Jeff Hanneman is dead.

What the fuck?

Damn

seriously super suck fest... R.I.P. dude

well fuck.
rest in peace mother fucker

fuck, this is shitty fucking news


fuck, this is going to take a while to sink in

Heart and soul of a band I'll always have a soft spot for.

For Jeff:

"FUCKING SLAYER"

THANK YOU JEFF

very fucking sad. I wish Kerry king was dead instead.

I was thinking how inappropriate saying that would be. but I agree.

Man, these guys have given me much joy since the late 1980's. Sorry you had to give it up bro.
Death is no respecter of men.

Man this is so sad. I wonder if Slayer will make any albums without him? I doubt they do.

Seasons In The Abyss is my fave album of theirs.

Jeff Hanneman ruled!

hell awaits will always be my favourite slayer album.

As far as I'm concerned:
NO DAVE---> NO SLAYER
NO DAVE + NO JEFF---------->NO HOPE

I lost count how many times I've seen Slayer. The four of them were getting better and better; tighter and tighter, and more brutal and brutal live. Even if Tom couldn't head bang because of his neck. Just when you might think they couldn't, they would out-do themselves. I would love to still hear Tom and Kerry do something BUT dare not call it Slayer.
I'm having trouble wrapping my head around this. It's truly a selfish sadness and selfish anger.

It's weird, BLACK SABBATH and SLAYER feel like family to me.


Suggestion: Don't do both. You may end up carving SLAYER into someone's face.
Fucking Slayer

I wouldn't bother with a tom & kerry project. tom barely writes anything on his own and kerry sucks. let's just hope that dave focuses his energies on philm.

Friday was a Slayer only day.

Diabolus is my fav.

Thank you Jeff! You will be missed.

All because of a spider bite. What a damn shame. Rest in peace.

this is also why I fucking hate spiders.

edit:

*** literally minutes after I wrote this a fucking spider twinkled down and landed on my monitor as I was watching a melvins video and scared the shit out of me. I just wanted to have a nice relaxing sunday morning...

It's astounding how a Slayer song can instantly trigger that metal feeling where you just want to scream your lungs out and drink a keg of beer. Only Slayer could pull that off with almost any riff they ever played. R.I.P., Jeff!

The official cause of SLAYER guitarist Jeff Hanneman's death has been revealed to be alcohol-related cirrhosis. While he had his health struggles over the years, including the recent necrotizing fasciitis infection that devastated his well-being, Jeff and those close to him were not aware of the true extent of his liver condition until the last days of his life. Contrary to some reports, Jeff was not on a transplant list at the time of his passing, or at any time prior to that. In fact, by all accounts, it appeared that he had been improving — he was excited and looking forward to working on a new record

While the details are being worked out now, SLAYER wants its fans to know that there will be a celebration of Jeff Hanneman's life sometime later this month, along with Jeff's family and friends, the public will be invited to attend. SLAYER members Kerry King (guitar) and Tom Araya (bass, vocals) are trying to deal with the loss of their brother by remembering some the good times they shared.

Kerry: "I had so many great times with Jeff... In the early days when we were out on the road, he and I were the night owls, we would stay up all night on the bus, just hanging out, talking, watching movies... World War II movies, horror movies, we watched 'Full Metal Jacket' so many times, we could practically recite all of the dialogue."

Tom: "When we first formed SLAYER, we used to rehearse all the time, religiously, 24/7. Jeff and I spent a lot of time hanging out together, he lived in my father's garage which was also our rehearsal space. When he got his own apartment, he had an 8-track and I would go there to record songs I'd written, not SLAYER songs, other stuff I'd written. At a certain point, you still have the band but you start your own lives outside of the band, so that 24/7 falls to the side, you don't spend as much time together as you once did. I miss those early days."

Kerry: "He was a gigantic World War II buff. His father served in that war, so when SLAYER played Russia for the first time — I think it was 1998 — Jeff and I went to one of Moscow's military museums. I'll never forget him walking around that place, looking at all of the tanks, weapons and other exhibits. He was like a kid on Christmas morning. But that was Jeff's thing, he knew so much about WW II history, he could have taught it in school."

Tom: "We were in New York recording 'South Of Heaven'. Jeff and I were at the hotel and we had to get to the studio — I think it was called Chung King, a real rundown place. So we left the hotel and decided to walk, but then it started raining. We walked maybe five blocks, and it was raining so hard, we were totally soaked, so we decided to get a cab. Here we are, two dudes with long hair and leather jackets, absolutely soaked, thumbing to the studio. No one would stop. We had to walk the entire way."

Tom: "Jeff was a lifeline of SLAYER, he wrote so many of the songs that the band will always be known for. He had a good heart, he was a good guy."

Photo credit: Andrew Stuart

so... it wasn't a spider... he was just a drunk.

Still sucks big time. But now there is a lesson attached to it. :/