NewsMay 30, 2013 10:14 PM ET7,035 views

Slayer rejoined by ex-drummer Paul Bostaph

Official press release: 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.

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sadball 5/30/2013 7:26:19 PM

SLAYER!

anonymous 5/30/2013 7:32:44 PM

No Lombardo :(

anonymous 5/30/2013 7:43:17 PM

Paul Brostaph

PainINtheTIGHTpants 5/30/2013 7:49:38 PM

Loved Bostaph, but no jeff, no listen.

anonymous 5/30/2013 8:02:00 PM

fck you Kerry King and fck you Tom Araya. Let it die.

anonymous 5/30/2013 8:11:22 PM

Without Jeff and Dave, Slayer will never be the same. The next album will suck without the,

anonymous 5/30/2013 8:30:54 PM

No lombardo, no jeff, no slayer

anonymous 5/30/2013 8:34:57 PM

Kerry King is stoked

adamsuperfan 5/30/2013 8:45:01 PM

maybe now we'll get some more Fantomas!

truthstar 5/30/2013 9:06:22 PM

Big fcking fail.

anonymous 5/30/2013 10:50:09 PM

Toms voice cant hold out for more than 2 shows. They should put slayer to bed. Kerry king is also a giant douchebag

Mike 5/31/2013 3:08:46 AM

Bostaph is a great drummer and Divine Intervention rules but no Dave and no Jeff equals no Slayer. Give it up.

anonymous 5/31/2013 4:24:20 AM

FFS, Jeff's body is still warm...

PainINtheTIGHTpants 5/31/2013 5:31:53 AM

Fantômas is dead. Been a decade since the last album.

anonymous 5/31/2013 6:02:53 AM

Dave > Paul Always has been, always will be.

anonymous 5/31/2013 12:57:40 PM

Kerry King's tribal tattoos are stoked

anonymous 5/31/2013 2:05:27 PM

Bostaph is such a hard name. - Heatthrob Rob

LoydChristmas 6/2/2013 8:37:34 PM

"continue to fill in for fallen guitarist Jeff Hanneman." so, what happened...he fall off the stage or something?

anonymous 7/2/2015 3:10:17 PM

Paul Bostaph Probaly The Best Member Ever In This Overated Band.Is It Me That thinks Lombardo Is Overated And Harms Dragonslayer Everytime He Rejoins.How Many Fills Or Splash Note in Every Second.Ginger Baker Invented The Doublebass.Bostaph Over Lombardo Anyday.




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