use of Jeff Hanneman's touring rack. Musical influences Holt's main guitar influences are Ritchie Blackmore, Michael Schenker, Angus Young, Tony Iommi, Uli Jon Roth, Matthias Jabs and Ted Nugent. His favorite bands include Venom, Motörhead, Black Sabbath, early Iron Maiden and Judas Priest. Personal life Outside of music, Holt enjoys foreign and period films. According to Holt, the track "War Is My Shepherd" on the album Tempo of the Damned is a treatise of America's "pro-God" and "pro-war" stance and how he feels the two beliefs are incompatible with each other. Holt endorsed Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election, stating, "I used to have a lot of respect for McCain, but he realized after the dirty defeat that he suffered at the hands of George W. Bush in the South Carolina primary in the (2000) election that he can only get elected if he plays the Karl Rove tactic b.s. He's doing it. It's just one debunked lie after the other. He's the kind of guy who will tell you the sky is red, you look up and it's blue, and he won't admit he's wrong. He's playing dirty politics. Palin is just terrifying, the thought of this lady being a heart attack away from having the nuclear codes. She's crazy and she's dumb." In the 2004 election, Holt vouched for John Kerry, but conceded that "they're all dirty crooks, all politicians. But at least (Kerry) wasn't a coward. He fought in Vietnam whereas George W. Bush Jr. was a draft dodger." In 2017, he referred to President Donald Trump as a "serial liar" and an "embarrassment to this country, this world, and everyone living in it." Holt is an atheist. In October 2017, he became a vegan. On December 17, 2018, his father Billie Charles Holt (born July 6, 1933) died. On March 18, 2020, Holt began exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19. By March 31, 2020, he had tested positive for the virus, although by then he had already recovered. Discography Exodus 1982 1982 Demo 1985 Bonded by Blood 1987 Pleasures of the Flesh 1989 Fabulous Disaster 1990 Impact Is Imminent 1991 Good Friendly Violent Fun 1992 Lessons in Violence 1992 Force of Habit 1997 Another Lesson in Violence 2004 Tempo of the Damned 2005 Shovel Headed Kill Machine 2007 The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit A 2008 Let There Be Blood 2008 Shovel Headed Tour Machine: Live at Wacken &