Or we could have gone with “A Zombie with Anthrax.” Ah well. the important thing is that guitarist/comic book author Scott Ian has a new credit to add to his already impressively cool cv: zombie. Technically, “walker” – he’ll be playing a member of the undead in the new season of The Walking Dead, as he recently announced on Twitter:

 Scott_Ian Scott Ian

What have I wanted to do since 1978? Be a ZOMBIE!!! Full story on my day on Walking Dead coming later!!!

and he attached this photo:

Add this to his tweets about seeing Richard Alpert at LAX (he’s a LOST fan), starting out his day with Vivaldi and Mozart, and not yet blogging about The Walking Dead on his new site http://scott-ian.com/ because he didn’t know “the Dr. Who thing was on tonight” and it becomes even more obvious why the man is so popular.

And by the way, also according to his tweets, he didn’t shave his beard for this part. That is some amazing makeup. Hopefully no one will be taking an axe to it – no, not that kind of “axe”- but it’s The Walking Dead. No matter what, it’s going to be hideous.

Season 2 of The Walking Dead will be gracing our television screens beginning Sunday, October 16 at 9/8c on AMC.