Exodus forced to stop Venezuela show after crowd breaks barricade; video available
San Francisco Bay Area thrashers Exodus were forced to halt their show last night (Tuesday, October 13) in Maracay, Venezuela for around 15 minutes after the crowd reportedly went nuts and broke the barricade in front of the stage. Fan-filmed video footage of the incident, which occurred during the song "Fabulous Disaster", can be viewed below. (Note: Exodus vocalist Rob Dukes can be seen/heard asking for the rest of the band to stop playing around the 3:30 mark.)
Exodus is currently touring Mexico and South America with German thrashers Kreator.
Nuclear Blast Records has set a January 15 release date for "Shovel Headed Tour Machine (Live At Wacken And Other Assorted Atrocities)" from Exodus. The package will contain the band's July 2008 performance at Germany's Wacken Open Air festival, plus a documentary following the band through the last five years of touring as well as bonus footage, with photo galleries and all of the group's promotional videos. The set will consist of two DVDs plus an audio CD of the Wacken performance.
The German edition of Metal Hammer magazine conducted an interview with Exodus guitarist Gary Holt at this year's installment of the Graspop Metal Meeting, which was held on June 26-28, 2009 on the festival grounds of the Boeretang in Dessel, Belgium.
When asked about Exodus' plans for a new studio album, Holt said, "Hopefully we're hitting the studio around November 1 with Mr. Sneap [British producer Andy Sneap; Megadeth, Nevermore, Arch Enemy]. It's gonna be sick. We have four [songs] recorded [and left over] from the last session [for 2007's 'The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit A'], and I've got, like, nine [other tracks] I'm working on, and Lee [Altus, guitar] has a bunch of stuff. But this next album is gonna blow people's minds."
Regarding the upcoming CD's musical direction, Holt said, "There's a couple of twists on this. I try not to repeat every album. I mean, we did 'Tempo Of The Damned' [2004], [which was] a little more old-school, and we did 'Shovel Headed Kill Machine' [2005], which was really brutal and fast, and then 'The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit A' [2007], [which] was, like, longer and more epic songs. So this album's gonna have some different stuff to it. Maybe a little more dual-guitar stuff, 'cause I've been playing with Lee for quite awhile now - a little more dual-guitar harmony shred stuff. "
(Thanks: Ernest R.)