The unruly offspring of heavy metal and punk rock, thrash metal had coalesced three years earlier around a handful of ...

Kerry King is part of the legendary "Big 4" of thrash as the guitarist for Slayer, but since they're no longer as active as the other three, he's picked a band that he thinks should take Slayer's ...

Slayer announced their reunion on Wednesday (Feb. 21), the thrash metal pioneers set to play this year's Riot Fest in Chicago and Louder Than Life 2024 in Louisville, Kentucky — both in September — ...

"Kerry King is not Mick Mars or Slash." This was a monumental weekend for Slayer and its fans. The band played what was advertised as "the final show" of "the final campaign." The show was being ...

As the final moments approached, Kerry King faced the end of Slayer’s supposed last performance with an epic heavy metal gesture. During the band’s closing minutes the night of Nov. 30, 2019, the ...

Emerald writer Craig Wright sat down with Gary Holt and Paul Bostaph of the legendary thrash metal band Slayer on Sunday, March 20 before a performance at Portland’s Roseland Theater. Bostaph is the ...

Gary Holt has two pretty good jobs these days. He’s the guitarist in long-running Bay Area thrash pioneers Exodus. And for the last five years, he’s been the guitarist in another thrash institution ...

For the uninitiated, Slayer's co-founding guitarist Kerry King has been at the forefront of thrash metal for almost four decades. With a style that encapsulates the finer moments of thrash, punk and ...

Each band in the Big Four brought their own style to the then-nascent thrash genre. In the case of Slayer, it was extremity. The California quartet played harder, faster and with more intensity than ...

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