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"We were rivals once but it doesn't feel like there's any rivalry now. We're all on the same team, for heavy metal": Revisiting the first ever Big Four show, as Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax invaded Poland in the summer of 2010

When thrash's Big Four rolled into Warsaw in June 2010, heavy metal history was made

Metal Hammer

“It’s an extension of Slayer, and I think a lot of people will think it might have been the next record”: Kerry King promises business as usual on upcoming solo debut

Slayer is dead. Long live Slayer! Kerry King says his much anticipated new album is very much a follow-up to Repentless

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"It’s an extension of Slayer...a follow-up to Repentless for sure." Kerry King updates us on his highly anticipated new album

Slayer legend Kerry King discusses one of the most anticipated metal records of 2024

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The ‘road toll’ is a benign term that sanitises the senseless waste of human life in Australia

Society is inured to the misery of this macabre tally. We must urgently challenge the hegemony of this blithely adopted description

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“The blueprint for the beginning of death metal.” How Slayer dragged metal to new depths of evil with Show No Mercy

From the otherwise hair metal backdrop of Los Angeles, Slayer began a campaign of pure, satanic thrash with Show No Mercy

Metal Hammer

The 50 best collaborations in rock

Guest spots, duets, team-ups and mashups – we take a look at the weird, wonderful world of the rock’n’roll collaboration…

Louder

Welcome To Rockville announces Slipknot, Foo Fighters, Mötley Crüe, Limp Bizkit and more for 2024

The four-day Florida festival is also the first confirmed booking for Slayer guitarist Kerry King’s solo band

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Slayer's Kerry King drops major tease that we may finally be seeing his new band soon

This is the clearest sign yet that new music from Kerry King is on its way

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The 10 greatest guest spots in heavy metal history

From Bruce Dickinson teaming with Rob Halford to Dave Grohl’s Probot album, here are the times big names made great metal songs even greater

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"People were spitting at us": How one of Alice In Chains' worst gigs ever earned them the respect of hardcore Slayer fans

For Alice In Chains, playing on the 1991 Clash of the Titans tour was an eye-opening, and sometimes terrifying, experience

Metal Hammer

"He was Slayer. He affected a lot of people and he didn’t even realise it.” The life and tragic death of Slayer’s Jeff Hanneman

Jeff Hanneman was the architect behind some of Slayer's biggest - and most infamous - songs but his 2011 passing was a tragedy that shook thrash metal

Metal Hammer

Here’s everything we know about Slayer guitarist Kerry King’s new band so far

Ex-Slayer axeman Kerry King has been teasing us with notions of a new band for years. Here are all the details we’ve seen so far.

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Dave Mustaine and David Ellefson pay tribute to late Megadeth drummer Lee Rauch

However the former bandmates disagree on whether or not Rauch featured on Megadeth’s Last Rites demo

MusicRadar

Kerry King: Jeff Hanneman “wanted nothing more than to come back” to Slayer before his death

Jeff Hanneman suffered numerous health issues in his final years, but his former Slayer bandmate Kerry King reveals that the guitarist wanted to return to the band

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9 surprising artists who have sampled Slayer

From hip hop legends Public Enemy to Essex rave punks The Prodigy, here are some of the musicians who've sprinkled the Devil's music in amongst their own delicious chaos

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NAMM 2023: Dean and thrash icon Kerry King partner for über-metal Overlord USA Custom Shop signature model

It has everything a Kerry King electric guitar needs – the signature Kahler vibrato, a Sustaniac, an EMG with a boost. Now all the former Slayer guitarist needs is a band…

Guitar World

NAMM 2023: Dean reveals Kerry King’s latest lux signature, the USA Custom Shop Overlord – and it is heaving with top-notch components and clever circuitry

Dean’s handmade USA model helps Kerry King to make his points

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10 completely bonkers guest spots from metal legends on non-metal songs

From Ozzy rapping and Rob Zombie collabing with P Diddy to Serj Tankian teaming with Benny Benassi, these are some appearances from metal icons we were NOT expecting

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