July 23rd, 2008

Slayer Get Ready to Retire

Heavy metal band Slayer have hinted that their next album will be their last, according to Contact Music. They’re only contracted to one more release with their current label and Tom Araya said:

“Let’s put it this way; this is the final record of our commitment with Rick Rubin. When we first signed a deal with him back in 1986, we never sat down and said, ‘How long do you guys want to keep this together?’. We just signed the deal and we’ve just been doing records since. We’re working on new ideas now just so that people can have a taste of what’s coming. (Guitarists) Kerry (King) and Jeff (Hanneman) are putting together ideas, so what the end result of this next two-and-a-half months is, I don’t know. Once we’ve put together new material, we can get together and discuss our future plans.”

Araya refuses to continue rocking when he’s a senior:

“Seeing a 50-year-old man headbanging on stage would make me cringe. If I was watching that, I’d think, ‘Dude, you’re a little too old for that, aren’t you? You’re gonna fall off!’.”

He has a point - headbanging might look a little silly as he gets older, but what about trying different type of music? Rod Stewart has switched over to more mellow music and he’s still out there making money.

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1 babblicious comments:

Anonymous said...

Yeah, nuts - can't believe Slayer might disband! Well, actually, I'm not all that surprised Eh, I found this great article on the band on Star 987's site-check it out! http://star987.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=104661&article=3996265

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