EXODUS guitarist Gary Holt is hitting the street on behalf of ESP Guitars all through July, providing you with the chance to see firsthand what his highly effective and distinctive taking part in model is all about. It is an enormous alternative for any severe guitarist, and it is completely free.

Says Holt: “Come hang around, hear some tales of thrash, hear some riffs, ask some questions, study a few of your favorites riffs and stuff and simply share some laughs!! Gonna be an epic time!! And I am going to signal any stuff you have acquired!! Due to @espguitars and all for placing this collectively!”

The dates are as follows:

July 17 – Pitbull Audio – Nationwide Metropolis, CA
July 18 – IHOMI OC – Tustin, CA
July 19 – Bakersfield Sound Co. – Bakersfield, CA
July 20 – Gelb Music – Redwood Metropolis, CA
July 26 – 5 Star Guitar – Beaverton, OR
July 27 – Diablo Guitars Renton, WA

This previous March, Hachette Books introduced that it had acquired the upcoming memoir from Holt. “A Fabulous Catastrophe: From The Storage To Madison Sq. Backyard, The Onerous Approach” is described in a press launch as “a no-holds-barred memoir from the preeminent thrasher’s life in steel, from its humble (however not quiet) beginnings within the San Francisco Bay Space via in the present day’s present resurgence in worldwide recognition, as he lived massive, performed quick and crashed onerous, written in collaboration with Adem Tepedelen.”

Holt shared the information of his upcoming memoir on social media, writing: “Tremendous stoked!!! The announcement in ebook circles has gone out in the present day, so I am sharing it in MY circle! The ebook about my life is underneath method, from the beginnings of EXODUS and thrash steel, to the drug fueled fall, to the surprising and tragic circumstances that led me to @slayerbandofficial to the bounce again to Madison Sq. Backyard with and @exodusbandofficial charting at quantity 20 on the MAIN Billboard charts, all can be instructed! No holds barred, all of the lows and highs can be retold! Been a challenge very near me, and I am stoked to be working with @ademtepedelen_ @lauramazer @bschafer714 @hachettebooks and @wendysherman to make this a actuality!”

Holt joined EXODUS in 1981, shortly after the band’s formation, and has been the group’s primary songwriter ever since. Holt has carried out on each EXODUS album, and is taken into account extremely influential on the planet of thrash steel.

Holt started filling in for SLAYER guitarist Jeff Hanneman at reside reveals in 2011, and have become the band’s full-time co-guitarist as of 2013, whereas remaining a member of EXODUS. Holt performed on SLAYER‘s closing album, “Repentless”, which got here out in 2015.

In a June 2012 interview with Full Steel Jackie‘s nationally syndicated radio present, SLAYER‘s Kerry King acknowledged about Holt: “I at all times regard Gary because the Glenn Tipton of our period — actually good, actually polished and no one talks about him. To this present day, no one actually references [JUDAS] PRIEST and Tipton that a lot as guitar gamers and I really feel the identical method about Gary. EXODUS have an enormous following however slightly extra neglected than METALLICA, MEGADETH, SLAYER, ANTHRAX — the ‘Massive 4,’ so to talk, so [it is great] to have the ability to convey him to the forefront and shove him down individuals’s throats and say, ‘Hey, this motherfucker kicks ass. Concentrate.'”

EXODUS‘s newest album, “Persona Non Grata”, got here out in November 2021 by way of Nuclear Blast Information. The LP was recorded at a studio in Lake Almanor, California and was engineered by Steve Lagudi and EXODUS. It was produced by EXODUS and was blended by Andy Sneap. For the third time within the band’s historical past, they returned to Swedish artist Pär Olofsson to create the album art work.

“Persona Non Grata” was the follow-up to 2014’s “Blood In Blood Out”, which was the San Francisco Bay Space thrashers’ first launch because the departure of the group’s lead singer of 9 years, Rob Dukes, and the return of Steve “Zetro” Souza, who beforehand fronted EXODUS from 1986 to 1993 and from 2002 to 2004.