posted on: October 19, 2020
In Pictures: The Slayer fans of Download Festival, The stories behind 20 of Slayer’s biggest songs, 13 Kickass Horror Soundtracks To Amplify Your Halloween, Watch: Foo Fighters Go Acoustic For Save Our Stages Fundraising Set. Dave Lombardo, who had been replaced by drummers Jon Dette and Paul Bostaph – not once, but twice in the 90s – quit for good in 2013. Faster, angrier and far more evil than even their most esteemed contemporaries, the Huntington Park quartet might’ve been influenced by the NWOBHM and hardcore punk scenes that had been running riot at the start of the 1980s, but they didn’t take long in blazing a new trail that would change everything. Slayer is an American heavy metal band from Huntington Park, California. / My words defy / Evil! Slayer ripped through its 10 tracks in just 29 minutes, combining breakneck speed with ruthless control. Writing about the exploits of infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, Jeff Hanneman details a catalogue of unwavering experimental cruelty with an unwavering stare (‘Pumped with fluid, inside your brain / Pressure in your skull begins pushing through your eyes / Burning flesh, drips away / Test of heat burns your skin, your mind starts to boil’) while Tom attempts to channel the fear and anguish of the “patients” held at Auschwitz. Yet even their staunchest doubters couldn’t deny that enduring serrated edge and sense of danger at live shows stoked by a manic, almost cult-like fanbase. Sick and tired of Thriller? They ought to pull back while still on top! Thrash Metal (Heavy Metal) band from Huntington Park, California (USA). Having languished somewhat, through the ’90s, with the solid but unremarkable likes of 1994’s Divine Intervention, 1996’s Undisputed Attitude and 1998’s Diabolicus In Musica, 2001’s God Hates Us All saw Slayer arrive in the new millennium with zero nuance and all guns blazing for a truly diabolical mid-career masterpiece.
The playing was world class, the songs were stunning, the production balanced technology with the brute force of their live performance. It sure as hell didn’t hold back. Your email address will not be published. Clocking in at under 29 minutes, Reign In Blood is an unstoppable speed metal masterclass that set the standard for every thrash album to follow through its sheer force of momentum. Artists I've Seen Live (from collection). In compiling a Top 20, there’s always the temptation to list 1986’s seminal third LP Reign In Blood in full, with a few choice cuts from the pairs of classic albums on either side, but that would be a disservice to the true 38-year reign that saw Slayer continue to push boundaries and bust taboos, ensuring that arena-worthy metal could never become boring – or stray in too far from the fringes. interview to coincide with the release of South Of Heaven, Jeff Hanneman would reveal that two of his brothers were drafted to serve in the Vietnam War: the United States’ great mid-20th century military folly that left almost 60,000 young men dead and a further 300,000 wounded. Opening with 100 seconds of pedal-to-the-metal attack – punctuated by Tom Arya’s spine-shuddering scream – before it breaks out the buffet of hellish riffage and squalling solos, this was the boundary-line where extreme metal connected with the masses. While the Araya/King/Holt/Bostaph line-up is a unit of tremendous power and skill, in January 2018 Slayer announced that they would part ways after one final world tour, leaving a truly unique catalogue behind them. A year later, Jeff Hanneman – who had been replaced as a touring guitarist by Gary Holt of Exodus in 2010, after a spider bite led him to contract necrotising fasciitis – died of liver failure after years of alcohol abuse. Although tracks like New Faith and Bloodline deserve credit, it’s second track Disciple that sticks most prominently in the memory. Expectations for Slayer’s 11th LP were high after the rabble-rousing return to form that was 2006’s Christ Illusion. Metallica may have been much bigger, Anthrax a lot more fun and Megadeth way, way angrier, but of the famed Big Four of thrash metal, Slayer were the coolest – because they were the most evil.
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