Slayer>Reign in blood .......

Sure it has dated a little, but not so that I couldn't believe it when I heard Angel of Death. Those 15 year old ears were damaged and destined to never hear the same again

I got Morbid Angels Altars of Madness, but that was really Slayer on helium - Chapel of Ghouls aside

I guess I am just locked in nostalgic vision of their sound/time because any thing extreme now is just a derivative of what Slayer.

Unless it is really extreme like Japans Vomit Lunches which is the musical equivalent of Ren and Stimpy and fuck all to do with metal

Hell Awaits, on the other hand, is quite grand... and the tracks on "Decade of Aggression" that are my favorites are from this record.

See, at the time I was discovering Slayer, I was discovering Napalm Death, Extreme Noise Terror, early Godflesh, etc.. and, well, I think the latter groups just made me hover in noisy ecstasy, whereas Slayer just sounded like a boring kegger party in comparison.

When I grow up I'm going to make an even more viscious and nasty album and call it
"There is No God to Hate Us All"

reign in blood is fucking amazing.

AAAAAAAAAAAA ANGEL OF DEATH

If nothing else, paved the way for a major label to release Fuck You.

I still love the fact that this, one of the most extreme metal albums of its time, was released by Def Jam.

That's around the time that the rift between Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons happened, right?

I think that happened after South of Heaven, as I know the cassette version of that album (at least) had a giant Def Jam logo on the inlay card.

"reign in blood is fucking amazing."

i heard it for the first time about 4 years ago but still havent bought any other slayer albums just in case theyre not as good.

Go get South of Heaven today. You won't be disappointed. It's heavy in a different way and absolutely classic.

"I still love the fact that this, one of the most extreme metal albums of its time, was released by Def Jam."

Yes, I was doing a metal-oriented warm-up set at a dance club here in Portland last week. Edidemic/Reign in Blood was the last song of my set. The dance Dj who was on after me stared at the Def Jam logo for a second, trying to compute the label with the music. It was really funny.

I ended up playing a Ministry track for him as a segue so he had a beat to mix into.

i'm really surprised when people supposedly don't "get" this record. to me it's one of the most concise recordings ever - conceived as a statement of relentless, unbridled aggression and executed impeccably. absolutely fucking mindblowing, bookended by two pieces that each fall short of the 5-minute mark but seem like monstrous epics. too many good riffs to count. so fully and well developed it's uncanny. astonishing that this was released in 1986.

siegbran otm about this:

But I would say that the songwriting, the riffs and the production are the main reasons why Reign In Blood is so good, not necessarily the evilness/aggression. Of course that wasn't lacking in any sense, but contemporaries like Dark Angel, Kreator, Exodus, Destruction, Sodom, Bathory, Death, Possessed, Morbid Angel etc were more aggressive, faster or more vicious, and most of them were better instrumentalists as well. The great thing about Slayer was that they always wrote well structured, memorably and catchy songs rather than blind exercises in extremity.

i think the "better instrumentalists" claim might be a difficult one to substantiate, however.

Yeah really. Maybe if you listed Morbid Angel, you could say those guys are better instrumentalists...

everything about it is perfect. i mean it's definitely not the most evil thing ever recorded, even definitely not in the 80s. it's just so straightforward about the evilness and at the same time hides these gems in the writing and the details. the details make it all work. but the instrumentalism isn't right up front. and then the fucking VOXXX are like kind of naked-sounding? i'm just trying to say i love it. love south of heaven too.

why don't we have more slayer threads?

doesn't anyone like show no mercy?
tormentor is a sick track
so is die by the sword

this cd spends a lot of time in my deck.

i do not understand people who prefer "seasons in the abyss" or "south of heaven" to this

doesn't anyone like show no mercy?

Show No Mercy and Haunting the Chapel are right up there with Reign, as far as I'm concerned. I remain very attached to those two releases after (gasp) 26 years.

I love South of Heaven so much. I'm not prepared to make a case for it over Reign in Blood but it's such a fucking great album. The title, the vibe, the moment when he gets to the punchline in that title track...it slays.

^

I love Slayer and listening to "Angel of Death" on a walkman from a rich friend who'd just come back from the States was a defining moment in my life.

i bought the vinyl versions of Show and hell awaits

also the new slayer rules

This Sunday, June 6, heavy metal fans from around the world will unite to celebrate the fourth International Day of Slayer (IDoS), and demand the official recognition of June 6 as a public holiday. Those who observe the holiday are encouraged to stage "Slay-outs:" "Listen to Slayer at full blast in your car, in your home, at your place of employment, and in any public place you prefer." Headphones are considered an offense to the movement.

When this crusade first launched four years ago on 06/06/06, it was in response to the American "National Day of Prayer," which is held on the first Thursday of May. Gaining momentum every year, the IDoS Board last year petitioned the White House for official recognition of the holiday, citing that "heavy metal music is the central belief of a culture that exists among us, and Slayer is the perfect spokesperson."

During a recent interview with AOL's NoiseCreep, Slayer's Kerry King said about the IDoS, "I think it's awesome, and it's totally cool that fans have taken the time to maintain it. Slayer should have a national holiday - there are enough stupid holidays out there, so why not have one for us?"

To lend support to the International Day of Slayer, log onto http://www.nationaldayofslayer.org/

kinda doesn't make as much sense as it did in '06

I'd love to know exactly which holidays Kerry King considers stupid.

Easter

I bet King would not be so anti-holiday if he had a regular 9-5 job. I cant imagine any holiday being stupid, as long as I get the day off.

oh man did you guys look at the national day of slayer url? dig the experts section lolz

They should've sent that request to Japan back in 06, PM Koizumi was a known hessian.

http://i.imgur.com/oEkw9Ep.jpg

hear he got in an accident thinking it'd help rearrange the letters back the right way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZcW_T_ZFj8

Their metal is powerful and good.

haven't listened yet, but looking forward to this Dave Lombardo interview:
http://www.thetrapset.net/past-episodes/

^^^ Lombardo interview is great for the record. He seems like a pretty humble, quiet guy and the stories about the early days of the band are cool.

Anyway, I've been listening to RiB and

A) Can't be loud enough
B) I can listen to the stretch from Reborn to Raining Blood over and over and over.

always felt like this is really a thrash opus in three movements

movement 1: Angel through Jesus Saves. other than the few moments for the smoke to clear after Angel, the songs pretty much rat-tat-tat-tat into each other. they all have a similar modus operandi as well, it's like one big knockout punch, and then...

movement 2: Criminally Insane through Epidemic. dialed back on the intensity (relatively speaking), these are songs that stand out more on their own rather than as part of a collective. tempos are slightly slower, easing you into a false sense of security, things are calming down, then....

movement 3: the megaton payload, Postmortem and Raining Blood.

more fun when I listen to it this way. this is one where shuffle would fuck things up.

There's a radio station run out of GA Tech, WREK, and they've had a metal show going since the late 80's, pretty much responsible for luring me from glam and AOR into the depths of death and black metal. One of the long time DJ's there has said that -- more than once -- they've gotten calls from jails and prisons that go something like

'this is a collect call from (insert name of jail or prison here), will you accept the charges from--

'PLAY SOME SLAAAAAAYYYYERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR'

(click)

My gateway into metal (and music in general, lol). When I was like 11 my aunt took me to some record store and gave me a 20, and said "whatever you get, just don't get an album by that SLAYER band! I heard they're nazi satanics!" I came out with Reign in Blood.

These days though it's not my favorite ever. I always saw it as their punk album (no, not Undisputed Attitude). Somehow urban atmosphere, and morbidity for its own sake (which got an almost proto-juggalo vibe by Seasons and Divine Intervention--dude, serial killers and stuff are, like, awesome!).

The horror movie schlock before RiB is cheesy too but Slayer had an interesting way of mythologizing human atrocity, tying the ugliness of our world into something greater and more abstract.

That's the "depth" of Hell Awaits/Haunting the Chapel. More Apollonian and less Dionysian--minimizing the human element/raaaar-aggression/"band" feeling, and emphasizing atmosphere, architecture, cryptic weirdness (future echoes of Incantation et al echo all through it). Tom's voice sounded like it was rotting in that era.

and Show No Mercy is probably the most obviously metal metal album ever. It actually sounds more outrageous than RiB to my ears these days.

well, in retrospect this was inevitable

lol

I genuinely can't see how it could have come as a surprise to anyone.

This?

http://www.avclub.com/article/slayer-wants-all-you-snowflakes-respect-president--249050

Hillary voters apparently
http://reverbpress.com/tag/kerry-king-of-slayer-is-voting-for-hillary-clinton/

Xpost yep.
The more offensive part was the horrible Pence joke.
This was Araya not King

Completely agree, Blonde Redheads. The Trump photoshop was silly. The homophobic bullshit isn't.
Interestingly, it's King, not Araya, who's long had a reputation for being a bigot

was gonna say, Kerry is the guy I woulda figured woulda said this...Tom always seemed like the more reasoned elder statesman.

tho tbf they all always seemed pretty dumb

isn't araya the one who's a born-again christian? one can't particularly have too high expectations of such heretics.

i p much don't trust any bands or artists that "flirt with" or are "fascinated by" nazi/facist imagery blah blah blah barfffffffffff

every time something like this happens, I think to myself "you were right, teenage DJP"

the Nazi imagery was mostly a Hanneman thing, Araya seemed more like a man moved by fatherhood and being a family man, which is why I was surprised it was him, since Kerry's always had the "closet John Rocker" reputation. I suspect Araya didn't necessarily vote Trump but is one of those people who thinks (wrongly) that we should all "move on". being a dude whose favorite band has been Slayer since high school and has two Slayer tatts on his right shoulder, this is naturally saddening as fuck but then again, I always knew the band were dum-dums (except maybe Lombardo, who of course they fired).

actually I think stuff like this is a problem among metal bands and fans as well. metal, unlike punk, tends to attract dumb conservatives and hateful idiots even though there are plenty of enlightened folks too, the assholes stand out. there were three assholes shouting "Trump! Trump!" at the Napalm Death show a few months ago until we all told them to fuck off and Barney basically told them they were idiots.

but in case I'm unclear, yes, fuck Araya for tweeting that nonsense.

metal, unlike punk, tends to attract dumb conservatives and hateful idiots

uh

yeah that was clumsy of me, w/ punk's skinhead element and all. what I meant was that you will find a greater number of people with liberal, activist values in the punk scene than the metal scene, but neither is free of the bad elements

still clumsy, try again

go fuck yourself

closer

i've never heard even one RABM record that wasn't shit. on the other hand there are plenty of good crust punk records.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkiQS1_VpjY

Can't find if it was posted before, but this guy made a piano player roll of Slayer's "Reign in Blood" and then hooked it up to a figuring so that it does these wild movements in concert with the roll. Interesting.
https://www.jonathanschipper.com/raining-blood

Nobody mentioned it above but Haunting The Chapel is simply amazing, my second favorite Slayer to Reign In Blood.

It and the Queensryche debut are neck and neck for my favorite EPs of all time, actually. It's kinda impossible for me to choose which is better.

isn't araya the one who's a born-again christian? one can't particularly have too high expectations of such heretics.

― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Thursday, 26 January 2017 13:25 (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Wait, really??

I believe he's just a practicing Catholic.

Haunting The Chapel is simply amazing

It really is! It's a huge leap from SNM in terms of playing and songwriting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc2FkLV9vkc

thought the thread bump was gonna be for this madness

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYNCWy0Rt6w/?igsh=bTZkMjgya2ZieDk0