Scott's Metal Track of the Day - Among the Living by Anthrax

Today's Metal Track is brought to you by Anthrax. This is the title track on their 1987 album Among the Living. This song is based on the Stephen King novel The Stand. "The Walkin Dude" is Randall Flagg, the main villain in the book, and the beginning verse: "Disease! Disease! Spreading the disease!\With some help from Captain Trips\He'll bring the world down to its knees" refers to the virus that destroys most of the population in the novel.

I have this on vinyl in a frame on the wall in my man cave at home. It was actually given to my family a long time ago by my Dad's neighbor along with a bunch of other records. Because I had never seen Poltergeist, I didn't realize that the creepy man on the cover was from the movie. This was pointed out to me by Johnathon Stone last year.

This album was dedicated to Cliff Burton of Metallica who had died in a bus wreck 6 months before the album was released.