
Young, fleet-fingered savages like Metallica, Death Angel, Exodus, Lääz Rockit, Possessed, Blind Illusion and a handful of others were pushing musical boundaries, playing faster and with more intricacy then seemed humanly possible. Regardless of what it was called in its infancy, the sound produced by these early San Francisco bands was like nothing ever heard before. The story behind Exodus' Bonded By Blood.

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