Slayer's fast and aggressive musical style made them one of the "big four" bands of thrash metal , alongside Metallica , Megadeth , and Anthrax. Slayer's final lineup comprised Araya, King, drummer Paul Bostaph who replaced Lombardo in and again in and guitarist Gary Holt who replaced Hanneman in Drummer Jon Dette was also a member of the band. Four of the band's studio albums have received gold certification in the United States.
Slayer sold 5 million copies in the United States from to , according to Nielsen SoundScan, and over 20 million worldwide. The band has received five Grammy Award nominations, winning one in for the song " Eyes of the Insane " and one in for the song "Final Six", both of which were from the album Christ Illusion After more than three decades of recording and performing, Slayer announced in January that it would embark on a farewell tour , which took place from May to November , after which the band disbanded.
I had to get virtually every cross to come up with that one. When you factor in the enormous for a Monday corners on this one, it just didn't play like a Monday at all.
If the theme had been really juicy, and it had played like a good Tuesday or even Wednesday, I wouldn't really have minded. But I've seen this exact theme before not sure where and this incarnation doesn't do anything interesting with it. Slightly dull. If the large corners had yielded a bunch of interesting longer answers, that would've helped right the ship somewhat, but there's not much there.
I just wasn't feeling this one today. Aha, here it is: C. Burnikel did this theme, with very similar theme answers, three years ago in the LATXW : [screengrab from crosswordfiend. My point is that it's a bit ho-hum at this point, and today's NYTXW version doesn't do anything particularly original with it. It's a fine idea, but pretty run-of-the-mill in terms of both concept and execution. The real revelation here is that, if I did this C. I just immediately forgot it and have literally never heard anyone refer to it ever irl, and so three years later, I'm back to never having heard of it again.
