as Anthrax is. If that makes sense. You know what I mean...😉 Cheers!

[@jamesfloyd6532]

Scott you and the rest of the band, Charlie, Joey,and especially Frank,as Anthrax, rocked my life at 18,and you are and always will be, and you are still THE HARDEST EVER, you are the man......

[@TyeDyeGuyRV]

How has this not been released on DVD yet? This is the best, most complete band history I have ever seen!

[@grungil7570]

Love the artwork covering almost all their albums. Would make a perfect cover for a Best of Anthrax.

[@fanswithbands9087]

The first album was Epic :) Saw them back in the day opening for Raven :)

[@atticmetal]

GREAT to see Dan, Danny & Neil incorporated!

[@axxessmundi]

Kudos to Old Bridge & L'Amours Anthrax fan since 85.

[@cortarelva]

July 18 1981 I had just turned 8 two days before. 8!! Only found out about Anthrax a few years after but been a fan ever since.

[@edd.98]

I am glade you guys stayed together for 40 yrs.you guys help put metal on the map and we thank you.a band staying together for 40yrs in any kind of music im sure its not a easything to do and doesnt happen that much.we as fans thank you for keep on doing what you love.

[@buddymack9606]

I didn't get into Anthrax until summer 1987 - heard Indians on Joe Anthony's show in the car on the way to a party and was hooked

[@krisdavis1050]

Smiles while watching 😊 I miss those days, I was a bit younger, but I remember how great it was. LONG LIVE METAL! \,,/

[@abraxasvoice440]

Anthrax; Happy, friendly, contagious Thrash Metal Music that will kick you in the nuts with a smile🤘😃🤙

[@hmvenom]

So glad yous guys are doing this series. This is what was missing in my life!! 🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@sixstringer3783]

Kiss and Anthrax in Oakland on the State of Euforia tour what a frikkin madhouse man those were the days Anthrax kicked some big time A that night 🤯🤘👏

[@altestic9436]

The first CD that I bought was attack of the killer bees CD and it came in a cardboard box $20 of course I don't have the box but that was an experience.. got to love the 90s

[@coldblizzard5880]

S.S.C/Stand or Fall!

[@danbrav1977]

I saw them in 2019 in Chile at the last concert of Slayer. They kick ass. Anthrax one of my favorite band since i was 7 years old...

[@jholl7339]

The "Fast As A Shark" story put a big smile on my face. Never knew that.

[@dowens3781]

Really? Scott and Charlie have mentioned that audition quite a few times.

[@michaelfournier4358]

Great job on this documentary. Anthrax was my first show at 16 back in 87 right after I’m the man was released. Saw you guys at the Orpheum theatre in Boston with Exodus. 🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@pharfromnormal]

My first tape i ever bought was fistful of metal. Never heard of them, just liked the name. Early 80s

[@carolbenvenuto6832]

What about Greg Walls? Where is his credit for being in the band. And his songs?

[@ricdale7813]

Even though he is a minor footnote in the band he deserves the nod. Maybe he burned the bridges with them idk.

[@pleasuretokill]

Winners in life get to write the history books the way they wish. Thats the prize for being a winner. Get mad all you want about it, its the truth. Greg talked shit about Ian, so Ian gets to react to that as he wants. He can tell his version of the story as he wants because he won the game. Thats all life is, one big game that is yours to win or lose. Want your story told your way? Dont be the loser and then talk shit about the winner!

[@JimCornetteIsMyDad]

Greg is on KZbin saying he got ripped off by Scott after Scott copywrote the songs on Fistful. I swear it looks like he is wearing a bad wig. He is really pissed though.

[@baphometazrael1892]

Yea that vid came into recommended last night, I mean idk but it could be true

[@willhaul5581]

Yeah I wouldn't put it past Scott I met the dude my band open up for them we were the local support and yeah he's the biggest fucking bitch in the industry. Kicking us out of the club why they did soundcheck and most of the staff un fucking heard of.

[@albrankovic4854]

Proud 47 year fan of thrash.

[@janihamalainen7624]

I was so happy to see dan spitz in this video

[@rcintro1489]

Me too, so sad he's not in it anymore. I was finally starting to like Rob and he leaves.

[@karlsavage7495]

Been listening since my teens.. I'm 50 later this year. Fuck, where'd the time go? Anyway, excellent watch - looking forward to the rest of the series. Never stop shredding Anthrax, happy 40th 😁😁🤘🤘 (Btw, I want that Mr Bungle mug!).

[@xbassfiendx]

NEIL TURBIN has some amazing vocals

[@neves6867]

Beautiful

[@helpyabadself9043]

Love the VB tray on Dan's wall. Cheers from Australia Dan!

[@aboutthemetal8783]

Yes this is awesome. People have no idea how important anthrax and the thrash metal movement was to skateboarding, skating was beginning to slow down and fade from the mainstream, then this metal that hyped you up started to make a new type of skateboarder and they went hand in hand

[@Draxtor]

awesome awesome awesome !! Can you believe that Anthrax, Overkill and Agent Steel was my FIRST SHOW? In 1986? Munich? OMG TIME FLIES !!!!!

[@mackguerraiii6136]

WHY AM I CRYING?!?!?! I FUCKING LOVE THIS!!!

[@correlhafabiof]

Anthrax forever!! Brazilian fan since 1984! Thank you so much Scott!

[@robbsmetalworks]

So glad to see Spitz in this!

[@baphometazrael1892]

WHAT ABOUT GREG WALLS. HE WROTE A COUPLE SONGS AND HELPED WRITE A LOT OF THAT ALBUM. HE WAS IN THAT LINEUP BEFORE DAN.

[@Clarence2Worley]

Yes!! Loving it!! One of my favorite bands of all time

[@JudgeNYHC475]

Very cool. Looking forward to next episode

[@robertseeley4458]

Anthrax literally changed my life. It was the first music that I heard (Indians) where I had this overwhelming feeling of sitting still wasn’t enough. I jumped out of my chair from watching Headbanger’ Ball and started thrashing around my parent’s basement. It was a soul changing event. I know found my musical path. The Name Was Thrash Metal. Thank you for Forever altering the way that I listened to my favorite thing. ALL HAIL ANTHRAX FOREVER!!!!!

[@educatedhorses193]

I use to have this 7ft tall 4ft wide purple Indians poster. It was cool asf!!

[@davelodl8314]

Strange how SOD never was mentioned in this.

[@roymartin500]

I loved Dan Spitz's Jackson RR V's with The Thing, Human Torch & Spiderman also the one w/old school Ninja Turtles(mean looking & all red headband)!

[@carpoforoguevara]

Yeah!

[@vimh18]

We just caught this video.... after getting the gift and opportunity to talk to Jon... RIP..

[@whekycore]

dan spitz we need you back!

[@theoriginalBLACKIE]

I was in middle school in 87 when I found Anthrax. I admit i quit listening when Joey left. So glad he came back and Anthrax is still thrashing. Thanx for so many great memories.

[@metaldams78]

Neil’s screams are really high and insane on this album - love it. I plan on listening to this tonight. “Death From Above” is my favorite.

[@belucena528]

Yeah, I love this song

[@pattol666]

i was born 1986 so life began there. buti ifi could id start it when anthrax did. what a cool bday to have

[@nickpotts3913]

I was at Bradford St Georges Hall UK in 86. Spreading The Disease tour. We were in the balcony right above the stage on the bands right hand side and there was a mental guy dancing in front of us on the seats that Joey seemed impressed with. Great gig. Fond memories.

[@belucena528]

Fantastic band, fistful of metal and spread the disease my favourite albums.🤘 Long live Anthrax

[@geyerbrad1]

Celebrated our birthday last night headbanging at the Sylvee in Madison.

[@PBmurray71]

Is it 40 years already - time is flying by.

[@entelikey1]

Metal Thrashing ‘Mad’ Magazine ha ha and Howling Furies were the greatest tunes off Fist Full. But I love Joey’s fun charisma the best a few yrs later. What a happy injection to metal Belladonna was. Thank you Joe. ☀️

[@robertmancuso1883]

I am the law. That song opened my eyes to metal, haven't looked back since