Slayer Won't Think About New Album Until After Tour Break

(Metal Hammer) Slayer haven't discussed making an album to follow last year's Repentless, says frontman Tom Araya. But he reports that he and Kerry King are communicating better than they ever have in the past.

His comments come after guitarist King said the band's future was "very unclear" because Araya appeared to be considering retirement. Repentless was their first album since the death of co-founder Jeff Hanneman in 2013.

Araya tells Billboard: "There hasn't really been any talk of a new record yet. The Nuclear Blast people have, but we haven't. We haven't been a put-a-record-out-year-after-year band since back in the 80s, when Reign In Blood, South Of Heaven and Season In The Abyss came out.

"We like to work our material out and make sure we're happy before anybody decides, 'Let's do a record.' And now there's no Jeff, so that leaves a lot on Kerry. He'll need to take a break from touring work to start on ideas, get stuff together and work things out." Read more here.

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