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Happy 50th birthday, Jeff Hanneman
Today, Jeff Hanneman would have been fifty years old. The man who helped invent the sound that underlies all of underground death metal did not, as the people around him in the LA suburbs tend to do,...
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Speed metal: the choice of royals
Many of those who are involved with music have spoken praise for the 1980s speed metal explosion, which offered a form of music with both intensity and integrity. Until the great wave of...
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Poland names roundabout after Jeff Hanneman
Last May, the metal community and the world lost someone who was arguably the most inventive innovator in modern music, a person who invented the tremolo-strum style death metal riff and song...
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Slayer posts new track for free download
Slayer, the band that along with Hellhammer and Bathory essentially innovated underground metal, has posted a new track, “Implode,” for free download by fans. To download “Implode,” click here.
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Interview with D.X. Ferris, author of Slayer’s Reign in Blood (33 1/3)
The second of May makes many of us uneasy because we remember the death of Jeff Hanneman, composer and architect of the Slayer approach to mythological alienation. The world isn’t the same without...
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Death metal albums of which I will never tire
Early death metal (Bathory, Slayer, Hellhammer, Sodom, Master) emerged as an aggregate of the past, comprised of speed metal (Metallica, Exodus, Nuclear Assault, Testament, Megadeth), late hardcore...
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Heavy metal’s relationship to religion
If you ask a metalhead about the relationship between heavy metal and religion, you’ll no doubt get a few different answers. Some will tell you that it stands in firm opposition to all religion, some...
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Massacra re-issues arrive
Century Media’s re-issues of classic Massacra works Final Holocaust, Enjoy the Violence and Signs of the Decline have landed. Massacra began innovating its high-speed Slayer-influenced style of death...
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5 albums that invented underground metal
Before there were names for styles like death metal and black metal, and before anyone beyond a handful of people knew of these genres, pioneers created the groundwork for both genres and influences...
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A brief retrospective of Slayer
Slayer blasted their way into the underground metal scene in 1983. Metal had just shifted; the genre of Black Sabbath got taken over by the Led Zeppelin fans, resulting in glam and arena rock, and was...
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Slayer – Show No Mercy
On December 3, 1983, a force of unparalleled musical terror was unleashed upon a more innocent world. Combining the high speed strum detached from percussion used by Discharge with the architectural...
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Slayer unveils new sound with “When the Stillness Comes”
Slayer has introduced a new track, “When Stillness Comes,” from their updated 2015 lineup sans Jeff Hanneman (RIP) and Dave Lombardo, with Paul Bostaph (Forbidden) and Gary Holt (Exodus) filling in on...
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Heavy metal as a brand
Most metalheads, not being of the commercially-minded type, rarely stop to think about heavy metal as a brand. Media sells a certain image with heavy metal, just like Harley-Davidson motorcycles and...
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The historical background of MetalGate
From a recent interview with our editor: You and the other reviewers are notorious for having incredibly harsh reviews. What would you say are your favorite metal albums of all time? These metal...
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Celebrating Jeff Hanneman
Today, May 2, in 2013 founding Slayer guitarist and composer Jeff Hanneman died. During his brief tour of planet Earth, Hanneman fused the boundaryless songwriting of hardcore punk with the riff-based...
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Sydney Slayer Day 2015
Any metal fan should hang their head in shame for missing out on Promotorheads ”Slayer Day”. Pissing down rain, a two hour train ride, followed by a 20 minute bus trip, set the afternoon in motion (no...
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Gruesome: Death-Loving Collective Untethers Slayer Cover
The cast of Gruesome, the Schuldiner-hailing collective featuring members of Exhumed, Possessed, Malevolent Creation and Derketa, today untethers a very special cover of Slayer’s “Black Magic.” The...
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National Day of Slayer
UNITED STATES – JANUARY 01: Photo of SLAYER (Photo by Ebet Roberts/Redferns) The International Day of Slayer (IDOS) began in 2006 when a group of Slayer fans decided to commemorate the spirit of metal...
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SLAYER – Metal Eagle Edition content announced!
Last week, SLAYER announced their heaviest release ever – the Metal Eagle Edition of their upcoming album »Repentless«. Made of aluminum alloy, measuring 15 X 17 X 3 and weighing in at a hefty 7.8...
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Slayer retrospective
UNITED STATES – JANUARY 01: Photo of SLAYER (Photo by Ebet Roberts/Redferns) Some people find it odd that Slayer attracts such fanatical devotion from its fans, even 27 years after the last album most...
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