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Jeff Hanneman (born January 31, 1964, Oakland, California USA) is best known as a guitarist in the thrash metal band Slayer. His solos are mainly made up of shredding. He is also the primary author of Slayer's classic "Angel of Death", arguably one of the most famous thrash metal songs. Hanneman also wrote the music for many of Slayer's classic songs such as "South of Heaven", "War Ensemble" and "Seasons in the Abyss". Slayer's later albums became dominated by Hanneman's song-writing, forming a music/lyrics writing partnership with Tom Araya, which can sometimes overshadow the creative input of Kerry King into the band. Jeff Hanneman is also a fan of punk-rock music which ultimately led to Slayer's Undisputed Attitude album. He cites Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and Led Zeppelin, among others, as some of his main ifluences.

Hanneman has long had an interest in Nazi Germany and Nazi war medals. Many people have taken this to be evidence that Hanneman, as well as the rest of Slayer, are Nazis. The song "Angel of Death" is based on Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who committed horrifying and completely pointless experiments on prisoners of the concentration camps in Auschwitz. However, the band have stated numerous times that they they do not condone Nazism or racism, and are merely interested in the subject.

Hanneman uses Marshall amps, Jackson guitars, Kahler bridges and his own ESP signature guitar.

Contrary to popular belief, Joey Fuchs from the ill-fated american band Bloodcum (featuring John Araya) is not Hanneman's brother (see and ). Hanneman and Fuchs were joking when they claimed to be brothers.

Hanneman is married and his first child was born in August 1998.

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