EXODUS

Release Year: 2024
Artist Origin: USA
Style: merciless heavy intense thrash metal

in the target of two in one re-issue series we have both first reanimation disks by legendary Bay Area thrashers: with the initial killer old school 2004's album the wicked vets firmly return to the spotlight out from the abyss, presenting their first studio output in twelve years, uplifting the sound with poignant approach and heavy-weighted production aesthetics - no doubt that it has also inspired a new wave of pure and raging thrash metal all over the world!; classic line-up features Steve "Zetro" Souza at the microphone for the last time before his step out, igniting the revolting souls with unadulterated energy and intense strength, where AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap cover comes as bonus; just one year later, with three new members of five-piece band, some critics were looking suspiciously to the new throat of the intense and merciless thrash classics, namely Rob Dukes, yet he, as well as a new ass-kicking recruit, a live drum machine Paul Bostaph [Forbidden, Slayer] collectively prove to be the best fitting dudes to the sonic expansion of Exodus, shelving out an even more vicious and uncompromising ten tracker [2005] - even though the renewed direction comfortably uses sharp angles and hard surface, music leaves enough of space for a headbanging pleasures either!