I miss Jeff, his absence really shows on "Slayer"s final album. I'm interested in the side projects he had going and what he could've done after Slayer. I never saw them without Jeff. His Riffs are STILL REIGNING!
@@RobertoFlores-ir3vk Dave Mustaine wrote a lot of the riffs for Metallica’s first album “The Four Horseman” is an altered version of Mustaine’s song “Mechanix”
I got to see Slayer about 7-8 times between 1996 and 2011. Most notable were Ozzfest 1996, one of the few years to see Jon Dette drumming for them (he KILLED). 1998 before Diabolus came out in Tempe AZ. They debuted Death's Head for the first time which was sub par... but the rest of the setlist was godlike. Only tracks from the first 5 albums. 2 encores and one of the only times you could see Sex. Murder. Art. off of DI live. This show also featured a then unknown System of a Down who were the opening band that no one knew and played to like 75 people max. Then there was New Years Evil 1998 with Black Sabbath, Pantera, Slayer, Megadeth and Soulfly on New Years Eve. Bank One Ballpark Phoenix, AZ. Finally, the last time I saw Slayer was at the Big 4 in Indio, CA. The final performance of Mr. Jeff Hanneman I got to see live along with Metallica, Megadeth and Anthrax. My metal concert heyday was from 1994 to about 2012. I miss those years. I get to a show every once in awhile now but, my glory years are done lol. Lots of good times over 300+ concerts for sure
@@AbyssalSkum-gd5lyyeah what’s your ranking for each of their first 5 albums. I’d go: 1. Master Of Puppets 2. Reign In Blood 3. Ride The Lightning 4. …And Justice For All 5. Hell Awaits 6. South Of Heaven 7. Seasons In The Abyss 8. Kill em All 9. The Black Album 10. Show No Mercy
The winner of this riff battle, undoubtedly is US, the fans. Every riff is golden. I grew up listening to Kill ‘em All daily, to this day it’s still my favorite Metallica album. And for some reason the last month I’ve listened to Show No Mercy at least 3 times a week. So this video was a real treat.
Kill em All is just so gritty and raw a masterpiece in thrash. I remember being in the mosh pits during Slayer shows and when "Show No Mercy" songs came on, I would get completely destroyed with bruises. Best. Time. Ever. I'm literally re-living my youth listening to this mashup. Thank you!!
My top riffs from these two albums: 1. The Four Hourseman 2. Black Magic 3. Dy by the Sword 4. No Remorse 5. Crionics For me, Slayer definitely wins, but Metallica's debut is just mind-blowing.
Difficult one , can't even say that Slayer has the more aggressive riffs. Metallica's riffs are probably more better known. Killer video again, keep up the good work!!
I am gonna go with SNM - Show No Mercy. Four Horsemen and No Remorse have great riffs but the riffs across SNM sound far more evil, and Black Magic is just legendary!
It's hard to compare them, both are essentials in any collection, these are pure legends, but for me it's Show No Mercy. It was definitely the birth of the Slayer sound.
These both hit so hard yet different! Back when only you and your group of friends knew what this was. Moshing at lunch and they thought you were fighting. Ahh the 80’s
New to your channel.. Began playing in 2013.. 2014 had an accident, and lost my left pinky finger (fretting hand) and gv it up. January of this year picked up a Jackson Dinky, and been at it since. Definitely been a challenge. The initial learning stages on top of fighting the results of the injury. Goin hard though!! Frustrating AF at times, but your videos have helped keep me motivated. Keep it heavy 🤘🏼
@@terrencemichaelcruz1801 dude check out Django Reinhardt, I'm sure he will give huge inspiration to you. Losing a finger can't stop you. I'm sure you'll crush it
@@irakliiremashvili5190 I have actually.. He lost the use of his Pinky and Ring finger... That's 10 times the challenge I have. Much respect to the master! Thank you for the motivation. I'll never put that guitar down again. I boxed 19 years with dislocated shoulders lol... I can do this.. Thank you have a good day
It's funny how Slayer is now known as the Open E note band, when you compare these riffs and see how much more complicated the Slayer riffs were compared to Metallica having just open E chugging and power chords.
It’s funny just how many people hate on slayers guitar playing (especially Kerry) but I bet most of them would struggle to nail the stuff properly and do it for 1.5 hours straight whilst headbanging the entire time
@@Donald18838only because they went from metal to radio rock thus gaining more music fans. Among metalheads Slayer is more respected and revered and that's what matters
This was a long time ago when metal was good and not a bunch of trash with no rhythm and guitar players trying to over complicate every riff with a solo. Sometimes the most simple riff is the best one!!!!!!!!!!
Metallica had those catchy riffs down off the bat. I fucking love Show No Mercy for being such a relentless and brutal debut, but Kill Em All is just a party of a record.
Both are great albums I've listened to thousands of times each but for me it's hands down slayer show no mercy over kill em all.slayer is more speed while metallica is more crunch.that album anyway.love both but slayer more.oh and the drum track in the background of the video helps out a ton also.
Great video! Back in the day, I would have said "Kill 'Em All", but nowadays I like "Show No Mercy" just as much, if not more.... have to call this a draw. Not a weak song on either album! 🤘🎶🎸🥁🙏
Brilliantly played Bro!! Maybe not Metallica's best song structures but easily their best riffs. And this was my fav Slayer record - essentially a more raw BM Iron Maiden - complete with their take on corpsepaint!
Hard to pick one over the other as big of a die hard Slayer fan than I am. Both were influential monumental pieces of Metal music on the Metal genre. Respect to both. Hornz and Hailz. 🤘🤘
These are my favorite records from both bands. There's a gritty charm to these old tunes that neither band was ever able to fully recapture, which I suppose it what makes a debut album a debut album. Looking at each album as a cohesive whole and not just concentrating on the guitar parts, I think: "Show No Mercy" wins when it comes to production - it still sounds great going on 40 years later, which is just incredible... In terms of the songwriting and the arrangements, I think I'd have to give that to Slayer as well - those breakdown sections are brilliant and you really get the feel of the dual guitars with those screechy alternating leads and the songs are just overall more complex and layered and better thought out, more intricate, more complex... Looking at it from a musical standpoint is much harder because while Hanneman and King were much faster than Hetfield and Lombardo was infinitely superior to Ulrich on drums, those Mustaine riffs were magical and Burton was a one of a kind bass player, and Mustaine's hooks combined with Burton's brilliant basslines really made "Kill 'Em All" one for the ages (and yes, I realize it was Hammett playing on the record, but Mustaine wrote or co-wrote all of the very best riffs on there and Hammett's leads are garbage compared to Mustaine's original lead parts - go listen to early live recordings. The audio quality mignt be terrible, but you can still tell that Mustaine's solos were how those songs were SUPPOSED to sound, it's just that Hammett couldn't keep up with him and so he decided to change it up and play that lightning fast blues instead of Mustaine's scripted and sculpted lead parts.) In fact, most of Hammett's lead work was recorded in one take, hence why they're mostly terrible and chock full of off-key mistakes. I think "Show No Mercy" is the more mature, more accomplished record. It's got this amazing sense of direction, and there's no dip in quality from one track to the next whereas with "Kill 'Em All" there's just this chasm of difference from one song to the next: "Hit the Lights" was this amateurish, sort of tongue-in-cheek type song that they probably should have retired before going into the studio. "Motorbreath" and "Whiplash" are both classics, but some parts come off sounding like a garage band with those willy chromatics. There's also this bright, upbeat, major key kind of vibe to some of those tracks which takes away from the power. "Phantom Lord" is just this A-D-E progression, "Metal Militia" is just this silly pseudo-blues ditty... "Show No Mercy" is much darker, and the songs sound a lot heavier and more atmospheric. I've heard that Hammett never recorded a single note of rhythm guitar on any Metallica album prior to the Black Album and that Hetfield handled all rhythm guitar duties himself in the studio all the way up to the nineties, and that makes a lot of sense because Metallica songs were never really arranged to exploit the dual guitar sound. They never bothered with that except on power ballads and Hammett was essentially just a lead player who barely even did anything in terms of rhythm when they played live. Slayer on the other hand was always a two guitar band with both guys actively engaged in this friendly and good-natured one-upmanship and it led to some really killer guitar stuff. There are always two guitar parts to a Slayer song and when there aren't they're doubling the riff for a reason or one is taking a solo. Those complementary guitar parts give Slayers songs power and mood that Metallica has never been able to compete with. Bottom line is that while there's a ton of great stuff on "Kill 'Em All", it's not as good a record as "Show No Mercy." Even the aesthetic stuff like the album cover of "Show No Mercy" is much better and the lyrics may be variations on a theme and not really varied at all, but at least they don't come off as being ridiculous the way some of the lyrics on "Kill 'Em All" do. If Mustaine had been on that record instead of Hammett it might have been a different story - and the same goes for the drumming. Re-recording "Kill 'Em All" with a competent drummer would really bring those songs to life. Imagine Slayer covering "Kill 'Em All" on the Clash of the Titans tour and Metallica covering "Show No Mercy." Who would do a better job? First of all, hetfield can't even lead, so there's that. They're both terrific albums and they played a major role in the history of the genre, but Slayer wins this one, hands down, no contest.
You could say that the two albums of EVERYTHING are known today as the most extreme and brutal metal!!! I've stuck the whole video headbanging🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Among the Living Vs Taking Over, a battle of riffs with the East Coast Thrash bands would be great, especially considering that both of the bands' best albums came out in '87.
I would go with Spreading or Persistence as best with Anthrax and Feel the Fire or Horrorscope with Over Kill. Don't get me wrong, I love Among and TO.... but... I just don't think they are the best with these bands. Over Kill is my favorite band of all time tho. I've seen them live about 13 times, met them about 3 times, saw them on the Mega Cruise and got to hang w/ Blitz for a few mins there. THRASH TIL DEATH!
Glorious video for some glorious riffs The goofiness of Show No Mercy actually adds to the album, which just wouldn't work with any other band. The riffs are incredible, and Tom's vocals are top notch on the album.
Show No Mercy?! Goofy?! Absolutely not. If Venom made Show No Mercy, that would be their thrash masterpiece. It's not goofy when it's the early 80s and theatrics were a big thing with underground extreme metal bands.
@@_PuppetMaster86 It definitely has a goofy vibe to me. The bad cover art, the lyrics, lots of it. It doesn't have the intense seriousness that Slayer was known for in subsequent releases, in my opinion, which ironically is the part that became boring for me about the band. I love Show No Mercy, Hell Awaits, Reign in Blood, South Of Heaven and to a lesser extent Seasons In The Abyss. They felt stale to me after that, personally. Yes I agree their leaning heavily into theatrics was great, but goofy in my opinion. If we can call hair metal bands goofy for their theatrics but not thrash and death metal bands for theirs, says a lot. Show No Mercy has some of the best riffs and vocals Slayer ever produced.
@@CalebHimself I think everyone is misunderstanding what I'm saying. I really love the album, but it doesn't have the same level of seriousness their next few albums had. Though it being different had appeal for me anyway
Cool t-shirt! Two fucking awesome band, cant say which band riffs are better, maybe metallica overall but slayer has season in the abyss and raining blood. Good job, i like your videos.
großartiges video. es zeigt mir auch, warum mir persönlich slayer immer noch näher stand als metallica, die ich aber auch hoch schätze. es ist vieles einerseits harmonisch etwas melancholischer (crionics hat diese wehmut, die jump in the fire überhaupt nicht hat) und gleichzeitig ist show no mercy einfach viel brutaler noch. 3 songs haben es mir immer angetan auf kill em all: phantom lord, der anfang von metal militia, aber auch motorbreath. bei slayer wurde immer unterschätzt: crionics und metalstorm/face the slayer. black magic ist für mich im brutal metal segment der beste song aller zeiten. zur produktion: hier klingt alles sehr fett und natürlich schon sehr lässig. dennoch: die für heutige ohren eigenartige produktion (die übrigens auch manowars into glory ride so geil macht) von show no mercy macht diese so speziell, sicher ist der gesang etwas zu hallig und zu laut und die drums führen ihr eigenes regiment, aber die gitarre ist so gigantisch, ätzend brutal. nicht auszudenken, show no mercy hätte eine moderne produktion. selbst wenn show no mercy wie die großartig klingende repentless klingen würde, wäre dieser brutalo-charme weg. wieso klingt show no mercy so abgrundtief böse... ist das subjektive empfindung? der relativ dünne kill em all sound ist übrigens großartig, auch rochkistorisch betrachtet. weil auch hier die gitarre im vordergrund steht. wieso ist diese brutalität in den riffs bei neueren produktionen so weg, obwohl sie exakt gleiches mit der gleichen technik spielen wie damals?
I’m sorry but… show no mercy takes the win in my opinion…. Like I’m a HUGE Metallica fan, but. Slayer just has a thrashier first album. Not that I’m not a slayer fan… I’d say Metallica and slayer are my favorite bands, sharing a first place, with perhaps Metallica having a little bit of a sweet spot because they’re the first band that actually got me into metal… but. Yknow.
R.I.P. Cliff Burton !
R.I.P. Jeff Hanneman !
R.I.P Metallica XD
I miss Jeff, his absence really shows on "Slayer"s final album. I'm interested in the side projects he had going and what he could've done after Slayer. I never saw them without Jeff. His Riffs are STILL REIGNING!
Geniale Riffs für die Ewigkeit
Why Slayer split ??? 🥲
Jeff forever 💪
i was going to type the same. i didnt go out for a week after hannemans death :((
More of a Slayer fan than a Metallica fan but credit where credit is due, those earliest Metallica riffs and albums were just golden.
A lot of those very early Metallica riffs came from the NWOBHM, so influential it was on them back then
Many of the early riffs were from Dave Mustaine
@@ironmainiac1783 Nope
@@RobertoFlores-ir3vk Dave Mustaine wrote a lot of the riffs for Metallica’s first album “The Four Horseman” is an altered version of Mustaine’s song “Mechanix”
@@ironmainiac1783 Dave mustaine helped write less than half the songs on the album and even then not fully. James wrote most of that album
The Iron Maiden/Judas Priest/Mercyful Fate influence was STRONG.
and venom 😂
And diamond head
And Deftones
@@vegetable_shredder9306 😆??
@@vegetable_shredder9306 and imagine dragons
Crionics is such a killer song, that whole Slayer debut is full of awesome riffs! But there are only winners in this video
Definitely an overlooked masterpiece.
For real that ending to Crionics is like nothing else. My favorite Slayer song for sure, wish I could have seen it live.
Your so right...Crionics is effing brilliant..Maiden on speed...superbly done by them..
@@CalebHimself I guess I’m the only nirvana slayer fan
Show No Mercy has always been one of my top 3 Slayer albums. Such great material
RIB always first but I feel that way too, killer debut
I about blew a gasket when Slayer played Black Magic at a fair-well tour concert that I was blessed to have gone to in 2018.
I saw Slayer with the original lineup. Twice in Cardiff, Wales. 2006 and 2008. Awesome time
I got to see Slayer about 7-8 times between 1996 and 2011. Most notable were Ozzfest 1996, one of the few years to see Jon Dette drumming for them (he KILLED). 1998 before Diabolus came out in Tempe AZ. They debuted Death's Head for the first time which was sub par... but the rest of the setlist was godlike. Only tracks from the first 5 albums. 2 encores and one of the only times you could see Sex. Murder. Art. off of DI live. This show also featured a then unknown System of a Down who were the opening band that no one knew and played to like 75 people max. Then there was New Years Evil 1998 with Black Sabbath, Pantera, Slayer, Megadeth and Soulfly on New Years Eve. Bank One Ballpark Phoenix, AZ. Finally, the last time I saw Slayer was at the Big 4 in Indio, CA. The final performance of Mr. Jeff Hanneman I got to see live along with Metallica, Megadeth and Anthrax.
My metal concert heyday was from 1994 to about 2012. I miss those years. I get to a show every once in awhile now but, my glory years are done lol. Lots of good times over 300+ concerts for sure
Ride the lightning vs hell awaits 🤘🤘🤘🤘
No contest. RTL wins.
@@AbyssalSkum-gd5lyyeah what’s your ranking for each of their first 5 albums. I’d go:
1. Master Of Puppets
2. Reign In Blood
3. Ride The Lightning
4. …And Justice For All
5. Hell Awaits
6. South Of Heaven
7. Seasons In The Abyss
8. Kill em All
9. The Black Album
10. Show No Mercy
The winner of this riff battle, undoubtedly is US, the fans. Every riff is golden. I grew up listening to Kill ‘em All daily, to this day it’s still my favorite Metallica album. And for some reason the last month I’ve listened to Show No Mercy at least 3 times a week. So this video was a real treat.
The Hanneman shirt is perfect
The Antichrist, Crionics, and Evil Has No Boundaries are such groovy tracks. Love Slayer so much
some new agers claim thrash metal is dead. well, there may be fewer bands today, but these riffs are proof that it is immortal..
Kill em All is just so gritty and raw a masterpiece in thrash. I remember being in the mosh pits during Slayer shows and when "Show No Mercy" songs came on, I would get completely destroyed with bruises. Best. Time. Ever. I'm literally re-living my youth listening to this mashup. Thank you!!
My top riffs from these two albums:
1. The Four Hourseman
2. Black Magic
3. Dy by the Sword
4. No Remorse
5. Crionics
For me, Slayer definitely wins, but Metallica's debut is just mind-blowing.
No the antichrist?
Dave Mustaine from Megadeth came up with that riff
I loved how you went just a lil bit against the songs structure to squeeze in all those sweet riffs in No Remorse, truly a remarkable song.
Difficult one , can't even say that Slayer has the more aggressive riffs. Metallica's riffs are probably more better known. Killer video again, keep up the good work!!
Epic time in metal history, that's for sure. Bravo!
That Anesthesia bonus, excellent! Good battle, hard to say which one is better.
That's so impressive how these two bands delivered such a bunch of absolutely awesome riffs !
I am gonna go with SNM - Show No Mercy. Four Horsemen and No Remorse have great riffs but the riffs across SNM sound far more evil, and Black Magic is just legendary!
KEA was faster
@@truthhurts79 Technically, Show No Mercy was faster in speed by a few.
@@_PuppetMaster86 nah... Slayer really didn't pick it up ultra fast until reign in blood
Slayer was faster.
@@truthhurts79Hell Awaits and Haunting the Chapel were pretty fast
Both classic albums in there own right. Ride V Hell awaits next please ?
I got chills when Black Magic was played. 🤘🏾
Yeah
Crionics is a nice sounding riff 🤘
Slayer's best track IMO.
LOVE'EM BOTH!!! Massive albums from two SUPERMASSIVE bands!!!!!! Well executed, Suffo!!!!!!!!! 🤘👿🤘
The respect to Cliff brings a tear to my eye
1. Slayer
2. Mustaine
3. Slayer
4. Slayer
5. Slayer
6. Slayer
7. Metallica
8. Metallica
9. Metallica
10. Metallica
It's hard to compare them, both are essentials in any collection, these are pure legends, but for me it's Show No Mercy.
It was definitely the birth of the Slayer sound.
It's hard not to compare them you must mean? They're very similar!
@@Aenigmakil
You may be right.Thank you for your reply.
@@saorikudo7317 yes sir! Classic debut albums and the closest these two ever were to sounding similar 🤘🏾
Haunting the Chapel solidified the Slayer sound.
@@ARG0T Thank you for the supplementary explanation.
Slayer wins of course, but Kill 'Em All has very good riffs
Kill Em All is better. Slayer's best release is Haunting the Chapel
@@ARG0Tsubjective
That's all Mustaine
im more of a metallica fan, but damn, slayer riffs are insane!!!!
Love both equally, fantastic debuts, and great video 👍👏🤘
These both hit so hard yet different! Back when only you and your group of friends knew what this was. Moshing at lunch and they thought you were fighting. Ahh the 80’s
show no mercy is my favorite slayer album and top 5 album ever for a reason
SLAYER über alles!
Another killer one brother!!! Awesome tribute to two life-defining records.
Well, that was f*cking awesome. Thank you! 🤘
New to your channel.. Began playing in 2013.. 2014 had an accident, and lost my left pinky finger (fretting hand) and gv it up. January of this year picked up a Jackson Dinky, and been at it since. Definitely been a challenge. The initial learning stages on top of fighting the results of the injury. Goin hard though!! Frustrating AF at times, but your videos have helped keep me motivated. Keep it heavy 🤘🏼
Whish you good luck and stay strong mate !
@@TheSuffocater Gracias... always
@@terrencemichaelcruz1801 dude check out Django Reinhardt, I'm sure he will give huge inspiration to you. Losing a finger can't stop you. I'm sure you'll crush it
@@irakliiremashvili5190 I have actually.. He lost the use of his Pinky and Ring finger... That's 10 times the challenge I have. Much respect to the master! Thank you for the motivation. I'll never put that guitar down again. I boxed 19 years with dislocated shoulders lol... I can do this.. Thank you have a good day
@@terrencemichaelcruz1801 then look at Tony Iommi. Man lost the tips of both his index and middle finger. Never stopped him!
Nice to see Tormentor in a list, awesome vid!
Both albums are absolute classics but I've gotta go with Slayer again! You nailed both!!!!
The old riffs are still killer!!!!
Two of the greatest riff albums ever. 🤘
I listen to both like they were just released yesterday. Just amazing premier albums.
It's funny how Slayer is now known as the Open E note band, when you compare these riffs and see how much more complicated the Slayer riffs were compared to Metallica having just open E chugging and power chords.
People say that but there is alot of riffs by Metallica that aren't open e and power chords even on kill em all.
Metallica was always the most mid tempo and relatively simplest out of the thrash bands
It’s funny just how many people hate on slayers guitar playing (especially Kerry) but I bet most of them would struggle to nail the stuff properly and do it for 1.5 hours straight whilst headbanging the entire time
@@ARG0Tand they became the most popular 💀
@@Donald18838only because they went from metal to radio rock thus gaining more music fans. Among metalheads Slayer is more respected and revered and that's what matters
Early thrash metal as we love it.
Tone fits so well, nice one man
You are a great guitar player!!!! Love all your stuff. These records are part of me. Thank you
This was a long time ago when metal was good and not a bunch of trash with no rhythm and guitar players trying to over complicate every riff with a solo. Sometimes the most simple riff is the best one!!!!!!!!!!
Love the transition from whiplash to black magic.. smooth
1:14 wtf sounds like Megadeth
Killing is my business VS Fistful of metal we need now :D
Both classics, great comparison!! 🤘🏻🔥🎸
All of these are awesome riffs.
OOOO thank you for this masterpiece! Your playing is great!
What a beast of a guitar player. Thanks Suffocater
Metallica had those catchy riffs down off the bat. I fucking love Show No Mercy for being such a relentless and brutal debut, but Kill Em All is just a party of a record.
Both are great albums I've listened to thousands of times each but for me it's hands down slayer show no mercy over kill em all.slayer is more speed while metallica is more crunch.that album anyway.love both but slayer more.oh and the drum track in the background of the video helps out a ton also.
Great video! Back in the day, I would have said "Kill 'Em All", but nowadays I like "Show No Mercy" just as much, if not more.... have to call this a draw. Not a weak song on either album! 🤘🎶🎸🥁🙏
Show no mercy is the purest thrash album of this era!!!
Kill em all! So many iconic riffs🤘
2 killer albums, SLAYER's was the heavier faster, Nice work TheSuffocater! Dude has the best album battles anywhere!
Thanks for doing these! Huge fan of your stuff.
Brilliantly played Bro!! Maybe not Metallica's best song structures but easily their best riffs. And this was my fav Slayer record - essentially a more raw BM Iron Maiden - complete with their take on corpsepaint!
Appreciate the pause for Mr. Burton.
Top vid, love the respect pause for Cliff! 😎😎😎
Black magic 🤘🔥🎸💀⚡LAYER
Nice video, Show No Mercy is my favorite album ever!
Love what you did for Cliff here, Suffocator
I love slayer but kill em all is fantastic !
Kill 'Em All for me, I love Show No Mercy but it honestly has a few songs I don't really care for.
Aaarrrrrghh!! Yesss !
Great Performance ! 👍🎸💥
Hard to pick one over the other as big of a die hard Slayer fan than I am. Both were influential monumental pieces of Metal music on the Metal genre. Respect to both. Hornz and Hailz. 🤘🤘
I choose Show no mercy. There is more catchy hooks anf NWOBHM is strongly there.
Fight Till Death has my favorite intro/chorus riff
This "Text on telegram Mr.Suffocater"-shit is NOT me. These are scammers pretending you won a guitar and just have to pay shipping.
Mad props for both groups 👏
Awesome, classic debut albums of these thrash bands.
Another banger of a video. Awesome job!
These are my favorite records from both bands. There's a gritty charm to these old tunes that neither band was ever able to fully recapture, which I suppose it what makes a debut album a debut album.
Looking at each album as a cohesive whole and not just concentrating on the guitar parts, I think:
"Show No Mercy" wins when it comes to production - it still sounds great going on 40 years later, which is just incredible...
In terms of the songwriting and the arrangements, I think I'd have to give that to Slayer as well - those breakdown sections are brilliant and you really get the feel of the dual guitars with those screechy alternating leads and the songs are just overall more complex and layered and better thought out, more intricate, more complex...
Looking at it from a musical standpoint is much harder because while Hanneman and King were much faster than Hetfield and Lombardo was infinitely superior to Ulrich on drums, those Mustaine riffs were magical and Burton was a one of a kind bass player, and Mustaine's hooks combined with Burton's brilliant basslines really made "Kill 'Em All" one for the ages (and yes, I realize it was Hammett playing on the record, but Mustaine wrote or co-wrote all of the very best riffs on there and Hammett's leads are garbage compared to Mustaine's original lead parts - go listen to early live recordings. The audio quality mignt be terrible, but you can still tell that Mustaine's solos were how those songs were SUPPOSED to sound, it's just that Hammett couldn't keep up with him and so he decided to change it up and play that lightning fast blues instead of Mustaine's scripted and sculpted lead parts.) In fact, most of Hammett's lead work was recorded in one take, hence why they're mostly terrible and chock full of off-key mistakes.
I think "Show No Mercy" is the more mature, more accomplished record. It's got this amazing sense of direction, and there's no dip in quality from one track to the next whereas with "Kill 'Em All" there's just this chasm of difference from one song to the next: "Hit the Lights" was this amateurish, sort of tongue-in-cheek type song that they probably should have retired before going into the studio. "Motorbreath" and "Whiplash" are both classics, but some parts come off sounding like a garage band with those willy chromatics. There's also this bright, upbeat, major key kind of vibe to some of those tracks which takes away from the power. "Phantom Lord" is just this A-D-E progression, "Metal Militia" is just this silly pseudo-blues ditty... "Show No Mercy" is much darker, and the songs sound a lot heavier and more atmospheric.
I've heard that Hammett never recorded a single note of rhythm guitar on any Metallica album prior to the Black Album and that Hetfield handled all rhythm guitar duties himself in the studio all the way up to the nineties, and that makes a lot of sense because Metallica songs were never really arranged to exploit the dual guitar sound. They never bothered with that except on power ballads and Hammett was essentially just a lead player who barely even did anything in terms of rhythm when they played live. Slayer on the other hand was always a two guitar band with both guys actively engaged in this friendly and good-natured one-upmanship and it led to some really killer guitar stuff. There are always two guitar parts to a Slayer song and when there aren't they're doubling the riff for a reason or one is taking a solo. Those complementary guitar parts give Slayers songs power and mood that Metallica has never been able to compete with.
Bottom line is that while there's a ton of great stuff on "Kill 'Em All", it's not as good a record as "Show No Mercy." Even the aesthetic stuff like the album cover of "Show No Mercy" is much better and the lyrics may be variations on a theme and not really varied at all, but at least they don't come off as being ridiculous the way some of the lyrics on "Kill 'Em All" do. If Mustaine had been on that record instead of Hammett it might have been a different story - and the same goes for the drumming. Re-recording "Kill 'Em All" with a competent drummer would really bring those songs to life. Imagine Slayer covering "Kill 'Em All" on the Clash of the Titans tour and Metallica covering "Show No Mercy." Who would do a better job? First of all, hetfield can't even lead, so there's that.
They're both terrific albums and they played a major role in the history of the genre, but Slayer wins this one, hands down, no contest.
Tbf Hetfield wrote most of the riffs and hemmetrs leads were much better
Both albums are truly legendary in there own right and I love both of these albums
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You could say that the two albums of EVERYTHING are known today as the most extreme and brutal metal!!! I've stuck the whole video headbanging🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Slayer.... Period
Dear god I love your videos, keep it up man
Among the Living Vs Taking Over, a battle of riffs with the East Coast Thrash bands would be great, especially considering that both of the bands' best albums came out in '87.
I would go with Spreading or Persistence as best with Anthrax and Feel the Fire or Horrorscope with Over Kill. Don't get me wrong, I love Among and TO.... but... I just don't think they are the best with these bands. Over Kill is my favorite band of all time tho. I've seen them live about 13 times, met them about 3 times, saw them on the Mega Cruise and got to hang w/ Blitz for a few mins there. THRASH TIL DEATH!
YESSSS! Loads of ferocious riffs on both albums!
Bathory - Bathory vs Venom - Welcome To Hell
F*cking awesome! Your tone is amazing -even sounds great on my cheap computer speakers. Must sound HUGE out of a decent system.
Two of my favorite records of all time.
all hail TheSuffocater!!! cheers brother!!!
Metal storm face the slayer is the most underrated slayer song lmao love that track
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Glorious video for some glorious riffs
The goofiness of Show No Mercy actually adds to the album, which just wouldn't work with any other band. The riffs are incredible, and Tom's vocals are top notch on the album.
Show No Mercy?! Goofy?! Absolutely not. If Venom made Show No Mercy, that would be their thrash masterpiece. It's not goofy when it's the early 80s and theatrics were a big thing with underground extreme metal bands.
@@_PuppetMaster86 It definitely has a goofy vibe to me. The bad cover art, the lyrics, lots of it. It doesn't have the intense seriousness that Slayer was known for in subsequent releases, in my opinion, which ironically is the part that became boring for me about the band. I love Show No Mercy, Hell Awaits, Reign in Blood, South Of Heaven and to a lesser extent Seasons In The Abyss. They felt stale to me after that, personally. Yes I agree their leaning heavily into theatrics was great, but goofy in my opinion. If we can call hair metal bands goofy for their theatrics but not thrash and death metal bands for theirs, says a lot.
Show No Mercy has some of the best riffs and vocals Slayer ever produced.
@@joshuaprietophoto The "intense seriousness" is also goofy. 😆All metal is sort of goofy. That doesn't mean it isn't fucking awesome.
Goofy? Lol Show No Mercy is an insane album! How could you listen to Black Magic or Crionics and say it’s goofy lol
@@CalebHimself I think everyone is misunderstanding what I'm saying. I really love the album, but it doesn't have the same level of seriousness their next few albums had. Though it being different had appeal for me anyway
Cool t-shirt! Two fucking awesome band, cant say which band riffs are better, maybe metallica overall but slayer has season in the abyss and raining blood. Good job, i like your videos.
großartiges video. es zeigt mir auch, warum mir persönlich slayer immer noch näher stand als metallica, die ich aber auch hoch schätze. es ist vieles einerseits harmonisch etwas melancholischer (crionics hat diese wehmut, die jump in the fire überhaupt nicht hat) und gleichzeitig ist show no mercy einfach viel brutaler noch. 3 songs haben es mir immer angetan auf kill em all: phantom lord, der anfang von metal militia, aber auch motorbreath. bei slayer wurde immer unterschätzt: crionics und metalstorm/face the slayer. black magic ist für mich im brutal metal segment der beste song aller zeiten. zur produktion: hier klingt alles sehr fett und natürlich schon sehr lässig. dennoch: die für heutige ohren eigenartige produktion (die übrigens auch manowars into glory ride so geil macht) von show no mercy macht diese so speziell, sicher ist der gesang etwas zu hallig und zu laut und die drums führen ihr eigenes regiment, aber die gitarre ist so gigantisch, ätzend brutal. nicht auszudenken, show no mercy hätte eine moderne produktion. selbst wenn show no mercy wie die großartig klingende repentless klingen würde, wäre dieser brutalo-charme weg. wieso klingt show no mercy so abgrundtief böse... ist das subjektive empfindung? der relativ dünne kill em all sound ist übrigens großartig, auch rochkistorisch betrachtet. weil auch hier die gitarre im vordergrund steht. wieso ist diese brutalität in den riffs bei neueren produktionen so weg, obwohl sie exakt gleiches mit der gleichen technik spielen wie damals?
Great Job Kill em all is definitely one the best debut in metal ever, show no mercy is good too black magic is awesome!!!
I had fun!🤘
Whiplash and black magic😎
Amigo, excelente toque, 2 de mis Bandas favoritas, saludos desde Colombia.
SHOW NO MERCY!
Show no Mercy, but I've loved both albums since I first heard them. They introduced me to Trash Metal in 1983.
I’m sorry but… show no mercy takes the win in my opinion…. Like I’m a HUGE Metallica fan, but. Slayer just has a thrashier first album.
Not that I’m not a slayer fan… I’d say Metallica and slayer are my favorite bands, sharing a first place, with perhaps Metallica having a little bit of a sweet spot because they’re the first band that actually got me into metal… but. Yknow.
Both masterpiece debut albums 🤘 I can't decide
Both incredible groundbreaking albums, but for me it has to be Kill 'Em All. Phantom Lord is my all time favourite thrash track.
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