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DARK SECRETS: 6 - The Real Truth

“I’m not a Satanist, I’m an atheist, but I write the best Satanic lyrics on the planet”: How Slayer went from thrash provocateurs to metal’s unlikeliest elder statesmen

Some bands mellow with age – but not thrash icons Slayer

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The 20 songs that defined Slayer's career (and the stories behind them)

The ultimate guide to thrash metal titans Slayer - as told through their greatest songs

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Coal Chamber pull out of Aftershock festival, citing singer Dez Fafara’s health issues

After postponing a tour in August due to a medical scare, Coal Chamber have also cancelled their next festival appearance

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“She said this model was made shortly after Jeff Hanneman passed away and this was a very, very limited edition”: America's Got Talent sensation Maya Neelakantan gifted a rare prototype of the late Slayer guitarist's signature model by his wife

Neelakantan was handed an ESP LTD Jeff Hanneman Tribute 2014 – of which only 666 guitars were made

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Louder Than Life festival cancels entire day – including Slayer headline slot – due to extreme weather in Kentucky

Slayer, Anthrax and more were due to perform at day two of Louder Than Life before Hurricane Helene rolled by

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“Rob Halford shows up in a jean jacket and I’m like, ‘Oh, this guy, come on!’” Slayer’s Kerry King explains why Judas Priest were a “letdown” at 1981 gig

Slayer’s guitarist was gutted the first time he saw Judas Priest onstage 40-plus years ago

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Slayer have just played their first set in five years - see their reunion setlist and watch fiery video footage here

Thrash titans Slayer have just returned to the stage after a 1759 day hiatus

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"A true believer, sharp as a knife, heart of gold." A tribute to Michelle Kerr, the ass-kicking, passionate PR legend who helped shape modern metal as we know it

Michelle Kerr, PR for Slipknot, Machine Head, Slayer, Megadeth and many more, died on Saturday. She leaves behind a legacy as one of the metal industry's most beloved figureheads

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Slayer have their own hot sauce now, and we can’t believe it isn’t called “Hell Awaits”

Slayer’s Raining Blood hot sauce contains red ghost peppers, guaranteed to give your tastebuds a good, scorchy thrashing

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“Every time I hear it on the radio it’s like, ‘I’m glad they’re playing this instead of Crazy Train!’” Slayer’s Kerry King names his favourite Ozzy Osbourne song, and it’s one of his most obscure

When we asked Slayer’s guitarist to name the best Ozzy Osbourne track, he picked the deepest of deep cuts

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"A lot of songs for the next record are already in demo phases." Kerry King already has his sights set on a second solo album

The Slayer guitarist also doesn't rule out doing smaller releases around tours going forward

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Jeff Hanneman is a metal god whose evil phrasing and brutal downpicking gave thrash kings Slayer an unholy dimension

Hell awaits your forearm in this punishing tutorial in the late Hanneman's style, but it will soon whip your downpicking and tapping skills into shape

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"You had guys who would jump into the crowd and then walk across people’s heads." Inside the year that turned thrash metal into a global phenomenon

From Anthrax's Fistfull Of Metal to Exodus's Bonded By Blood and Metallica's Ride The Lightning, 1984 was the year thrash broke big

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"I had a swastika t-shirt thinking I was Sid Vicious!" The chaotic rise, fall and rise (again) of iconic rasta-punks Bad Brains

Bad Brains were radical, explosive, controversial and an influence on everyone from Slayer to Foo Fighters and Fever 333

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“MTV said, ‘When we look at bands like Mötley Crüe, we know it’s a joke.’ I’m not going to be some clown for MTV”: The twisted, turbulent story of Danzig’s classic Metallica-approved debut album

Danzig’s classic debut album was released on this day in 1988

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“Maybe I’ll be a bro and let them take our spot up there”: Kerry King names the band who could replace Slayer in the Big Four

Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax and who?

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Former Anthrax guitarist too busy “****ing around with crazy-ass expensive watches” to think about comeback

Dan Spitz, who played on all of Anthrax’s 80s albums, became a successful watchmaker after leaving the thrash icons

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“A lot of us didn’t like each other back in the day. Slayer were hard-ass. They didn’t even get along with Metallica”: Why Hirax’s Katon W De Pena is one of thrash metal’s great unsung heroes

Hirax frontman Katon W De Pena was there at the birth of thrash – and he’s still passionately flying the flag today

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“I will never forget the looks of horror from the label. They saw it as commercial suicide – which I suppose it was”: the turbulent story of Celtic Frost’s avant garde thrash masterpiece Into The Pandemonium

How Celtic Frost demolished metal’s boundaries with their classic 1987 album Into The Pandemonium

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“We smoked so much weed that we set off the fire alarms and almost killed everybody with the gas that was going to be released”: The story of Machine Head’s Burn My Eyes, the debut album that revitalised 90s metal

On the 30th anniversary of Machine Head’s Burn My Eyes, mainman Robb Flynn looks back on the making of his band’s classic debut

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Slayer’s reputation as thrash’s fiercest band rested upon the guitar partnership of Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King – and their harmonically evil style will make your rhythm riffing that bit more diabolical

Hell awaits in this lesson in the era-defining riffing style of thrash metal's most dynamic duo

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“When we heard it, we were in shock. The producer had tried to make us sound like Def Leppard”: how Anthrax defied the odds to deliver a thrash classic with Among The Living

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Slayer guitarist Gary Holt declares his love for Taylor Swift: “Why all the hate? She’s an extraordinarily hard worker!”

From “Kill the Kardashians” to “I love Taylor Swift!”

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“I wish I didn’t get paid. I wish I took a quarter point or something, ‘cause now I would be a rich man”: Slayer’s Kerry King on what he regrets about his solo on the Beastie Boys’ No Sleep Till Brooklyn

King reveals how he ended up playing on the Beastie Boys and Sum 41's records

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“Nu metal? No guitar solos! Everyone played with their pants down round their ankles… It was a bleak period, but we came through it”: how Megadeth kicked off the 2010s with the blazing Th1rt3en album

In 2011, Dave Mustaine invited Metal Hammer into his inner sanctum

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