Happy anniversary to Slayer's Show No Mercy album! “We were doing the same thing at the same time as Metallica, so it wasn’t really groundbreaking when we first heard [Metallica’s] No Life ...

For Slayer, lead songwriter Hanneman especially, there was a further love of both the attitude and aggression of hardcore bands like T.S.O.L and Dead Kennedys circa Show No Mercy. Speaking about the ...

I can’t do that to this fucking day!” By 1984, with Slayer having released their debut album Show No Mercy the year prior, the two bands had a mutual contact in guitar maker B.C. Rich ...