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About Slayer
Slayer is an American thrash metal band, founded
in Huntington Park, California in 1981 by Tom Araya (bass guitar,
vocals), Kerry King, Jeff Hanneman (guitars) and Dave Lombardo
(drums). Lombardo has been in and out of the group several times,
but the others have remained constant. Hanneman and King are the
group's main songwriters.
Slayer, along with Metallica, Anthrax, Megadeth
and others are often credited with creating American thrash metal
by speeding up the sound of New Wave of British Heavy Metal bands
like Iron Maiden, and Judas Priest. Slayer were also great fans
of hardcore punk, influenced by the likes of Minor Threat, Dead
Kennedys and The Misfits, and borrowed some of that music's emphasis
on extremely fast tempos in many of their songs. At the same time,
however, their music can also be very progressive, as they have
been known to change tempos and arrangements in the middle of
songs.
Slayer have found moderate commercial success, and
are known for their devoted cult following. Their lyrics and album
art content (such as violence, serial killers, warfare and Satan)
have occasionally generated strong criticism. The band has also
been accused of holding Nazi sympathies, primarily due to negative
interpretations of the lyrics of the song "Angel of Death"
from the Reign in Blood album. The lyrics were inspired by the
grisly acts of Josef Mengele, the doctor who committed scientific
atrocities on Jewish and Gypsy prisoners during World War II,
and who was dubbed the "Angel of Death" by the concentration
camp inmates.
Though Araya has never used the low "grunt"
vocal style usually associated with death metal, Slayer's music
(most notably on the albums Hell Awaits (1985) and Reign in Blood
(1986)) are generally regarded as having exerted a major influence
on death metal and black metal. Moreover, Reign in Blood was the
first of many albums to be produced by well-known and respected
Def Jam Co-Founder, Rick Rubin.
The band is currently working on their long-awaited
new full-length album that will be released in the spring of 2007.
It is going to be the follow-up to 2001's God Hates Us All and
their first album with original drummer Dave Lombardo since Seasons
in the Abyss.
Slayer History
Slayer eagle logo, used during the Seasons in the Abyss periodThe
band was originally known as Dragonslayer before shortening their
name to Slayer. Contrary to what some believe, the name was not
chosen as an acronym for Satan Laughs As You Eternally Rot; rather,
this wording, found on the liner notes to Divine Intervention,
was added after the name was shortened. Araya has jokingly stated
that they chose to be only Slayer because "it was cool, easy
to chant".
Slayer's first album, Show No Mercy, was released
in 1983 on Metal Blade Records. Today it is regarded as being
second rate compared to the band's later albums, but is still
considered a classic by some and contains some fan favorites such
as "Die By The Sword", "The Antichrist" and
"Black Magic". It was essential in gaining the band
a cult following and respect in the metal community.
The band's second release, the Haunting the Chapel
EP, was considerably darker and more thrash oriented than its
predessecor, and is considered to have laid the ground work for
what the band's classic sound would become. It contained the now
classic "Chemical Warfare".
The band's second full length release, Hell Awaits,
expanded on the darkness of Haunting the Chapel, as hell and Satan
were common song subjects. Musically it was probably the bands
most progressive offering, containing only 7 tracks, 3 of which
clocked in at over 6 minutes. It is notable in that the opening
track has a demonic sounding voice saying "Join Us"
actually being played backwards, and may be partly responsible
for the right wing Christian idea of backmasking.
The band were offered a major label deal by Rick
Rubin's Def Jam Records later, they signed and quickly began working
on their 3rd album with Rubin.
The result was the powerful Reign In Blood, released
in 1986, which has been called an "undisputed masterpiece"
and has been credited with having "almost single-handedly
inspired the entire death metal genre (at least on the American
side of the Atlantic)" while never "crossing the line
into self-parodic overkill." Kerrang! described Reign as
"the heaviest album of all time". In 2003 Slayer started
touring playing this entire album in order as well as other Slayer
classics, something that they never did on the original album
tour. A DVD of one of these performances, which ends in a literal
rain of blood (or at least red fluid) was released under the title
Still Reigning.
South of Heaven disappointed some fans by slowing
down the tempos a bit and adding touches like undistorted guitars.
Many later critics have praised the album, however, as demonstrating
Slayer's desire to grow musically and avoid repeating themselves.
Though many Slayer fans remain divided on the subject, two songs
from the album ("Mandatory Suicide" and "South
of Heaven") are played at almost all Slayer concerts. That
same year, 1988, the band recorded a thrash metal version of Iron
Butterfly's signature song, "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida", for
the soundtrack to the movie Less Than Zero.
The follow-up album, Seasons in the Abyss, was more
of a return to the sound of Reign in Blood and was greeted warmly
by fans. A video clip for the title track was produced which had
the band playing in the Middle East, shortly before the start
of the Gulf War. It uses doubling of Tom Araya's vocals on "Temptation"
and a child's voice pleading underneath the track "Dead Skin
Mask" (about necrophile Ed Gein) showing Slayer continuing
to expand on their ideas and music.
A double live album Decade of Aggression followed
in 1991, with a three year hiatus (except for a brief mini-tour
of California, Arizona and Baja California, Mexico as a warm up
for their appearance at the 1992 Donnington Heavy Metal festival)
until 1994's Divine Intervention. This new studio album showed
Slayer had not lost their edge, with songs about Jeffrey Dahmer
("213", his apartment number) and Reinhard Heydrich
("SS-3", the license number of his car) amongst other
themes of murder and the evils of church and government. Live
Intrusion, a video of concert footage, was released about this
time and features a joint cover of Venom's "Witching Hour"
with Machine Head, who were Slayer's support at the time. Relations
between Kerry King and Robb Flynn have since badly deteriorated.
Undisputed Attitude (1996) found Slayer reaffirming
their love for hardcore punk, covering songs by Minor Threat,
T.S.O.L., D.R.I. and others. It also contained one original piece,
"Gemini", which is much slower than the standard Slayer
style. Its tempo was not repeated on subsequent albums and is
a one-off experiment rather than a indication of a new direction
the band chose to take.
Diabolus In Musica (The Devil in Music) was released
in 1998 and marked, along with an altered logo, a change in compositional
style for the band. This style incorporated a new groove into
some song structures and fan reaction was divided. Nevertheless,
a successful world tour followed. Slayer's most recent studio
album, God Hates Us All, was released on September 11, 2001. They
have also released a live DVD (War at the Warfield) and box set
(Soundtrack To The Apocalypse) featuring rarities, live CD and
DVD performances and various Slayer paraphernalia.
In 1996, a lawsuit was brought against the band
by the parents of Elyse Pahler, who accused the band of encouraging
their daughter's murderers through their lyrics. The lawsuit was
thrown out in 2001, although interestingly enough not on lack
of merit but legal technicalities.
Slayer Awards
The band received their first Grammy nomination
for "Best Metal Performance" on January 8, 2002.
Chris Harris at MTV.com
has filed this report on Slayer:
For Slayer guitarist Kerry King, June 6th holds
considerably more weight this year, a year that marks the 20th
anniversary of the release of the band's trailblazing speed-metal
album, Reign In Blood. With his penchant for satanic lyrical imagery,
King pinpointed June 6th (6/6/06) as the ideal release date for
Slayer's forthcoming album, the follow-up to 2001's God Hates
Us All. But months of record label holdups have placed King's
lofty goal in peril.
Of course, Slayer are not about to let June 6th
come and go without some sort of acknowledgement on their end.
Oh no - instead of releasing a record, they plan to launch a two-month
U.S. tour with MASTODON, LAMB OF GOD, CHILDREN OF BODOM and THINE
EYES BLEED.
Dubbed the Unholy Alliance Tour, the trek will make
stops in most major cities, although the actual routing of the
run is still being fleshed out. Either way King's anxious to hit
the road again.
"It's been 18 months since we've toured in
the States," he explained. "People are going to be chomping
at the bit to see us again. Our initial thought [with Unholy Alliance]
was to go up against Ozzfest, because I think that tour's getting
a little bit tired and I think people are tired of going out and
getting sunburned for hours every summer. Every place we play
is going to be indoors, with a good-sized lineup. We're certainly
not going to try to make Ozzfest go away. We're just trying to
offer an alternative."
According to Rick Sales, Slayer's manager of 18
years, the idea's to make the Unholy Alliance Tour an annual event
"with the best bands out there." During the fall of
2004, Slayer, SLIPKNOT, Mastodon and HATEBREED toured Europe under
the Unholy Alliance tag. Sales also wants to take the tour global
and said following its U.S. run, the Alliance will return to Europe,
followed by stints in Japan and Australia - although, he noted
the lineups would be different on each leg.
"I think we're in a different spot than Ozzfest,"
Sales continued. "This is more extreme and it's not involving
any sort of 'radio bands.' It's a no-compromise lineup, the best
of the breed. We think this is a great live event and that the
tour will become bigger than the lineup. I think Ozzfest has proven
that."
Slayer, who Sales said declined an Ozzfest 2007
invite, will deliver an hour-plus set to close out each night
of the Unholy Alliance; Thine Eyes Bleed will open on all dates,
followed by Bodom and Mastodon (who'll be rotating slots) and
then Lamb of God. King said Slayer will debut some new material
from the stage.
On Tuesday Slayer entered a Los Angeles studio,
where they started recording the 11 songs that'll comprise their
yet-untitled album. Rick Rubin (Jay-Z, Red Hot Chili Peppers)
will executive-produce the disc, while Josh Abraham (Velvet Revolver,
Staind) will turn the knobs. One of the songs has an official
title ('Cult'), but all of them, King promised, will be devastatingly
grim.
"There are definitely things you can't write
about in Slayer, and there are definitely things people expect
you to write about," he said. "Everybody expects war,
Satanism or anti-religious stuff - and this record's chock-full
of that."
The LP, which the band hopes to finish in time for
a late June release, will be the first to feature original drummer
Dave Lombardo in more than 15 years. Their last outing together
was 1990's Seasons In The Abyss.
"[Drummer] Paul [Bostaph], who we did God Hates
Us All with, kind of had an elbow problem, and now he's with Exodus,"
King said. "When Paul left us ... it was brought to our attention
that Dave was available. And we figured if anybody should be doing
this, it should be him."
Most of the 11 songs Slayer will record were written
more than two years ago, the guitarist said. "We're hoping
to do it old-school and record everything in like four weeks,"
he added. "We're ready. This is probably the most ready we've
been since Seasons. We've been spinning our wheels in rehearsals,
just waiting for the green light on this thing. Now that we've
got it, we're ready to go.
"It's definitely going to be a riff-fest,"
King continued. "There's riffs all over the place. As much
time as we've had to work on it, there better be riffs on it.
I think anybody who likes Slayer, musically, is going to love
it."
While Sales said Slayer's studio LP probably won't
be in stores by June 6th, he says the band will release a digital
download, EP or something else to coincide with the tour launch.
On Saturday, MTV2's Headbangers Ball will feature
an exclusive interview with bassist Tom Araya regarding the forthcoming
album and the Unholy Alliance run.
