Following the announcement of upcoming headline performances at each Decibel Journal Metallic & Beer Fest and their very own “Bonded By Blood” Fortieth-anniversary exhibits, thrash steel legends EXODUS have simply unleashed a slew of extra U.S. tour stops and pageant dates for this spring — altogether dubbed the “Swarm Of Horror” tour.
Starting straight after the “Bonded By Blood” Fortieth-anniversary exhibits, the tour will begin in Phoenix, Arizona on April 27 and go to a number of markets throughout the central U.S., ending in Asheville, North Carolina on Could 13. Amid the tour, EXODUS will carry out at Sonic Temple, Welcome To Rockville and Milwaukee Metallic Fest. All common tour dates will characteristic help from DEICIDE and MISFIRE (help bands is not going to seem on pageant dates).
Band, native, Bandsintown and extra pre-sales will roll out all through this week, starting tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. native time. Basic on sale begins this Friday, March 7 at 10:00 a.m. native time. Go to exodusattack.com/website/tour-dates/ for tickets and particular person present particulars.
EXODUS guitarist Gary Holt says: “We’re hella stoked to announce the ‘Swarm Of Horror’ tour with our good pals and dying steel legends DEICIDE and with our new pals MISFIRE! This shall be just about one of many heaviest issues on the planet and we will not wait to destroy everybody! Do not miss this tour! See you on the street quickly!”
“Swarm Of Horror” 2025 tour dates:
April 27 – Phoenix, AZ – Nile
April 29 – Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater
April 30 – Grand Junction, CO – Mesa Theater
Could 01 – Little Rock, AR – The Corridor
Could 02 – Oklahoma Metropolis, OK – Diamond Ballroom
Could 04 – Indianapolis, IN – Deluxe @ Previous Nationwide
Could 06 – Flint, MI – Machine Store
Could 08 – Ft. Wayne, IN – Piere’s
Could 09 – Columbus, OH – Sonic Temple Pageant *
Could 11 – Birmingham, AL – Workplay
Could 13 – Asheville, NC – Orange Peel
Could 15 – Daytona Seaside, FL – Welcome to Rockville *
Could 17 – Milwaukee, WI – Milwaukee Metallic Fest *
* EXODUS solely
In a current interview with Shawn Ratches of Laughingmonkeymusic, Holt spoke in regards to the progress of the songwriting periods for EXODUS‘s follow-up to 2021’s “Persona Non Grata” album. Requested when followers can anticipate to listen to new music from EXODUS, Gary stated: ”Subsequent yr. We had been gonna attempt to put it out this fall, however we wanted extra time for the songwriting. So we’re going within the studio right here in simply a few weeks, however by the point we end the file, we might need to have it combined and turned in inside two extra, and that is simply speeding it.
“We’re simply working away,” Gary defined. “The album shall be achieved when it is achieved. We’re not gonna rush it. The final album was fucking phenomenal. So, I am all the time making an attempt to high the final one, and this one’s gotta be fucking nearly as good or higher than ‘Persona’, which I rank quantity two — it is my second-favorite EXODUS album behind [1985 debut] ‘Bonded By Blood’.”
When Ratches famous that EXODUS has all the time had sturdy personalities fronting the band, from Paul Baloff to Steve “Zetro” Souza to Rob Dukes, Holt concurred. “That is simply half and parcel of being a frontman, I suppose,” he stated. “I feel most frontmen in steel do [have strong personalities]. From all my pals, guys like [OVERKILL‘s] Bobby Blitz — he is a complete frontman, sturdy character. He is superior. He is a personality. The remainder of us are allowed to be a bit of regular, I suppose, normal-ish. EXODUS had been all the time a fucking band of lunatics anyway, particularly in our youth when all 5 of us had been certifiably insane.
“However, yeah, that is a tough job being a frontman,” he continued. “You do not have a guitar to cover behind. You are standing there uncovered. You will have a microphone in your hand, possibly a mic stand, possibly half a mic stand, however that is the extent of what you have to conceal behind, sort of. So it is laborious.
“All of the vocalists in EXODUS have all contributed superb shit, Baloff being the gold normal, and Zetro has achieved superb work with the band, and so has Rob,” Holt added. “And folks will say issues like, ‘Properly, this file is so heavy or this period due to Rob.’ I write the songs the way in which I write them no matter who’s fucking singing… I do not write to the man singing, and I by no means have. These songs on the final album can be the identical in the event that they had been written for Paul, if he was alive, or as they had been written for Zetro or written for Rob. The identical goes for the Rob Dukes albums. I simply write the songs which can be in my head at the moment.”
In January, it was introduced that EXODUS had parted methods with Souza and had been rejoined by Dukes.
Souza joined EXODUS in 1986 after beforehand fronting the band LEGACY (which later turned TESTAMENT). He remained within the band till their hiatus in 1993, however rejoined them for 2 years from 2002 to 2004. Dukes had joined EXODUS in 2005 (following Souza‘s departure) and remained till 2014, when Souza rejoined.
Dukes joined EXODUS in January 2005 and appeared on 4 of the band’s studio albums — “Shovel Headed Kill Machine” (2005),“The Atrocity Exhibition… Exhibit A” (2007),“Let There Be Blood” (2008, a re-recording of EXODUS‘s traditional 1985 LP, “Bonded By Blood”) and “Exhibit B: The Human Situation” (2010).
EXODUS lately introduced two very particular “Bonded By Blood” Fortieth-anniversary exhibits, falling upon late unique vocalist Paul Baloff‘s birthday weekend (April 25). Going down in Berkeley, California on Friday, April 25 at UC Theatre and Anaheim, California on Saturday, April 26 at Home of Blues, the exhibits will characteristic EXODUS performing “Bonded By Blood” in its entirety, plus extra hits, and every present will characteristic direct help from DEATH ANGEL. BLIND ILLUSION and NUKEM will open the Berkeley date, and HIRAX and NUKEM will open the Anaheim date. Particular-edition “Bonded By Blood” merchandise may also be obtainable.
Though EXODUS hardly ever will get talked about alongside the so-called “Large 4” of Eighties thrash steel — METALLICA, MEGADETH, SLAYER and ANTHRAX — the aforementioned “Bonded By Blood” LP impressed the likes of TESTAMENT, DEATH ANGEL, VIO-LENCE and plenty of others to launch their careers and is taken into account one of the influential thrash steel albums of all time.
Hachette Books has set an April 1, 2025 launch date for Holt‘s upcoming memoir, “A Fabulous Catastrophe: From The Storage To Madison Sq. Backyard, The Arduous Approach”. The foreword for the e-book was written by former EXODUS and present METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett.
Holt joined EXODUS in 1981, shortly after the band’s formation, and has been the group’s most important songwriter ever since. Holt has carried out on each EXODUS album, and is taken into account extremely influential on the planet of thrash steel.
Holt started filling in for SLAYER guitarist Jeff Hanneman at reside exhibits in 2011, and have become the band’s full-time co-guitarist as of 2013, whereas remaining a member of EXODUS. Holt performed on SLAYER‘s last album, “Repentless”, which got here out in 2015.
Picture credit score: Lisa Holt
