Re: Best Slayer Record from the Classic Era
11I don't think Live Undead was actually live.
We're headed for social anarchy when people start pissing on bookstores.
Re: Best Slayer Record from the Classic Era
12Yeah, I've heard that too. It's definitely different/later recordings of the Show no mercy songs from the original though. As for aggressive oerfector and Captor of sin, I would need to compare with the originals, I haven't heard this record in a loooong time...
Re: Best Slayer Record from the Classic Era
13That is roughly the equivalent of saying...rsmurphy wrote: Fri Aug 05, 2022 4:29 pm 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.
Buddies ain't exactly setting out to be Brian May.You know... I think that these Buckethead guitar solos sound a bit robotic.
Re: Best Slayer Record from the Classic Era
14Haunting The Chapel
Terminator X really should have pulled the intro to "Chemical Warfare" for "She Watch Channel Zero?!".
When they pull the "Night Prowler" in the middle of the solo break in "Captor Of Sin"? That never gets old.
It also feels like it's the blue print for "La Sexorcisto..." White Zombie.
Terminator X really should have pulled the intro to "Chemical Warfare" for "She Watch Channel Zero?!".
When they pull the "Night Prowler" in the middle of the solo break in "Captor Of Sin"? That never gets old.
It also feels like it's the blue print for "La Sexorcisto..." White Zombie.
Re: Best Slayer Record from the Classic Era
16
Yeah, total fake live album. It’s hilarious to me that they chose to make it sound like a room with 30 people, rather than a bigger crowd.
I was in a metal band when I was 14. When we heard Live Undead we decided to try to make our own live album by making a ruckus, bouncing it off of two jam boxes, and adding it to a practice tape. I wish I still had that stupid recording.
Re: Best Slayer Record from the Classic Era
17There are different aspects of different records that I admire greatly, but Reign in Blood is the one that does the job for me best.
Although thinking about this has me contemplating a related thread...
Although thinking about this has me contemplating a related thread...
at war with bellends
Re: Best Slayer Record from the Classic Era
18It’s Reign on Blood. South and Seasons are still thrilling records…
For me the most important thing about those albums is they could all have been released last week and would still be mind blowing. Completely timeless…
For me the most important thing about those albums is they could all have been released last week and would still be mind blowing. Completely timeless…
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Re: Best Slayer Record from the Classic Era
19South of Heaven for me, maybe the first metal record that I really loved.
2 big reasons it stands above the pack:
1. Absolutely insane drumming from Lombardo (IMO one of the greatest performances ever recorded, manages to bring groove into thrash aggression which is no mean feat).
2. Really eeire, unsettling atmosphere (caused in part by some tempo variation, prime-era Hanneman riffs w/ v. little input from King , Araya's introduction of a calmer, more controlled vocal approach - a sinister detachment to the litany of horrors he's spewing).
It's not perfect ('Cleanse the Soul' is a bit meh and I could leave the Priest cover), but otherwise it's incredibly powerful.
The rest ranked:
2. Hell Awaits (awesome, evil sounding, almost prog-ish songs but gets a bit weaker half way through and is sonically compromised).
3. Reign In Blood (kinda perfect but I never LOVED it, always felt that the opener and closer (which are amazing songs, 2 of the best ever written) outshone the rest of the record by an awkwardly noticable amount).
4. Seasons... (50% brilliant (esp 'Spirit in Black'), 50% mid tempo meh)
5. Haunting... (huge leap forward but still a bit restrained by raw technique)
6. The rest- juvenalia, not without charm or some riffmoments but still way too enthralled to their influences (Venom, Priest, The Fate)
2 big reasons it stands above the pack:
1. Absolutely insane drumming from Lombardo (IMO one of the greatest performances ever recorded, manages to bring groove into thrash aggression which is no mean feat).
2. Really eeire, unsettling atmosphere (caused in part by some tempo variation, prime-era Hanneman riffs w/ v. little input from King , Araya's introduction of a calmer, more controlled vocal approach - a sinister detachment to the litany of horrors he's spewing).
It's not perfect ('Cleanse the Soul' is a bit meh and I could leave the Priest cover), but otherwise it's incredibly powerful.
The rest ranked:
2. Hell Awaits (awesome, evil sounding, almost prog-ish songs but gets a bit weaker half way through and is sonically compromised).
3. Reign In Blood (kinda perfect but I never LOVED it, always felt that the opener and closer (which are amazing songs, 2 of the best ever written) outshone the rest of the record by an awkwardly noticable amount).
4. Seasons... (50% brilliant (esp 'Spirit in Black'), 50% mid tempo meh)
5. Haunting... (huge leap forward but still a bit restrained by raw technique)
6. The rest- juvenalia, not without charm or some riffmoments but still way too enthralled to their influences (Venom, Priest, The Fate)
Re: Best Slayer Record from the Classic Era
20RiB/SoH/SitA are the holy trinity for me. Giving it to Seasons in the Abyss for War Ensemble and its beautiful drumming.