his name is tim arraya. tim arraya is the base player and lead singer for the band slayer and being the lead singer of the band slayer is a job -- actually being anybody in the band slayer, it's a job that has specific requirements that don't apply to all that many other jobs in life. one of the things you have to do if you're in the band slayer is you have to really wang your head around a lot. all the time. every time you play in public, any time you shoot a video, anything. it's one thing if you're, like, in a metal band for a year in high 16 and you're 16 and basically made of rubber, right? but the guys in slayer have been doing this for a very, very long time. they've been doing this for decades. they're a very successful band. they haven't gone away. but the guys in slayer are now old guys and there are just these seven little vertebrae in your neck in all of our necks and once you're no longer in high school and you're an awesome metal dude who has started to turn gray, right? and you're still wangin

and tim arraya recover ed and w did in the end get -- this is the important part. see the red banner at the top there, kind of a bloody background, that's right, the american carnage tour. you can still buy posters, you can still buy commemorative posters from the american carnage tour. it's funny, by the time they got to their canadian dates, they changed it to the canadian carnage tour. but in america, it was the american carnage tour. it was a meeting of metal titans, slayer and megadeth and testament. even though it had been in doubt and had to be delayed, it did happen. and for a certain generation of metal fans, that was metal heaven on earth. slayer and megadeth, same night! and before today, if you were looking for american carnage in our life, that is what it was. it was when slayer and megadeth toured together in 2010, after the slayer guy had his neck surgery and nobody knew if he would be able to make it. that was american carnage before today. now, as of today, american carnage will be forever known as the theme for the inaugural address of the 45th pr