NEWS: FOUNDING MEMBER OF SLAYER, JEFF HANNEMAN, HAS PASSED ON

Say not in grief: “He is no more”, but live in thankfulness that he was. Hebrew Proverb

As news flows like rivers across cyberspace, everyone is aware of the passing of a legend. Jeff Hanneman, grammy-winning guitarist and founding member of the heavy metal band Slayer, passed on today of liver failure in Southern California. He was 49 years young. He’s survived by Kathy, his wife, sister Kathy and two brothers, Michael and Larry.

Having contracted necrotizing fasciitis (most likely from a spider bite), a disease that eats away at the flesh from deep layers of skin and tissue, Hanneman has been off the road since early 2011. It’s not known what role the disease played in Hanneman’s liver failure.

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Let us not remember him by the way he died, but rather by how he lived, and what he did with his short time with us. With Slayer, he co-wrote many songs, “Raining Blood,” “Seasons in the Abyss,” “South of Heaven,” to name a few. He was into World War II memorabilia, which was obvious in some of the typography and themes of some of the songs he co-penned. Not only will the musings of Slayer survive, but they will live on within songs from other epic bands, such as Cradle of Filth and Children of Bodom, and various more.

RockRevolt Magazine salutes you Jeff Hanneman, as you cross from this world to the next.

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~ Thank you to Chad Lee for the photograph of Jeff

“Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.”

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