SLAYER: DETAILS FOR JEFF HANNEMAN MEMORIAL CELEBRATION ANNOUNCED:May 23 at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles from 3:30 - 7:30PM

California thrash legends SLAYER have announced a JEFF HANNEMAN memorial, set to take place 5/23/2013 at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles from 3:30 - 7:30PM.

SLAYER guitarist JEFF HANNEMAN passed away 5/2/2013 of liver failure at 49.
SLAYER announced late guitarist JEFF HANNEMAN's official cause of death is " Alcohol related Cirrhosis of the Liver", therefore liver failure.

JEFF HANNEMAN was two years AWOL from SLAYER as EXODUS guitarist GARY HOLT replaced HANNEMAN for SLAYER's touring commitments, there for the hold up regarding a new SLAYER release.

SLAYER unleashed "World Painted Blood" 11/3/2009 on AMERICAN

RECORDINGS.

FROM SLAYER:
The Jeff Hanneman Memorial Celebration will take place on Thursday, May 23 at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles from 3:30 - 7:30PM. Hanneman passed away on May 2 at the age of 49."The Memorial Celebration will be free and open to the public on a first-come, first-in basis (subject to venue capacity). All ages are welcome, and paid parking will be available around the venue.

Jeff Hanneman helped shape Slayer's uncompromising thrash-metal sound as well as an entire genre of music. His riffs of fury and punk-rock attitude were heard in the songs he wrote, including Slayer classics "Angel of Death," "Raining Blood," "South of Heaven" and "War Ensemble." Hanneman co-founded Slayer with fellow-guitarist Kerry King, bassist Tom Araya and drummer Dave Lombardo in Huntington Park, CA in 1981. For more than 30 years, Hanneman was the band member who stayed out of the spotlight, rarely did interviews, amassed an impressive collection of World War II memorabilia, was with his wife Kathy for nearly three decades, shut off his phone and went incommunicado when he was home from tour, did not want to be on the road too late into any December as Christmas was his favorite holiday, and, from the time he was about 12 years old, woke up every, single day with one thing on his mind: playing the guitar.

It was once suggested to Slayer that if they would write "just one mainstream song that could get on the radio," they would likely sell millions of records and change the commercial course of their career, similar to what had happened to Metallica with 1993's "Enter Sandman." Jeff was the first to draw a line of integrity in the sand, replying, "We're going to make a Slayer record. If you can get it on the radio, fine, if not, then fuck it.

NOTE FROM TOM AND KERRY TO UK/EURO FANS: "We know that our fans everywhere are hurting for the loss of Jeff just as we are.
We want to let you all know that when we come to Europe this summer in June, July and August, we'll ALL be making noise together for our brother and dear friend Jeff... We'll See you then!"
MESSAGE TO FANS: Want to really piss off the Westboro Baptist Church at Jeff's Memorial Celebration? Do exactly what Slayer members and family are going to do - totally ignore them. They don't exist. And then come inside and celebrate Jeff's life with us. Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-