By: Jesse Striewski
I’ll be perfectly honest, I never really gave the Rob Dukes-era Exodus too much time of the day until I finally caught this version of the band live at last year’s Welcome to Rockville festival in Daytona. (Needless to say, I was pretty much won over.)
On their first effort with Dukes at the helm since 2010’s Exhibit B: The Human Condition, the band brings on the standard thrash, fast and strong just like they’ve always been known for. From album opener “3111” to closer “The Dirtiest of the Dozen,” Goliath is filled with (mostly) bangers, sans a few uber tough-guy moments that tend to lose some interest. (See, “Hostis Humani Generis.”)
That’s not to say it doesn’t field some of its own epic moments, namely “The Changing Me” (featuring Hypocrisy’s Peter Tagtgren), and the seven-and-a-half-minute epic “Summon of the God Unknown.” Definitely material for a very specific audience here.
Rating: 3/5 Stars
