Time for Slayer to quit

[badcarburetor]

King should get Demiricous to reform.

[Knucklehead]

That's pretty good.

[SlashAndThrash]

Why doesnt Kerry just make up a new super band, write slayer-esque material and not call it "Slayer". Tom doesnt have much longer to go with the health problems hes had.

because he's a fat greedy talentless hack

[dixonmetal]

another band trying to hold on to the past.

[stewvee]

another band trying to hold on to the past.

exactly. the future is here. and it is deafheaven.

[badcarburetor]

Sad fucking story. No surprises.

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?m ... mID=191514

[Moloc]

From the comments section of this article...

Jeff did not die from a spider bite. Jeff died from cirrhosis of the liver. He contracted necrotizing fasciitis as a result of a weakened immune system.

Jeff was drinking Heineken and vodka for breakfast, lunch and dinner up until a few months ago.

Or, to quote Dr. Kent Sepkowitz:

The necrotizing fasciitis and the liver failure both are awful – but despite the tidiness of the narrative suggesting that the old necrotizing fasciitis caused the new liver failure, the story is exactly the opposite: people with severe underlying medical problems, such as chronic liver disease, are at increased risk for necrotizing fasciitis. So rather than the 2011 illness influencing his death, it is more likely that the very illness that killed him – liver failure – was the same condition that predisposed him to the near-death experience two years ago.

I have no idea who Dr. Kent Sepkowitz is, but he makes a good point.

It's just a sad story all around. At first I thought that she couldn't get him to go to depression therapy--something he probably needed also.

[Moloc]

From Metal Sucks:
http://www.metalsucks.net/2013/06/24/ev ... -it-a-day/

Guitar World‘s upcoming Jeff Hanneman tribute issue apparently has a whole lot of interesting info in it â€â€￾ like that fact that even Kerry King was worried about Hanneman’s drinking (which makes the fact that he’s been publicly toasting Hanneman as a way to “honorâ€Â￾ the late guitairst that much more distasteful) â€â€￾ but the single best part may be this quote from Tom Araya, which is either gonna bite him in the ass, bite Kerry King in the ass, or bite them both in the ass:

“After 30 years, it would literally be like starting over. To move forward without Jeff just wouldn’t be the same, and I’m not sure the fans would be so accepting of that drastic a change. Especially when you consider how much he contributed to the band musically. And you can have someone sit in for him, but there’s no one on this planet that can do what Jeff did. There’s no replacing him.â€Â￾

So even Tom Araya thinks Slayer should call it a day in the wake of Hanneman’s death. Which makes me wonder why the hell he’s even moving forward with the band’s summer touring plans. Does he see it as a farewell tour? By Hanneman’s ghost, I hope so. Although it would be hilarious (albeit depressingly so) if King tried to continue Slayer without Araya.

Elsewhere in the article, Hanneman’s widow, Kathryn, reveals that even Hanneman was initially against Slayer proceeding with a different guitarist, telling his wife, “No. No. There’s no way in hell this band is going out without me.â€Â￾ She says that he eventually “became okay with it, but it’s the implication that doesn’t sit well with me â€â€￾ because it means that initially Hanneman was told the band was going to tour with Gary Holt, not that he had any part in that decision. That’s pretty fucked up.