1997 was supposed to be the glorious return of Exodus. Having welcomed the party animal Paul Baloff back into the fold to perform for throngs of Exodus fans who missed them so much, the band’s return was immortalized on the timeless live album Another Lesson In Violence which saw them perform nearly their entire debut album with Andy Sneap’s trademark pounding production effort. Their past coming back to haunt them, drug use escalated and a lack of label support, not to mention a questionable climate for American metal (Pantera’s Great Southern Trendkill selling only a mere few hundred thousand in start contrast to their earlier and more immature work, Anthrax’s near-flawless album Stomp 442 not breaking the 100k mark and resulting in the band being dropped, Danzig’s musical fall from grace, very public breakups of Faith No More and Life Of Agony, and Ozzfest dominated by nu-metal clones), led the band to put their comeback plans on hold for the time being. Little did anyone know that the next time Exodus would seriously attempt a resurgence, it would be without vocalist and founder Paul Baloff who would die of a massive stroke in 2002.