Anthrax’s Scott Ian’s Appearance on ‘The Walking Dead’ Episode Air Date Announced [Video]

Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian will make a cameo on the second half of the fifth season of AMC's zombie drama "The Walking Dead".

This is not the musician's first time to working with the show. Ian previously appeared in a "Walking Dead" webisode in 2011.

In a Q&A session on The Walking Dead Blog, he shared how the opportunity came about:

"I know Greg Nicotero. We have a mutual friend, Kirk (Hammett) from Metallica. I met Greg as far back as the late ’80s through Kirk because Kirk’s a big collector of horror memorabilia. So I’d gone to the set of the webisodes here in Los Angeles, and got to get made up as a zombie."

 

When asked why metal musicians love horror so much, Ian answered:

They’ve always gone hand-in-hand. Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of are either horror or scifi or comic book or fantasy nerds. So, all of a sudden if you have some disposable income, you’re like, “Wow, I can actually buy that zombie head from that movie!”

 

Check out Ian's zombie-work in the webisode here: