Watch these sick videos of Slayerβs Tom Araya performing covers of MΓΆtley CrΓΌe, Scorpions, Judas Priest and Dio along with his brother John Araya on guitar. Al Messi plays Bass and Jake Alvarado is on drums. Dimitri Galeos, the uploader of these clips, plays second guitar. One of the clips dates these performances at November of 1983, which would have been a month before Slayerβs Show No Mercy dropped. Slayer themselves had included covers of bands like Priest and Iron Maiden in their sets, playing small clubs and parties around Southern California. It seems a bit odd, in retrospect, to see the singer of one of the quintessential American thrash bands performing songs that would be considered more βpop metalβ by todayβs standards. It should be noted that in the early β80s metal encompassed all of metal and metalheads often tended to embrace the full spectrum, much like punks in the early β80s tended to embrace anything under the banner βpunk rock.β Once the mid β80s rolled around, you begin to see more splintering in both metal and punk scenes with offshoot genres springing up and fans gravitating toward their favored pigeon-holes. These...
Marilyn Manson, Philip Anselmo, Rick Rubin, members of Anthrax, Lamb of God, Mastodon and more send off the thrash icons
Forget earthquakes, thrash metal was the biggest, loudest tectonic shift to hit California in the early '80s. Led by Slayer and Metallica, the bands
Nezuko from Demon Slayer. π Source:https://t.co/WUcC8gKP4Q