Retiring Thrash metal legends Slayer have released a teaser for what may be a new video, due later this year to coincide with their final tour. The 40-second clip features Orange Is The New Black star and metal vocalist (Alekhine’s Gun, Brujeria) Jessica Pimentel and veteran actor Danny Trejo. Trejo appeared in Slayer’s ‘Repentless’ video and narrated a trailer for the band’s “The Final Campaign”! Continue reading
Go and see your heroes at least once before they are gone. I say this once a week to friends of mine. I hear all the time that “I can’t believe I missed so and so and now they are done”. For some of us, that list is long. Luckily, I have seen almost everyone on my bucket list, minus a few glaring omissions (AC/DC with Bon Scott, Queen). I’ve seen Slayer in all their iterations. Every lineup and era since 1991, which was my very first time. All of them ruled. However, when they announced their start of this farewell tour, it wasn’t a question to me if I was going or not? It was a question of how many times will I get to go? How many times will they come around? That number is up in the air as of this writing, but I am tickled that I got to go to see them at Mohegan Sun Arena in Montville, Connecticut. Thanks to my brother for life Dan Christian for hooking me up with a ticket and the great hangs. I saw a bunch of my metal brothers and sisters at the show and everyone was damn happy to be there, even if it also felt like a New Orleans funeral march at times with grave, sweaty faces. Continue reading
Every June 6th since 2006 has been the official metalheads holiday, the International Day of Slayer. This year to celebrate, Slayer has unleashed their Repentless 6.66 EP Boxed Set on the masses. This and other sweet merch is on sale at the Nuclear Blast store at the link below. In the meantime watch this dope unboxing video of the collection and catch Slayer on their farewell tour now. Continue reading