The snippet shows the four-piece tearing through part of their song Hell Awaits, from the 1985 album of the same name, backed ...

Slayer played two reunion shows in 2024 at Aftershock and Riot Fest, and it seems they're not slowing down in 2025! Slayer has just announced their first Canadian show since their farewell trek in ...

Slayer and Metallica began to unleash thrash metal on the world at nearly the same time. Metallica started playing shows locally in Southern California less than a year before Slayer took off. As a ...

Kerry King is a thrash metal icon. He the guitarist and songwriter helped co-found Slayer, arguably one of the most recognized metal bands in history. As a result, his aggressive guitar style has ...

Few bands have as storied a history as the legendary Slayer. For more than 40 years, they’ve carved a name for themselves in the history books, creating an absolutely batshit fanbase that would follow ...

Slayer guitarist Kerry King has named the albums he considers perfect from start to finish. King, who co-founded Slayer in 1981, is a noted fan of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal. The band covered ...

October has also traditionally been a month when major rock and metal acts released some of their biggest albums. The first ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

But he's not sure what'll happen. "How do I feel [about the shows]? Um, wow. That's a really good question. I'm kind of a bit drained. Sacramento was a lot of guests there, a lot of friends, not to ...

The Slayer reunion train just keeps rolling on, as the band announced their first Canadian show since their not-so-farewell tour in 2019. The show will be part of the Festival d’été de Québec, which ...

SAN DIEGO -- At San Diego Comic-Con, you never know who you'll see or what surprises are in store. Slayer's heavy metal guitarist Kerry King dropped by the "Shag" art booth at San Diego Comic-Con, ...

Slayer singer/bassist Tom Araya didn’t listen to metal until he joined the band. The fire-spewing thrash metal frontman made the revelation during an interview on Canadian TV network SuperChannel in ...