San Francisco Bay Space thrash metallic pioneers EXODUS will embark on the “Swarm Of Horror” tour in late April. Becoming a member of them on the trek will probably be legendary loss of life metallers DEICIDE and rising thrash outfit MISFIRE.
The tour will kick off on April 27 in Phoenix, Arizona and can wrap up on Could 17 at Milwaukee Metallic Fest. Alongside the best way, the bands will make stops at key venues, together with Sunshine Theater in Albuquerque, Diamond Ballroom in Oklahoma Metropolis, and The Orange Peel in Asheville. Followers attending Sonic Temple competition (Could 9) and Welcome To Rockville (Could 15) may even witness EXODUS in motion as a part of their festival-exclusive appearances.
Presale: Tuesday, March 4 at 10 a.m. native – Thursday, March 6 at 10 p.m. native (PW: HORROR)
Bandsintown presale: Thursday, Machr 6 at 10 a.m. native – Thursday, March 6 at 10 p.m. native (PW: SWARM)
Public on-sale: Friday, March 7 at 10 a.m. native
“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Could 04 – Indianapolis, IN – Deluxe @ Outdated Nationwide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 latest interview with Shawn Ratches of Laughingmonkeymusic, EXODUS guitarist and important songwriter Gary Holt spoke concerning the progress of the songwriting classes for the band’s follow-up to 2021’s “Persona Non Grata” album. Requested when followers can count on to listen to new music from EXODUS, Gary stated: ”Subsequent yr. We had been gonna attempt to put it out this fall, however we would have liked 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 document, we would must have it combined and turned in inside two extra, and that is simply dashing it.
“We’re simply working away,” Gary defined. “The album will probably be executed when it is executed. 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 pretty much 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 robust 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 assume,” he stated. “I feel most frontmen in metallic do [have strong personalities]. From all my mates, guys like [OVERKILL‘s] Bobby Blitz — he is a complete frontman, robust persona. He is superior. He is a personality. The remainder of us are allowed to be somewhat regular, I assume, 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’ve got a microphone in your hand, possibly a mic stand, possibly half a mic stand, however that is the extent of what you have to disguise behind, sort of. So it is arduous.
“All of the vocalists in EXODUS have all contributed superb shit, Baloff being the gold customary, and Zetro has executed superb work with the band, and so has Rob,” Holt added. “And folks will say issues like, ‘Effectively, this document is so heavy or this period due to Rob.’ I write the songs the best way 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 could 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 not too long ago introduced two very particular “Bonded By Blood” Fortieth-anniversary reveals, 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 reveals will characteristic EXODUS performing “Bonded By Blood” in its entirety, plus extra hits, and every present will characteristic direct assist 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 even be obtainable.
Though EXODUS not often will get talked about alongside the so-called “Massive 4” of Eighties thrash metallic — 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 some of the influential thrash metallic 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 Onerous Means”. 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 important songwriter ever since. Holt has carried out on each EXODUS album, and is taken into account extremely influential on the planet of thrash metallic.
Holt started filling in for SLAYER guitarist Jeff Hanneman at stay reveals 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.
