Reign in Blood is the Best Metal Album EVER!

-- Siegbran (siegbra...), January 21st, 2004.

OTM!

And this is probably a coincidence, but Tom Araya's vocals on it sound in some places quite similar to those on the Cro-Mags' Age of Quarrel. Something about the harsh yelping quality.

sometimes reign in blood sounds kinda wimpy to me now. the production on all those old thrash rexx seems to thin.

my favourite metal album is probably still opeth's 'still life', despite the opeth backlash and all.

'reign in blood' is extremely good though. relentlessly frantic, full of instantly classic riffs, with one of the most magnificent opening tracks on any metal record, period. i can even look past kerry king's tone-deaf solos and the king diamond-esque squeals.

btw, does anyone else find that the opening scream in 'angel of death' sounds exactly like the start of one of king's dial-up modem guitar solos?

I <a href=http://www.fastnbulbous.com/best_metal.htm>;concur!</a>

I love how the lyric sheet dutifully designates every guitar lead (you know, Solo: Hanneman/Solo: King/Solo: Hanneman etc.); then, at the end of "Raining Blood" credits 'em both with "noise" even tho it'
s just more wang-bar abuse like every other one of their solos!

(Best metal album ever? Sure, why not? On some days, anyway.)

dial-up modem guitar solos.
perfect.

:)

one of the most telling contrasts in soloing styles between the two guitarists occurs on the track 'seasons in the abyss'. king does his unorthodox dial-up modem thing and then hanneman follows it up with a conventional (yet awesome) lesson in metal soloing, complete with tapping and sweeping.

As a 15-year+ Slayer fan, I find it immensly gratifying that people are crapping all over Kerry King, who I was always underwhelmed by from Seasons in the Abyss on to the present day.

yet another thing to admire about this record is that tom araya didn't write any of the lyrics and they're often quite a mouthful. he makes a really noble attempt to fit all the words in, but it's amusing to hear him struggling with the word 'acquisition' on 'raining blood'.

"As a 15-year+ Slayer fan, I find it immensly gratifying that people are crapping all over Kerry King, who I was always underwhelmed by from Seasons in the Abyss on to the present day"

This is bullshit. I'd rather listen to a King "modem" solo than one of Hammett's sub-Malmsteenesque scale runners. There's more than one way to skin a cat, folks.