Danny Spitz

Scott Ian shows up at the recording studio dressed, as usual, like a man ready for a hard day’s construction work. His T-shirt and jeans, Stussy baseball cap and heavy Doc Martens boots are particularly appropriate today -- building a heavy-duty wall of Anthrax rhythm guitar is strenuous labor, requiring meticulous, workmanlike precision. Music so powerful and bottom-heavy demands rigorously close rhythmic tolerances if it isn’t going to turn into toxic sludge.