Greg Prato for Ultimate Guitar reports:
According to what Exodus guitar legend Gary Holt told [Ultimate Guitar] in a recent interview, [that after joining Slayer as a touring replacement in 2011] [having to learn] Jeff Hanneman‘s [playing style] came with its challenges that mostly boiled down to his way of thinking.
Holt said, “Learning Jeff‘s riffs, the hard part at first is learning how to think like he did in order to learn them correctly. Because I’d learn riffs, I’d sit and practice at home, and [Slayer guitarist Kerry [King] would give me the songs to learn, and I’d learn them, but there’d be little things wrong. But that’s because I was thinking too much in terms of structured riffage and not chromatically enough.”
“Then, as the years have gone by, it got easier because I was able to kind of put myself in his mindset, a little bit of how he wrote,” Holt admitted. “So, you start identifying the things he did.”
Regarding if there will be any new Slayer music, Hold replied, “There’ll be no new music, We have two shows booked this year, and we’re having fun when we do those couple of shows. The band has no intention of touring. I’m fully dedicated to Exodus, and Kerry and [drummer] Paul [Bostaph] are fully dedicated to the Kerry King band.”
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