“We can make records until our hands fall off. But if we can’t sell it live, I don’t want to”: how Slayer reconnected with 80s thrash and made World Painted Blood

Slayer in 2009.

Slayer were the most reliable of thrash metal’s Big 4, but even they had their ups and downs. But by the time of 2009’s World Painted Blood, they had rediscovered their venom and made their best album in 15 years. On the eve of the album’s release, frontman Tom Araya and guitarist Kerry King told Metal Hammer about the band’s unwillingness to ever compromise

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