"When we were making the album, we were just making the music we wanted to hear," Holt recalled to host Chuck Armstrong. "We didn't think anybody would will talk about the album or, you know, that it ...

Exodus and Slayer guitarist Gary Holt offered praise for Slash in a recent episode of the Appetite for Distortion podcast, sharing some of his favorite things about the top-hatted guitarist's ...

"We're just out to stomp everybody," Exodus guitarist Gary Holt says about the band's mindset when it comes to new music. But he tells Full Metal Jackie during their recent chat on her weekend radio ...

Playing thrash metal — a style of music rooted in speed and aggression — takes a toll physically, as Exodus guitarist Gary Holt can attest. “I’m suffering from arthritis everywhere, neck down to my ...

As dudes in their sixties, you’d expect the members of Exodus to pretty much be set in their ways at this point. Yet this past January, the band went through a pretty major change as vocalist Steve ...

Slayer played their first shows since 2019 at Riot Fest in September and Aftershock in October, with a possible European date to be announced for 2025. Slayer guitarist Gary Holt has since weighed in ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

The departure of Steve “Zetro” Souza from Exodus last month came as a huge surprise, and one that came with very little information at the time. The initial Instagram post they made about the ...

Music is a powerful medium, man. The right chords can get you to feel something. The right rhythm can move you. The right vocal flourish or lyrics can push you to better yourself. We as humans are ...

ALBANY - When Gary Holt joined Exodus in 1981, still a teenager at the time, he had no illusions that the band would still be thrashing more than four decades later and considered one of the most ...