During Anthrax’s June 8 show at Batschkapp in Frankfurt, Germany, the band performed “Now It’s Dark” live for the first time since 1992 before playing it again during their June 9 set at the Rock Hard Festival in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. You can see footage of the group performing the track during the aforementioned festival in the below video at about the 39:25 mark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeiiDCrKeP8
Scott Ian told Rock Hard the following about playing the track again [transcribed by Blabbermouth]:
“I’ll be honest — I was nervous. We didn’t rehearse it. We played it one time at soundcheck, and it felt really good at soundcheck. Everybody learned it at home before we came out. I think everyone was just very excited to bring that song back. And then during the show, it was my favorite song of the night. So, yeah, I was very, very happy with it. It was cool. It felt like a new song. Like, ‘Wow! We have this new song to play now.’
So who knows? Maybe that opens the door for other old songs that we didn’t think we would maybe bring back. Although we’ve been talking about some other songs off of ‘Persistence [of Time]’ — certainly maybe next year, because it’ll be the 30th anniversary of that album. I don’t think we’ll play the whole album or anything like that, but there’s other songs we haven’t played in a long time that would be cool to bring back. But yeah, ‘Now It’s Dark’ was great.”
In related news, Anthrax also broke out “The Devil You Know” for the first time since 2013 and “Earth On Hell” for the first time since 2012 during the June 8 show as well.
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