Slayer made their first ever network television appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Friday, January 19. As usual, I forgot to watch it. Sounds like they played 6, yes 6 songs. A little mini-concert. They only broadcasted one song.

1. Eyes of the Insane (broadcast on ABC)
2. Jihad
3. Mandatory Suicide
4. War Ensemble
5. Dead Skin Mask
6. Raining Blood

According to blabbermouth.net: Kerry went into a back alley and hung out with about 20 fans and took pictures and autographs. He was really nice and made sure to stick around long enough so that everyone could meet him and get his autograph. The rest of the band showed up around 5:15 and started doing their soundcheck and rehearsal shortly thereafter. It was also about that time that the line began to grow to a few hundred people. During soundcheck [the band] treated the fans to full versions of ‘Jihad’ and ‘Eyes of the Insane’ (each was played in full with vocals twice and and ‘Jihad’ was played all instrumental once). At around 6:15 they started letting us all in and it took about two hours to get the whole line in, which looped all the way to Hollywood Blvd. (about 5 blocks). There’s a lot more to the story at blabbermouth.net. Pretty interesting actually.

I love the fact that Slayer is on network television, 12:30 at night, but hey it’s still ABC. Gotta give Kimmel some credit for having Slayer on his show. Awesome.