Lee Altus, Steve “Zetro” Souza, and Kragen Lum of Exodus perform onboard the cruise liner “Independence of the Seas” during the '70000 Tons of Metal' Heavy Metal Cruise Festival on Feb. 3, 2018, ...

Before he was shredding with Metallica, Kirk Hammett got his start as lead guitarist for another Bay Area thrash metal band. In 1979, Hammett formed Exodus with high school classmates Tim Agnello, Tom ...

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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 ...

Exodus and Slayer's Gary Holt credits a metal legend with teaching him how to play guitar — Kirk Hammett. Of course, both musicians have ties to Exodus and Hammett, at that time, wasn't the legend he ...

Still, he's thrilled to be on the list. "Once the surprise of being mentioned subsided, I decided to go through all '100 Songs.' Sure, there are many, many questionable choices on the list, but there ...

Combination horror-film/heavy metal culture festivals curated by aging thrash icons: they’re a thing now. Last year brought us the inaugural edition of Phil Anselmo (Pantera)’s Housecore Horror ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Empire Live in Albany will be hosting a performance by thrash metal band Exodus. The concert is scheduled for November 17. Exodus is often considered to be among the upper ...

The City of Brotherly Love is once again going to play host to one of the more exciting two-day events of the year when Decibel Magazine puts on its Metal & Beer Fest: Philly next April. And judging ...

Making a widely read list isn't easy, as not everybody is going to agree with your choices. Since its release last week, Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Songs has sparked plenty ...

In the grand scheme of thrash metal, there are few individuals who are as simultaneously influential and controversial as Megadeth‘s Dave Mustaine. The dude’s been a member in two of the Big Four and ...