Exodus should join the annals of thrash metal legends commonly branded the “Big Four”, which in addition to Ian’s own band, sports Metallica, Slayer and Megadeth.He made the claim during an appearance on the podcast No Fuckin’ Regrets With Robb Flynn, hosted – as its name implies – by Machine Head frontman Robb Flynn.Citing Exodus’ 1985 album ‘Bonded By Blood’ as “the best debut record of the five of us”, Ian said (as transcribed by Blabbermouth): “The powers that be, like the mayor of heavy metal — maybe Lars [Ulrich, drummer of Metallica] needs to get a phone call — and he can decree that the ‘Big Four’ needs to officially be changed to the ‘Big Five’.“It always bugged me that Exodus doesn’t get the representation and the credit where.
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