{"id":805894,"date":"2020-03-31T14:12:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T20:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=976055"},"modified":"2020-03-31T14:12:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T20:12:58","slug":"slayer-exodus-guitarist-gary-holt-confirms-coronavirus-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/slayer-exodus-guitarist-gary-holt-confirms-coronavirus-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Slayer, Exodus Guitarist Gary Holt Confirms Coronavirus Diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Slayer<\/a> and Exodus guitarist Gary Holt confirmed Tuesday that he has COVID-19<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, I finally received my test results back and positive it was,\u201d he wrote in a since-deleted Instagram post (via Blabbermouth<\/a>). \u201c[My wife] Lisa\u2019s came back negative, and it\u2019s been long enough since my symptoms that I am officially in the clear to do the only things I\u2019m allowed, like buy my own groceries! I feel great, made it through the tougher moments, and my health feels 100 percent normal. Thanks to everyone who had wished us well. Now it\u2019s time to start working on some new EXODUS riffs while I\u2019m still basically stuck in my house!\u201d<\/p>\n

Holt was recently on the Bay Strikes Back tour through Europe as a member of Exodus. Several band and crew members from the tour \u2014 which also featured Testament and Death Angel \u2014 have reported either positive COVID-19 tests or symptoms that suggest positive diagnoses.<\/p>\n

The guitarist \u2014 who joined Slayer informally in 2011 and officially in 2013 \u2014 had previously reported he was going for a coronavirus<\/a> test on March 20th. The delay between getting tested and getting the results from the test has been a hot topic in recent weeks as the nation has attempted to address the pandemic. Testament frontman Chuck Billy told Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> last week that it took almost a week for him to find out that he and his wife were positive for the coronavirus, by which time he, too, had started to feel better.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey didn\u2019t give us any medication, so we just rode it out,\u201d Billy said. \u201cWe just hunkered down. And we were fortunate enough to have friends and family dropping off groceries and food here and there. \u2026 Three or four days ago, I was like, \u2018I\u2019m not feeling wiped and dizzy when I [get] up.’\u201d<\/p>\n

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In the interview, Billy also stressed that people needed to take the virus seriously. \u201cWe\u2019re not prepared for it,\u201d he said. \u201cThese numbers that we see that people are testing are totally off because I\u2019m sure there are much more people who have been tested and can\u2019t get the results fast enough. It\u2019s bigger than they make it out to be, but it\u2019s real.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Slayer and Exodus guitarist Gary Holt confirmed Tuesday that he has COVID-19. \u201cSo, I finally received my test results back and positive it was,\u201d he wrote in a since-deleted Instagram post (via Blabbermouth). \u201c[My wife] Lisa\u2019s came back negative, and it\u2019s been long enough since my symptoms that I am officially in the clear to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-17 17:22:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}