In August he said: "I've only known them for most of my life, so I'm really happy that I finally got to record with them." Now Holt tells Full Metal Jackie: "Kirk wanted to do this solo more than anybody. I think for him it's like coming home - going full circle, finally playing on an Exodus album with the guys he started with at 16 years old.

"I've spent a lot of time with Kirk over the last four years and we really reconnected. We spent a lot of time making people pee their pants, listening to Kirk and I speak of all these criminal stories of us as kids."