Shovel Headed Kill Machine

Shovel Headed Kill Machine
Studio album by Exodus
Released October 4, 2005
Recorded Trident Studio in Pacheco, California
Genre Thrash metal
Length 52:53
Label Nuclear Blast
Producer Gary Holt
Exodus chronology

Tempo of the Damned
(2004)		 Shovel Headed Kill Machine
(2005)		 The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit A
(2007)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Blabbermouth.net [2]
PopMatters 6/10[3]
Stylus Magazine B+[4]
Terrorizer 8.5/10[5]

Shovel Headed Kill Machine is the seventh studio album by the American thrash metal band Exodus, released on October 4, 2005 through Nuclear Blast. This album comes after a huge change in the band's lineup. Therefore, this is the first album to feature new vocalist Rob Dukes, after the departure of Steve "Zetro" Souza during the band's South American tour in support of the band's previous album Tempo of the Damned. It is also the band's first studio album not to feature Rick Hunolt on guitars, with Lee Altus as his replacement, and the only Exodus album to feature Paul Bostaph on drums after Tom Hunting's second departure as a result of the reoccurence of the illness that prompted him to depart in 1989. Shovel Headed Kill Machine sold over 3,000 copies in its first week of release in the U.S.[6]

Reception

In a review in Terrorizer, the album was praised as "a tremendous effort in its own right and an air guitarist's wet dream".[5]

Track listing

No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Raze"  Dukes, Holt 4:17
2. "Deathamphetamine"  Holt 8:31
3. "Karma's Messenger"  Dukes, Holt 4:14
4. "Shudder to Think"  Holt 4:48
5. "I Am Abomination"  Holt 3:25
6. "Altered Boy"  Holt 7:37
7. "Going Going Gone"  Holt 4:59
8. "Now Thy Death Day Come"  Holt 5:11
9. ".44 Magnum Opus"  Holt 6:56
10. "Shovel Headed Kill Machine"  Holt 2:57
Total length:
 52:53

Personnel

Production

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Blabbermouth.net review
  3. ↑ Begrand, Adrien (October 14, 2005). "Blood and Thunder: Regeneration". PopMatters. Retrieved July 15, 2009.
  4. ↑ Stylus Magazine review
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Damien (November 2005). "Exodus: Shovel-Headed Kill Machine". Terrorizer (137): 74.
  6. ↑