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EXODUS Drummer: Too Many Drugs Took Focus Away From Music

May 11, 2004

EXODUS members Tom Hunting (drums) and Gary Holt (guitar) recently spoke to Get Ready To ROCK! about the band's comeback release, "Tempo of the Damned" and the 12-year absence from the recording studio that preceded it. Asked what took them so long to record a new studio album, Hunting said, "We were pretty much a dysfunctional mess between that time (1992) when we actually broke up and now. We reformed in 1997: we did the live album 'Another Lesson in Violence', we did some touring, not very much of touring actually, but every time we came home we didn't really break up, but people would just go separate ways. A lot of this happened because we were doing too many drugs and were not really focusing on the music. We basically seemed to be getting lost.

With regards to when they realized that what they actually wanted to do was to get back together and make a new album, Hunting said, "I think that we've always wanted to write more music, that's why I do this personally. I like the creative process of writing new material, so you can imagine how happy i am right now (laughs). It was starting to feel like we were just playing on the past, being a 'retro' thing, losing credibility.

"In last year's tour, we played in Greece and all over Europe. We were having a great time doing that and then we realised that we wanted to keep doing it and that's when we started writing new material. Of course the death of [singer] Paul (Baloff) made us wanna write a new record more than ever, so that we would keep going. We decided to pull the drugs out of this situation and things just started to flow after that. It's a lot easier without them, you know"

Read Tom Hunting and Gary Holt's entire interview with Get Ready To ROCK! at this location.

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