ANTHRAXlifelong producer Jay Ruston is working on a Dolby Atmos mix of the band’s classic third album, 1987 “Among the living”.
The LP, originally produced by eddie kramer Y ANTHRAXfeatured the singer’s lineup joey belladonnalead guitarist Dan Spitzrhythmic guitarist Scott Ianbass guitarist frank beautiful and drummer charlie benante.
Building on an underground following with exclusive tracks like “I am the law”, “Stuck in a Mosh” Y “indians”, “Among the living” catapulted ANTHRAX to wide acclaim and won the group’s first gold award. It also marked the height of the band’s use of horror and comic book inspirations, with the title track and album cover image based on the Stephen King novel “The support”, “A Skeleton in the Closet” in Kingshort novel “Apt Pupil”Y “I am the law” about the comic character Judge Dredd.
ANTHRAX discussed plans for Dolby Atmos mixing “Among the living” during an appearance today (Thursday, July 28) at SiriusXM‘s “Trunk Nation with Eddie Trunk”. “We have the master tapes, which we didn’t even know if they survived that fire or not, but apparently they did.” Benante he said, referring to the 2008 fire at a Universal Studies backlot in Hollywood, California, in which the master recordings of some 500,000 songs by many of the greatest musicians of the last century were destroyed. “Y Jay he’s been remixing it and I heard some of it and was blown away. Like, ‘Wow!’ Jay played a little [of it for me]and I was like, ‘Dude, this sounds amazing,’ like we did it yesterday.”
According to Benantethe idea of doing a Dolby Atmos mix of “Among the living” came from the record company, Universal. “[They] they approached us to do it because they have been doing this,” he said. “And of course they chose that record first. It will be amazing though.”
ian he added: “Apparently they had a list of the albums that hadn’t been done in Dolby Atmos yet and we were high on that list – they were really interested in doing that with us.”
Charlie He went on to say that what he has heard so far about Dolby Atmos mixing is impressive. “The tones are so amazing, and it’s so heavy,” she explained.
“[Jay] He sent me some guitar tracks when he first got the tapes,” Scott additional. “He said, ‘I’m putting these teachers in.’ And he sent me guitar tracks for some of the songs. I was like, ‘Shit.’ He sent me only my “Stuck in a Mosh”just the guitar, and I was like, ‘Wow!’ [Laughs]”
Dolby Atmos allows you to precisely position and move sounds in three-dimensional space with the introduction of audio objects, and with much more precision compared to traditional surround sound. And with the addition of superior speakers, you can create a completely immersive soundstage so listeners feel like they’re inside the experience.
Dolby Atmos automatically optimizes content based on the number of speakers in the environment or device, so your mix delivers the best possible experience for Dolby Atmos-enabled mobile devices, home theater systems, sound bars, and even headphones.
Despite “Among the living” I was ANTHRAX‘s third album (after 1984’s “Handful of Metal” and 1985 “Spreading the Disease”),ian saying metal hammer in a 2017 interview that the record company was not forcing the band to make any commercial breakthroughs. “We had no pressure at all,” he said. “We had no time limit to write or record. The way we worked back then, when there were enough songs for an album, we did. We never wrote more than we needed to. In a way, I now regret that situation. We were in such a streak that maybe someone should have persuaded us to keep writing. Who knows what else may have come out? When you’re in that zone, there’s a lot to say to stay. I’m not criticizing what’s going on. ‘Among the living’but we may have benefited from being a little less rushed when finishing the writing side.”
Regarding the recording process “Among the living”, Scott He said, “We had just left the METALLIC tour in the fall of ’86 when [METALLICA bassist] Cliff Burton was killed, and obviously we got off that tour early because of the tragedy. And that’s when we started recording that album, almost immediately after that. I feel like the energy really jumps off that record; You hear how pissed off we are playing our instruments on that record. There’s a brutality to that album that you don’t hear on the previous two albums. ‘Among the living’. It was simply the record of his time; it was really.”
When ANTHRAX‘s “Among the living” presentation of the complete album in the 2014 edition of the Sonisphere festival was first announced, ian said: “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (1986, New York City) we wrote a record that at the time, we had no idea would become our ‘signature’ record. We had a song about the plight of the american indian, we had songs about Stephen King characters (Randall Flagg of ‘The support’ Y Todd Bowden of ‘Apt Pupil’), we had a song dedicated to Cliff Burton and another about Juan BelushiThe cliche of death. We had a song about Judge damned Dredd and we had a song called “Stuck in a Mosh”. we had songs.’
He continued: “When ‘Among the living’ punched the world in the face in 1987, released ANTHRAX on a high-speed trajectory that we could barely follow. Like going from 0 to 200 km/h in 5 seconds. Our heads were spinning as fast as they were hitting, and [35] Years later, nothing has changed.
The last December, Beautiful was asked during an appearance on mitch joel‘s “Groove – The Trebleless Podcast” if he and his bandmates knew they had something special when they were working on music for “Among the living”. He replied, “At the time, this music was booming. We had just dated ‘Spreading the disease’. joey belladonna is in the band. We had a great singer, we had good music, things worked. We knew as we were writing those songs and we knew the singer that we had and we knew what we could do, the next step, I think it all came out. So while we were writing those songs, we knew it was special. I think we knew. But you know what? You can never tell the outside world, you don’t know the atmosphere of the outside world, how that will be taken. You know there’s a movement going on, but you don’t know if this record you have is going to match what they’re looking for. That depends on chance, for everyone, to be honest. And sure we had momentum, but you don’t really know how it’s going to work. And to be honest, all you can do is do your best, put out your best music, go out and tour. And that’s the program.”