Just heard the news. I love Slayer. I don't listen as much as I did when I was younger, but I still crank up Raining Blood at least once a month!! R.I.P.
Made the news in Australian newspapers..... Said he'd been very ill since a Spider Bite. We got some pretty mean critters over here but what kinda spiders you got that does this?
There's an etymologist that's been collecting samples for 20 years of what folks 'think' is the notorius Brown Recluse ... so far not one of the samples is.
not everyone loved the music of Slayer as some of us do, but never was their a more socially concious band.. And when the rest of the big 4 were getting more and more commercial, Slayer got harder and and more uncompromising. I always said about their music "Anger is ok if used constructively" and i always felt its what they did. In this sense there were no purer guitarists than Jeff and Kerry, 110% connected to their sense of outrage about the things they saw as being bad in the world.