Slayer Paved The Way For Nu-Metal

Steve Appleford of the Philadelphia Inquirer talked to Slayer as well as System of a Down guitarist Daron Malakian who said of the band,
“I was always searching for something bigger, faster and better, and Slayer came up with that. I wouldn’t be playing this kind of music for a living if it wasn’t for Slayer.” Even Slayer’s current drummer Paul Bostaph who joined the band in 1992 was awed when he first heard the band, “I remember hearing it, and it laid waste to everything we thought was heavy. I was blown away. . . . It was how original it was, how dark it was, the heaviness of the riffs, the power of the drumming.” Philly.com has since removed the article.