Bay Area thrash legends Exodus have announced that their long-awaited new album Persona Non Grata has been pushed back from its initial summer release date to November, so that drummer Tom Hunting has more time to recover from his recent diagnosis from cancer. A GoFundMe was also launched to help him with his medical bills which, as of this writing, has raised $84,230 over its goal of $50,000.

The news regarding the delay was broke by frontman Steve "Zetro" Souza, who offered an update on the band's first album since 2014's Blood In, Blood Out on his 'Toxic Vault' podcast: "It's a career-defining record. You guys have not heard it yet, but it's a career-defining album. And once you hear it, you will understand that. And it makes sense why we waited, so that he can be part of this. 'Cause nobody's thinking he's not - he's gonna fully recover from this. And we'll be out kicking your asses once again."

Zetro then went on to talk about Hunting, believing that his friend and bandmate will make a full recovery: "Tom is one of the strongest guys I've ever met, if not the strongest guy. He lives in the mountains, and his training regimen is straight up out of Rocky IV. I mean, he chops wood, and he really chops wood. I could chop about three fucking logs if I was lucky, and I'm done. He'll sit there and chop for hours. He's a very strong guy, and we all know that he's gonna beat this."

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