![]() This featured new singer Steve "Zetro" Souza (ex- Legacy front man). Personal and musical differences led to Paul Baloff's dismissal before the release of the bands second album Pleasures of the Flesh. They set out on tour with Venom and Slayer and leave a path of sick & disgusting, torture and destructive violence. ![]() Completed nearly a year before it's eventual April 1985 release, Exodus's debut album, Bonded By Blood (originally titled A Lesson In Violence), was a groundbreaking effort that is still being regarded as one of the greatest and most timeless classics the metal genre has ever produced. The machine is born and they soon become the holy men of metal. Gary, Paul and Tom forge on and create a whole new world musically, they go through several other guitar players until they find Rick Hunolt and then they add Rob McKillop. Metallica were impressed enough by Exodus to recruit Kirk Hammet as the replacement for Dave Mustaine following his departure from the Metallica ranks in 83'. "If it wasn't for Exodus there would be no Machine Head," is how Rob Flynn recently evaluated Exodus's immense impact and influence on his bands current musical direction. Exodus was instrumental in pioneering this style of music and soon became the toast of the Bay Area metal scene, in the process inspiring a host of other groups such as Metallica, Testament, Death Angel and Violence (which Rob Flynn would later leave to form Machine Head). Unquestionably, it was Exodus's innovating song writing and explosive live shows along with their brutally sick attitudes that spawned the Bay Area thrash scene. Within a couple of years the metal scene is exploding all over the world but the San Francisco Bay Area in particular, is exploding with a new brand of aggressive metal all it's own. They became hugely popular amongst the worldwide underground tape trading community. ![]() ![]() They searched in vain for a frontman to complete their band, until the fateful day Rich Burch introduced them to one Paul Baloff. ![]() Tom Hunting and Kirk Hammet, followed soon after by Gary Holt, form Exodus. Open your ears, brace yourself and step into a metal time machine. ![]()
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