Yeah, yeah I think that is one of the biggest misconceptions towards the band. The biggest one is that we are Satan worshippers, but next to that just the fact that we are normal.- Tom Araya
Whatever had been on the radio in the '60s; I mean we were always listening to the radio.
We just bought a new house, so my wife's been doing all the moving and other stuff, so I would like to go home and just sit and enjoy all that for a couple months before I gotta start playing again.
We did like 12 shows, then we did the entire Ozzfest with the first half completely booked; then we did the second half with a couple days off here and there.
Venom was a band that strongly influenced the image and the idea behind Slayer.
That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar.
Sometimes I will sing the same verse through the entire song, because the other verses aren't clicking. And when they do come to me, I am in the middle of that same verse!
Oh yeah, our first tour in Europe they wouldn't give me the time off from work.
No, I have to really focus, especially when I am writing because I wanna be good at it.
If it were bad songs, yeah, I'd speak up, but they're not bad songs.
I write, I write, I always write.
I would have to work on the song and figure out how they wanted the song done, because they're such high-intensity songs. We figure that out first, then I go back and listen to it and go over and rehearse stuff with it and try to get a feel for the words.
I went to school for about 2 years on a technical course, and I learned a lot. I learned about air mixture ratios and all the stuff; I learned how to draw blood.
I was born and raised Catholic.
I try to incorporate melody. Even though I am screaming, I still like to think I bring melody into screaming.
