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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, The Guardian, 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 ...
Overview by uncredited writer, New Musical Express, 9 May 1987
The wit and wisdom of DEF JAM as captured in the NME. From Rick Rubin as hipster to Beastie Boys as Sex Zeppelin and beyond. ...
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, The Guardian, 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 ...
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 ...
Overview by Stuart Maconie, New Musical Express, 19 January 1991
Bring your good taste to be slaughtered! To mark Iron Maiden's ground-breaking success (any bleedin' excuse — Ed), STUART MACONIE investigates the subtle and many-faceted ...
Slayer, Testament: Orpheum Theater, Boston
Live Review by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 11 February 1991
Slayer's deafening metal exhilarates, numbs ...
Heavy Metal Mania: It's More Than Music
Overview by Deanne Stillman, The New York Times, 12 May 1991
With myriad clubs, fanzines and hair salons, rude dudeness (tattoos included) is a way of life. ...
Megadeth: "Titans" Aim to Alter Metal's Image
Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 1991
WHEN THEY named the concert tour "Clash of the Titans," they didn't know how right they were. ...
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 ...
Overview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 4 July 1992
STEFFAN CHIRAZI charts the history of all those supposedly Satanic bands — anyone out there remember VENOM and their 1982 classic Black Metal, or the ...
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 Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 18 September 1993
With the promise of a new studio album by Christmas, SLAYER will be one of the first Metal acts to emerge on RICK RUBIN'S re-christened ...
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 ...
Slayer: Undisputed Attitude (American 15tks/35 mins)
Review by Ian Watson, Melody Maker, 25 May 1996
HERE'S A CONCEPT to make your blood curdle. Slayer, the undisputed kings of thrash metal stupidity, cover a cranium-crushing selection of top hardcore punk tunes. ...
Slayer: Confessions of a Teenage Punk Rocker
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 25 May 1996
He dumped a cheerleader for punk rock, and he spent his teens boozing, brawling and smashing up cars. He's Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman, and he's ...
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, The Guardian, 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 ...
Live Review by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 6 November 2018
This was an extraordinary farewell gig from the kings of thrash metal — they totally slayed it ...
A requiem for Slayer: The poignant, pulverising end of "the band that terrorised the world"
Report by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 29 November 2019
AT 23:00 Pacific Coast Time on Saturday 30th November, the world of metal will enter a period of mourning. At this time, onstage at the ...
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