Slayer welcomes back Paul Bostaph

[soundgardener75]

Taken from their facebook page:

SLAYER WELCOMES PAUL BOSTAPH BACK TO THE FOLD.

Slayer's Tom Araya and Kerry King are very pleased to announce that Paul Bostaph has rejoined the band on a full-time basis. Bostaph will be behind the drum kit beginning June 4 when Slayer kicks off the first leg of its 2013 international tour in Warsaw, Poland. Gary Holt will continue to fill in for fallen guitarist Jeff Hanneman.

Slayer's 2013 itinerary will have them playing 35 dates that will include headline shows as well as a number of major summer festivals in Europe, Eastern Europe and South America between June and October. The complete itinerary is below.

"Paul's a great drummer and a good friend, and we're very happy that he's decided to rejoin the band," said Tom Araya. "We're still pretty numb from the loss of Jeff, but we don't want to disappoint our European fans, and we need to begin moving forward...having Paul back in the band makes that a whole lot easier."

"I'm very excited to be rejoining Slayer," added Bostaph. "We spent a very intense ten years of our lives together, had a lot of fun, made a lot of great music, so for me, this feels like coming home."

Bostaph was Slayer's drummer from 1992 until 2001 and recorded four albums with the band - the Gold certified Divine Intervention (1994), the 1996 punk covers album Undisputed Attitude, Diabolus in Musica, (1998), God Hates us All (2001) that received a Grammy nomination for "Best Metal Performance," as well as the DVD War at the Warfield (2001), also certified Gold. In addition to Slayer, Bostaph has been a member of Forbidden, Exodus, Systematic and Testament.

[soundgardener75]

Y'allz should see the comments.

[EndTime]

I like Bostaph abd despite him playing on Diabolus, i still thought he was ok on that.. Plus, I'm a big fan of Divine Intervention. I like Lombardo too, of course, but i don't need him in the band to be Slayer.. Either way, i don't think Slayer could ever win in this situation.. The timing would never be good, so its a lose/lose for them.. I figure they just decided to get it over with..

[benjamin801]

Y'allz should see the comments.

I LOOKED INTO THE TRAP RAY

[headlessdeadguy]

I like Bostaph abd despite him playing on Diabolus, i still thought he was ok on that.. Plus, I'm a big fan of Divine Intervention. I like Lombardo too, of course, but i don't need him in the band to be Slayer.. Either way, i don't think Slayer could ever win in this situation.. The timing would never be good, so its a lose/lose for them.. I figure they just decided to get it over with..

Slayer is one of my all time favorite bands and I thought WPB was a great album but, man I want them to hang it up. Nothing good can come from this. Can it?

[soundgardener75]

I like Bostaph and despite him playing on Diabolus, i still thought he was ok on that.. Plus, I'm a big fan of Divine Intervention. I like Lombardo too, of course, but i don't need him in the band to be Slayer.. Either way, i don't think Slayer could ever win in this situation.. The timing would never be good, so its a lose/lose for them.. I figure they just decided to get it over with..

I thought the same thing too. I love Slayer, but it's time to retire. Tom just doesn't have the range for the old songs too.

[EndTime]

Yeah, I'm not saying I'm expecting something great in the future.. Slayer is Slayer to me.. Maybe, just maybe, Kerry has a killer album up his sleeve because of all the circumstances..

But basically, i figure if someone still wants to see Slayer, having Bostaph play doesn't really bother me.. I guess I'm just saying, i don't think it should really rile anyone up at this point.. They're old, they are basically just providing nostalgia, and one of the critical members is now dead. . Ain't much left for them to really accomplish, besides that rare last killer record and maybe Hanneman's death provides a source of motivation/inspiration

[benjamin801]

Far more troubling than Bostaph vs. Lombardo is the fact that Hanneman wrote most of their best songs.

They'll probably be just fine live, but another great Slayer album...

[Dave Lister]

Oh lawd the facebook comments are .

[soundgardener75]

Oh lawd the facebook comments are .

It's just a variying effect of and .

[Dave Lister]

Oh lawd the facebook comments are .

It's just a variying effect of and .

The shit storm is hilarious. Some people calling on Slayer to retire. Others wanting them to carry on and make new music.

I personally liked the Bostaph albums. Slayer can do whatever the fuck they want. They can hire a replacement guitar player record a new record and turn his guitar all the way down in the mix, so Kerry is the only one audible.

3 years later, hire Bob Rock to produce a follow up with the music slowed waaaayyy down and write radio-friendly singles etc.

Oh wait, didn't someone already do that?

[soundgardener75]

Oh lawd the facebook comments are .

It's just a variying effect of and .

The shit storm is hilarious. Some people calling on Slayer to retire. Others wanting them to carry on and make new music.

I personally liked the Bostaph albums. Slayer can do whatever the fuck they want. They can hire a replacement guitar player record a new record and turn his guitar all the way down in the mix, so Kerry is the only one audible.

3 years later, hire Bob Rock to produce a follow up with the music slowed waaaayyy down and write radio-friendly singles etc.

Oh wait, didn't someone already do that?