Tom Araya
Tom Araya
Tomás Enrique "Tom" Araya Díazis a Chilean American musician, best known as the bassist and vocalist of the American thrash metal band Slayer. Araya is ranked fifty-eighth by Hit Parader on their list of the 100 Greatest Metal Vocalists of All Time...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMetal Singer
Date of Birth6 June 1961
CityVina del Mar, Chile
CountryUnited States of America
san-francisco people surfing
Our album 'Show No Mercy' came out in late '83, and we did three or four shows in San Francisco after the release. That was our first experience with stage-divers, crowd-surfing, people walking on people across an entire crowd.
book people stuff
I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics or murder - all that good stuff.
book thinking people
I read a book recently by a psychiatrist who was able to interview a few serial killers and she had a thesis on how you could figure these people out. And she thinks that there are things that could tell you whether someone has the potential to do that.
song book people
People are not in good shape to where they have to question their own belief system because of a book or a story somebody wrote, or a SLAYER song.
thinking people mind
As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.
american-musician home learned normal
Because of time, we've learned that there are some things that you really have to maintain, like a normal home life; and that's a plus.
american-musician bunch focused sat stuff toward written
I have a bunch of stuff written that we haven't used, but I haven't sat down and really focused on what to put toward the album.
american-musician entire middle sing verse verses
Sometimes I'll sing the same verse through the entire song, because the other verses aren't clicking. And when they do come to me, I'm in the middle of that same verse!
anybody basically book books chance good jumps life recommend walk
I recommend anybody go to a bookstore, go down the self-help or new-age section, and just walk those aisles. See what book jumps out at you; there's a good chance it's a book you need in your life. That's basically how I find the books that I read.
dad drank enjoy flavors goes growing learned qualities rick spoke taste tastes taught
Growing up, my dad drank a lot of wine, so I got a taste for, and learned how to enjoy it. He spoke a lot about flavors and differences in tastes of wine. Also, our manager, Rick Sales, is a big wine drinker; he goes to a lot of wine-tasting classes, and he's taught me about the qualities of wine.
good slayer sound
Slayer has always been about the sound. We have to sound good. It has to be tight.
american-musician bad speak
If it were bad songs, yeah, I'd speak up, but they're not bad songs.
bit flavor good heard red round skeptical slayer suggested tasted tried type wines
When I heard the idea of a Slayer wine, I tasted the wines they suggested for us. To be honest, I was a bit skeptical at first before I tasted it, but once I tried it, I thought, 'You know what? This is actually really good. A really fruity and round type of flavor for a red wine.' It's very flavorful and tasted awesome!
american-musician good
As long as it's good music, that's what's important.