New EXODUS track

[Pagan Saviour]

Plonker 


Ah Just most of the old guard releasing autopilot shit. I know there's plenty of other stuff to be bothering with. Between this and the new Kreator ...

[Anvil]

Turned it off about 20 seconds after the intro ended.  I shall not be saying it is decent.

[Bürggermeister]

Nothing I'd pay to hear again. And that artwork, jaysus 

[Pagan Saviour]

It's something else, man... It's crushing, but it's also all anthems. Every song's an anthem. It's awesome. We're super proud of this record."

If ever there was a warning not to use Crack. In the same interview he refers to Exhibit B as his best work, but this new one beats it.

[Sworntothecans]

They're on Napalm Records now so that's all the quality control out the window. Absolutely shite artwork.

[Carnage]

Dire cover art altogether, whoever okayed that needs a slap.

The song itself is OK until the 'solo'/outro, fucking woeful. Holt's paid a bit too much attention to King's coasting in Slayer. I like the extended intro but the body of the song itself is very short stuck between that and the outro.

[Eoin McLove]

Just had a look at the artwork. Jaysus.

[Sworntothecans]

Just had a look at the artwork. Jaysus.

Reeks of something that SPV or some crap label would put out for some shite German band in the mid 90s.

[Neuromancer]

Dire cover art altogether, whoever okayed that needs a slap.

The song itself is OK until the 'solo'/outro, fucking woeful. Holt's paid a bit too much attention to King's coasting in Slayer. I like the extended intro but the body of the song itself is very short stuck between that and the outro.

Yeah, agree with that - intro certainly was interesting, but it just descended into a stock Exodus "micro song" - if the track had been written with more of an expansion of the intro and the Pantera inspired Psycho Holiday outro section (2:35 onwards) it would likely be better. Dukes voice is just so generic it strips the whole thing of any personality.

Incidentally just finished Holt's book - didn't realise just how much he, Hunolt & Hunting hit the skids in the 90s/early 2000s - absolute depths of grimness.

But the book itself was pretty boring, a whistle stop tour of his life events, scant on any real detail or musical depth, candid about the drug use - but not much else worthy of note. Didn't even mention his failed auction for Machine Head. 

While I've always enjoyed a decent portion of the Exodus catalogue, they're more of an "ideal/embodiment of the Thrash Metal spirit" than renowned for their tunes - so there's a fondness for what they represent, "didn't get big enough to sell out/remained underground".