Slayer Bob har gitt oss julelys-stemning sammen med Slayer i flere år, og i år overgår han seg selv med en hyllest til avdøde Jeff Hanneman. God jul.

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Vi hyllet Jeff Hanneman og vi intervjuet Aeternus. Mye godt og mye viktig i kveldens sending. Hele låtlisten her.

Accept-Midnight Mover

Extol-Open The Gates

Evile-Head Of The Demon

Airbourne-Cradle To The Grave

Minor Threat-Minor Threat

Megadeth-Super Collider

Dillinger Escape Plan-One Of Us Is The Killer

Kal-El-Spaceman

Aeternus-intervju

Aeternus-…And The Seventh His Soul Detesteth

ZZ Top-I Don’t Want To Lose, Lose You

Among Gods-The Plague

Bloodlights-Roll With Me

Slayer spesial:

Slayer-Die By The Sword

Slayer-Angel Of Death

Slayer-Raining Blood (demo)

Slayer-Behind The Crooked Cross

Slayer-Born Of Fire

Slayer/Ice-T-Disorder

Slayer-SS-3

Slayer-Psycopathy Red

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Ironisk nok blir sending nummer 555 (delvis) en hyllest til avdøde Jeff Hanneman.

Ironisk fordi Slayer er et av bandene som virkelig har satt nummeret 666 inn i metalen med sine mørke og små-sataniske tekster. Et av sjangerens ubestridt viktigste og største band mistet en av sine grunnleggere da gitarist og tekstforfatter Jeff Hanneman døde av leversvikt for noen noen dager siden. Vi i Pyro hyller en av de aller største med en timeslang spesial i kveld.

Vi skal også gi deg intervju med Ares fra norske Aeternus som er tilbake etter en lang pause med et album det lukter død og fordervelse og kvalitet av, vi skal kjøre Aibourne-konkurranse, og vi skal gi deg helt nytt fra band som Evile, Extol og Dillinger Escape Plan. Mange norske nyheter skal det også bli.

Kjør brev:

“Slayer fans everywhere – it’s time to let you know what is going on with our brother Jeff Hanneman.

“As you know, Jeff was bitten by a spider more than a year ago, but what you may not have known was that for a couple of days after he went to the ER, things were touch-and-go. There was talk that he might have to have his arm amputated, and we didn’t know if he was going to pull through at all. He was in a medically-induced coma for a few days and had several operations to remove the dead and dying tissue from his arm. So, understand, he was in really, really bad shape. It’s been about a year since he got out of the hospital, and since then, he had to learn to walk again, he’s had several painful skin grafts, he’s been in rehab doing exercises to regain the strength in his arm; but best of all, he’s been playing guitar.

“We were all excited when he joined us onstage for the encore a year ago at The Big Four show at Coachella. Since then, we’ve given him all the time and support he’s needed to continue his rehab so he can come back to the band fully recovered and able to deliver the kind of shows we all want him to. While Jeff’s been doing some writing and has been coming to rehearsal over the past several weeks, he has decided he needs to take more time to continue his rehab.

“While we want him back onstage with the band, all of us support his decision. So, we’re very grateful that Gary Holt will continue to fill in for Jeff, and will tour with us until Jeff completes his rehab and is ready to return. How long will that be? The best and most honest answer we can give you is ‘as long as it takes.’ We also wanted you to know that we’ve been doing some writing and recording for the next Slayer album – we’ve tracked a few songs, and will finish the album when we’re off the road later this year. Gary will join us on tour in Europe and the UK in May and June, and then we’ll all see you on this Summer’s Mayhem Festival.”

Men tilbake til saken: “flesh eating disease”, hva er det for noe? Kerrang skriver at Hanneman har fått den eksotiske sykdommen etter han  ble bitt av en edderkopp, er det noen av våre lyttere/lesere som har anelse hva dette er for noe?

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