[Zoner]

Originally Posted by wintersforge

Kerry King is...

Agreed. I've always liked Slayer, but their guitar solos drive me fucking nuts. There's no feel, no timing. It's just always "Let's see how much insanely fast staccato picking I can do in 25 seconds, then I'm gonna hit a few harmonics and lean on my tremolo for a minute." Every single song!

The rest of the tune is usually great, though. Hanneman and King are great rhythm players, but not much else.

[MrLevinstein]

Originally Posted by Pyro

I had a fun discussion with some guy over at Music Wars board at Gamespot and one guy totally had excellent reasons why Portnoy was much better than Lombardo. Especially since Slayer was highly overated. You can honestly tell by listening to it Portnoy has way better control of his drum kit.

Ok ok Dave Lombardo>all other thrash metal drummers. Portnoy is amazing but if you look at that band the musicianship is awsome. I like everything but the vocals.

And as far as kerry king, i love slayer but hes a terrible lead guitarist. If you want leads check out friedman or becker. Most amazing guitarists ever.

[Pyro]

Originally Posted by wintersforge

Pat Mastelotto / Bill Bruford >all

SlaYer is not overrated..Kerry King is...

You would be right, whenever he was the one who wrote stuff and don't get me started at his skill with a guitar.

Slayer is very good...except him.