Kerry King and Tom Araya’s heavy group recently announced that they’re going to play a trio of concerts to celebrate the 40th ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. After a multi-leg farewell tour in 2018 and 2019, the thrash ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The cover of Slayer album Show No Mercy. Slayer’s debut was a product of intense late-night recording sessions, financed by ...

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 ...

Gary Holt agrees with former Slayer bandmate Kerry King — the band retired too early. In a new interview, Holt says Slayer were still at the top of their game, though it’s better to go out on top than ...

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Helping form the legendary band Slayer, Kerry King watched as the group sold millions of albums and became part of the “Big Four” of thrash metal. Slayer found itself standing alongside other iconic ...

Slayer’s Tom Araya said one of The Beatles’ songs is “so Slayer” — and the crazy thing is he’s right! Araya noted The Beatles released a version of the same song on The White Album that sounds very ...

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 ...