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you say something very directly to somebody,
they're sometimes offended, although it is a
fact. Because people tend to be offended by
facts, or what used to be called truth." In the
VHS era, Araya said of Slayer's process, "We
cover the dark images of life that nobody really wants to talk about." Raw is now king of
visual art. Bacon's Three Studies Of Lucian Freud,
a subversion of a format used during the
Renaissance to hail the virtues of Jesus Christ,
was the most expensive work of art ever sold at
auction at the time of its sale in 2013. Is music
far behind?
Though winning two Grammys last decade
with Slayer, Hanneman wasn't among the
artists mentioned in the "In Memoriam" segment of the Grammy Awards ceremony following his death. King isn't waiting around for a
Rock Hall induction. He's pounding the pavement on this summer's Mayhem Festival.
Slayer's first studio album in six years,
Repentless, is due out 9/11 on Nuclear Blast. It's
their first without Hanneman, though not
devoid of his contributions.
The record continues Slayer's macabre,
underside