Slayer Guitarist Talks To RiftRock.com About DVD & Album

Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman spoke to RiftRock.com about the band's upcoming DVD, "Reign In Blood Live: Still Reigning," and their next studio album. Here are some excerpts from the interview:

Riftrock.com: "The band is putting out yet another live DVD soon that features the album Reign In Blood played in it’s entirety with the original line up. What inspired you guys to film "Reign In Blood Live: Still Reigning"? When and how did the idea come about?"

Jeff Hanneman: "The DVD idea was just recent, but the idea to play "Reigning Blood" in its entirety, we've talked about that for years, because i'ts only 28 minutes, we thought it would be cool to just throw it in a set, but it really caught fire when Dave got back in the band so it was like "Dave's back in the band? We should do it" And since the record label and Rick Rubin were having some problems, he suggested we wait until next year, so we said fuck it lets record raining blood live with Dave Lombardo and put it on DVD."

Riftrock.com: "The band is said to be working on material for a new album. How many songs have you written so far for the album?"

Jeff Hanneman: "We've got at least 10 songs musically because we always write material first, I have a handful and Kerry does too, but we haven't gotten into writing lyrics yet. We have plenty of songs to record when we are done touring, the album should be out pretty quick."

Riftrock.com: "Has Dave Lombardo re-entering the fold had any influence on the new material?"

Jeff Hanneman: "Oh yeah, anytime you have a drummer like Dave that's an amazing drummer, he's always a big influence, he'll tell us where we should have a pause, where we should stop at parts."

Riftrock.com: "Will Kerry be handling all lyrics for this album as well?"

Jeff Hanneman: "Oh yeah, well, me Kerry and Tom write all the lyrics. We all have our phases where we get on a roll and we just conquer everything."

Read the full article at RiftRock.com.

Source: Metal Eater