After firing many warning shots on their first two albums, Slayer perfected thrash metal in 1986 on Reign In Blood. Pushing the agenda to play faster, harder, and nastier than the other bands in ...

A vinyl rerelease would do justice to the album’s intricate arrangements and allow fans to fully appreciate its technical brilliance. Slayer’s “Reign in Blood” is a relentless assault on ...

But that’s another story. Hanneman was Slayer’s most prolific songwriter, with 125 music and lyrics songwriting credits to Kerry King’s 118, over the course of 11 studio albums (10 original LPs and ...

No, he never sang on a Slayer album. But most of the better Slayer songs began as ... Rick Rubin, the producer of Reign in Blood, saw some potential in them, but he strongly suggested that Hanneman ...