Slayer and Exodus guitarist Gary Holt is working on his memoir, “A Fabulous Disaster: From The Garage To Madison Square Garden, The Hard Way,” which is due out next year.
In a new interview about the project, Holt said, “I had thought about doing a book for a long time. Just my career arc is very different. Most of your rock books involve starting out, mass success, huge drug use and alcoholism and a spiral down, then redemption. Mine’s different. I had moderate success, completely out of music, complete drug addict, and then the redemption. It’s really close to the finished stages now.”
He went on to say, “I read the latest version of it. It made me cry a couple of times. It made me cringe a bunch of times because there’s some really cringy [expletive] going on. And it made me laugh. It’s laugh, cry, on the edge of your seat, like any good movie. That’s all you could ask for.”
When asked if there were any stories that he left out of the book, Holt said: “I left out anything that would be horrible to a lot of people I know, because if I turned it into a tell-all, I know where all the bodies are buried in thrash metal. I could expose everything. I left tons of stuff out, stuff that would have made the most riveting chapters on Earth, but it would’ve been damaging to people I care about. And I don’t mind damaging myself, because it’s my story.”