“I’m really looking forward to jamming with Anthrax again.” He jokingly adds: “When we parted ways back in 1984, they told me to stick around because they might need me in 40 years.

The upside of my college-years epiphany is that there was a treasure trove of classic Anthrax albums sitting there waiting for me to discover. I devoured everything from “Spreading the Disease” to ...