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
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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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