I <a href=http://www.fastnbulbous.com/best_metal.htm>;concur!</a>
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
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.)
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 23:22 (sixteen years ago) link
dial-up modem guitar solos. perfect.
― m0stlyClean, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 23:40 (sixteen years ago) link
:)
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.
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 2 August 2007 06:15 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Handsome Dan, Thursday, 2 August 2007 06:50 (sixteen years ago) link
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'.
― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 13:34 (sixteen years ago) link
"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.
― Bill Magill, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 13:48 (sixteen years ago) link