I went with Exodus, Slayer, and Testament - Exodus has been killing it ever since Tempo, all of those albums are solid as **** and the riffs...Holt has really come into his own over the years and I'm really impressed with him. I do wish Dukes had stuck around for Blood In, Blood Out as I've heard some of the tracks with his vocals and actually dig them better than Souza's delivery. Slayer's latest...I'm not real big on that but still need to give it a few more listens, I really dig a lot of the stuff on Christ Illusion and World Painted Blood and still listen to those albums frequently. Testament...Eric Peterson has really grown to be a monster player and not just the rhythm guy and now you've got Hoglan and DiGiorgio who are just sick, sick musicians - like the line-up they had on The Gathering - DiGiorgio, James Murphy, and Lombardo...that was insane.
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