Classical Composer reacts to SLAYER: RAINING BLOOD | The Daily Doug (Episode 695)
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In this #metalmonday edition of #thedailydoug, I'm returning to the music of Slayer with one of their more prominent and famous songs Raining Blood. This was a first time listen for me, and I must admit that I'm much more receptive and practiced at hearing music like this than I was a few years ago. I think that the riff, vocals, percussion, and solos are all top notch...no wonder it's a band and audience favorite all these years later. Enjoy!
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Dave Lombardo is a human metronome. Speed and precision personified.
Have you heard his other band Grip Inc? Their album "Hostage To Heaven" is fkn amazing from start to finish!
One of the best!
Muito fera mesmo, top top top, esse é o Dave um dos melhores se não o melhor (no seu estilo é insuperável).
One of my favorite videos on the internet is of that time Lombardo sat in with Metallica when Lars was sick and played "Battery". It was completely different from any other live performance of that song.
@@TippiGordon it’s just typical Dave. Precise, fast, snappy and all still has feel and a Lombardo groove. He’s just so good. Saw comment on the vid of it I watched that said “that drum kit is gonna think about Dave every time Lars plays it” 😂
Watching Doug get his face melted....awesome.
"Wow......There's some carnage...happening" IDK why I found that so funny. Maybe the way he said it.🤣
He loved every second of it too 🤣
Even better yet is watching him trying to make sense out of a Hanneman solo (RIP). But in all seriousness, its cool to see someone of his caliber appreciate Lombardo. That man doesn't get the respect he deserves as a pioneer in thrash/metal drumming, though it was great to see Tamu Murata of Nemophila name him as one of her favorite metal drummers.
Como dizem por aqui foi "classe A" o react do som dream deceiver/deceiver, do Priest também.Casquei o bico ou Hshshs muito.
@@BulletProofSoul1029 Lombardo doesn't get the recognition he deserves?? Are you freakin serious? He's widely recognized as metal's GOAT
Next song by Slayer... Angel of Death please.
The reading up on the song will blow Doug's mind.
yes please
I agree.
:) Google surely don't mind ;)
Thinking the same thing
Should just do the whole album isn't it like under 30 minutes.
Dave Lombardo is a beast. Still one of the best metal drummers out there.
True. Which is sort-of unfortunate when he joins a band such as Mr Bungle as a side project.
For me, tied with Bonzo, the goat in all genres...
You said correctly, friend. Along with Dana Carey, Mike Mangini and Mike Portnoy.
@@Malfehzan Sort-of unfortunate for you, I suppose, and for everyone else who'd prefer to lock up Lombardo in a "serious hardcore metal only" cage forever.
My bias as a longtime Mr. Bungle fan may be evident, but I believe it's natural for highly skilled musicians to venture forth on different paths to avoid stagnation.
Did you also dislike Lombardo's solo "Rites of Percussion" album this past year? I appreciated being able to hear other forms of his musical expression, though not everyone shared my perspective.
And Ian Paice who is one of his biggest influences
"Somebody's knocking at the door." Damn, I've been listening to this song for ever and never realized that's a perfect description of what's going on. It's just a metaphysical door....and don't open that mf'er. You'll not like what's on the other side.
Extremely impressed by your music theory skills being developed to the point that it wasn't - like it is to so many non-metalheads - just a big wall of noise. Very cool work.
Non metalheads: its just noise
Doug: * music theory gears start turning *
Ngl, I feel like my music theory background rly helped me get into death metal (and the rest of extreme metal), otherwise I'd just be like wtf 😂
Watching Doug becoming metalmerized was priceless.
You should do the complete album. It’s just a bit longer than 27 minutes.
It will be an experience you will never forget.
Jeff Hanneman, ladies and gentlemen. He wrote the best riffs in Slayer's catalog.
Raining Blood managed to do more to define and influence metal, in it's first 60~80 seconds, than most bands can hope for in a lifetime
Jeff, Kerry, and Tom have stated hundreds of times over the years that the overtly "satanic, war, and violent" themes to their lyrics started because they originally just thought it sounded cooler based on how fast and heavy they liked to play. Kerry has stated many times that its show business just like a movie. No one ever accused movie makers of promoting series killers by making slasher films, it's just entertainment and people need to take themselves a bit less seriously in life.
Plenty of people have accused filmmakers of promoting serial killers though? Read up the contemporary reaction to Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer or the Austrian film Angst from 1983. Regarding Henry, despite being considered a horror masterpiece by most film critics, here's an except from a negative review - Sure, it's compelling; the nature of the material guarantees that. But it doesn't seem to be telling us much more than that the world is a scary place and murder is ugly. We knew those things. This is tabloid chic.
The sheer power and energy of their live shows was where it's really at. They sounded far heavier live and as tight as the album recording.
"Avoid even the appearance of evil"...Lucifer doesn't wear a sign saying here I am
@@fzr1000981That could be because he doesn't exist.
@Kawamura2 no question Lucifer exists...obvious to those with spiritual discernment, most are spiritually dead. He already has the latter camp
The riff always reminds me of Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King."
It’s the same rhythm, isn’t it? 😂 I can’t believe I’ve never thought of this!
@@thomashammerheart3915 In the Hall of the Mountain King has a slightly extended last bit of the phrase, Raining Blood skips that.
South of heaven is also inspired by this. 🙂
Try Savatage for that🤷♂️🤘🏻
@@revwillyg6450 Or Blackmore's Rainbow (with Dougie White on vocals)🤓
Raining Doug. This whole albums needs to be done in one go. 😊
Yes. Or at the very least it should be listened to with postmortem first as one song. When I was a kid I had this album on cassette and I literally did not know for sure where postmortem ended and raining blood began until years later when I got the cd.
@@Sd12sx23 Postmortem has an abrupt start as well, so may as well start the trio with Epidemic. They are all great songs although only the start and end of Raining Blood gives me the ASMR effect.
Yeah, I guess you're right, now that I think about it. About the trilogy thing, I mean. The asmr effect is your thing, obviously. Slayer would of been the last thing I would have pegged as doing that for someone, but to each his own.
@@Sd12sx23I had the CD and the track started with the fast part of Postmortem, you know, when he yells "do you wanna die?" . So for a few years I thought this part belonged to "Raining blood"
The cassette was great because this album fit on one side so ud just flip the tape and start again 😊 no rewind necessary 👌
Quite simply some of the finest air drumming ever seen on TH-cam!
Haaaa!!
hahah your pfp just made my day
@@elli-gq6qo haha it's from the Blackadder TV series if you wanted to watch it 👍
Never could get much into Slayer, but man, this song is such a face melter!
Slayer went out on top of their game.
There has never been another band quite like Slayer.
I saw them 4 times live, and despite a hiccup here or there, they were flawless!
So brutal !!!!! 🤘
I miss the band.
R. I. P. Jeff 😔
Not for me - saw them on the RIB tour - never better than that! ❤
And they're back touring again. Just a couple of dates. Hopefully they end up doing more
5:05 Those aren't triplets, they're quadruplets. Each guitar note is individually fingered and picked at that insane pace. And Lombardo's time, with snares on the upbeat, is perfect.
Yeah it's straight 16th notes at like 220 or something.
@@confoundicator247
hurts my arm just listening along to that bit.. can't help myself, even though I play bass (without a pick!)
I think he believed it was it relatively the change of speed/time without realizing it was quadruplets notes in the first place.
You have to hear it together with the first part, 'postmortem'. The two song are actually one.
And it's missing the first 45 seconds of the song
@@smanzoli You mean the first 45 seconds of 'Raining Blood' are missing from this video? Because it's not. I don't know if this is the case for every pressing of the album, but my copy has a mis-edit in the middle of 'Postmortem'', where the song isn't done yet but the disc goes from track 9 to 10 for the last 45 or so seconds of the song. The start of 'Raining Blood' is the rain and the triple tom beats.
Edit: I just checked and it is indeed around the 45 seconds mark that 'Raining Blood' actually starts and everything before is still 'Postmortem'. You can also tell by the track times listed on the back of the CD (or, in the case of vinyl, on the record itself).
Postmortem into Raining Blood is one of the best one-two punches in all of metal
@@ALIENjoy Yes, and to me it's one song, I don't know why people keep reacting to only raining blood, but they are missing a lot.
Maybe he should just listen to the whole album?
"We pause this metal for a rainstorm." 😂😂
Watching your face every time it picked up speed was epic. Love it.
I for one am very glad you waited all this time to do Slayer. By doing bands that weren’t as heavy kind of built you up to it. Got you to truly appreciate metal as a music form first. I can’t imagine that you would have enjoyed Slayer earlier on in your TH-cam career. Great reaction buddy. keep it up.
Dave Lombardo is one of the greatest metal drummers in history. His technique and skills are unmatched. He's a fucking machine.
I'd say he is the BEST metal Drummer and one of the best drummers in modern music history
You'll never guess who covered that song once... Tori Amos! Check out her version too, it's awesome, and her comments on how she interprests the song are hilarious. The band sent her some T-shirts as a sign of appreciation
Look at you, making me Google. >.< Thanks!
Ahhh someone else who enjoys that cover. It is truly haunting. Good suggestion, I was thinking the same thing.
I love her version, it's crazy haunting and creepy.
Yep her version is amazing, maybe even creepier than Slayers.
The only time I see Doug go into full headbang mode is when he's listening to Slayer. Nobody can resist!
I always thought that Postmortem should be included with this song as an amazing prelude that bleeeeeeds into this last song on the album
Angel of Death, from the same album, is arguably the flagship and features one of the most iconic metal licks (in the mid section) of all time. It's a great gift to anyone who loves this genre. It's also a historical reference and all the metaphors make sense when you connect the dots to who they are talking about. I would LOVE to see your reaction to this one.
I concur.
Way back in the day some of the guys from Anthrax were talking about Slayer in an interview and described them as "if Hell had a soundtrack" and that's pretty spot on
What I love about this song is how it starts heavy as hell, immediately speeds up and gets heavier, then does it AGAIN then the singing starts...
Third favorite Slayer song after South Of Heaven and the incredibly underrated Blood Red (which has one of the best riffs and drum fills ever in metal!)
As a young starting guitarist this literally forced me to grow in ways that I would have never imagined. Learning to play songs like Black Magic and Raining Blood really forced me to get a lot better a lot quicker. Also their ability to play and solo got better as the years went by. Gemini is probably one of their best songs ever.
Gemini is my favourite Slayer track and I thought I was the only one...
You're not alone... Mine too
Gemini... I Always loved that song.
Paul Bostaph is a killer !!!
I was a teenager in southwest Arkansas in the late 80's in a hardcore Baptist home. Somehow this record made into my hands. Absolutely loved it. I had the poster on the back of my bedroom door so when my parents came in they'd never see it.
Great reaction, Doug! You should listen to the entire album (10 songs: 28 minutes)! A true masterpiece of heavy music and thrash metal...
Record distributor here and perhaps others took advantage of the length very wisely. Both sides of tape was the same. Really good for infinite playing which we did :-)
You're the most intelligent and genuine person I've seen do these types of videos.
Respect, sir
I love Doug's analysis because the guys in Slayer probably couldn't tell you what they were doing. Maybe Dave Lombardo could.
Yeah they were just amazingly talented. They knew their shit naturally. Had no boundaries or restrictions from classic theory. That's why they came up with it.
It's interesting to hear from another prospective, from someone who has all the knowledge.
@@dwb1980 It's all about instinct and can be difficult to articulate why this is like this or that.
@@JoeyArmstrong2800to be fair their solos aren't "good". They work, but it's just random for the most part. Tom Araya certainly has a foundation in understanding music on some level cause his bass lines are always following the key changes. Great band.
Lombardo knows theory, Hannaman may have... King probably not.
I've always thought this was the perfect thrash tune. My favorite Slayer song is Angel of Death, but this song is just perfection.
I gained a deeper appreciation for this track, after hearing Tori Amos' cover on her Strange Little Girl album (with Adrian Belew). It's a track all music lovers should appreciate, but you'll need speakers that can handle the bass at high volume. It should be played at the same volume the Slayer version should be played at... as loud as possible,
When I think of being injured in a mosh pit, I mostly think of Slayer.
If you were a drummer who had almost the chops of Dave Lombardo and almost the composition of Nick Mason....you'd be Lars Ulrich.
Rich the Ancient Metal Beast
I really love your channel because you listen the whole song, and THEN analize, instead of pausing it every time
That was really a sight to see when the song picked it up for a third time at the end. Doug‘s face was priceless! Ya Slayer doesn’t play around in and out. Bam! In your face. Another good one Doug!👍🏻
Dave Lombardo is quite possibly the greatest rock drummer ever!! His drum fills throughout his career are amazing
I totally agree.
Most of the songs on this album are less than three minutes. That's how fast this album is. I had it on cassette and the whole album is on one side and repeated on the other. I saw them only once in concert but it was intense and it did indeed literally rain blood on the stage during this song. It was the last song of the set and the guys were covered in it.
My friend’s dad is the drummer… Dave Lombardo… His son Jeremy is a really great guy. I worked with Jeremy at Guitar Center, in Hollywood.
I’ve ADORED that song since 1986 and never knew the meaning of the lyrics. Thanks a million for explaining them!
Now you know why Dave is considered metal drumming's GOAT. And he got way better with time, too.
And they forced him out of the band and reportedly paid him peanuts compared to the other 3.
Man, 1986 was such an awesome year! Personally, I am not into Slayer, but I can only imagine being a metal head in a year when this, Master of Puppets and so many other legendary albums came out
Peace Sells... too
I was there in 1986 and it was a glorious time. This album and others like it transformed me into a metal head and the love of that music stays with me even today.
peace sells, reign in blood, master of puppets, pleasure to kill, darkness descends, game over, eternal devastation, 1986 was amazing
Themes like what this song portray speak to elements of inner turmoil.
Listening to music like this has made me feel more present in feelings of anxiety, depression, isolation, loss, and fear. I don't feel the need to shy away from those feelings like I used to before heavy muaic entered my life.
After this kind of music, you are powerful, each time it's heard, revived, renewed, re-energised. The saying "I screamed into the abyss and the abyss stared back" So you unzip and pizz into the abyss with a cry of "What you f**king looking at?"
26 min of pure perfection, Rick Rubin really tighten the songs up.
Brilliant record, been listening since it came out in -86
Doug's first blastbeat ❤
That was awesome Doug! I saw Slayer back in the early 2000’s when they played Reign In Blood in it’s entirety. And the show ended with this song. At the end of the song, they actually had fake blood raining down on the band. It was pretty amazing! Slayer were always one of the most intense bands in concert. And extremely loud!
Fall Yager Tour in 2004! Seen them 5X on that run,
Doug, a man of your musical educated backround giving metal and hardcore music a platform to be disected is delightful. We owe you a debt of gratitude. Thank you.
I loved your interpretation of the lyrics, never thought of it that way.
Know this song now for 39 years and I am still impressed by the drums and guitars, it's a masterpiece.
You are right, the drums at the beginning sound as someone knocking at a door !
I have never thought of this, amazing.
They started the whole vicious speed metal thing. It wasn't real sophisticated, but it was fierce and tight as hell. They set the stage for all the death metal stuff we have today. For better or worse.
They did not start it. They are masters and the epitome of early speed connected with brutality, but my friend, Kill em All was released 3 years earlier.
@@dusiolek6 Metallica was great and pioneers of the style but they never came close to Slayer in speed and ferocity.
Much respect to a classical composer who listens to a gut wrenching metal song and gives a great but fair critique. I like that you liked it and actually researched quotes from the band members about why they wrote it and dissected the lyrics based on that to give your own interpretation
I wasn't gonna comment but I'm watching towards the end of the video and you come and think about things that we're proud of but that other people are not and it kind of blew me away like I respect you so much more as a person now just from hearing you say that
hey, I'm a punk drummer from uh the middle east. Thanks for this reaction! Lombardo is a legend and this double time beat is our rudimentary drum beat since the early 80s, and the way he does it in this song is what's considered 'not cheating' in my mind, meaning playing all 8th notes on the cymbal and still keeping it so furious and 'leaning forward' giving the feeling of a chase instead of just laying it flat on the beat.
I think it would be cool to see your reactions to some Punk classics, it's a genre often overlooked by classic-heads but I think it can be a cool side quest. I recommend the Dead Kennedys' "Holiday in Cambodia" and Zero Boys "New Generation".
There are only a few songs in history that really make me stop and say "WOAH WHAT IS THIS!?" This is one of them.
My God, I haven't heard this since about 1990 and still remember every beat!
One of my favorite albums in high school. Grooves hard for a metal album. Thanks Doug.
When did the drunk bloke yelling, SLAYER!, first start? I remember playing a gig round ‘87/‘88 and someone yelling that. I thought it was hilarious. 😂🤣😂🤣
Someone had to break the monotony of the other drunk guy yelling, FREE BIRD!!!
Watch out Doug ! This is the deep end of the pool man!
Hey Doug im from Chile, i love your channel and helps me a lot in pandemics time. I just want your "hello"...you rock man.
Man I learned so much about listening and music theory and recording and performance in like the first 5 minutes of this. This is awesome education man!
I would love you hear your take on Arch Enemy, one of my favorite Melodic Death Metal bands. I really loved their former lead singer Angela Gossow, but their current singer Alissa White-Gluz is great as well. The Slayer concert I went to was probably the loudest and hardest concerts I've been to, it was great!
Yes please to Arch Enemy, but it's GOTTA be with Angela Gossow, the true heart of Arch Enemy. I would suggest "Ravenous", that song is one of their best and it gets no love from reaction channels unfortunately. Wages Of Sin and Doomsday Machine are their best albums imo, my personal favorite song is "First Deadly Sin" off of Wages Of Sin.
Brutal and beautiful!
As a Metalhead and lifelong Slayer fan, it's so refreshing to see someone coming into this kind of music who absolutely "gets it". Cheers Doug! Love your videos. 🤘
It's such a powerful song and a true classic among the thrash metal scene, aswell as intense and short (too). And your reaction and musical and lyrical analyze is great.
Dave Lombardo is the greatest metal drummer ever
Greatest drummer. Full stop.
@@ejs7738 theirs technicall stuff Stewart Copeland and Neil peart can do with their drumsticks alone that Lombardo couldn’t touch
Post Mortem is the track before Raining Blood and is also the first half of the song. Raining Blood is only the second half. I highly recommend you do them both together for an episode. You will not regret it. The metal community will not mind hearing the second half again whatsoever.
I was never much into metal or thrash but my friends and I discovered this in college (late 80s) and we all really loved it.
As a fan of metal it makes me happy to finally see heavy metal being appreciated by people like you and charismatic voice. People giving it it's proper due, and it not being seen as just noise.
Dave Lombardo is a drum god.
I had made a comment on another video literally saying he won't like this kind of metal, specifically siting this song. Lots of double-kick!
This should be entertaining.
Love how much you dig this, thank you for taking the time to
Now just imagine being early teenage years when absorbing all this great metal... that's why we're metal for life 🤘
There were points in this where I saw a real metalhead lol, just taken in by the face meltery. Awesome song, really makes you want to jut your jaw like a caveman and stomp about to the beat.
Classic composer headbanging alert! Love it at 6:15 \m/
You know what? I've been listening to this tune since '87 and still getting goosebumps all over me..
Unbelievable!
I can't believe it took all those years until Doug finally entered the ultimate rabbit hole.
It'd be really cool if you did Japanese Metal band Maximum The Hormone. They have also done Songs for the Anime Death Note, so you can hit the Anime stuff again. some amazing songs from them are Hungry Pride, What's Up People, Bu-ikikaesu, Koino Mega Lover, Bikini Sports Ponchin, ect. They love juxtaposition in there compositions, going from brutally heavy to upbeat pop sounds, and mix tons of genres. they are are called "The japanese System of a Down" sometimes.
+1 on Maximum the Hormone!❤
I second this motion. MTH has been one of my favorite bands for the last 20 years.
Body Count’s cover of this song is frighteningly good🤘
Body Count were unfairly discounted as a "novelty act" (legit black rapper does metal) and then took ridiculous heat over "Cop Killer" which was a very genuine and effective protest song.
@@laneadamson5686 💯 agree. That song and There Goes The Neighbourhood are absolute bangers.
Late to the Doug party, but loving the obvious respect shown to these thrash pioneers! You, sir, just earned a subscriber (and a share to my pal Sam, cause she’s a big Slayer fan! 🤘🤘😺)
A late WELCOME BACK, from me. I missed you're accourate & fun making anylisises the last month!
If you want to be truly terrified, try Tori Amos's cover of this.
i’ve always thought the off beat drumming was fascinating in this song. When I was in orchestra, my instructor taught me what off beats were and this was the first song that I noticed it being applied
Always love your lyrical analysis
The end in the vinyl version othis song is a neverending loop. It continues to rain forever
This is likely to be interesting, but I don’t think he will really appreciate it.
I’m wondering how he would find the band I recently saw and heard perform on the MTV VMA awards, The Warning, they were absolutely amazing, the audience who had never heard of them were absolutely blown away by them!
Boring pop music is blowing people away??
Thanks for sharing, I'm digging their music
Surprisingly he seems to like it very much
@@keithakid have you heard any of their performances? They most definitely don’t come under the banner of Pop; any band who gets asked to tour Europe with Muse would hardly be likely to be a Pop band!
@@raiden3295 Yeah I was a bit surprised by that, his dislike of double kick drum threw me 🙄
I'm surprised that the same bands are going in circles, as if there are no other interesting ones: Sepultura, Accept, Sodom, Anthrax, Megadeth, Blind Guardian, Korzus, Dominia... I don't remember if there was Motorhead, Deftones. I'm sure everyone will have something to add here from their favorites. I have no objections to Slayer, but what about the others?
I mean ha had to do raining blood
I saw Slayer live back in 85 with Dark Angel at the Kabuki in Los Angeles when Hell Awaits came out. No one could fire up a crowd like them.
Need to watch a live version of this. Bonkers!
Not sure why, because I love all your videos man, but this one just seems different man it hits me different. Seeing you experience such an extreme from a different world and worth an open mind.
They had a tour called the, "Still Reigning Tour" when they played the entire Reign in Blood album, front to back, and they had a setup that actually rained blood down onto the stage, onto the band members, at the end of the song. Amazing.
Great reaction...I still remember picking up this cassette back in 1986 listening to it driving to work. It will always be the best thrash metal album of all time.😊
Same for me except I was a 14 yr old Aussie discovered Metallica, slayer, Napalm Death etc all in the same year, glorious.
Reign in blood for me is still the greatest thrash album as well. I mow my lawns to it every time I mow, perfect for me 😂
@@undinism69 I totally understand I was also a very young 19 year old back then and I certainly liked all those bands too. But somehow Slayer stole my heart and to this day i still listen to them once in a while when I get the chance.👍
Love your perspective of the lyrical content.
Love the musica backgound you gave to this music, and glad to know that you REALLY are a headbanger!
There are so many great thrash metal songs, but only a few master pieces can still give goose bumps after three decades.
Excellent Doug! We want more!
This is one of the best Slayer reactions I’ve seen. He looks truly astonished.
That song and album are really extreme. There's an immense guitar and drums work. I've been loving it since its release!
Very excited to hear your reaction to this. This is gonna be a good one I think.
I loved slayer when I was in my teens back in the late 80’s and 90’s. I was lucky to grow up when the best music was being made. Still love em
I was fortunate enough to see the first live performance of this album at Moore Theater in Seattle on Halloween night, 1986. Overkill opened.
Split my brain in half!