The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit A

Infobox Album
Name = The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit A
Type = studio
Artist = Exodus


Released = October 23, 2007
Recorded = Sharkbite Studios
Genre = Thrash metal
Length = 1:11:44
Label = Nuclear Blast Records
Producer = Andy Sneap
Reviews =
Last album = "Shovel Headed Kill Machine"
(2005)
This album = "The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit A"
(2007)
Next album = "Let There Be Blood"
(2008)

"The Atrocity Exhibition...Exhibit A" is the eighth studio album by thrash metal band Exodus, released on October 23, 2007. This is the second album featuring Rob Dukes on vocals, but it also marks the second comeback of longtime original Exodus drummer Tom Hunting. Hunting's last appearance was on Exodus's 2004 album Tempo of the Damned. This also is the second Exodus album to feature Lee Altus on guitars.

The name of the album is the same as a planned album that was to be released by the Los Angeles thrash metal outfit Dark Angel in 1992.

Guitarist Gary Holt has stated it is named "Exhibit A" because Exodus plans to create an "Exhibit B" soon, of which they have already recorded four songs.

On October 17 the entire album was uploaded on the band's Myspace page, however, and many of the people that pre-ordered the album from CM Distro received it on October 19.

The first, and so far only, single to be released from the album is Funeral Hymn. There was also a music video released for "Riot Act". [http://exodusattack.com/]

Track listing

#"Call to Arms" - 1:33
#"Riot Act" - 3:37
#"Funeral Hymn" - 8:38
#"Children of a Worthless God" - 8:25
#"As It Was, as It Soon Shall Be" - 5:16
#"The Atrocity Exhibition" - 10:33
#"Iconoclasm" - 7:54
#"The Garden of Bleeding" - 5:49
#"Bedlam 1-2-3" - 19:51
#"Secret Track" - 0:06

Bedlam 1-2-3

The song Bedlam 1-2-3 fades slowly and ends at 7:57 followed by 10 mins. 10 secs. of total silence. At 18:08 (with 1:43 left to go) a very country sounding song fades in. It is a country version of Exodus's very first song, "Bonded By Blood," from their 1985 debut album "Bonded By Blood." For the extremely country sound of the song it was nicknamed "Bonded By Banjo" or sometimes "Banjoed By Blood."

The song ends with a Yeehaw! heard in the background followed by an untitled 6 second hidden track where you can hear ever so slightly in the background someone screaming "That was some heavy shit!" in a barely audible gibberish sounding voice. The exact breakdown of the 19:51 song Bedlam 1-2-3 is as follows:

*Bedlam 1-2-3 - 0:00 - 7:57
*Silence 7:58 - 18:07
*Bonded By Banjo - 18:08 - 19:51

Trivia

*Supposedly, the 6th and title track of this album was influenced by Death Angel's The Ultra-Violence. Both songs are the title track on the album, the longest song on the album (not including the silence after Bedlam 1-2-3 which is 7:57 by itself), both are toward the center of the album's track listing and ironically, both are 10:33.

*The hidden track at the end of Bedlam 1-2-3 is a country style version of Exodus's first recorded song, Bonded by Blood. Many die hard Exodus fans took this to offense when it came out due to the rumor that it was a sort of mockery of the deceased singer Paul Baloff (April 25, 1960 - February 2, 2002), who sang the song and had a hand in writing it.

Music Videos

Riot Act - 3:37

Band Line-Up

*Rob Dukes - Vocals
*Gary Holt - Guitars
*Lee Altus - Guitars
*Jack Gibson - Bass
*Tom Hunting - Drums

References

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