The early 80’s marked the death of true punk era but a few bands picked up a part of that broken ball and ran with it. One of those highly influential bands that still carries that little piece of ball in their pocket is Slayer. They took that little piece of ball, mixed it with a pentagram and turned it in to a sound that parents feared, Metal with a punk influence! You can hear that mix in their new song Psychopathy Red. Slayer still has quite a following with fans ranging from their teens to over 50! When you’ve been around for close to 30 years, chances are you have quite a fan-base. They may not have changed much ion the last 20 years, but they’ve never compromised their sound, style and material in the name of record sales.

Filter-mag.com has an exclusive inside look at the birth of Slayer, straight from the source. Here is a small portion of their interview with Tom Araya, Kerry King, Jeff Hanneman and Dave Lombardo.

TOM ARAYA: This Top 40 band I was in was getting a new guitar player—a music teacher who Kerry was a student of. When that guitar player got booted and was replaced by Kerry, then I got booted. That was right out of high school, in ’79. I was working at the hospital and going to school to become a respiratory therapist. I got in contact with Kerry like a year later; he said he wanted to put a new band together.

DAVE LOMBARDO: In the early days, the greatest thing we came across was mixing metal and punk together to create the Slayer style. We were being influenced by bands like Iron Maiden, Venom, Mercyful Fate and a lot of punk stuff, so it all grew from what we were being exposed to at the time.

There is a lot more to this interview at Filter-mag.com and they will publish more of it online later this week. If you want to read the full exclusive you’ll have to pick up Filter Magazine Issue #35.

Despite what people say about Slayer, I still love them. They haven’t “Sold out”, changed their sound much or started trying to be radio friendly. Sure they have videos, but what bands don’t have a video or plans of making one? They may not be technical in anything that they do, but what you see is what you get and that’s what I love about them.

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I’ve liked BC Rich guitars for a long time. Most of them have a cool shape and some of them sound good. Uncomfortable at best though. I’ve had a Mockingbird and a Beast. The mockingbird was comfortable to play but was unbalanced as any BC Rich guitar is. The Beast was extremely uncomfortable to play. Lately it seems like they’ve been fighting for cool shapes. The Warbeast was ok and the Virgo wasn’t too bad either. The Zombie was ugly and Kerry King’s new signature model that fuses a Beast and a KKV together looks horrible. Appropriately it’s call the Beast V. There is also a pic of a silver one with a Floyd Rose after the jump. I don’t think you could ever out-design a Dean Razorback, even if it is just an updated version of the ML.

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“I’m gonna spend the holiday season watching American football and drinking,” he added. “I live pretty close to Mexico so it’s not too difficult to find a good bottle of tequila.”

He also mentioned that he and his wife don’t believe in Jesus, which totally caught me off guard as I’m sure it did most people (That’s sarcasm for those that don’t get that kind of thing). He calls Christmas the celebration of a “Fake birth”. Kind of funny how he says he doesn’t believe in Jesus but almost every Slayer song is about Anti-Christian beliefs. If you don’t believe in the birth of Christ then how can you write so many songs hating Jesus. Kind of contradictory if you ask me. Either way I still love Slayer and look forward to the new album.

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They just haven’t said what it’s going to be yet. I’m sure it will be about hell, Satan, Jesus-hating, etc. That’s their schtick. Kerry King talked to Metalhammer.de, the German Metal Hammer in a video interview that can be seen here. The questions are translated in English and the video quality is really good.

King says that the summer 2009 release date of their next album is “Optimistic” he also expresses his dislike for Rick Ruben’s producing style, being a “Phantom” producer. Well he’s not the first to say this. Corey Taylor talked about Ruben not being there as often as he should be for the amount of money he gets paid. We’re starting to see a rhythm here with Ruben.

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The Quitus recently posted an interview with Kerry King and talked about the future of the band. Here is a short excerpt.

We’re talking of going in the studio next February and getting the next record out so if we do things in a timely manner I don’t see there’s any reason why we can’t have more than one album out. So if we do get a record out next year – and everything’s pointing to yes – before the summer time when we tour that I’d want to start working on another one because we’re all having a good time. I think the time’s gonna come when somebody just says: ‘I’m done. I don’t wanna do this any more.’ Because we’ve been doing it more than half of our lives. [starts laughing] But I’m having a blast! You saw the show yesterday – I had a blast yesterday. I’m going to have more of a blast today because I’m more familiar with the set we’re doing.”

For a lot more of this interview head on over to The Quitus

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Soldiers Of Scrape are from the motor city, and if you don’t know what the motor city is then pull your head out of your anal cavity and google it. Originally known as Bowl Scraper, they have just released Operation: Shifting Gears a couple of months ago. With influences from obvious Old School metal bands, S.O.S. brings a true metal sound. Sure their sound is nothing really new to the scene, but it is awesome. Mick Stone kind of sounds like a mix of Randy Blythe and Phil Anselmo, Wayne Crouton is a great bassplayer and did a hell of a job dealing with a slight setback with his bass strings during the show. Andy Falk is a great drummer, but I don’t think I can quite compare him to Vinnie Paul. Lastly, Face Hall obviously has been influenced by both Dimebag Darrell and Kerry King.

Singing songs of Drinking, tributes to Old School metal and the lives of our lost metal heroes, A tribute to Kerry King (KFKR), and Metal unity, Soldiers Of Scrape were my favorite band of the night. They closed their set with Pantera’s Domination which transitioned into the chorus of Hollow. I love it when I find new favorites in lesser known bands. I’m sure if you mentioned the name in Detroit or the surrounding areas, you would get a “Hell Yeah!” from just about any one of their home town Metalheads.

Support the troops of The Soldiers Of Scrape, spread the word and fly the bird!

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Most people knew at least one guy that always showed up when you were trying to jam in a public place and wanted to show off how cool he was by playing Eruption. More power to them for taking the time to learn that song but I just don’t have that kind of patience to bother with that kind of guitar work. Save it for the talent show, buddy. I find it much more fun to just jam out on a bunch of power chords and make some bad ass rhythm lines. I’ve never taken any kind of lessons, learned any type of method and I have a ball doing what I do.

So back to the origin of the article. Like I said, while DragonForces Through The Fire And Flames is a wildly complicated tune and remarkably long enough to make an insomniac grow sleepy with it, it just will never have that same pizzazz that Eruption had and still has. The new 300th edition of Guitar World Magazine has 18…yeah, 18 pages of Through The Fire And Flames transcribed. To me that’s 18 pages that could have been used to transcribe 3 other songs…but I still bought the magazine. However there is a cd with a lot of classic Guitar World videos featuring guitar hero’s like Dave Mustaine, Dimebag Darrell, EVH, Zakk Wylde, Slash and Kerry King. Metallica’s Call Of Kthulu is transcribed as well. The Magazine goes through all 300 issues and summarizes each one. Other than 18 pages of Dragonforce, this is a pretty good issue.

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1. Dave Mustaine: Although with his musical genius comes the fact that he is one of the most hated metal musicians in the industry. Over the years he has made more enemies than friends. However, I would love to be credited with writing some of the masterpieces he has written.

2. Lars Ulrich: If I was Lars I would kick my own ass.

3. Glenn Benton: A person that takes himself and his music so seriously that he deems it fit to burn an upside down cross into his forehead is as demented as Charles Manson and deserves even less respect. I’m sure your grandchildren will love that, Glenn!

4. Lemmy Kilmister: This guy is more ugly than I am and I just can’t have that.

5. Tommy Lee: I don’t care how big the “T-Bone” is and who it’s been in, Tommy Lee is now in my book the King of Posers and get’s absolutely no respect for abandoning and defiling the Legacy of Motley Crüe.

6. Ozzy Osbourne: The Oz-man has pickled his brain to the point of no return. That and I couldn’t stomach being married to “SHARRROOON!”.

7. Maz Cavelera: I like to wash my hair.

8. Kerry King: I like having hair… the little bit that I keep anyway.

9. Evan Sienfeld: I couldn’t kiss Terra Patrick knowing how many penis’s have been in her mouth…and other places.

10. Sebastian Bach: From Youth Gone Wild to Decrepit Douche bag.

I could probably think of a few more but I think I will leave it at that. Don’t get me wrong. I am a fan and I respect 98% of the musicians on this list. I just wouldn’t want to be them.

Who would you not want to switch places with and why?

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