Slayer News

They say heavy metal will rot your brain. Now it will rot your teeth, too. Days ahead of Valentine's Day, Slayer have added a special candy jar to their inventory of online merchandise , Blabbermouth.net reports.

Explore hundreds of CDs and MP3s from classic artists, on sale now until the end of February, in our Classic of Hits Event .

Just in time for Valentine's Day, California thrash metal legends SLAYER have released a special "candy jar" via their official webstore .

German thrash metal veterans KREATOR will release their new album, "Phantom Antichrist" on June 1 in Europe and June 5 in North America via Nuclear Blast Records .

Approaching its 20th year, the band deserves props for longevity alone and continues to raise the bar, despite sometimes confounding fans with elements like the rap-style vocals of 1999 LP The Burning Red .

One of the great should-have-beens of the early '80s metal scene, Toronto's Anvil never saw the level of renown enjoyed by contemporaneous acts such as Slayer, Metallica, Exodus and others.

Death metal band finds new life with CD. Nephelium is playing Saturday at the 515 Concert Club to headline Carnage in Cambridge.

When I was attending every metal show that blew through the Tacoma Dome in my youth, outfit selection was almost as important as getting in line for tickets early enough to secure one's admittance to the Ratt/Scorpions double bill.

While Kerry King stopped short of saying everything was smooth sailing when we talked to him at the Guitar World Rock & Roll Roast of Zakk Wylde in January, the Slayer guitarist seemed upbeat on what 2012 holds for thrash's most evil band.

LAMB OF GOD Frontman: We Sound More Like A SLAYER Rip-Off Than A PANTERA Rip-Off - Feb.

Bands, why must you forsake Kansas City ? It seems that many, many tours coming through in the upcoming months hop right past our section of the Midwest, going from St.

California-based traditional metal revivalists HOLY GRAIL , who have spent the past couple of months in the studio with Grammy -award winning producer Matt Hyde working on the follow-up to 2010's "Crisis In Utopia" , have confirmed a string of U.S. dates in March.

At one of the city's most revered coffee temples, the design is like a beautiful third-wave film set.

Jenn Selby of The Quietus spoke with SLAYER bassist/vocalist Tom Araya last week and asked him about the progress of the songwriting sessions for the band's next album.

Umphrey's McGee First Avenue, Minneapolis Friday, February 3, 2012 In the midst of the house crashing down around us during Umphrey's bone-crunching performance of "It's About That Time" early last Friday night at First Avenue, I turned to my friend and tried to give the band the highest praise my beer- and adrenaline-fueled brain could muster.

As a young metalhead, the mid-eighties were a really exciting time for me. Speed/thrash metal was an exciting sound, bringing in the anger and velocity of punk, taking the music into brave new territory.

Guitarist Kerry King of California thrash metal legends SLAYER recently spoke to U.K.'s Metal Hammer magazine about the progress of the songwriting sessions for the band's next album, which they hope to begin recording within the next few weeks.

The helmets launched under the name of RockHard , and were sold at all Cycle Gear locations and at finer motorcycle dealerships worldwide.

ESP Guitars has a selection of new guitars coming out this year and being that we're a guitar web site and all it seems only natural to assess this as well so away we go.

Metal took center stage with the announcement of Slipknot and Slayer to perform at the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival.