Slayer Guitarist Gary Holt Admits Even He Was 'Surprised' About The Thrash Band's Reunion Concerts

Slayer Guitarist Gary Holt Admits Even He Was 'Surprised' About The Thrash Band's Reunion Concerts

In 2024, Slayer rose from the dead and performed a pair of reunion sets at Chicago’s Riot Fest and at Sacramento’s Aftershock festival, but the way guitarist Gary Holt tells it, the band didn’t have those shows planned out “forever,” because even he was “surprised” it happened. Recently, Holt — who is also the long-time guitarist for Exodus — was a guest on the Talk Is Jericho podcast, and he opened up about what it was like for Slayer to get ba…