JEFF HANNEMAN & KERRY KING
Rights position
| Company | Relationship | Ownership classification | Status | Verification | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary Wave Music | listed in artist directory | artist association only | current | verified | directory page |
“Artist association only” is the accurate classification for a directory listing. No composition or recording of this artist has a documented Primary Wave publishing or master ownership interest in the supplied dataset, and SPEC §10 forbids inferring one from the relationship.
Biography
Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King were founding members of Slayer , formed in Huntington Park in 1981. Together, they built one of the most iconic and uncompromising guitar partnerships in the history of heavy metal. Their songwriting and sonic vision defined thrash metal — heavier, faster, and darker than anything that came before — setting the standard against which every heavy act since has been measured. From the genre-defining Reign in Blood , widely hailed as one of the greatest thrash metal albums of all time, through a catalog spanning 12 studio albums and multiple Gold records, Hanneman and King’s guitar work — anchored by the unmistakable bass and vocals of Tom Araya — created a sonic force unlike anything the world had heard before. Together, they earned Slayer five Grammy nominations, two Grammy wins, placement in “The Big Four” alongside Metallica , Megadeth , and Anthrax , as well as a dedicated exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution recognizing the band’s role in the origins of thrash metal. Revolver recognized Hanneman and King together as the most mind-blowing guitar team in metal history. Jeff Hanneman passed away on May 2, 2013. Together, Hanneman and King created a body of work that will forever stand as the definitive blueprint for thrash metal.
Short biography only; no full biography is published for this artist.
Digital profiles and identifiers
| Scheme | Value | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| Publisher profile | https://primarywave.com/artists/jeffhannemankerryking/ | high |
No MusicBrainz, Discogs, IPI, ISWC or ISRC identifier is present for any artist in this dataset. Those schemes exist in the schema and are unpopulated.
News mentions 0 posts
No news mentions
This artist is not linked to any post in the archive. 150 of 178 artists have at least one mention.
“Matched by” and the confidence are carried through from the source extraction rather than flattened: a tag or tag+title match is high confidence, a title-only match is medium or low. A mention is not a transaction.
Associated repertoire (SPEC §22 category C)
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No Spotify playlist is embedded on this artist's page. 108 of 178 artists have one.
Identity and aliases
| Alias | Type | Confidence | Status | Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JEFF HANNEMAN & KERRY KING | source spelling | high | accepted | verbatim name as published in the Primary Wave artist directory |
A candidate alias is not used for matching until a reviewer accepts it. SPEC §12 forbids automatically merging low-confidence matches.