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Rob Dukes, of Exodus and Generation Kill fame, was the guest on Full Metal Jackie’s radio show this past weekend. Dukes and Generation Kill recently released their 'We're All Going to Die' album and ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Exodus made one of the best metal albums of 1985, Bonded by Blood. Twenty-two years later, the Bay Area thrash legends released one of the best metal albums of 2007, The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A ...

If regions were like parents and music genres their offspring, thrash metal would be the Bay Area's redheaded stepchild. The psychedelic sound of '60s San Francisco tends to snatch all the glory in ...

Before he was shredding with Metallica, Kirk Hammett got his start as lead guitarist for another Bay Area thrash metal band. In 1979, Hammett formed Exodus with high school classmates Tim Agnello, Tom ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Exodus formed in 1981, a year before the birth of Metallica, two years before Metallica’s debut, ...