Tom Araya
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Biography
Tomás Enrique "Tom" Araya Díaz is a Chilean-American musician, best known as the vocalist and bassist of the thrash metal band Slayer. He was ranked 58th by Hit Parader on their list of the 100 Greatest Metal Vocalists of All Time.
"As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer."
"That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar."
"When I do interviews, I enter them with an open mind and try to answer the questions the best I can."
"I follow politics, but I don't like to discuss it."
"I was born and raised Catholic, so it's in my blood. I don't go to church... I was born and raised Catholic, which is about the extent of my religion. My parents made one request: that I have my first Holy Communion."