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Tom Araya

real name Tomás Enrique Araya Díaz

Viña del Mar, Chile

Tom Araya is credited on 549 releases across 124 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1983–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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549

Credits

124

Albums

5

Decades active

847

In collections

Biography

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Lead singer, bassist and lyric writer of Slayer, born June 6, 1961 in Viña del Mar, Chile.
He has been ranked 58th by Hit Parader on their list of the 100 Greatest Metal Vocalists of All Time.
Previously worked as a respiratory therapist.

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Credited work

549 releases · 124 albums · active 1983–2025

  • Performance · 1,057
  • Other credits · 29
  • Production · 2

Studios: Track Record (3) · Heavy Sound Festival · The Pass · Memorial Coliseum, Corpus Christi, TX

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