Slayer

Call us nitpickers if you must, but it’s hard for us to think of Slayer the same way in light of guitarist Jeff Hanneman’s tragic passing and the formal sacking of drum titan Dave Lombardo in recent years. That said, the most recent Slayer release, Repentless, proved that respective replacements Gary Holt and Paul Bostaph are certainly up to the task of executing the band’s trademark bone-chilling warp-speed thrash. So throw the horns and give thanks for these dark gods of metal as they embark on their final world tour, with support from Primus and Ministry.