They were among the pioneers who sparked the fire under the thrash metal scene in the early Eighties, and now it looks like Exodus will be among the genre’s last original men standing.
Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine made it clear there’ll be no more studio albums, and Slayer – with whom Exodus guitarist and songwriter Gary Holt has played for a decade – are done making albums and will do only one-off gigs. In contrast, Exodus aren’t just releasing new music; they’re on a tear, writing and touring obsessively, cranking out new music not as a means to an end, but as their sole objective – their very raison d'être.
