When Slayer introduced that they have been reuniting for a number of reveals right here and there again in 2024, all of us have been fairly fuckin’ shocked. I imply, it wasn’t very way back that they’d their ultimate “farewell” tour, so it felt like there was a neat little bow on the band’s legendary profession. Within the days, weeks, and months because the reunion was introduced, Kerry King revealed that he was “very stunned” by the choice to reunite and now we all know his guitar battery mate Gary Holt was additionally unaware of the plans.
Throughout a latest look on the Speak Is Jericho podcast, Holt seemed again on the madness that surrounded the Slayer reunion announcement, noting that he knew earlier than a lot of the world did however that didn’t reduce the shock.
“Folks say, ‘Oh, this and that. You deliberate this all alongside.’ I’m like, look, I knew a short time earlier than all people else, however I didn’t know endlessly. I knew early sufficient to sit down down at residence and begin finding out the songs, ’trigger I wished to be actually ready. However, yeah, I used to be stunned.”
Noting that he hadn’t stopped taking part in after Slayer completed its “ultimate tour”, having jumped instantly again into Exodus. With solely the pandemic standing in his method for a time there, Holt mentioned he was conscious that Slayer probably had been receiving provides to reunite for a while earlier than the choice to money in on promoters’ curiosity was made.
“I’m positive there have been provides for the band endlessly, however they felt prefer it was time, and I’m very happy to do it. And at the least as of now, the present methodology, which has been [for Slayer to play] a short, minor, small little couple of reveals [every year], that’s wonderful as a result of I’m absolutely dedicated to Exodus. And so it permits me to do this after which exit [with Slayer] and play with fireplace, which, that shit’s costly. Exodus doesn’t get pyro.”
