The Lifestyle of Tom Araya 2024 ✔️

[@jamesoshiro3181]

Many years ago I meet Tom where I used to work. He was about to checkout. I finally got up the courage and went to him to my surprise he turned around and i told how much i like his band. We breifly talked and shook hands. I couldn't stop smiling the rest of my shift.

[@billybloggs3214]

Did you say, I’m not worthy Wayne’s World style?

[@Reaper-3000]

I'm sure he couldn't stop smiling either

[@OKLAHOMIESKY]

​@@billybloggs3214 he's not worthy if he didn't do it.

[@briandoornink7597]

I am envious of Toms ability to constantly smile and find humor in things.

[@dizleran9276]

well thats not good. lol

[@Nunya442]

Met Tom and SLAYER back in the day. Tom was the coolest of em all. Had a great attitude and offered up to a young crazed fan one of the best moments of my younger years. Thanks Tom 👍

[@josephgarcia5309]

I'm so happy for Tom and thank him and slayer for being a big part of my life.

[@lownslow9523]

I couldn't say that better 😅

[@DayInTheLifeOfAl]

Much respect Mr. Araya! You’ve been a major part of my life for most of my life at 54. I’ve had the pleasure to meet you on a few occasions and you truly broke the phrase “never meet your hero’s”. You did’t disappoint and were very kind, love ya man!

[@Unitedfruitco]

I met Tom & King in New Orleans in 2004. I am friends with some big metal musicians but with them I completely “fan boy’d” out!! Tom was so kind and generous with his time. A true metal legend‼️

[@figster414]

Can I party with you? I need to get my demo out lol

[@SvestPest]

Tom is a great musician and a great person at daily life as well. Only respect for Araya family and i wish him all the best for 2025.

[@stevebrickshitta870]

Rare to see the guy not smiling or hear him laughing. Good on him. Is a legend.

[@fredericklockard3854]

The amazing thing about Tom is that his voice has hardly diminished at all. Still powerful. His neck and hearing are gone, but his voice is still going strong.

[@tinytim71301]

LOVE Slayer!!!

[@eldiablo3794]

I just saw Slayer perform at Chicagos Riot Fest back in September 22, 2024. It was awesome to see Tom back on stage belting out his iconic screams. For being in a crazy band like Slayer, Tom is a humble and chill dude.🤘🏾

[@johndiaz7680]

I had the pleasure to briefly speak with TA several years ago. He's a down to earth kind of guy and doesn't take life too seriously. I was glad to of had that opportunity.

[@KevinBurgess-f1y]

Quit making up shit

[@larrybecker9565]

I'm 51 right now and still listen to Slayer but I remember when I was in 8th grade my buddy Lenny gave me a show no mercy tape and I was hooked ☠️👹💪👍😎

[@larrybecker9565]

I made a mistake my buddy Lenny gave me show no mercy Slayer cassette tape in 6th grade

[@metalmike570]

@@larrybecker9565 Nobody will remember your comment for what grade you were in but it's cool so may years later to realize all that. And congrats on a long life!!

[@CarlitoBrigante55]

I remember these guys from when they were in High school down the street and I was still in the 8th grade in Jr high (middle school now) in South gate.

[@thisismescotthathawayistha4071]

TOM ARAYA& SLAYER DESERVE TO BE IN THE MUSIC HALL OF FAME BECAUSE THEY ARE THE GODS OF THRASH METAL...

[@EricIrrthum]

slayer is the first true metal band i listened to at the age of 14 and i will be buried while a slayer song is playing!!!! HAIL slayer and 1000 thanks that they supported me in my whole life in everything i have done!!!

[@OtherMike5000]

Tom is a Super Patriot. Loves his country.

[@paulmatthews9518]

Tom is awesome!!🤘🤘

[@j.r.zavala]

Growing up in L.A., I had the opportunity to see Slayer play at local venues, like the L.A. Street Scene, El Sereno, Southgate garage parties, as well. Slayer was (musically) over the top at all levels of their musical progression, beyond that of any other band. I wanted to add, there was a support band, "Tormentor" that would play and party with the Slayer guys, I knew the drummer (Raul) of Tormentor, and nothing more on that. Later, guessing around 1984, I had the privilege of witnessing Exodus, Slayer and Venom on the "Combat Tour", what an incredible experience that was. To formally watch the boys of Slayer kill it on stage, was absolutely mind blowing. Don't get me wrong, the opening act, Exodus also killed it... Venom, not so much (in my opinion). Anyway, I am now 58 years of age, and I still listen and play bass guitar to Slayer, and others. Slayer always takes me back to my youth and I still enjoy their music as if it was the first time I ever heard them play. Incredible band!

[@bpb5541]

Thank you for sharing. IMHO there is no better riff masters. Heavy and tight. The guitars alone are killer but throw that bad ass bass in there and the DRUMS... Oh my god the drums!!!! I did 30 years in the Navy so never got to see them. They just recently played up in the Bay area but I couldn't make it. My ultimate dream would be to see anthrax, testement, and Slayer all at the same show.

[@Reaper-3000]

No one smiles like Tom!

[@luisvilasboas]

Tom is a great guy. Be like Tom!

[@corythomason1463]

I'm blessed to know Tom and his wife. They're great people.

[@ivan_andrija984]

Da je živ i zdrav, kao i njegova porodica. Hvala mu za sve🤟😎

[@johnluevanojr.6026]

🤘 hell yeah I can respect that for sure, I've injoyed his music many of yrs. I still jam it while heading to work.

[@mgf2581]

Viva Chile!!! 🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱 and viva SLAYERRRRR!

[@ErWo75]

Tom is a great down to earth guy.

[@alexbaum2204]

My favorite metal band by far. Hell, maybe my favorite band and all off the strength of what they did through Seasons in the Abyss. But man, I really do wish they had treated Dave better. It’s always been a thing for me. I can separate the art from the artists, but this is about one of the artists. It just makes it hard for me. How do you look a guy who has sweat blood for your project for years and just treat him like crap and cut him out of all that he has rightfully earned? I’ve never understood it. Tom seems like such an awesome dude, but I can’t wrap my head around that part of the Slayer story.

[@truth-or-nothing]

They did Dave dirty.

[@davidr1676]

I never did or maybe I should say that I now have no memory of went bad and I know im blurring the memory with other stuff going on with bands in the 85-88/89 time frame, give or take. I don't even remember if Dave was on drums in Feb '87 Reign in Blood. I usually have a photographic memory, but maybe our "neighbors" in "seating" got us too high. I remember Tom, Jeff, Kerry and the crosses on the stage, but when I try to think about the drums, i just am recalling nothing, like a shadow in my memory. It was a fun night, i think that stage holds the record for the tallest stage, especially for a "smaller" indoor venue. I also remember WASP being booed and pelted with anything not bolted down, but was Dave there? Some said he had left the tour, others said he hadn't left yet or was back but tense on stage. Tom had done a phone in interview the night before and they had to hang up on him after like 20 F bombs and he definitely sounded wasted in 8 ways. Different times back then, and by years end I ended up moving and that solidified a change for me. Slayer was basically unknown where I had moved to. At about 2:40, I can see the top of a T-shirt that I once had. Though I was listening to Metallica by late 84-early 85, and Slayer about a year later but not crazy until late 86, I probably owned more Slayer shirts than the next dozen Metal/hard-core Punk bands. No where near the number of shirts by a band far different, who became my all time favorites, and their music was influenced by the Stones and Beatles too as well as knowing those groups and indirectly probably loaded them both up with a life supply of LSD. But, the shocker was when I read that the guy whose name was almost synonymous with that band, he actually thought highly of Reign in Blood. They would never play anything "metal", though most metal heads either liked their music or at least the atmosphere outside and inside those shows. Just never can tell what surprises and things lay in store, I guess.

[@bpb5541]

Just like the Crue did Mick Mars. I don't understand these rock stars sometimes. I mean damn ... they should all have plenty of money. Each deserves their share for the art they made.

[@bayareathrasher666]

2004 "Still Raining" tour SF @ The Warfield. Smoked hella weed with Tom and Sandy. RIP Jeff

[@michael-ky2pt]

Tom is nice.more people should be

[@michael-ky2pt]

Tom sounds really nice and all in his video interviews. Kind of almost goofy but sincere. Goofy in a happy go lucky way. That is a good personality quality

[@islandfocus2]

Tom is a big teddy bear. Big respect to Tom!

[@jray211]

I met slayer at Tower records in Tacoma, WA. They were about to tour for Seasons in the abyss. My girlfriend was with me and she had a huge crush on Tom. Jeff, Dave, and Kerry looked tired and didn't say much. Tom had a big smile on his face. I told him he made my girl's clitoris pulsate. (she was dying of embarrassment) Tom laughed and said "I didn't know our music did that, but I knew I could". Then he goes "you're a funny guy Jesse". When I got home and checked my signed cassette tape, I was the only one out of 4 of us, to have a pentagram scribbled on Tom's forehead in the pic of the band. 😂 I'll never forget that. If you smell something, it's Tom cuz he's the shit!

[@Pinche_Gringo]

Saw him at Great Wolf in Dallas but he was with his family so I didn't bug him but it's was cool seeing him.

[@BraadriBroadcast]

Tom is one of the greatest frontmen

[@decrepitudeanddeath]

What a charismatic & handsome son-of-a-gun.

[@mgf2581]

Famously Chilean good looks

[@drweir3532]

Back in 2019 I “met” Kerry randomly at a Stater Bros in Corona. He was in line in front of me. I got the courage and asked him, “Excuse me, are you Kerry King?” Kerry responded in the driest, most un-impressed way possible, “Yeah” and turned back around. That was my experience meeting Kerry King and 100% true.

[@rjniknami6641]

Yeah, it’s pretty much how that goes. I met the dude at Dave & Buster’s in Orange California. Interaction pretty much went the same way. when he’s on tour, he says a few more words. I think during his private time he’ll give you your moment, but that’s all you get, that one little moment. And that’s just fine too.

[@masaiwhite5933]

A wholesome,cool dude with no primadonna attitude....like him more than his actual music!

[@SeanDavis-l2d]

saw Slayer for the first time in 84 or 85 at the Salinas Civic Center. It was a barn lol. SLAYER!!!!!

[@willyzapata4473]

Tomás Enrique Araya Díaz Latinamerican pride

[@epliks2]

Absolutely beautiful!

[@sandraaraya5067]

Ok now… first no photo credit? 90% of the photos used were from my private pages. Secondly, whoever does the research for the videos … hasn’t done a very good job in some areas. You did however entertain us with this!

[@mattmedzzz6745]

❤❤❤ we love you & your beyond legendary man. Icon of heavy/extreme music

[@jackscratch785]

Saw an interview where he admits that didn't grow up a metalhead. More into Classic Rock.

[@alextee2804]

Great man, great band! He made it! Now he has to take a rest with his beautiful family! ❤

[@Acapulcalypse]

I only met him once over 30 years ago and thought he was cool for totally different reasons. Now I know he's the shit for all the RIGHT reasons!!

[@Hayden-sp1ol]

BACK ON TOUR 2024...!!!!!

[@omargarza7060]

🤘SLAYER🤘!!!

[@rottingcorpse6002]

His nickname now is "Grampa Metal". He's even confirmed that he likes it.

[@juanparroni5850]

Mis respeto para usted señor Araya.

[@Nick-pz8jk]

He do the right way.

[@GaryDelabate]

Tom turned into a Chilean Santa Claus.

[@tasosdiaforetico7377]

Classic best keep the stockings out

[@metalmike570]

Ho Ho Ho....... Angel Of DEEEEEEEEAAATTTTTTTTTHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

[@mikemonster6860]

Jeff was Slayer.

[@xsisterwifex]

Always smiling 😊

[@borlan100]

Dude is a rock legend.

[@HERETICON666]

Araya to jest bardzo pozytywny koleś, zawsze go lubiłem, tak jako człowieka.

[@Richard-mz3xz]

Met him in South Gate

[@frontsidegrinder6858]

Have seen em in Hamburg germany and yeah it was great, fascinating energy.

[@jonpike9502]

Met him and kerry in 2019. Very chill guys.

[@benttwisted210]

Good video! Hey, I "smoked" with Tom once! He rolled a mean spleef!! 🤘

[@carlosbernalism]

3:10 Slayer playing at the quad in South Gate High School in the 80s, Araya and King lived within 2 miles of me and Lombardo around the corner at some apartements with his girlfriend. There was a strong thrash metal scene in South Gate and later Death Metal and hip hop with Melow Man Ace and Cypress Hill.

[@alesstysanchez1614]

That South Gate high school photo. It was A lunchtime show. Incredible show back then 1984

[@spaceman61]

I saw Slayer the first time at Keystone Berkeley then at Ruthies Inn the next night

[@judaspriestfan]

1:27 bro just wanted a pepsi...

[@Thravson_Myrkweb6661]

They stick me in an institution, sa9d it was the only solution

[@noeffx5718]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@tedk2166]

@@Why_Rock you’re the one that’s crazy!

[@davidcross701]

Well Stated Tom!!!

[@MrAnon73]

A genuinely cool guy.

[@larrybecker9565]

Tom has a amazing beautiful family I hope you have a good Thanksgiving Slayer

[@hectorzaragoza6433]

He rolled a spliff and smoked me out once at a private party where everyone in attendance was instructed to not "fan boy" out when he showed up. Just me n him.. smokin a joint shootin the shit. We never talked about Slayer once. I was screaming on the inside. Shit was wild. He's such a solid dude.

[@Williameagleblanket]

Been a Slayer fan since 1983 and seen Slayer 12 times. Last show was at Aftershock Festival 2024. 🤘

[@cms1381]

Well done.

[@philipalexander-v3l]

LEGEND !!!!!!!!!

[@Bacalao2929]

I remember see them in Roseland

[@Jzsons]

Was that the show with Machine Head?

[@chrismallas5785]

Slayer 4 Life ✊🤘🔥🍻🤘

[@charlesrobinson7469]

Reign in Blood was the first thing I ever heard from Slayer. War Ensemble was a tune I used to lip synch with my Niece/Nephews. They thought He(Tom) was saying "Joshua!" 😄 Good Stuff.👍🏾

[@Quackerstacker1973]

Im a late comer to slayer i first Heard them in 1986 and have been to over 30 slayer concerts I've not missed one in Utah since 1986 and have been to see them at the forum in LA as well as in texas and one time in st Louis MO that i just happened to be there for work and they were in town so i bought a ticket and went to the show

[@PaulHebert-qs7ge]

He’s my neighbor, never met him but he has a very nice ranch , and everyone who has met him says he is a super cool guy, I liked slayer when I was younger but I outgrew all the satan stuff they sing about when I was a kid .

[@gosselinluke]

Nobody ever talks about his bass playing for a good reason.

[@angelgonzales8361]

Was part of the KK’s Tour recently didn’t have the ⚽️ 🏀 to approach him . We spent 30 day in tour.

[@666dynomax]

show no mercy is a masterpiece.

[@KarinaAran]

Nice bio!🥰👍

[@LenaEspinosa-o6o]

Nice story for once

[@jasonmiller4046]

this may sound odd God Bless Slayer and Tom's dedication to metal

[@Certified_Art_Teacher]

I have a relative who lives in Buffalo Tx and they've ran into him a few times around the town. They all know him there too but don't treat him like a celeb.

[@JasenkoOmerovic]

Cool

[@WilliamFlerx]

He was seen in Galveston Tx a few years ago

[@adolfoiruegas9045]

Buen venidos a Texas

[@-MetalSage-]

7:41 Nice pic with Alex Skolnick.

[@rodvonmunch9546]

All hail to Tom - but when it comes to SLAYER: Hanneman is Slayer! He is even not mentioned here, what a shame.

[@fungusdungeon7159]

"Electrifying bass presence" btw Kerry said Tom couldnt be bothered to learn the songs

[@re8746]

Is he still living in Buffalo, Texas?

[@chriskimmel7736]

Karey king wasn't ready to retire

[@tompriceusmc]

Yeah, Slayer grew up idolizing Judas Priest and Iron Maiden... So Kerry is like, "Wait...they're still touring---and we're NOT!? How the fuck does that make sense!?" LOL

[@666elrey666]

lives in Bufalo, TX

[@ForLorNVuLgaR]

Bro plz stop doing these baity thumbnails. Your vids are good enough to stand on their own

[@SpaceMusic594]

Thanks for the compliments and feedback, bro; I'll try to improve it in my next videos 😁🤘🏿🤘🏿

[@sandraaraya5067]

Like using his actual wife’s picture 😂😂😂

[@JoeBenedict130]

~❤🤘👍🌒🌗👍🤘🔥😡~Ave~

[@gilbertojimenez4224]

A Chilean on vocals and a cuban guy in drums heeeeellll yeeeaaahhh

[@BackingTracksforMusician-er9tm]

🤘❤🤘

[@tymanngruter1808]

The voice from hell! The proud off America in angry music! ♨️😡♨️

[@DonLeist]

Rock music is usually a one way street,why these people give anything to a "business" like this just amazes me!

[@firstnameonradio]

Jeff Hanneman with short hair @ 3:15!

[@DakotaTyree-t3q]

HUMBLE YOURSELVES IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD AND HE SHALL LIFT YOU UP JAMES 4:10

[@jistikoff2361]

Waaaaaaaaaaaaar Eeeensembleeeeee!

[@christopherhill7843]

Love Slayer. Since like 83. I was there in the thrash scene in SF. Still love Slayer but when you say you’re done, you should stay gone. Seriously. You’ve cemented a legacy that is celebrated across the world. Losing your integrity is not cool. I think less of them now for coming back. I don’t care why, just that you lied.

[@pointsource1]

When someone says, "I don't like Slayer".😈