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Def Jam Records: Men Or Beasties?
Report and Interview by Don Watson, New Musical Express, 11 January 1986
IN CRUMPLED, jeans, trainers and an AC/DC T-shirt Rick Rubin represents the current hippest record company in New York, Def Jam Records. ...
Report and Interview by Frank Owen, Melody Maker, 20 December 1986
RICK RUBIN and RUSSELL SIMMONS are the creative mavericks behind the outrageous antics of THE BEASTIE BOYS and RUN DMC and a whole host of ...
Def Jam #2: World Domination Enterprises
Report and Interview by Frank Owen, Melody Maker, 3 January 1987
In the second part of his investigation into DEF JAM records, the world's hottest label, Frank Owen charts the careers of RICK RUBIN, RUSSELL SIMMONS, ...
Thrash Metal: Psycho Path to the Top
Report by Mark Cooper, Guardian, The, 20 March 1987
Thrash metal is the new noise of teenage horror, a vinyl equivalent of the video nasty. Mark Cooper reports on the bands that delight in ...
Report and Interview by Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 21 March 1987
Not all the old Heavy Metal cancers have been cured. SLAYER - erstwhile thashers, now adopted by the speed-metalists - have been forced to deal ...
The Sound of Speed, Thrash & Death Metal
Overview by Simon Witter, i-D, April 1987
In 1987, against all odds, HM has become an issue again. i-D dives into the Metal underground to find out about moshing, skateboards, and the ...
Interview by Paul Elliott, Sounds, 18 April 1987
Nazi apologists or naive dickheads? Either way, SLAYER are the foulest, most provocative and probably the best speed metal band yet. But have they gone ...
Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 2 May 1987
OK, SLAYER. So you're the world's top death-metal thrash outfit, and you're playing to thousands all over Britain. But now you must justify your appalling ...
Slayer: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 2 May 1987
CARRION LAUGHING ...
Interview by Rob Tannenbaum, New Musical Express, 9 May 1987
With their label gone mega, and even greater triumphs planned, Def Jam mainmen RICK RUBIN and RUSSELL SIMMONS currently combine the Midas touch with the ...
Def Jam: Don't Knock The Rock – Rap It
Report by Mark Cooper, Guardian, The, 1 June 1987
Mark Cooper on how Def Jam crossed over punk with rap, white with black, and stayed cool with both sides ...
Interview by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 11 March 1989
Formerly the most formidable crossover label in existence, DEF JAM has been out of the limelight since a split in the ranks saw Rick Rubin ...
Rick Rubin: Mental Metal Master
Interview by Paul Elliott, Sounds, 11 March 1989
From rap to metal, LL Cool J to Slayer, producer Rick Rubin has shaped the definitive street beats of the decade. Paul Elliott hears the ...
Slayer: I Talked With A Zombie
Interview by Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, 29 September 1990
As Britain trembles with anticipation of the "Clash Of The Titans" tour, Ian Gittins meets the metal monsters and hears tales of death, despair and ...
Seasonal Greetings: Slayer: Seasons In The Abyss (Def American) *****
Review by Neil Perry, Select, November 1990
ALL THE BIG BOYS have come out to prove themselves this year. Following recent triumphant reaffirmations of metallic prowess from Anthrax and Megadeath, a sledgehammer ...
Slayer, Testament: Orpheum Theater, Boston
Live Review by Jim Sullivan, Boston Globe, The, 11 February 1991
Slayer's deafening metal exhilarates, numbs ...
Slayer: Always Crashing In The Same Carnage
Interview by Neil Perry, Melody Maker, 9 November 1991
Are SLAYER Satanic High Priests who revel in gore or misunderstood philanthropists to a nihilistic generation? NEIL PERRY joins them in the London Dungeon and ...
Rick Rubin: The Buddha of Suburbia
Interview by RJ Smith, Details, July 1993
Rick Rubin built a recording empire from a dorm room at NYU. With Def American Recordings, he's taken the sound of the streets to the ...
Interview by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 9 December 1995
Yeah Boyee! DEF JAM, the record label that put the ROCK in hip-hop and brought you the likes of Public Enemy and Beastie Boys, is ...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 16 May 1998
The world of SLAYER is a bleak, gore-drenched place populated by deviants, lunatics, mass murderers and war criminals. You'd expect nothing less from men who've ...
Metal mickey — Slayer, Sepultura: Astoria, London
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, Guardian, The, 28 November 1998
Sepultura and Slayer? Caroline Sullivan can't take it seriously ...
Slayer: All Aboard The Slay Ride
Profile and Interview by Joel McIver, Record Collector, 1999
Slayer vocalist Tom Araya discusses his band's blood-soaked life and times ...
Interview by Christine Natanael, crushermagazine.com, 14 May 2006
WELL, HERE IT is, 2006, and it's time for the new Slayer "Unholy Alliance Tour: Preaching To The Perverted" with Lamb of God, Children of ...
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