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In addition to various festival stops.

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For the longest time, folks that didn’t really know much about Slayer and the dudes that made up that band would sometimes link their songs and imagery directly with the Nazis. Despite numerous attempts by the band to clarify that they weren’t pro-Nazi despite writing songs like “Angel of Death” and using an eagle in merchandise that eerily looks similar to the one used in Nazi imagery.

Yet in a recent statement issued by Kathryn Hanneman, the widow of late guitarist Jeff Hanneman, explained that narrative that Slayer was in any way pro-Nazi is categorically false.

“If anyone here is posting immature or negative comments, you’re not representing what it truly means to be a @slayerbandofficial fan. My husband never glorified Nazism. He told stories through his music — essentially documentaries in song form — and did it with remarkable intelligence and depth. At no point did Jeff EVER condone Nazism.”

The impetus for her to post such a clarification stems from continued argument that Slayer’s use of similar imagery used by the Germans in World War II means they condoned what the Nazis did during that time.

Kathryn later went on to clarify some of the band’s uses of symbolism that strikingly resembled Nazi iconography was nothing more than imagery.

“For those that honor my husband with the Slayer ‘S’ or reference to his song ‘Angel of Death,’ please do not automatically assume the S represents the SS or that these fans are Nazis. That couldn’t be further from the truth. They are simply paying tribute to the music and legacy he created. Making assumptions like that is unfair, uninformed, and dismissive of the intelligence behind the art.”

Eventually, Kathryn ended her statement protecting her late husband’s legacy with a reminder the songs and imagery of Slayer do not condone Nazis in any way.

“Jeff never promoted hate — he told historic stories through music. To assume otherwise is not only inaccurate, it diminishes the meaning his work holds for so many people.”

When he was still alive, Jeff Hanneman defended his lyrics for “Angel Of Death” by stating that it was all about recounting what happened.

“I know why people misinterpret it — it’s because they get this knee-jerk reaction to it. When they read the lyrics, there’s nothing I put in the lyrics that says necessarily [Josef Mengele] was a bad man, because to me — well, isn’t that obvious? I shouldn’t have to tell you that.”

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Right now, veteran Boston bruisers the Dropkick Murphys are out on their annual St. Patrick’s Day tour, and they’ve brought along Haywire, the fast-rising hardcore band from the same city. It’s a truly inspired pairing, and it feels even more obvious now that the two bands are making music together. If you go to one…

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Jeff Hannemann clarifies that Slayer never glorified Nazism, urging fans to honor the music’s legacy without spreading negativity.

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Grindcore act Barren Path hits the West Coast this April for a seven-date tour, joined by labelmates Gigan on select dates.

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Behemoth and Nidhögg made the Floyd venue in Athens, Greece way more evil on February 8.

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Hockitay has released over/over, the first single from a new EP due later in 2026 via Future Gods. The track arrives about a year after his sophomore EP slo mach, a five-track meditation on burnout and disconnection that has passed 100,000 streams since its May 2025 release.

Where slo mach leaned inward, over/over has more edges. Written during a period of heavy social media use, the song picks at the performative nature of belief and the exhaustion of living inside a constant feed of other people’s certainty. The lyric that lands hardest is a simple one: “I wear the jersey, but I’ve never seen them play.” It’s a precise description of how opinion circulates online, and it doesn’t overstay its welcome.

Listen below:

Hockitay is the moniker of Santiago Castillo, a Guatemalan-born, Montreal-based artist who holds a BFA in Recording Arts from Concordia. Raised by a painter and a filmmaker, he handles his own art direction and approaches both sound and visuals as a collage, assembling elements separately and fitting them together later to see what holds. The production on over/over reflects that process; looping melodic fragments sit against distorted guitars and electronic textures that feel deliberately unresolved, simmering without releasing.

Castillo has cited James Blake, Bon Iver, and King Krule as touchstones, and you can hear all three without the music feeling derivative. The new EP, still untitled, is described as shaped by a broader disillusionment, a logical extension of where slo mach left off.

Photo – Buvard & David S. Blouin

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The pair will be headlining the opening date.

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Posted on February 18th 2026, 6:25p.m.

“I sang my heart out. I couldn’t believe it. I was performing on a song with two of my heroes”