Christ Illusion - Slayer

Live Undead - Slayer

I picked this album up from a boot fair when I was 14 and actually a fan of the band. It is basically a live concert recording from Slayer recorded after the release of their second album. As such Live Undead features tracks from Haunting The Chapel and Show No Mercy, which are to be honest, not very good examples of Slayer's work and do not actually get any better through being played live either. Considering the age of the album, dating as it does from the mid 80s, the actual live production is very good. Slayer's musicianship is very tight and the production allows this to come through, yet this album simply hasn't stoof the test of time very well. ...

Live Undead - Slayer

I picked this album up from a boot fair when I was 14 and actually a fan of the band. It is basically a live concert recording from Slayer recorded after the release of their second album. As such Live Undead features tracks from Haunting The Chapel and Show No Mercy, which are to be honest, not very good examples of Slayer's work and do not actually get any better through being played live either. Considering the age of the album, dating as it does from the mid 80s, the actual live production is very good. Slayer's musicianship is very tight and the production allows this to come through, yet this album simply hasn't stoof the test of time very well. ...

Hell Awaits - Slayer

This album comes in two flavours. The first is the botched reissue that most people have on CD that puts "Haunting The Chapel" in the middle of the record. This totally destroys the flow; either don't buy that version, or program your CD player so that "Captor of Sin" and "Haunting The Chapel" play at the end (where, being extra tracks, they ought to be). Now, that's better. First up, we've got 50 seconds of scene-setting: "join us", getting louder, followed by "welcome back" (backwards - I've sampled it and checked.) Then about a minute later, Tom Araya speeds through the first eight lines of the song in 20 ...

Hell Awaits - Slayer

This album comes in two flavours. The first is the botched reissue that most people have on CD that puts "Haunting The Chapel" in the middle of the record. This totally destroys the flow; either don't buy that version, or program your CD player so that "Captor of Sin" and "Haunting The Chapel" play at the end (where, being extra tracks, they ought to be). Now, that's better. First up, we've got 50 seconds of scene-setting: "join us", getting louder, followed by "welcome back" (backwards - I've sampled it and checked.) Then about a minute later, Tom Araya speeds through the first eight lines of the song in 20 ...

Hell Awaits - Slayer

The second full-length album from American thrash metal band Slayer must have been something of a shock to the record buying public, even years before the infamous trial over its alleged influence on a couple of young fans, who decided to interpret the lyrics booklet as an instruction manual. Following the insane (and in most cases, merely immature) wickedness of the Norwegian black metal bands in the early 90s, who burned down churches and stabbed each other because the cold made them angry, and then screamed their lungs out about it against an impenetrably distorted musical background of white noise, this thirty-seven-minute heavy metal beast doesn’t seem quite so bad. ...

Hell Awaits - Slayer

The second full-length album from American thrash metal band Slayer must have been something of a shock to the record buying public, even years before the infamous trial over its alleged influence on a couple of young fans, who decided to interpret the lyrics booklet as an instruction manual. Following the insane (and in most cases, merely immature) wickedness of the Norwegian black metal bands in the early 90s, who burned down churches and stabbed each other because the cold made them angry, and then screamed their lungs out about it against an impenetrably distorted musical background of white noise, this thirty-seven-minute heavy metal beast doesn’t seem quite so bad. ...