EXODUS “Shovel Headed Kill Machine” /CD/

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The second live album by legendary American Thrash Metal band.
All the original members of Exodus are back and captured at this raging reunion show! This album comes after a large line-up change for Exodus. Paul Baloff, who originally left in 1986 after the release of “Bonded by Blood”, makes a return on vocals. Tom Hunting returns after leaving just before the “Fabulous Disaster” tour in 1989 due to illness. This is also Exodus's first album to feature Jack Gibson on bass. Robb Flynn of Machine Head makes a guest appearance on "A Lesson in Violence". Recorded at The Trocadero in San Francisco, this crushing live set reunites Paul Baloff, Gary Holt, Rick Hunolt and Tom Hunting once again for twelve raging tracks with a sound quality superior to that found on any of their previous records! This live is the best! The production is simply great, even if we are in 1997 and still nowadays some live albums don’t sound so aggressive and powerful. This is perfection!!
Features songs from their legendary debut album “Bonded By Blood”, plus select tracks from “Pleasures Of The Flesh” and one precious gem, "Impaler," written by guitarist Kirk Hammett (now with Metallica) while he was still in the band. An essential piece of metal!!
Century Media Records/Fono Records, 1997/2005 (FO555CD). Made in Russia.


Tracklist:
1. Bonded by Blood 03:34
2.Exodus 04:29
3. Pleasures of the Flesh 08:16
4. And Then There Were None 05:58
5. Piranha 05:42
6. Seeds of Hate 06:00
7. Deliver Us to Evil 08:29
8. Brain Dead 05:22
9. No Love 06:41
10. A Lesson in Violence 05:58
11. Impaler 06:09
12. Strike of the Beast 09:19
Total playing time: 75:59 min.

The third full-length studio album by legendary American Thrash Metal band.
After years struggling for recognition while watching their peers achieve fame and fortune, Bay Area mainstays Exodus had every reason to be dejected when they re-grouped in 1988 to record their third album "Fabulous Disaster". Still, they went on to create their most diverse and carefully conceived effort yet, while remaining faithful to their no-frills Thrash ethic. But while the album represented the realization of their vision, as well as their commercial peak, it still failed to gain them their well-deserved place alongside such Thrash Metal giants as Metallica, Anthrax and Slayer.
After a random spoken word intro, opener "The Last Act of Defiance" quickly sets the frenzied pace, taken a step further by the title track's highly amusing apocalyptic vision. Both songs also showcase the amazingly fast feet and incomparable fills of Tom Hunting - the only human capable of challenging Slayer's Dave Lombardo for bragging rights as Thrash Metal's greatest drummer. Up next, "The Toxic Waltz" provides a fresh take on the band's mosh classic "A Lesson in Violence", and the more complex "Cajun Hell" also succeeds despite its silly lyrics. Significantly more intelligent, the eight-minute epic "Like Father, Like Son" is another show of maturity, and other highlights like "Corruption" and "Verbal Razors" exhibit the blinding precision and speed of Gary Holt and Rick Hunolt - arguably the best, and definitely the most over-looked, lead guitar tag team in the genre. Finally, two choice cover versions of AC/DC's "Overdose" and the Southern Californian classic "Low Rider" adds just enough flavor and humor to the proceedings. Probably one of the best albums of the band!
UK label Music for Nations released the album in 1988, but in the USA it was released in January 1989 by Combat/Relativity Records.
The album picked 82 position at The Billboard 200 chart.
Combat Records/Relativity Records,1989/2006 (88561-2001-2). Made in USA. Second American re-release.


Tracklist:
1.The Last Act of Defiance 4:44
2.Fabulous Disaster 4:54
3.The Toxic Waltz 4:51
4.Low Rider 2:48 (War cover)
5.Cajun Hell 6:05
6.Like Father, Like Son 8:11
7.Corruption 5:46
8.Verbal Razors 4:07
9.Open Season 3:54
10.Overdose 5:31 (AC/DC cover)
Total playing time: 50:57 min.

The sixth full-length studio album by legendary American Thrash Metal band.
Released in early 2004, "Tempo Of The Damned" is Exodus' first studio release since 1992's "Force Of Habit". It's also the last release with appearance of longtime vocalist Steve "Zetro" Souza until his return for 2014's "Blood In, Blood Out" as well as the last appearance of founding drummer Tom Hunting until 2007's "The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit A". The album also has the last studio appearance of guitarist Rick Hunolt.
Given up for dead over a decade earlier, the mighty Exodus - the original kings of Thrash Metal - made an unexpected but long-rumored return with this album. But what had been intended as a long-awaited reunion of their seminal "Bonded By Blood" lineup was tragically thwarted with the sudden death of vocalist Paul Baloff in early 2002. Fittingly, Baloff was duly supplanted by none other than Steve "Zetro" Souza, the man who'd replaced him in the first place and who had gone on to sing on every Exodus album thereafter, including their mid-period Thrash classic "Fabulous Disaster". Of course the fact that Souza was clearly the better and more reliable vocalist should not be overlooked, and with the welcome involvement of long-gone founding drummer Tom Hunting, "Tempo Of The Damned" still serves as quite the family reunion. It also doesn't disappoint musically, picking up the pieces right where the band's star-crossed career had fallen apart 11 years earlier with the underrated "Force Of Habit", and turning in a performance that is, at once, vintage Exodus and mindful of modern recording standards as well. All of the old, much loved Exodus hallmarks are here: lyrics filled with biting, sarcastic social commentary; no-fuss, jagged Thrash Metal; and unparalleled technical precision.
As has always been the case, it's the dazzling six-string tag team of Rick Hunolt and Gary Holt (quite simply the tightest rhythm guitar duo in the history of Thrash Metal) that truly drives the Exodus bullet train over lightning runs like "Scar Spangled Banner" and the wonderfully retro-named "Impaler". Their solos are as musical as the riffing is not, and, as heard on excellent examples like "Shroud of Urine" and "Forward March", always typified by inventiveness without excess pyrotechnics. 
Taken as a whole, "Tempo Of The Damned" successfully resurrects Exodus as the potent and formidable Thrash Metal machine of old. The fact that they are well aware of their strengths, and content to stick with them to the end, is what makes this such a welcome release for the band's loyal followers, as well as younger fans looking to understand what got Heavy Metal where it is today.
Founding guitarist Kirk Hammett was accredited for a song "Impaler"!
Nuclear Blast GmbH, 2004 (NB 1218-2). Made in Germany. First press.


Tracklist:
1. Scar Spangled Banner 6:39 
2. War Is My Shepherd 4:25 
3. Blacklist 6:15 
4. Shroud Of Urine 4:50 
5. Forward March 7:34 
6. Culling The Herd 6:05 
7. Sealed With A Fist 3:34 
8. Throwing Down 4:59 
9. Impaler 5:23 
10. Tempo Of The Damned 4:18
Total playing time: 54:02 min.

The eighth full-length studio album by the legendary American Thrash Metal band.
San Francisco Thrash veterans Exodus are old-school enough to count Metallica's Kirk Hammett as a founding member, but 27 years on, they're still banging heads with a ferocity many of their peers can't match.
Loaded to bursting with the kind of rapid-fire, aggressive guitar that made the Bay Area ground zero for '80s Metal, "Atrocity Exhibition" cruises along with power and focus. Tracks like "Riot Act" take off on the high-octane blitz of second-generation acts like Anthrax that Exodus gave birth to, and moodier, mammoth numbers like the title track feature both speed and power in equal measures.
This is the second album to feature Rob Dukes on vocals and Lee Altus on guitars, but it also marks the second comeback of longtime original Exodus drummer Tom Hunting, last appearance of which was on Exodus's 2004 album "Tempo Of The Damned".
Thrash Metal purists who lament the death of the real thing will rejoice in this still-furious act's new vigor!
Nuclear Blast GmbH, 2007 (NB 1938-2). Made in Germany. First press.


Tracklist:
1. Call To Arms 1:33 I
2. Riot Act 3:37 
3. Funeral Hymn 8:38 
4. Children Of A Worthless God 8:25 
5. As It Was, As It Soon Shall Be 5:16 
6. The Atrocity Exibition 10:33 
7. Iconoclasm 7:54 
8. The Garden Of Bleeding 5:49 
9. Bedlam 1-2-3 19:51 
10. - 0:06
Total playing time: 71:42 min.