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** Averted with Gary Holt, who is probably one of the ''only'' guitarists who had a shot at being welcomed by the fans as a replacement for Hanneman; it probably helps that he manages to capture the essence of Hanneman's playing style while putting his own, equally distinctive stamp on it.
** Played straight with Paul Bostaph, who wasn't particularly well-liked the first time around and still isn't held in particularly high regard even in his second time around. He is not a bad drummer ''per se''; he's just unlucky enough to replace [[ToughActToFollow one of the most talented people to ever sit behind a drumset]].

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** Averted with Gary Holt, who is probably one of the ''only'' guitarists who had a shot at being welcomed by the fans as a replacement for Hanneman; it probably helps that he manages to capture the essence of Hanneman's playing style while putting his own, equally distinctive stamp on it.
** Played straight with
Paul Bostaph, who wasn't particularly well-liked the first time around and still isn't held in particularly high regard even in his second time around. He is not a bad drummer ''per se''; he's just unlucky enough to replace [[ToughActToFollow one of the most talented people to ever sit behind a drumset]].
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Face Of The Band disambig'd per TRS. Don't link it anywhere.


* FaceOfTheBand: Kerry King, especially for his tattooed and baldness.
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* MagnumOpusDissonance: King has claimed that he prefers ''God Hates Us All'', an album that tends to be detested by fans, over ''Reign in Blood'', the band's most well-known work and one of their best-received.
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* CommonKnowledge: Non-metalheads will sometimes describe Slayer as a DeathMetal band. While Slayer is a major influence on that genre, the band itself falls squarely under ThrashMetal, and are in fact considered one of the "Big Four" of thrash. The key distinction is that their music lacks the HarshVocals that define death metal. This mistake was notably made in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', where Cartman plays "Raining Blood" to scare off hippies while saying that "hippies can't stand death metal."

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* CommonKnowledge: Non-metalheads will sometimes describe Slayer as a DeathMetal band. While Slayer is a major influence on that genre, the band itself falls squarely under ThrashMetal, and are in fact considered one of the "Big Four" of thrash. The key distinction is that their music lacks the HarshVocals that define death metal. This mistake was notably made in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', where Cartman plays "Raining Blood" to scare off hippies while saying that "hippies can't stand death metal."", though it's entirely possible that this itself was part of the joke.

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