Exodus – Exhibit B: The Human Condition (2010)

Album Review

You can always count on Exodus to supply some good, old-fashioned, downright vicious thrash metal with each release. And the lads deliver once more on their 2010 offering, Exhibit B: The Human Condition (impressively, their fourth album over a six-year period — 2004-2010). As with the past few Exodus releases, guitarist Gary Holt and drummer Tom Hunting are the sole original members left in attendance. But this certainly doesn’t prevent the group from offering up an absolutely brutal slab of thrash metal — with the intensity not dipping one iota from beginning to end. And according to Holt, Exhibit B is a bit of a concept album, as the lyrics deal with such warm and fuzzy topics as “cruelty, ignorance, inhumanity, and brutality.” Either way… Read more on allmusic.com

About the Band

Once the kings of the Bay Area metal scene — the birthplace of thrash — Exodus were unceremoniously demoted from their post with the arrival of Los Angeles’ Metallica in 1982. And while they proceeded to eek out a hit-and-miss career of their own over the next few decades, all the while influencing at least two separate generations of younger thrash bands, Exodus were ultimately fated to be the ultimate also-rans of the genre they helped spawn. Formed in 1981 by singer Paul Baloff, guitarists Gary Holt and Kirk Hammett, bassist Geoff Andrews, and drummer Tom… Read more on allmusic.com

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