San Francisco’s veteran thrashers EXODUS will be inaugurating their summer festival season with a performance at the Scion Rock Fest in Tampa, Florida on June 2nd. With Gary Holt still handling guitar duties for Jeff Hanneman on SLAYER’s North American and European tour, EXODUS has invited out none other than former band member Rick Hunolt to fill-in for the band’s upcoming shows.
Guitarist Rick Hunolt adds: “I’m ecstatic, I’m nervous, I’m psyched… all the emotions wrapped up into one! It’s been years and I’ve been practicing hard. I CAN’T WAIT! I’m gonna rip it up!!!”
Long-time EXODUS fans will recall that guitarist Rick Hunolt – the other half of the famed EXODUS “H-Team” who is on every studio recording from 1985 through 2004 and co-wrote some of the band’s best-known songs such as “A Lesson In Violence” and “Deliver Us To Evil” – left EXODUS after the band’s highly-acclaimed 2004 reunion album, Tempo Of The Damned. Murder in the Front Row, the recent photo book documenting the pinnacle of the Bay Area thrash scene, aptly documents Hunolt’s tenure in the band. This February, Hunolt joined EXODUS on-stage at the Bonded By Baloff memorial in Oakland.
EXODUS European dates include:
06/07/12 Sweden Rock Festival – Sweden
06/08/12 TBA – Athens, Greece
06/09/12 TBA – Thessaloniki, Greece
06/11/12 Target Club – Italy
06/12/12 TBA – Italy
06/13/12 Nostovna – Nova Gorica, Italy
06/16/12 Hellfest – France
06/17/12 Rock Star – Bilbao, Spain
06/18/12 Hard Club – Porto, Portugal
06/19/12 Sala Ramdall – Madrid, Spain
06/20/12 Salamandra – Barcelona, Spain
06/21/12 La Secret Place Festival – France
06/22/12 Ninkasi Kao – Lyon, France
06/23/12 Graspop Festival – Belgium
06/29/12 Tuska Festival – Finland
06/30/12 Rock’n’Bol – Italy
07/05/12 Extremefest – Germany
07/06/12 Extremefest – Switzerland
07/07/12 Extremefest – Austria
07/08/12 UFO Festival – Croatia
07/09/12 Terezije B.B. – Bosnia and Herzegovina
07/11/12 Jukebox – Bucharest, Romania
07/13/12 Masters of Rock Festival – Czech Republic
07/14/12 Bang Your Head – Germany
07/18/12 Hegyalja Festival – Tokaj, Hungary
07/20/12 Zwarte Cross Festival – The Netherlands
07/21/12 Queens of Metal – Germany
More dates will be announced soon.
