The metal band, whose founding member and key songwriter Jeff Hanneman died in 2013, said it was retiring after nearly 37 years of making "the most brutal, breathtakingly aggressive, all-hell's-a-breaking-loose music ever created." "The age of Slayer, one of the greatest thrash/metal/punk bands of this or any age, is coming to an end," the group immodestly wrote on Instagram. Emerging in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, Slayer wrote ferocious metal songs driven by minor keys, intense bursts of speed and gloomy guitar riffs. Slayer is considered one of the four founding bands of thrash metal, the subgenre marked by dark aggression. The others are Anthrax -- which will join Slayer on the final tour -- as well as Megadeth and Metallica, which has been by far the most commercially successful.

Source: The Nation Bangkok January 23, 2018 23:37 UTC