When you're in a club or a theater or even an arena, yeah, you want visuals, you want a good light show. But Slayer has always been about the sound. We have to sound good. It has to be tight.

Araya enrolled in a two-year technical course learning about air mixture ratios drawing blood and how to intubate. ' They’d call me at 5:00 in the morning and wake me 'Someone’s not coming in we need you to come in to work.

Much of Araya's lyrical content is about serial killers a subject he finds interesting first making his lyrical contribution to 1985's Hell Awaits with the track "At Dawn They Sleep". Araya is ranked fifty-eighth by Hit Parader on their list of the 100 Greatest Metal Vocalists of All Time.