Jeffrey John Hanneman (January 31, 1964 – May 2, 2013) was an American musician, best known as a founding member and co-lead guitarist of the thrash metal band Slayer. Hanneman composed both music and lyrics for every Slayer album until his death in 2013.

May 10, 2013 · Jeff Hanneman of Slayer Dead at 49. Hanneman contracted necrotizing fasciitis, a flesh-eating disease, in early 2011. Doctors believed it might have been caused by a spider bite.

Jul 13, 2023 · Today, 10 years after his death, Jeff Hanneman remains instantly recognisable but unknowable. Yet the music he made with Slayer has ensured his place in the metal pantheon, his songs and attitude embedded deep with metal’s DNA.

May 3, 2013 · Guitarist Jeff Hanneman, who died of liver failure at 49 on Thursday, was the songwriter, sometimes-lyricist and shredding fingers behind some of Slayer's most enduring songs: the impossibly fast...

May 2, 2014 · Guitar World presents the complete, untold story of Jeff Hanneman, Slayer’s guitarist for more than 30 years and the man behind such legendary thrash anthems as “Angel of Death,” “South of Heaven” and “War Ensemble.”

Feb 10, 2024 · Kerry King looked back on the final years of his Slayer bandmate Jeff Hanneman, explaining why he didn't want the guitarist to play more than two songs at the iconic Big Four event.

May 4, 2013 · Jeff Hanneman, a guitarist for the influential metal band Slayer, who helped shape the group’s sonic assault and wrote some of its most popular — and controversial — songs, died on Thursday...

May 2, 2013 · Jeff Hanneman was a founding member of Slayer, and one of three ever-present musicians in their line-up until his death in 2013. Hanneman grew up in Los Angeles in a family of war veterans, and his fascination with warfare is attributed to his upbringing.

May 3, 2013 · Two years after contracting a rare skin tissue disease, Slayer guitarist and co-founder Jeff Hanneman died Thursday, May 2, 2013, of liver failure at a Southern California hospital. Skip to main content

May 3, 2013 · LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jeff Hanneman, a founding member of Slayer whose career was irrevocably changed after a spider bite, has died. He was 49. Slayer spokeswoman Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald said Hanneman died Thursday morning of liver failure at a Los Angeles hospital with his wife, Kathy, by his side.