On Sunday, July 23, Elliott Fullam of Little Punk People conducted an interview with SLAYER frontman Tom Araya backstage at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. You can now watch the chat below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On when SLAYER will begin recording its next album: Tom: "I don't ...
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Two-time Grammy-winning thrash/metal legends SLAYER will perform their iconic song "Raining Blood" on the July 27 edition of "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon". The program will air at 11:35 p.m. on NBC. Immediately following Thursday's taping of "The Tonight Show", SLAYER will head over to New York's Theatre at Madison Square Garden where the ...
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Dave Mustaine recently ranked his favorite MEGADETH guitarists in descending order, with the last one being his least favorite. The MEGADETH leader's list — which he tweeted in late April — does not include the band original second guitarist Greg Handevidt — who was in the band only in 1983 — nor SLAYER's Kerry King, ...
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In a brand new interview with Revolver magazine, SLAYER guitarist Kerry King was asked if there are any plans in place for the band to begin working on a follow-up to 2015's "Repentless" album. He responded: "Funny thing is, 'Repentless' isn't even two years old yet, though it seems like it is. But ...
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Fan-filmed video footage of SLAYER's June 26 concert at the Gröna Lund amusement park in Stockholm, Sweden can be seen below. Kerry King recently once again said that he was "definitely open" to having fellow SLAYER guitarist Gary Holt contribute to the songwriting on the band's next album. Holt, who is still a member of ...
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Gary Holt says that he is ready to contribute to the songwriting on SLAYER's next album. Holt, who is still a member of San Francisco Bay Area thrash icons EXODUS, has been the touring guitarist for SLAYER since January 2011 when the band's co-founding guitarist, Jeff Hanneman, contracted necrotizing fasciitis, also known as flesh-eating disease, ...
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Fan-filmed video footage of SLAYER's June 10 performance at the French edition of the Download festival in Paris can be seen below. Kerry King recently once again said that he was "definitely open" to having fellow SLAYER guitarist Gary Holt contribute to the songwriting on the band's next album. Holt, who is still a member ...
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Santiago Bluguermann of Radio Cantilo conducted an interview with SLAYER drummer Paul Bostaph before the band's May 6 appearance at the Maximus festival at Tecnópolis in Villa Martelli, Argentina. Asked about his pre-show ritual, Bostaph said: "I have a practice pad, a drum set, and like an hour before the show, I get changed and ...
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Kerry King has once again said that he is "definitely open" to having fellow SLAYER guitarist Gary Holt contribute to the songwriting on the band's next album. Holt, who is still a member of San Francisco Bay Area thrash icons EXODUS, has been the touring guitarist for SLAYER since January 2011 when the band's co-founding ...
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Tom Araya says that SLAYER is still working out "the business aspects of things" in the aftermath of the passing of the band's co-founding guitarist Jeff Hannemann. Hanneman died in May 2013 from alcohol-related cirrhosis of the liver. He is credited for writing many of SLAYER's classic songs, including "Angel Of Death" and "South Of ...
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