Bay Area greats Exodus have just served up the monster title track from their forthcoming Goliath album, and they say it’s one of the heaviest songs they’ve ever released.
The track, which follows last month’s ripping “3111,” is a beast of a tune wherein Tom Hunting sets the pace with a menacingly slow-trudging beat. Guitarists Gary Holt and Lee Altus eerily bend and chunk through the verse riffs, as vocalist Rob Dukes describes the titular Goliath as an unstoppable force that “mankind will look upon…with shock and awe.” He adds that we should “worship at his feet or be trampled.”
“‘Goliath’ may quite possibly be the heaviest thing we have ever done, and certainly the slowest song in our catalog, as close to doom metal as Exodus we get,” the group wrote in a joint statement, adding how they feel the tune is “Just pure evil, as sinister as it gets.”
Exodus don’t take all the credit for “Goliath,” confirming that their friend, rock-and-metal-loving electro-acoustic violinist Katie Jacoby, laid down 18 tracks of strings through the harmony section, “making the song go from just pure horror to a thing of beauty.”
A music video finds Exodus and Jacoby ramming through the track amid computer generated wreckage. We also see said giant wreaking havoc on-screen. Citizens initially fear for their lives in subway cars and city streets, but ultimately bow down before their huge new leader.
You’ll find the video via the YouTube player up above.
As previously reported, Goliath is said to be Exodus’ “most collaborative record in their four decade-plus history.”
The band’s 12th full-length is out March 20th via Napalm Records. It follows 2021’s Persona Non Grata, and marks the thrash outfit’s first album with returned vocalist Rob Dukes since 2010’s Exhibit B: The Human Condition.
Exodus are currently touring Canada with Megadeth and Anthrax, and hit Kelowna, B.C.’s Prospera Place tonight (February 18th).