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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Exodus - You Need To See This

"I started chemo and got in touch with my Native American roots." How Testament's Chuck Billy survived cancer (and grunge) to become a thrash metal legend

Testament, Marvel's What If...?, an upcoming biography: Chuck Billy is a man of many talents

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“Makes Hieronymus Bosch’s visions of Hell look like a nursery school”: Thrash veterans Kreator bring demons, wicker men and the most fire this side of Parkway Drive to stunning London show

Supported by Nails, Exodus and Carcass, the German luminaries reach a new level of pageantry

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“They gave me an MRI and said it looked like I’d been in a car crash”: Gary Holt once gave himself clinical-grade whiplash because he headbanged to his riffs too hard

The guitarist says he “dodged a bullet” by avoiding surgery

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Exodus, the space opera epic with trailers narrated by Matthew McConaughey, drops a trio of gameplay clips that still look a lot like Mass Effect

They look fine—I just wish they looked more than fine.

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"It'll be a fat cheque!" This thrash guitarist reckons he's due some cash from Metallica for his role in writing Creeping Death — and it's not Dave Mustaine

Gary Holt jokes that his lyrics on Exodus' 1983 demo Die By His Hand should entitle him to a cut of those sweet Metallica royalties

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"It's a way of life. I love my job, so working isn't a problem." Gary Holt has seen it all with Slayer and Exodus – and he's not ready for it to end yet

Thrash guitar hero Gary Holt on life on the road with Slayer and Exodus

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Slipknot, Limp Bizkit, Evanescence and more: The 50 metal albums coming in 2026 that you should be excited about

Digging deep on announcements, rumours and pure speculation to find the 50 metal albums you should be keeping an eye out for in 2026

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Mass Effect veterans don't want side quests to feel "tacked on" to their new sci-fi RPG, and they can't add everything or "the game would be thousands of hours"

Exodus devs want players to feel compelled by side quests regardless of the reward

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“Every song we came up with was like the greatest thing. Every time we’d write another it was like, ‘Oh my god’”: Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax and more remember how thrash metal took over the world 40 years ago

1986 was the year where thrash metal broke through. We got the genre’s leading bands to look back on those whirlwind 12 months.

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Where to find Geiger Counters in Arc Raiders

Brave Stella Montis in search of Geiger Counters.

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More than Mass Effect's spiritual successor, Exodus wants to pull decades of player choice into a single story – and the devs think they've cracked it

Big in 2026 | RPG royalty are preparing a new type of sci-fi epic

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The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Megadeth, Rob Zombie and Poppy are among the best new metal songs this week

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BioWare legend James Ohlen steps aside at studio headed up by Mass Effect veterans after reportedly deciding his work on sci-fi RPG Exodus "was complete"

Exodus is due in 2027

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Every space and sci-fi game at The Game Awards 2025

If you didn't stay up to watch The Game Awards 2025, here's the complete rundown of the hottest sci-fi and space games that appeared at the show.

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'Exodus' Looks Like 'Mass Effect' Meets 'Interstellar', and I Can't Wait to See More

Exodus is a new sci-fi game from a wealth of former Mass Effect developers, and it might just have the chops to fill the gap left by BioWare's dormant series.

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“I was trying to write something heavier than the bands I was listening to, and that felt like the first time that I’d done it”: How Metallica broke the thrash metal mould with biblical barnstormer Creeping Death

Pinching a riff from Kirk Hammett’s former band and inspired by a Charlton Heston film, Metallica reached a new level with their 1984 single

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Megadeth announce 2026 Canadian tour with Anthrax and Exodus

Megadeth's farewell plans now include a 12-date tour of Canada with fellow thrash metal titans

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“Our manager basically kicked us out of his house. We were supposed to go to Europe for the first time, and our gear had gotten stolen”: How Metallica turned tragedy into Fade To Black – the acoustic epic that put the elitists in their place

Inspired by the time Metallica’s gear was pinched, Fade To Black threw the metal scene into an uproar – but the band had the last laugh

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“People would say, ‘OMG, if this guy is in the back of a guitar store, teaching, what does it say about the music business?’ But, of course, within a few years, everybody would know his name”: Testament’s Alex Skolnick on what he learned from Joe Satriani

When a teenage Skolnick studied under Satch, he found a man who was “like the equivalent of studying with a classical piano or classical violin teacher” – except this guy could rock

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‘Chuck was breaking beer bottles over his own head’: thrash metal legends Testament on 40 years of mayhem

After their lead singer shed his glam rock spandex, the band became rivals to thrash’s Big Four. Still releasing potent high-octane riffage, they retread their path through cancer scares and jazz detours

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New sci-fi RPG from ex Mass Effect devs shares "some DNA" with BioWare's beloved series, but also Sony's Horizon and Nintendo's Metroid

Exodus borrows from the adventures of Aloy and Samus Aran

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The world of metal pays tribute to At The Gates frontman Tomas Lindberg

Tributes to Tomas Lindberg have come from Opeth, Napalm Death, Cradle Of Filth, Avatar, Exodus and many more

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"The tempos might have slowed, but they make up for it in sheer bloody-minded forcefulness": Exodus break the habit of a lifetime on Force Of Habit

With Metallica's Black album bringing them a huge new audience, Exodus clambered aboard the experimental bandwagon

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"We played a show at a place in Omaha, Nebraska. It might have been like 12 people there... It's enough to make you quit, for sure”: Exodus’ Gary Holt pulls zero punches in his new autobiography

The guitarist and Exodus mainstay has just released his memoir and let’s just say that his band hasn’t always had an easy ride

Guitar World

“People shied away from its political edge – they didn’t get their love songs. But for us it was a lot of fun”: Junior Marvin on Bob Marley and the Wailers’ Survival – and the influence Hendrix’s guitar pedal guru had on its sound

After the success of Exodus and Kaya, Bob Marley took the Wailers into a more politically charged direction to deliver a slept-on classic in the Wailers’ discography

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