Slayer 66 2/3: The Jeff & Dave Years. A Metal Band Biography.

  He teaches.

  His spec script is a Wu-Tang skit.

  Hit Parader ran one his letters in fall 1985. He was thrown out of the South of Heaven tour when a misdirected crowd surf landed him onstage. He is a wrathchild.

  Follow his bullshit online…

  He’s always on Twitter:

  @SlayerBook for metal

  @Pentagrammarian for notes on grammar, usage, writing good, and the business thereof.

  @dxferris for a barrage of random information about TV, movies, Batman, martial arts, comic books, and candy

  He’s not much of a Facebook person, though you can find him at

  Facebook.com/SlayerBook

  …but don’t take it personal if he takes a month to confirm your friend request.

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  Table of Contents

  Click here to skip all the wordy stuff and just start reading the metal part.

  Table of Contents

  Methodology and Review of Slaytanic Literature

  1. F.N.S.

  2. The Story So Far…, or, What We’re Looking at Here

  3. Postmortem: Jeff Hanneman Made the Difference

  4. Aggressive Perfectionist

  5. Metalstorm: Meet Slayer

  6. Thrash Incubator

  7. Slayer Takes the Scene

  8. Sign on the Axe and Show No Mercy: The Metal Blade Deal

  9. Metal Moonlighting: Kerry King Joins Megadeth

  10. Haunting the Chapel and the Lombardo Learning Curve

  11. Slamming to Slayer: Metal Enters the Pit

  Gallery 1: Slayer Killing It, Photos by Harald Oimoen

  12. Undead Live & Live Undead

  Gallery 2: Previously Unreleased Live Undead Draft Art

  13. Hell Awaits, and Hell Arrives

  14. Hell Hits the Road

  15. Reign in Blood, Long Story Short

  16. Touring Blood

  17. Blood in America, or, Love Def Style

  18. Blood on the Road

  Gallery 3: Slayer 1986 and 2009

  19. The First One of the Gang to Bail. And the New Guy.

  20. S.L.A.Y.E.R. vs. W.A.S.P.

  21. On and On, South of Heaven

  22. The Cushion Chaos Concert

  23. Priest and Puke

  24. Seasons in the Abyss

  25. Gazing Back Into the Abyss: The Tom Album

  26. Clashes of the Titans

  27. Lombardo Out. Again.

  28. Disorder and Divine Intervention

  29. Hanneman’s World of Hurt

  30. Divine Litigation

  31. Hotly Disputed Attitude

  32. Bostaph’s Back (I of II)

  33. Slayer’s Experimental Moment

  34. Diabolus in Musica

  35. God Hates Us All

  36. Drums in the Deep: Lombardo’s Interim

  37. Return of the Drum King

  38. Raining Theatre Blood

  39. 6/6/06

  40. Manson Tour 1: Louder Than Hell

  41. Big Winners

  42. World Painted Blood

  43. Big Four, Big Year

  44. The Big Four’s Really Big Shows

  45. American Carnage

  46. Necrotizing Fasciitis

  47. Now Entering the Lineup: Gary Holt of Exodus

  48. Slayer Without Hanneman

  49. The Big Four, Part II

  50. New Year, No Album

  51. Slayer XI: Embryonic Recording

  52. ”Dave’s Not Here” (III)

  53. Postmortem II

  54. Interlude I: A Moment of Noise

  55. Interlude II: 11 Top Memorial Tributes to Hanneman

  56. Interlude III: Six Things Hanneman Hated. And Six He Liked.

  57. The Mosh Memorial

  58. On the Outside

  Gallery 3: Slayer Lineup, Late 2013

  59. Reborn: The Saga Continues

  Appendix A: Slayer Concert Counts by Year

  Appendix B: Slayer Songwriting Credits

  Appendix C: Slayer, a Visual Progression

  Addendum: “It’s Time to Set the Record Straight,” or, “I Fucked Up”

  Annotated Works Cited

  Gratitude

  About the Author

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