10 years ago today (5/2/13), Jeff Hanneman, founding member and guitarist for Slayer, died at the age of 49. The guitarist had been suffering from necrotising fasciitis, a flesh-eating disease that he is believed to have contracted from a spider bite in 2011. Hanneman was being treated in a local hospital when he “suffered liver failure.” Slayer would carry on with Gary Holt (Exodus) on lead guitar till the band’s final shows in 2019. Watch the metal titans live in NYC in 1986…
