EXODUS

Release Year: 2009
Artist Origin: USA
Style: intense savage aggressive thrash metal

no more and certainly no less, one of the landmark longplays [1985] of burgeoning Bay Area scene is also responsible for launching the seismic thrash metal wave worldwide: essentially violent attack is highlighted by both the legendary vocalist, the late Paul Baloff, who literally torments the microphone, and lashing riffs of Gary Holt, let alone that rabid rhythm section making San Francisco greats totally their own league; it is an album whose influence far exceeds its actual notoriety, and remains a crucial piece of the whole metal puzzle, while new bands of today still use its nine cuts as a framework to start their own thing; recent German edition comes with a remastered sound plus A Lesson in Violence and And Then There Were None live bonuses from 1989's performance at London's Astoria