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| Ranking the Slayer albums worth discussing
Basic af but I love Slayer and while banging out finals I did a discog redive. Here are my opinions. | | 7 |  | Slayer
Reign in Blood
Reign in Blood is a classic, but you already knew that. It's the gold standard of heavy music, and like all gold standards, it's more fun to listen to than to talk about, and has been voided from this list. | | 6 |  | Slayer
God Hates Us All
This album came out on 9/11. A Slayer album titled God Hates Us All came out on 9/11. I'm a zoomer and that blew me away! Perhaps this is where irony choked to death on its own vomit...
If it weren't for this single irony, and Disciple, GHUA would be off this list for sucking hot ass. | | 5 |  | Slayer
Show No Mercy
Ah youth! Slayer's early days reek of urgency and naivety, if only because their later work stinks of image refinement. Show No Mercy is sincerely evil, and Slayer defined themselves by this standard. The deflated shock of Christ Illusion and God Hates Us All could only have come from a band who once were, well and truly, antichrists. Rabid and unrelenting, Show No Mercy is a tight debut outshone by the granduer of its forebears. | | 4 |  | Slayer
Seasons in the Abyss
My first Slayer album, which is perhaps why it has aged rather poorly in my eyes. Don't get me wrong, it still rules. War Ensemble, Hallowed Point, and the t/t are fundamental Slayer bangers. The issues arise with increasing reliance on repetitive ideas. Where SoH was sinister and subtle, Seasons is in your face and loaded with immediate riffs. This immediacy was unfortunately achieved by simplifying Slayer songs into three templates: fast songs, midtempo songs, and centerpiece songs. By the time you've made your way through Dead Skin Mask you've heard every derivation of these ideas that will appear on the album. Skeletons of Society and Expendable Youth are the same song, as are Born of Fire and Hallowed Point, as are Spirit Black and Blood Red. Hell, Slayer even ape tropes from previous albums. Dead Skin Mask begs to be a centerpiece where South of Heaven commanded, and ultimately falls flat on its face with the child speaking at the end. | | 3 |  | Slayer
Live Undead
/Haunting the Chapel.
The best version of many of Show No Mercy's greatest hits can be found on here. The live production effortlessly enhances songs like Die By the Sword, The Antichrist, Black Magic, and Show No Mercy, fully realizing their potential with a chunkier guitar tone and better vocals. Tagging Haunting the Chapel to the end just seals the deal. | | 2 |  | Slayer
Hell Awaits
I'm not a bad enough dude for Hell Awaits. I know who listens to Reign of Blood, basement-dwelling thrasher nerds like myself. And I know who listens to Show No Mercy, the kind of dork who still goes out with his pinhead bracelet without shame. But I have no idea who listens to Hell Awaits. This album is fucking fast. It's sloppy as hell. Reign in Blood is technically heavier, but Hell Awaits has an inescapable evil charm. If I get into a road-rage spat on the highway, I'll fuck with a man blasting Raining Blood. I'll run like hell from a man playing Kill Again or At Dawn They Sleep. | | 1 |  | Slayer
South of Heaven
This album spanks. The t/t is a tour de force of sinister riffs and excellent songwriting. Live Undead creeps and crawls all over you, Ghosts of War is both fully realized and rifftastic, and Spill the Blood bookends the entire experience by recalling the atmosphere of the t/t while remaining in spirit with the rest of the album. Ask me my favorite Slayer album ten days straight, nine of those days I'll say it's SoH. The tenth day I'll listen to the album in full without skipping Behind the Crooked Cross and Dissident Aggressor. Holy shit both of these songs are terrible. Behind the Crooked Cross feels as if Slayer took their songwriting templates and attempted to fill it with Metallica riffs, without any of Metallica's musicality or dynamics. Dissident Aggressor is less egregious, but Tom Araya has never been Rob Halford. I have simply removed both songs from the album, and ta-da! South of Heaven is suddenly the best 31 minutes Slayer ever penned. | |
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05.11.23 | Sick list | Koris
05.11.23 | I was about to have a heart attack seeing Reign in Blood at the bottom, until I actually read the description. lol | mryrtmrnfoxxxy
05.12.23 | great list | ReturnToRock
05.12.23 | 'If it weren't for this single irony, and Disciple...'
...and Bloodline.
Also, I will never forget seeing South of Heaven on the CD section of a large chain supermarket sometime in the mid-90s, as I was just getting into rock and metal, and not picking it up. UGGGGHHH I SHOULD HAVE BROUGHT IT HOME!!!
Also also, Reign In Blood is possibly the most overrated album in the History of metal music. | Brock619
06.07.23 | I used to really like Christ Illusion back in high school. Reign In Blood and South of Heaven are god tier. |
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