His father Javier and mother Tina were born-again Catholic lay ministers, and the Araya family was raised with Catholicism as a religious guide. Jeff: 'What's a Satanist, anyway?' (later Hanneman added he thought 'all religion was stupid.')īack in the day, Araya was kind of sly regarding the Slayer/Satanism connection. Here are their responses (noted in the Spin article): After one night on the tour bus (after watching The Return of the Living Dead mind you), Larson plainly asked Kerry King, Jeff Hanneman, Dave Lombardo, and Tom Araya if they were Satanists. Araya was quick to respond by blaming David's parents for not paying attention to him or what he was listening to. Or are they? When Larson joined the tour in Germany in January of 1989, he relayed young David's threats to quit listening to Slayer if they were not real Satanists. Well, David, I hate to tell you this, but Slayer isn't here to be your Satanic role models. But if there're not really Satanists, I'm going to quit listening to their music.' 'I'm seventeen now, but if the devil gives me what I want until I'm nineteen, then I'll murder for him. A seventeen-year-old Satanist into animal sacrifices and Slayer: Here's a transcript of one of the calls courtesy of Larson's ' Desperately Seeking Satan' article in Spin which ran in May of 1989:ĭavid from Ontario, Canada. The night before he was to head out on the road with Slayer, Larson asked his Talk Back listeners to call in with questions they wanted Larson to ask the band. Larson would subsequently write about his experiences for Spin.

(the founder of Spin magazine) on one of his call-in shows, Guccione got Larson to agree to go on tour with Slayer. In 1982, Larson, now an evangelical pastor, debuted his wild radio talk show, 'Talk Back.' After hosting Bob Guccione Jr. Before his biblical aspirations took hold, Bob Larsen allegedly played guitar in a rock band as a young teen ( noted in Larson's 1974 book Hell on Earth).

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