The best part is Tom Arya is a hard Catholic. I've played with several guys from deeply religious backgrounds and we've been told we can do the meanest lyrics
WE GOT HER!!! SHE LIKES SLAYER!! More reactions, PLEASE: "Skeletons Of Society" "Seasons In The Abyss" Actually anything from the albums Reign in Blood, South of Heaven and Seasons in the Abyss. Brad ain't diggin' Slayer I don't think.
Want to take this moment to thank Jeff Hanneman for being an awesome songwriter and riff creator and lastly inspiring me to pick up a guitar ! RIP Jeff Hanneman
South of Heaven is definitely the album the uninitiated should start with. It's heavy without being brutally fast for most of it. I personally LOVE Reign in Blood, but for a beginner it's going to make them run screaming for their lives. Been a Slayer fan since I first heard them back in 1985. The things that always appealed to me about them is their rawness compared to the others in the 'Big 4'. Aggressive. Raw. Fast. Damn good lyric writing if you can make it past a few songs that are meant to mainly shock people. They touch on a lot of topics that people generally don't like to talk about. They'll be missed in their retirement.
*YES!!! FINALLY!! You guys are the 1st reactors I've seen to get the meaning of this song. Others check it out and automatically go to this dark place thinking it's about devil worship, glorifying hell and all this ridiculous crap. Earth is South of Heaven and it's about all the evil things ppl do to each other right here.*
This is one of my all time favourite songs and everytime I hear that riff I get goose bumps. Also in loving Slayer Lex's journey to the dark side is complete she is a metalhead now til death.
You two nailed it: THIS world is South of Heaven. Art imitating life & all that. This Slayer tune is a metal masterpiece, to be sure: the slow, haunting intro...the tempo pickup laying the underlying riff groundwork...moving into the speedmetal portions. That sustain you're referring to at the end is easier with older, tube-based amps...but it leads right into the next song on the album, Silent Scream, no break between them. Masterpiece, as I said.
My all time favorite of The Big 4. Die Hard Slayer fan here. I have been banging my head to Slayer since I was a toddler. My oldest sister and our cousin influenced my musical taste early with The Big 4 and Slayer as always hit me in the soul. I've always been a resident South of Heaven and love when it is Reining Blood
In a single word, this song is a masterpiece! I used the song as my ringtone for several years, and have never found another one that quite lives up to it!
"It doesn't have to be fast to, like, make you spaz" That has got to be the best assessment/description of metal and music in general I have ever heard...
The whole “South of Heaven” album kicks ass! Please do a reaction to “Behind the Crooked Cross”, “Mandatory Suicide”, or “Dissident Aggressor” which is a Judas Priest cover.
In high school I played trumpet and my best friend played saxophone...and we loved Slayer. We BEGGED our band director to come up with a marching band version of "South of Heaven" because we thought that opening riff would have sounded amazing being blasted out by a full horn section and woodwind section with full percussion.
I KNEW Lex was going to Love Slayer! Great reaction. Lex: Looking like she's ready to jump into a mosh pit! Brad: Looking like he ate a bad burrito. ;) "Where is South of Heaven?" -Umm, Hell?!
Saw them when they came to Idaho In 2018 . It was a outdoor venue and it was the best concert I had seen in a long time . The moon was full and the opening song was South of Heaven . That first chord struck out as the moonlight and the red lights from the stage came together in a amazing vibe. It was a fantastic show . The crowd was amazing and just a feeling of being one altogether . I miss those days before Covid . Lamb of God, Anthrax and Testament played that night prior to Slayer ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
by far my fav. slayer album. maybe because i was just 18 when it came out and just getting into metal but everytime i hear this album it takes me back to those days when i was young and just blown away by the music
When i sing this at work the line bastard sons begat ....the look on their faces is priceless...cheers from a 59 yr old old school metalhead kansas city
Wasn't that Clash of the Titans? Saw that with AIC, Anthrax, Megadeth, and Slayer -mm maybe at the Collusium in L.A., been so long can't recall. AIC got booed off, that was kinda fugged up.
South of Heaven followed Reign In Blood. I remember buying SoH and expecting RIB II. I was SOOO wrong. I was floored when the album openend with a slow song. SoH is nothing like RIB, but its just as bad ass. Its Slayers most atmospheric album. The album artwork paints a perfect picture of the album.
You both are gems. "IDK but I hope they never do it again." I was cryin'! And Lil Miss Muffet tryin' to slam the gas and get this mfer going again, I love you both. More please.
Made my day!!! Wish you heard it through to the next song! Lex would've totally spazzed! Their transitions between songs! This is the one I mentioned long ago that you should do a 2 song reaction into the next song, Silent Scream. The lyrics are pretty brutal but brutal truth! I won't mention the topic but I hope you consider that song too because the instrumentation is beyond any brutality that you have heard in thrash metal yet
I'll NEVER forget seeing Slayer at Heavy Montreal. All weekend, in the middle of the crowd, they had a row of guard rails so the camera people and other staff could walk through the crowd. Bands like Anthrax, Alice Cooper, Twisted Sister, no issue. Slayer comes on, the crowd suddenly errupts, the guard rails collapse, I remember seeing this lone camera guy in terror as the crowd engulfs the guard rails and body surfs them out as a wall of mosh begins. It looks like a Vikings scene taking out that poor camera man lol
Thanks for the reaction. One of the things I really like about Slayer is there ability to do a slow grind heavy even tho they're mostly considered thrash. I like thrash but a slow grind is what really reaches into my sound soul. Brad, I saw your head moving... and as always Lex's infectious smile and beauty is mesmerizing. Keep going heavy and progressive, you'll not be disappointed.
Might as well react to the bookends to "Repentless" as well "You Against You" being the first video of the music trilogy and "Pride in Prejudice" the last video of the trilogy.
Decade of Aggression (live album) has the best version of the song IMO. Tom turns the spoken word eventually into shouting which sends shivers through my spine: Dying in terror! blood's cheap! IT'S EVERYWHERE!!!
Slayer is all about horror stories. The point is to create a movie in the mind, unique to each listener, but always a horror movie. Slayer has pretty much mastered this.
That sound at the end is feedback on guitars. Similar in concept to microphone feedback, but different in that the sound from the speaker actually vibrates the strings (the pickups on electric guitars is what translates vibration into sound). This causes them to ring out in their root note, or a harmonic of it. Because it can be influenced and sound cool at times, it's no wonder musicians use it at times.
Thankyou for your reaction👊🏽⚡️That effect at the end of the song is called feedback. It happens when you put an electric guitar or microphone to close to a speaker. It can be controlled by moving closer or further from the speaker..
About time! looking forward to this one. Seen Slayer in 1988 in Newport Centre, South Wales on the South of Heaven tour. Hope you enjoyed it! Edit: Well at least Lex enjoyed it and I think Brad may have found the lyrics interesting.
this song leveled the landscape, thrash was king, Reign in Blood obliterated the scene and then they unleashed this slow grind of a monster... it was mind blowing at the time, most bands were racing to be fast fast faster (and I was cool with that) ....Slayer decided to up the game, now, I am no music archeologist, just relaying what it was like when this was released... ditto Chemical Warfare, Angel of Death, Reign in Blood, and War Ensemble... at least that is my memory... still levels me to think of how old this is... damn I'm old.. lol - great reaction guys
As always Lex and Brad you did a great reaction as always lacks you're the freaking Metalhead and glad you're trying to get it I understand again it takes more than just fortitude but you'll get there brother you'll get there
Slayer has many great songs! My suggestion would be seasons in the abyss, disciple and if you want to bring the house down, Dittohead, which is my favorite Slayer song of all times. Keep it up! 🤘🏽
Several years ago, I got to meet Kerry King at my job at Oakley. He wore Oakley's at the time. I got invited to lunch with him and his wife and some marketing people. Super nice guy. What really got me, dudes in suits and ties would walk up and just fanboy over him. I think people outside of metal don't know how big they were/are.
When I was 16, finally being able to go and see Slayer was formative. It. was a massive show in Atlanta. My best friend and I, a metal guitarist, had to ride in the back of a pick up truck to fit in the ride. We blasted Slayer the entire way. At the gates of the show, there were Christian protesters handing out Bibles and pleading with people to not go to this concert, and that we would be going to hell. Slayer themselves welcome this kind of thing Before they set up, they waited for it to get dark, and fastened a big spotlight that was simply a cross over Atlanta and let it drift back and forth. When it got dark, a bunch of smoke poured onto the stage and the spotlight in the sky quit moving. You hear the guitar intro for South of Heaven play, and Kerry King walked out of the smoke playing. The cross in the sky slowly turned upside down. When the rest of the band chimes in, they cut on all the lights and just ....Slayed. It was the wildest shit I've ever seen live. 2006 the unholy alliance tour. I was already a Slayer fan, and that show was like our Detroit Rock City story. There were so many obstacles, so much objection from our families and friends, but in the end we got to see Slayer with the original members. And it was classic. All about a random person would literally just yell out "FUCKIN SLAYERRRRRR" and any body who heard that, from any location away, would roar with approval. Not liking slayer is fine. They are often extreme. But, I don't know a metal head who can comprehensively diss this band to another metal fan. It's almost non-existent. It just doesn't work out, like hardly ever.
Lex, you are the shiz…the lyrics are what describe humans and they all are what the choose to be. Love that Lex is straight up 2 days from thrash!! So rad.
You need to listen to "silent scream" its the track after this song on the album, and why there is all the feedback and sustain at the end of this song. It leads right into Silent Scream.
This song was a condemnation of everything thats fkd about humanity. When I was in highschool I had horrible insomnia and the only way I could go to sleep was to put my headphones on put in this tape yes tape, in my Walkman and full blast that shit. So soothing
Scott Ian from Anthrax once said: "If Hell had a soundtrack, it will be Slayer". Always loved that quote.
Scott Ian is the best. Love that guy
If you want to hear the soundtrack to hell look up Requiem for soprano Mezzo- soprano second mixed choir
The best part is Tom Arya is a hard Catholic. I've played with several guys from deeply religious backgrounds and we've been told we can do the meanest lyrics
Steve Weiser said: ''if hell had a music video, it will be this'' - th-cam.com/video/hZLLwldaN4w/w-d-xo.html
He's a pussy, in hell you only hear Mayhem.
WE GOT HER!!!
SHE LIKES SLAYER!!
More reactions, PLEASE:
"Skeletons Of Society"
"Seasons In The Abyss"
Actually anything from the albums Reign in Blood, South of Heaven and Seasons in the Abyss.
Brad ain't diggin' Slayer I don't think.
Agreed Skeletons of society and seasons in abyss are a must
Dead skin mask is another banger they need to do as well
Seasons in the Abyss is a must listen.
ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US!
@@jamesjohnston1935 Behind the Crooked Cross
skeletons of sociiiieeetyy ! u go ahead u guys rock
Want to take this moment to thank Jeff Hanneman for being an awesome songwriter and riff creator and lastly inspiring me to pick up a guitar ! RIP Jeff Hanneman
Yeah
He created the Riffs that Iommi forgot
Brad doesn't like high pitched, screeching guitar solos. He's going to love slayer.
Amen
Lol….
Please don't call it a "solos"
@@AhmedRasool91 please make comments that make sense.
@CH wow, you jumped right to bigotry. Just because his comment was strange doesn't merit an ignorant comment like that.
It's been so funny watching lex's first metal reaction to now she's definitely down deep in the metal hole
There's no coming back.
Non metalheads don't understand how deep metal actually is until they listen to it
It's always nice to welcome another beautiful metal soul.
What was the first?
The drumming is masterful.
I'm amazed Brad hasn't picked up on how sweet the drums are in this song. How could you miss them?
South of Heaven is definitely the album the uninitiated should start with. It's heavy without being brutally fast for most of it. I personally LOVE Reign in Blood, but for a beginner it's going to make them run screaming for their lives.
Been a Slayer fan since I first heard them back in 1985. The things that always appealed to me about them is their rawness compared to the others in the 'Big 4'. Aggressive. Raw. Fast. Damn good lyric writing if you can make it past a few songs that are meant to mainly shock people. They touch on a lot of topics that people generally don't like to talk about. They'll be missed in their retirement.
Like I said before, this a great Slayer song for new ears and even better if they continue to Silent Scream. 🤙
*Show No Mercy* will curl their toenails.
Silent Scream is so fast and brutal...in my top 3.
@@ChicagoTRS And the words are just so soothing to the Spirit and Mind.
Personally I'd say Seasons in the Abyss to work up from here before Silent Scream or Repentless or any other crunchy yet lightning quick songs.
Silent scream or ghost of war is great place to go on from here
By far Slayer's BEST album. The drum fills are INSANE throughout the album and the slow riffs are EVIL!!!!
Dave's kit always sounds badass too!
Agreed! I love them all but this one is special...
*YES!!! FINALLY!! You guys are the 1st reactors I've seen to get the meaning of this song. Others check it out and automatically go to this dark place thinking it's about devil worship, glorifying hell and all this ridiculous crap. Earth is South of Heaven and it's about all the evil things ppl do to each other right here.*
Hmmm I never thought about that! I definitely always thought of south of heaven as hell but that's a great point!
Brads facial expressions when reading these lyrics are priceless.
WOW, great reaction guys. Any doubt if Lex is a true metal head, the smile on her face at (6:50) when the outro starts should answer any questions.
Yeah she's definitely a metalhead and had fun with tasty aggressive riffs
I love how lex is such a metalhead. She's all about it
Shes the only reason I watch. Dude is kind of a tool.
@@jeremyh929 yeah he always looks like he's in pain listening to metal songs and she looks like she's in pure bliss
@@opethdan2408 So true. When I watch these I just put a t-shirt on the left side of the screen just to see Lex only. LOL
@@batman66ism lmao true
This is one of my all time favourite songs and everytime I hear that riff I get goose bumps. Also in loving Slayer Lex's journey to the dark side is complete she is a metalhead now til death.
Great riff!
You two nailed it: THIS world is South of Heaven. Art imitating life & all that. This Slayer tune is a metal masterpiece, to be sure: the slow, haunting intro...the tempo pickup laying the underlying riff groundwork...moving into the speedmetal portions. That sustain you're referring to at the end is easier with older, tube-based amps...but it leads right into the next song on the album, Silent Scream, no break between them. Masterpiece, as I said.
My all time favorite of The Big 4. Die Hard Slayer fan here. I have been banging my head to Slayer since I was a toddler. My oldest sister and our cousin influenced my musical taste early with The Big 4 and Slayer as always hit me in the soul. I've always been a resident South of Heaven and love when it is Reining Blood
Wearing your Dead Skin Mask practicing Black Magic until you Die By the Sword?
@@randyman1331 Yes! 😈
My top two favorite bands of all time are Pantera, and Slayer. Keep head banging fellow metal head.
Slayer has been a staple for me since the mid 80s
There's no such thing as the big 4. There's FUCKING SLAYER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In a single word, this song is a masterpiece! I used the song as my ringtone for several years, and have never found another one that quite lives up to it!
I've used floods pantera solo for so many years. And so many more to come.
Haha mines spirit in black
It's my brother's rigtone
It's still mine!
This is a cool ringtone, but I always liked Dead Kennedys 'Bleed For Me'
I like watching Lex dancing to Slayer. The smile on her face is precious.
"It doesn't have to be fast to, like, make you spaz" That has got to be the best assessment/description of metal and music in general I have ever heard...
Raining Blood/ Angel of Death. Lombardo lays down some of the most iconic drumming ever.
Love it!!! You guys rock!!! Lex is so fun to watch… reminds me of myself, tuning into metal, many years ago…\m/
I had the honor with seeing Slayer in Phoenix during their farewell tour. Absolutely amazing concert.
Can you imagine Lex talking to her friends and getting them to listen to this really good band called SLAYER!
The whole “South of Heaven” album kicks ass! Please do a reaction to “Behind the Crooked Cross”, “Mandatory Suicide”, or “Dissident Aggressor” which is a Judas Priest cover.
I love that Brad checks how much of the song is left.
In high school I played trumpet and my best friend played saxophone...and we loved Slayer. We BEGGED our band director to come up with a marching band version of "South of Heaven" because we thought that opening riff would have sounded amazing being blasted out by a full horn section and woodwind section with full percussion.
I KNEW Lex was going to Love Slayer! Great reaction.
Lex: Looking like she's ready to jump into a mosh pit!
Brad: Looking like he ate a bad burrito. ;)
"Where is South of Heaven?" -Umm, Hell?!
Saw them when they came to Idaho In 2018 . It was a outdoor venue and it was the best concert I had seen in a long time . The moon was full and the opening song was South of Heaven . That first chord struck out as the moonlight and the red lights from the stage came together in a amazing vibe. It was a fantastic show . The crowd was amazing and just a feeling of being one altogether . I miss those days before Covid . Lamb of God, Anthrax and Testament played that night prior to Slayer ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
by far my fav. slayer album. maybe because i was just 18 when it came out and just getting into metal but everytime i hear this album it takes me back to those days when i was young and just blown away by the music
When i sing this at work the line bastard sons begat ....the look on their faces is priceless...cheers from a 59 yr old old school metalhead kansas city
"Does'nt have to be fast to make you spaz" is my new motto lol
It's the greatest ever song in the history of metal.
Kings of atmosphere, they make the spooky joy . saw them in 1989 and in 2018 farewell tour, yum yum yum
Dave Lombardo in Drumms 🥁🥁
Saw them on this tour (Alice In Chains supporting) in Newcastle, England ! RIP Jeff Hanneman
Same. Wish I paid more attention to AIC then - was mainly waiting to hear Megadeth and Slayer
Wasn't that Clash of the Titans? Saw that with AIC, Anthrax, Megadeth, and Slayer -mm maybe at the Collusium in L.A., been so long can't recall. AIC got booed off, that was kinda fugged up.
@@socalpotato It was. No booing for AIC in Minnesota though.
Ok... This drummer is SICK❤️🔥
South of Heaven followed Reign In Blood. I remember buying SoH and expecting RIB II. I was SOOO wrong. I was floored when the album openend with a slow song. SoH is nothing like RIB, but its just as bad ass. Its Slayers most atmospheric album. The album artwork paints a perfect picture of the album.
Slayer is one of my old school favorites. I've seen them live a few times. They're as good live as studio
this dam riff had permanently bin stuck in my head since I first heard it.
Lexyou are awesome I love your energy and your pure love of the metal keep it up !!!!!
You both are gems. "IDK but I hope they never do it again." I was cryin'! And Lil Miss Muffet tryin' to slam the gas and get this mfer going again, I love you both. More please.
Brad you have gone from hearing the music to listening to the poetry. Let your inner psychopath out, Lex did.
Thrash metal was absolutely inspired by Halloween and autumn. It's the greatest time to hear it also.
This is the groove album by Slayer. Lots of great stuff on this one.
Made my day!!! Wish you heard it through to the next song! Lex would've totally spazzed! Their transitions between songs! This is the one I mentioned long ago that you should do a 2 song reaction into the next song, Silent Scream. The lyrics are pretty brutal but brutal truth! I won't mention the topic but I hope you consider that song too because the instrumentation is beyond any brutality that you have heard in thrash metal yet
Takes me back to when I was 16 at the metal clubs in the late 80's .
Love it that you appreciate it 🤘
Yup Lex, Slayer absolutely Rocks! Check out Seasons in the Abyss or Dead Skin Mask. REALLY good tunes Too!
probably great for Brad especially
Have you heard Dark Funeral's cover of Dead Skin Mask? It's pretty good too
@@RastaganTheGreen no I haven’t, I’ll check that out thanks!
I'll NEVER forget seeing Slayer at Heavy Montreal. All weekend, in the middle of the crowd, they had a row of guard rails so the camera people and other staff could walk through the crowd. Bands like Anthrax, Alice Cooper, Twisted Sister, no issue. Slayer comes on, the crowd suddenly errupts, the guard rails collapse, I remember seeing this lone camera guy in terror as the crowd engulfs the guard rails and body surfs them out as a wall of mosh begins. It looks like a Vikings scene taking out that poor camera man lol
Thanks for the reaction. One of the things I really like about Slayer is there ability to do a slow grind heavy even tho they're mostly considered thrash. I like thrash but a slow grind is what really reaches into my sound soul. Brad, I saw your head moving... and as always Lex's infectious smile and beauty is mesmerizing. Keep going heavy and progressive, you'll not be disappointed.
Just Flat out Love you guys!!! Hope you keep giving these reactions!! Always makes me smile and laugh!!
Slayers- Repentless always comes up in the heavier live streams. Hope y'all will check out the video,it's crazy
Might as well react to the bookends to "Repentless" as well "You Against You" being the first video of the music trilogy and "Pride in Prejudice" the last video of the trilogy.
I said it before, slayer lyrics are graphically deep. AT DAWN THEY SLEEP is an old favorite. It’s like a movie written to song form.
Lex + heavy metal = a gorgeous combo!
That ending leads right into song 2 on the album....this vein of slayer is in your wheelhouse... Mandatory suicide next
Mandatory suicide! Song about soldiers, war.
Decade of Aggression (live album) has the best version of the song IMO. Tom turns the spoken word eventually into shouting which sends shivers through my spine: Dying in terror! blood's cheap! IT'S EVERYWHERE!!!
Slayer is all about horror stories. The point is to create a movie in the mind, unique to each listener, but always a horror movie. Slayer has pretty much mastered this.
That sound at the end is feedback on guitars. Similar in concept to microphone feedback, but different in that the sound from the speaker actually vibrates the strings (the pickups on electric guitars is what translates vibration into sound). This causes them to ring out in their root note, or a harmonic of it. Because it can be influenced and sound cool at times, it's no wonder musicians use it at times.
Electric Wizard: feedback masterclass
Thankyou for your reaction👊🏽⚡️That effect at the end of the song is called feedback. It happens when you put an electric guitar or microphone to close to a speaker. It can be controlled by moving closer or further from the speaker..
There is so much fire at a slayer concert! Don't stand close if you don't want singed eyebrows haha!
Guys it Layne Staley’s birthday today. Y’all should react to one of his performances live at the Moore. Preferably ‘It ain’t like that’ !
Good look!!!! Happy Birthday Layne and RIP
lol, I didn't know that! It's my birthday today too!
Wow didnt know this , happy birthday Layne R.I.P. the world still loves you brother 💖
Bleed The Freak
You don't always have to focus on the words. Sometimes you just feel it and rock out. Don't over think it.
"Cunting daughters" is a quick throwback to the head turn scene in The Exorcist hehehe
About time! looking forward to this one. Seen Slayer in 1988 in Newport Centre, South Wales on the South of Heaven tour. Hope you enjoyed it! Edit: Well at least Lex enjoyed it and I think Brad may have found the lyrics interesting.
Love the flare you put on your head banging. Keep rockin
When my family listens to Slayer, the neighbors do too.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
when I listen to Slayer
the dead do too
this song leveled the landscape, thrash was king, Reign in Blood obliterated the scene and then they unleashed this slow grind of a monster... it was mind blowing at the time, most bands were racing to be fast fast faster (and I was cool with that) ....Slayer decided to up the game, now, I am no music archeologist, just relaying what it was like when this was released... ditto Chemical Warfare, Angel of Death, Reign in Blood, and War Ensemble... at least that is my memory... still levels me to think of how old this is... damn I'm old.. lol - great reaction guys
Fact: You can yell "FUCKING SLAYER!!!" at the top of your lungs in almost any crowded environment and get one or more echoed responses.
Yo. You two are funny as hell. I dig your open minds and honesty.
As always Lex and Brad you did a great reaction as always lacks you're the freaking Metalhead and glad you're trying to get it I understand again it takes more than just fortitude but you'll get there brother you'll get there
Yo Lex is a whole vibe fr. And i know my Man's there was feeling that shit 😂 y'all are cool.
Listen to silent screams. Will blow your mind lyrically. And musically and do world painted blood. Will definitely get your juices going. A must!!!!
Yes! Silent screams with the lyrics lol
"What is south of Heaven? Earth?" - No Brad, south of Heaven is HELL!!! [muahahahahahah] \m/ \m/
There's no dancing to Slayer, and no crying in Baseball! Two rules that shalt not be broken, lest ye feel the wrath of Santa.
Slayer has many great songs!
My suggestion would be seasons in the abyss, disciple and if you want to bring the house down, Dittohead, which is my favorite Slayer song of all times.
Keep it up! 🤘🏽
Junior in high school when this dropped. Saw this tour front row on the barrier. Hartford CT. Overkill and Motörhead opened
Slayer bitter peace and stain of mind
the lryics to this song can totally be applied to what we are witnessing now...hail slayer!!!!
Unpopular opinion, but God Hates Us All is their best album.
Several years ago, I got to meet Kerry King at my job at Oakley. He wore Oakley's at the time. I got invited to lunch with him and his wife and some marketing people. Super nice guy. What really got me, dudes in suits and ties would walk up and just fanboy over him. I think people outside of metal don't know how big they were/are.
Aaaahhhh, my favorite band... BEFORE YOU SEE THE LIGHT, YOU MUST DIEEEEE!!! Thanks for sharing.
me and some mates got on their tour bus back in the 80's....happy days
When I was 16, finally being able to go and see Slayer was formative. It. was a massive show in Atlanta. My best friend and I, a metal guitarist, had to ride in the back of a pick up truck to fit in the ride. We blasted Slayer the entire way.
At the gates of the show, there were Christian protesters handing out Bibles and pleading with people to not go to this concert, and that we would be going to hell. Slayer themselves welcome this kind of thing
Before they set up, they waited for it to get dark, and fastened a big spotlight that was simply a cross over Atlanta and let it drift back and forth.
When it got dark, a bunch of smoke poured onto the stage and the spotlight in the sky quit moving. You hear the guitar intro for South of Heaven play, and Kerry King walked out of the smoke playing. The cross in the sky slowly turned upside down.
When the rest of the band chimes in, they cut on all the lights and just ....Slayed.
It was the wildest shit I've ever seen live. 2006 the unholy alliance tour. I was already a Slayer fan, and that show was like our Detroit Rock City story. There were so many obstacles, so much objection from our families and friends, but in the end we got to see Slayer with the original members. And it was classic.
All about a random person would literally just yell out "FUCKIN SLAYERRRRRR" and any body who heard that, from any location away, would roar with approval.
Not liking slayer is fine. They are often extreme. But, I don't know a metal head who can comprehensively diss this band to another metal fan. It's almost non-existent. It just doesn't work out, like hardly ever.
I still have the white cassette with the black label from the 80's! I've seen em twice. Amazing.
Humanity. Nailed it on the head. I’ve always thought that Slayer’s musical purpose was shedding light on the dark side of humanity.
Pretty much
DEAD SKIN MASK - Halloween Banger
Was just going to comment that. Of all the classic eerie sounding Slayer tracks, that one is the pinnacle of creepy Halloween vibes.
This song is my alarm on my phone I wake up to it every morning it gets me ready for the day.
Lex, you are the shiz…the lyrics are what describe humans and they all are what the choose to be. Love that Lex is straight up 2 days from thrash!! So rad.
Need to go into the rabbit hole. Brad you hit it on the mark.
I Love headbanging with Lex! She is awesome! Brad is cool and deep!
It’s feedback from the guitar amplifier!! 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Nothing like seeing a metal head coming to life, welcome Lex
Thankyou for this track the whole album is this good
Slayer has only 2 reactions from listeners - rabid devotion... or cringing antagonism.
Usually. I like Metallica so I like some Slayer some but they ain't quite as melodic as Metallica so that's something. I prefer melodic.
@@jonathanhuggins654 Emperor
@@HardKore5250 is that a Slayer song perchance? I'll have to check it out.
Turrible freaks. Y'all enjoy it.
@@jonathanhuggins654 It’s a band.
You need to listen to "silent scream" its the track after this song on the album, and why there is all the feedback and sustain at the end of this song. It leads right into Silent Scream.
Planned Parenthood favorite song
Please do a reaction for silent scream by Slayer.
"Doesn't have to be fast..." Wait for it.....
I can totally feel song two about to start... such an epic album
This song was a condemnation of everything thats fkd about humanity. When I was in highschool I had horrible insomnia and the only way I could go to sleep was to put my headphones on put in this tape yes tape, in my Walkman and full blast that shit. So soothing
The band has said many times they are just singing about what’s happened and what might happen
A lesson for us all
Great video
This plays over the speakers during your processing into HELL!! SLAYER is the soundtrack for HELL!!
Brad looks constipated when he hears SLAYER...LOL Rock on Brad!
Before you see the light you must diiiiiiiiiiiieeeeee!
Slayer🤘