SLAYER Frontman Tom Araya - "We've Never Had To Rely On Having A Hit Record"
November 28, 2013, 10 years ago
CTNow recently caught up with SLAYER frontman Tom Araya. An excerpt from the interview is available below:
Araya:"When we had just got done recording (1994's) Divine Intervention, they had a big meeting at the label, and one of the record reps brought that up: 'You have a really great album here, but we could use a radio-friendly song.' Hanneman spoke up: 'You just got through saying we had a great record. You figure out what song you want on the radio and put it out there.' After that, we never had any other meetings with A&R.;"
"We do what we do, and we really enjoy it as a band. We figured that people are just going to have to learn to like Slayer. In 30 years of existence, we've written some great songs and put out great albums, and we've never had to rely on having a hit record. We all just got together and wrote some songs, and if one got on the radio, great. If not, that's fine too."Go to this location for the complete interview.
Remaining dates on Slayer's current Olde School tour with GOJIRA and 4ARM are as follows:
November
29 - Susquehanna Bank Center - Camden, NJ30 - Tsongas Arena - Boston, MA
