Are Oral Histories Any Good?

“We were in L.A., but we all hated glam,” says Slayer’s Jeff Hanneman in the new book Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History Of Metal. “I was listening to a lot of hardcore, but I still loved classic metal like Judas Priest and Iron Maiden. Kerry [King, also a guitarist in Slayer] was more into the metal. So when we started writing songs, we combined the best of both.”

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