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Best Slayer Record from the Classic Era
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 3:57 pm
by Wood Goblin
By popular demand.
Re: Best Slayer Record from the Classic Era
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 4:04 pm
by penningtron
Very basic RIB vote here. Scratches the itch, no need to complicate.
Re: Best Slayer Record from the Classic Era
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 4:17 pm
by Vibracobra
South.
Re: Best Slayer Record from the Classic Era
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 4:29 pm
by rsmurphy
Reign in Blood. Don't front. Not a fan of the soloing, though. Are those good solos? I've always thought of them as haphazard and tuneless.
Re: Best Slayer Record from the Classic Era
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 4:38 pm
by Krev
South O' Heaven
Re: Best Slayer Record from the Classic Era
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 4:47 pm
by zircona1
It's Reign in Blood for me as well, though SOH and Seasons kick ass as well.
Re: Best Slayer Record from the Classic Era
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 5:28 pm
by losthighway
I think SoH and RiB are a dead tie. I voted SoH only because music journalists seem to always point to Reign and I love an underdog.
Re: Best Slayer Record from the Classic Era
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 6:03 pm
by Pembs
Reign in Blood. The original (not the extended) version. I had it on cassette and still think of it as two sides of five songs each.
Seasons next. Love bits of South of Heaven - the intro to the title track, various riffs, etc - but I love almost every second of Seasons.
Re: Best Slayer Record from the Classic Era
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 6:57 pm
by Dave N.
RIBbed, for my pleasure.
I like Live Undead, as it has the most superior version of “Black Magic”.
Re: Best Slayer Record from the Classic Era
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2022 7:48 pm
by jakethesnake
Hell Awaits though I consider Haunting the chapel the best metal 12" maxi ever, 3 songs is just not enough. Reign... is obviously awesome but I miss the heavier, Sluggish side of the band there nowadays. South... delivered on that but I hate the way the guitars are mixed and Araya toned down his vocals too much. Season... has several genuinely shitty songs (both skeletons of society and Expendable youth are total wiffle thrash and should have been donated to Testament, Overkill or Anthrax, Dead skin mask Always sounded "Slayer lite" to me and Temptation is as filler as it gets) which kills the album for me. Show no mercy is the one I play the Most nowadays but it really sounds like a particularly tight hardcore band playing NWOBHM and is hardly textbook Slayer outside of Black Magic and Die by the Sword.
Oh yeah, Live Undead is cool in that it take the five best/Most THRASHING songs of the debut and deliver them in uniformly superior versions but at the same time, hearing Slayer playing more straight NWOBHM their way is part of the charm of "Show no mercy" so Live Undead doesn't really work as a substitute; it's a bit redundant in spite of the unintentionally hilarious stage banter (They say the pen is mightier than the sword. Well... i say fuck the pen because you can DIE by the sword!!!!)