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“A lot of guys can play awesome guitar but there’s very few super-shredders like that”: members of Slayer, Nightwish, Mastodon and more salute the genius of Alexi Laiho
Late, great Children Of Bodom frontman Alexi Laiho was born on April 9, 1979
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“We can make records until our hands fall off. But if we can’t sell it live, I don’t want to”: how Slayer reconnected with 80s thrash and made World Painted Blood
Slayer’s 2009 album World Painted Blood was the best since their 80s heyday – and this is how they made it
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This 41 year old video is the oldest known footage of Slayer, and it proves they were brilliant from the start
Watch a pre-fame Slayer play a show in Anaheim, California several months before debut album Show No Mercy came out
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It's Official: SLAYER Reunites, Announces First Shows In Five Years
SLAYER has officially reunited and will return to the live stage in September. For the first time since the band wrapped the last concert of its world tour back in November 2019, SLAYER — Tom Araya (bass, vocals), Kerry King (guitar), Gary Holt (guitar) and Paul Bostaph (drums) — will return to the...
And so, Slayer got back on the saddle again, albeit for only two shows. I'm perplexed, but people have the right to have a change of heart, regardless of what motivated this.
It's like an old retired professional killer who grabs the rifle and jumps at the call for one last job.
#GreatAlbums1980s - #Slayer – Reign in Blood (1986). 1986: The Challenger explodes, Chernobyl melts down, and Iran-Contra heats up – yet the thing the PMRC wants youth to fear is a group of LA metallers who refuse to sound like they're pretending as they articulate the grinding collapse of western civilization. "Angel of Death," "Necrophobic," "Jesus Saves" and the raging finale "Reign in Blood" are protest music for the age of inhumanity, the folk music of the dispossessed.
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“He said, ‘How about Slayer with special guests Slayer?’ We went, ‘Wow, that could be crazy’”: the forgotten story of Slayer vs Slayer, the 80s metal Battle Of The Bands with only one winner
Two bands, one name, one crazy gig – this is what happened when a pre-fame Slayer shared a bill with another band named Slayer