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  • Slayer says farewell in San Jose, 26 August 2018

    SLAYER w/ Lamb of God, Anthrax, Testament, Napalm Death @ the SAP Center in San Jose, CA August 26th brought the final show of Slayer’s North American “Farewell” tour to the SAP Center in downtown San Jose, California, and along with it some mixed emotions from this Slayer lover. Having seen the Thrash Metal giants well over…

  • Slayer/ Megadeth/ Testament @ Molson Canadian Amphitheatre, Toronto ON, July 29, 2010

    Words by Natalie Zed; Concert Photography by Albert Mansour This is not going to be a straightforward review. I could easily write that piece. I could relate each band’s setlist, describe the quality of the lighting. I could talk at length about Testament’s sound issues (all drums and vox, swallowed guitars), Dave Mustaine’s hair, Tom…

  • Slayer: World Painted Blood

    … that have quit tours with Slayer (Alice In Chains leaps to mind) because of the intensity of the shows (as well as the rain of saliva directed from the audience) are legendary – so that’s not news either. After over two decades of that reputation cultivated, all of a sudden Slayer’s new album trades…

  • Slayer: Preparing for a World Painted Blood

    By Keith Carman “Just a second… let me turn down my music,” shouts Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo, his voice barely audible over the sound of clashing guitars and hyperactive drums. When he says “my,” he means it literally — Lombardo is listening to Slayer’s forthcoming 10th studio album, World Painted Blood, at head-splitting levels. “I…

  • Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax Are Coming To a Canadian Theater Near You June 22nd!

    I am sure by now you all have heard about how “the Big Four” are finally playing together this summer, albeit only in Europe at massive summer festivals. Well, if you live in Canada and can’t make it overseas this summer, maybe a trip to your local movie theatre will suffice? Read below to find…

  • Metalion : The Slayer Mag Diaries

    … images of my soon to be delivered treasure. Then a release date was announced and after I tried unsuccessfully to gather the family round to watch me hit the pre-order button— seriously, how could they not find that exciting—the joyous day finally arrived. Metalion is an anthology of Slayer Mag, a self-produced zine started…

  • CONTEST: Go See Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax AGAIN On July 19th!

    Cineplex has decided to do an encore showing of “The Big Four: Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax” on July 19th and we have four pairs of tickets to give away! It will be reshown on Monday, July 19th at select Cineplex Entertainment Centres across the country (a list of where is at the end of this…

  • Book Review: The Bloody Reign of Slayer

    … recordings, Not there’s a suggestion for you, Slayer chaps!), the unnecessary nu-metalisms of Diabolus in Musica (and such a shame to waste such a Slayer-esque title on such a poor album), and their bizarre cover of “Born to be Wild”! (Betcha didn’t know that, pop-pickers!) Overall, a fine, well-researched read, worth getting for the…

  • Suicidal Angels – Dead Again

    … written choruses to die for. “The Trial” starts off with a killer mid-paced guitar riff that could of found itself on Kreator’s Extreme Aggression album; around the minute mark it blasts off into a frenzy of riffing. You hear a lot of Kreator and Reign in Blood era Slayer on Dead Again, but that’s…

  • Jeff Hanneman – Reign In Peace

    … s Soundtrack to the Apocalypse box set in 2003. On disc three were some home recordings by Jeff Hanneman of him working his way through early renditions of “Raining Blood” and “South of Heaven”. Wait a sec, I thought, as I started digging around to see which guitarist wrote which Slayer songs, and I…