Are Slayer satanists?
“The rumor, it’s true, yeah, that was a rumor. But whether that’s actually true, I don’t think so. I think we would have been dead by now or we would have killed some guy in some band that was bigger than ours and we wanted to be bigger than them.” Interview question: “Did you adopt the satanic image solely for effect?” Tom: “Yeah. When we started the band, it was something that people were afraid of. We were carving an ugly, scary image for ourselves and people freak out on shit like that. The slowly but surely I realised that we could still do this, but take it from another angle. That’s when I started writing more about the evils of now.
