
Kramer came in thinking he was making the next Pyromania. Anthrax wanted something that felt like getting hit by a speeding truck. What followed was a battle of wills—Scott Ian and the band pushing for raw, in-your-face power, while Kramer piled on the reverb like it was an ‘80s hair metal record. Things got so heated that Ian literally had to tell a rock legend to turn everything off.
This is the wild story of how Among the Living almost became a polished misfire—and how Anthrax dragged it back from the edge to make one of thrash metal’s most iconic albums.
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