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Matt Mills

“I think Jeff not being around had a lot to do with Tom leaving Slayer”: Jeff Hanneman wouldn’t have wanted Slayer to retire, says Kerry King

Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman.

Slayer’s Kerry King has said that late guitarist Jeff Hanneman may have stopped the thrash veterans from retiring in 2019.

Hanneman co-founded Slayer with King, vocalist/bassist Tom Araya and drummer Dave Lombardo in 1981 and died of liver failure in 2013, aged 49.

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