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EXODUS' Siamese Twins From Hell

January 24, 2008

Saby Reyes-Kulkarni of the Broward-Palm Beach New Times reports: EXODUS founder, leader, and mainstay Gary Holt laughs out loud at the suggestion that the album cover of the band's landmark 1985 debut, "Bonded by Blood", contains a veiled caricature reference to METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett. A familiar and cherished site to metalheads of a certain generation (read: You're getting old, bastards!),the album depicts a pair of Siamese twins joined at the back. One of the babies has a demonic smile and sports curly black locks that suspiciously resemble Hammett's '80s hairstyle. The demon baby's twin, meanwhile, is clearly born of a more, um... fair complexion.

"Oh no, that wasn't supposed to be Kirk," chuckles Holt. "But now that you mention it, it does share some similar ethnic traits. Maybe I'm the gringo, white-trash one on the right and Kirk's the other one — I don't know! That was completely unintentional.

"And," he adds, "why does he get to be the evil one?"

Read the entire article at the Broward-Palm Beach New Times.

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