Persona Non Grata is the twelfth studio album by American thrash metal band Exodus, released on November 19, 2021.

Plans for the follow-up to Blood In, Blood Out were made as early as 2016,[9] and work on the album had been slowed down by relentless tour schedules and guitarist Gary Holt's commitments with Slayer, until the latter disbanded in 2019 following a farewell tour; as such, it is the first Exodus studio album to be released since Slayer's disbandment.

[10] The recording sessions of Persona Non Grata took place from September to October of 2020,[1][2] with the album being fully completed in January 2021.

[11] The album was initially set for release in the summer of 2021,[12] but it was pushed back to November, due to drummer Tom Hunting's diagnosis with squamous cell carcinoma of the stomach.

When asked in a June 2016 interview with The Age of Metal when Exodus were going to release a new album, Souza said, "I hate to speak for everybody, because one of our members [guitarist Gary Holt] plays in Slayer, which is very important to us and to him as well.

[21] Souza later went on to say that fans would have to wait until at least the end of 2019 for the release of new studio album, mainly due to Holt's commitment to Slayer's farewell tour.

[5] On October 15, 2021, Exodus released the third single from Persona Non Grata, titled "The Years of Death and Dying".