We don't like preaching, we don't like love songs, we don't like fun songs. We just like the dark side.
Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith weren't polite. They were against the grain. And that's what we want our music to be: rude, aggressive... like real life.
Don't overthink things. Make the next record, and keep rolling with it.
It's nice to be respected, but it doesn't really matter. What's important is that if I wasn't in Slayer, it's still the band I'd want to see.
I'm pretty much an atheist, so I'd say this world is the only thing we got.
I like playing guitar I don't like talking about it. I like writing riffs, I don't like explaining them.
To us, being the bad guys is cool, because we always root for the bad guys in the movies.
Since we did 'Angel of Death,' I've had three occasions where someone will go 'Psst, hey. I'm part of this Aryan World Nation group and we're thinking of having you speak.' I'm like, 'Why?' And they'll go, 'You know.' I'll be like, 'No, why?' And they'll go, 'Aren't you... ?' I'm like, 'What? No. Go away. You don't get me at all.'
I used to be totally into Steve Vai and Joe Satriani and other shredders, and I tried to emulate what they did and really grow as a guitarist.
That gets me upset- you're jamming along, checking out the crowd and having a good time, and then your equipment goes down. You can't just stop the show and say, 'Oh, Jeff's got a guitar problem.'
We read a lot from the Satanic bible. It's not quite the opposite of the normal bible - a lot of its principles are just about being yourself, if you want to do something you do it, if you wanna have affairs you can. But we never hold daily rituals or anything.
When we started, I was just having fun with it I didn't even know about doing it for a living. It was a new style of music, a combo of punk and metal.
Rock 'n' roll was never supposed to be polite.
I actually have only one Jackson! ESP makes all of my guitars now. But that Jackson was probably the last one I paid for, which is why I used it so much; I had to get my money's worth. That's why, for the longest time, it was in all of our photos.
Everybody has a dark side. It's just we are very in touch with it.
Pro Tools rules. You get the opportunity to try more things because you don't waste so much time trying to get the perfect take.
I pretty much started the lyrics and I hit a roadblock and I think Kerry finished them up. Then I came back and did the ending part. The whole 'Raining Blood.' That part. But it pretty much came together easy. It's a short song.
I'd rather play in front of people who wouldn't listen to Slayer. That to me, is more like, 'Hey, listen to us.'
There's always a need for our kind of music. It's an outlet. You can only listen to so much pop and you just have to listen to something heavy.
We've met so many people you'd never even suspect of being Slayer fans: suits, lawyers, and people like that.
