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".

[Pagan Saviour]

LOL 9/10 review for this on Blabbermouth not that means anything really. But these lyrics are hilarious

Straight from the gutter
We are the brothers of the blood
Creators of the violence
In an unrelenting flood
We started out with nothing
When the shit all hit the fans
We begged, borrowed and stole
To support our fucking band

We dove headlong
Into the belly of the beast
A never ending story
A life on which we feast
The time, to vast to measure
The miles, too long to count
At night, our greatest pleasure
Is the rage that we let out

It's not about the fortune
Even less about the fame
It's all about the crushing
That's etched upon our name
A gang of super heavy
Dysfunction absolute
The dirtiest of the dozen
We proudly give to you

Had it all
Death, despair and disrepair
Made them all
Mistakes we knew were wrong
Took them all
The paths of self destruction
Through it all
The brotherhood still stands

This is our time
Never compromised, never fell in line
With every breath
Fucking off the years of death
We lit the fire
We fanned the flames across the land
Our way of life
We'll do this till we fucking die
And to a man
We'll rage till we know longer stand
Through all the hell
We survived the time to bring you twelve
We'll write the score
Until we live and breathe no more
Till we breathe no more

[OpenSores]

    

[Eoin McLove]

Flobb must have been involved in the writing of that poetic work of art.

[Sworntothecans]

If anything it's slightly better riff wise than the last two Zetro records. Some cool Holt bits for sure but fucking hell Dukes is really going for the "hell yeah brother" dumbass vocals.

[Pagan Saviour]

wanna paint the town red
In chaos and bloodshed and revelry
I wanna kill the fatted calf
Bathe in the bloodbath and the applause
I wanna set the town on fire
And do what I desire and end them all
I wanna give what they deserve
Exterminate them all and have a ball

Go on a tear
Without a care
Live it up and celebrate
I choose hate

I am exactly who I'm meant to be
What you get's exactly what you see
Disgruntled, irritated, I've had enough
Soon they'll learn to never call my bluff

I couldn't give a fuck about how I act
My actions or the ones that they impact
My hostility brings peace of mind
I am the enemy, I am the enemy
I am the enemy

[Pagan Saviour]

Hope Holt is donating his brain to medical science when he passes. Crack and Meth are powerful drugs

https://blabbermouth.net/news/gary-holt-metallica-were-the-best-of-all-of-us-but-i-think-exodus-crushes-them-now