Tom Araya of Slayer believes in God.......... believe it

[Bawit]

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motuo man gani na cya alien... lolx

[ravit]

alien? kamikazee.. hahaha.. bitaw it's interesting that he believes in god.. but it's nothing new gid... most bands would project and image gid, may it be satanic, rugged, rough, tough, and yes pa cute.. maldito og image unya magpakasal gihapons simbahan.. even ozzy collects christ figurines..

[erwin_rommel]

OA man ilang mga lyrics but i like the tunes. i usually dont care about lyrics. if it sounds good, then its ok. if i cant get the message of the lyrics its ok as long as i like the song. even " let it be " by the beatles is offensive to mother mary (if you cant see that its offensive to mother mary, take a closer look at the lyrics) but i like the song not for its message but because of its tune

[ravit]

bai i think let it be was a song for paul's mom, Mary, which died when he was 14..

[erwin_rommel]

bai i think let it be was a song for paul's mom, Mary, which died when he was 14..

ok thanks for the info i thought it was really mother mary but its still an offensive thing to his mother because the songs says " when i find myself in times of trouble, mother mary comes to me speaking words of wisdom. LET IT BE" its like saying "hala sige", its very disrespectful. its like passing to the next ear what his mother is telling him

[Die_Trying]

every line has a different meaning bro...dont take it literally.

[erwin_rommel]

every line has a different meaning bro...dont take it literally.

ok then what does that line mean to u

[Yabu_King]

Despite the anti-Christian and pseudo-Satanic nature of many of Slayer's songs, Araya has stated that he frequently attended church when he was younger. According to an interview he did, Tom believes that "...Christ came and taught us about love. About doing unto others. That was his preach: Accept each other for who we are. Live peacefully, and love one another. Period." And his response to the question "Do you believe in God?" is: "I believe in a supreme being, yeah. But He's an all-loving God." In an interview on [1], Araya explained that he has a "really strong belief system," and Slayer's words and images will "never interfere with what I believe and how I feel.... People are not in good shape to where they have to question their own belief system because of a book or a story somebody wrote, or a Slayer song."

During an interview in the 2006 documentary Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, Araya shares his personal views on the album title God Hates Us All and the lyrics in "Disciple", which he states that God doesn't hate, but it was just a "cool f*** album title"

mau jud nka daot sa tao krn dli cla mo based sa ilang own self beliefs pero mo base cla sa libro ba or unsa pa na dha... dli mana cya faith sabay sa uso lang.. if you really have faith jud bsag unsa pana isulti or isulat ba dli jud na maka apekto sa imo beliefs... Amen

[necrotic freak]

SLAYER Frontman On Writing Songs About 'Humanity's Demons And Humanity's Devils'

Paul Gargano of Maximum Ink recently conducted an interview with SLAYER frontman Tom Araya. An excerpt from the chat follows:

Maximum Ink: Is it fair to say that SLAYER have become a lot more political in recent years?

Tom Araya: It comes across that way, but it's not. There are more social commentaries, and more of, "This is what I see, so I'm going to write it." But we really don't like to state our views. We just like to write what we see and see what your opinion is, and what you think of what we're seeing. Maybe you're seeing something different…

Maximum Ink: But it's not unfair to say that your inspirations have changed a lot over the years?

Tom Araya: Yeah, you've got different things that inspire you. It's your surroundings, and it's maturity. You grow up and you start seeing things differently, and you start writing differently. It doesn't mean your going to change the imagery and the ideas behind SLAYER, you're just going to change the pictures you're painting. Where before it was demons and devils, now you're writing songs about humanity's demons and humanity's devils.

Maximum Ink: It's a testament to SLAYER that you've been able to make that progression, because a lot of bands that used to be your peers haven't been able to do that.

Tom Araya: It's just maturity. It's just coming to grips and understanding the subject matter. When we first got together, Dave, Jeff and Kerry were still in high school! We were going to call ourselves SLAYER and be everything that's not Hollywood: We're not going be pretty boys, we're going to be ugly boys, and we're not going to write about parties, we're going to write about Satan. You know what I mean? [Laughing] We were young, Kerry liked the whole satanic thing, VENOM was a huge influence, and we started working on our own songs and developed it. By the time we did "Show No Mercy", we had all that — I was 22, they were 19, and we were young kids.

Maximum Ink: So the evolution started then, and hasn't stopped.

Tom Araya: Yeah. You're young, but as you grow up you have to evolve and you have to make a change. That's what we did. We grew, and "Reign in Blood" was the turning point. We had just got through doing "Hell Awaits", which was a very dark, hell and Satan album, then the subject matter changed on "Reign in Blood". It was less Satan and more on a social level… But every now and then you make sure you mention "Satan!" [Laughing]

Maximum Ink: Has being a father tempered you at all?

Tom Araya: No. The only thing I do differently is watch my language [laughing], and that's just around my kids and my family. That's something that I've done subconsciously, but that's it… Me and my wife are big scary movie fans, like the remakes of "Amityville Horror" and "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", and we let our sons watch those movies with us. They don't have to watch it with us, but they're allowed to… They're seven and 10, and every now and then one will ask, "Is this real?" We talk to them and make it clear that it's just a movie, and they understand. Then they watch the specials about how the effects and scenes were done, and they get a better idea that it's just movie magic. It's the same with music, we let them listen to whatever they want to.

Maximum Ink: Is it a metal house?

Tom Araya: It's a variety house. They listen to metal, they listen to country, they listen to kid-pop, they just enjoy music, which I'm just glad they do. They sing to each other, they perform to each other, and they mimic the videos they see.

Read the entire interview at www.maximumink.com.