If you have never been to Hellfest, you should definitely try to go. Yeah, that is the sentence I will start with. Every year it amazes me how the festival can get such an awesome lineup that makes you want to run around the whole festival ground. Hellfest has 6 stages[…]
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After “When The Stillness Comes” and “Implode,” Slayer has just released the title track of their new album ‘Repentless’. This is the song that Kerry King called their “Hannam-anthem” in tribute to late guitarist, Jeff Hanneman. Watch here: The track is very typically Slayer, and definitely sounds like it has[…]
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Thrash metal gawds Slayer have released a new song When The Stillness Comes as part of Record Store Day shenanigans. Released as a 7″ vinyl, the song begins slow, but thereafter the song is delightfully ripping. Give it a listen now, if you’re still awake and claim bragging rights!!
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Wacken Open Air is one of those experiences that can be best described excessive; over-flowing beer, a vast multitude of people, searing heat and an onslaught of all genres of metal, day in day out all through the length of the festival. Not that I’m complaining. Just like the 24[…]
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Slayer have put out a new track titled “Implode,” which is the band’s first release since World Painted Blood (2009) and the first since the loss of Jeff Hanneman and the departure of drummer Dave Lombardo. The album is expected to hit stores by summer 2014. Listen to the track[…]
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Thrash titans Slayer have just announced that their previous drummer, Paul Bostaph has re-joined the band, full-time. This means that Dave Lombardo has been asked to leave the band for good just a week after they paid tribute to Jeff Hanneman at a memorial. The band has released this statement on their[…]
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One of thrash metal’s most iconic figures, bent low over his guitar with his golden locks falling all over it as he belts those screaming leads out, Jeff Hanneman from Slayer has died of liver failure. Please read this official statement from Slayer: Slayer is devastated to inform that their[…]
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Earlier today, this message was posted publicly by the official Facebook page of Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo: Statement From Dave Lombardo Regarding Slayer Australian Tour 2013 I want to personally apologize to all of our fans in Australia who have bought tickets for the tour expecting to see me in[…]
Read More »Slayer frontman Tom Araya was hospitalized just before their show in Soundwave Festival in Sydney. The reason was supposedly a severe ear infection, which led them to cancel their slot at the festival. This isn’t the first time the legendary Slayer frontman has had a set back, as he underwent[…]
Read More »Slayer have recruited Gary Holt, the guitarist of Bay Area thrash metal band as a temporary replacement for Jeff Hanneman, who’s underwent emergency surgery after contracting necrotizing fasciitis, a flesh eating bacteria on his skin. Holt will join Tom Araya, Kerry King and Dave Lombardo at the Soundwave festival that begins this February[…]
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