Man, Dave Lombardo is incredible. I remember when this album came out. I was dating a huge metalhead in high school. He bought this and we spent hours listening to it and dissecting it. Macabre, dark, and so heavy. Just a fantastic track.
Heard this for the first time in 7th grade, I was 13, and had just discovered Slayer via Seasons in the Abyss. It was summer, hot, and life was good back then, in 91.
I didn’t let my mom hear anything I listened to lol. Way back my grandma bought me Twisted sister stay hungry on cassette and looked at the album cover and was like wtf! But she bought it for me anyway… I was for some unknown reason the golden child lol
A few years ago I bought this on vintage vinyl in a charity shop for 50p. Took it home and had it on repeat for weeks. It remains one of the best and one of my favourite metal records of all time.
I'm old, I still call it rap. :-) Buy yeah, he was a great producer. It was a great time for both metal and rap. Both relatively new genres (yes metal is much older, but really it came into its own only in the 80's), yeah it's obvious I'm an 80's kid.
No matter how many bands I have heard or seen. No matter how technically proficient musicians get Slayer just has this attitude and sound that has not been replicated. Not to mention their strong song writing on their earlier albums! God I love this song and riff! Probably inspired generations of metal heads!
This album came out when I was 2. I heard it the first 10 years later. I've never looked back. I went from Slayer to Morbid Angel to Decapitated to In Flames to KALMAH. My current favorite band is CATTLE DECAPITATION...which I suggest you check out GEEBZ. SLAYER is where it all started for me at 12 years old. I am now 35 \m/ rock on GEEBZ
Saw Slayer right b4 the pandemic and Primus was with them. I see Primus play Rush on Friday night which is our 1st show since TOOL on 3/9/2020! So excited!!! Love ya Geebz
My friend Michael introduced me to Slayer in the 8th grade. Ill never forget. Unfortunately he committed suicide after our Sr year. Slayer holds a special place in my heart. Michael was an incredible person. Gone too soon
omg Dave Lombardo ... that man made me pick up drums single-handedly! I love love love the intro and the tempo switch up's so much ... so much power and pushing force for the song.
The way this song builds, instead of just immediately blasting you in the face like a lot of Slayer songs (not that there's anything wrong with that), is what makes it one of their standout tracks in their discography. Classic.
Wow, Geebz, how many times is it going to be where I finish listening to a bands work in my collection and you post a vid on them?! Just got done listening to this and _Reign In Blood!_ It still amazes me how Slayer were able to ram so many titular tracks into a 29 minute album. Kerry King is a beast of a guitar player, and Dave Lombardo stands out as one of the greatest metal drummers of this era. Thanks, Geebz, and keep on rockin'! Awwwright! *Slayer ftw!
@@JaySay yeah, I’ve seen plenty of interviews with Tom and I’m like, can we just invite him to our next cookout? he’s a rad dude. then, I’d see Kerry and be like, but this guys NOT invited. he’s a doucheknocker. lol sorry, I can’t stand Kerry and his ego.
Those drums on the intro, always gave me the image of falling and smacking ledges on the way down, before landing face first against the corroded metal gates of hell! Otherwise, tis' always such a delightful intro...just the way Slayer intended.
Dude! When I first heard this, as I remember, there was a promotion through my local record store. Before SOUTH was released, the record store had a phone number, pre-recorded, that gave you a release date and played segments of the song. I must have called it a dozen times(for $1.99 each) just to hear the end and solo. Wow did I get grounded for calling over ten times, lol. I also called the Seventh Son of a Seventh Son number. Ahh, the fucking 80's.
@Big Homie Steve The Metal Head we had some radio shows back in the day dedicated to our beloved music, but there it was in no way a necessity for a band to cut their song into a short "radio-friendly" track for the common radio listeners with short attention spans. Same time, bands like Slayer had no interest in being placed next to Wham or Rick Astley and would give 666 fucks if they were asked to change their music just to be there. :D oh shit. i was wrong, they did it!!!!!111 th-cam.com/video/drK9RyKmc1A/w-d-xo.html
Your love and knowledge for music really shines through and brings a smile to my face ! Keep up the good work ! I would recomend you did a reaction to The band Death with the track Voices of the Soul. Just amasing stuff.
I remember I heard this for the first time at a friend's house, right after it had been released here in Norway. I still remember the goose bumps from back then.. and they still appear when I listen to this masterpiece.
This album came out before I was born. But my parents loved all types of metal, rock, etc. Slayer always scared me as a kid but I always loved the drums and bass. This song was always my favorite
I first heard Slayer in my sophomore year of high school (about 30 years ago) and over time, this song was put in my personal top 5 metal songs, with #1 being Ghosts of War off this same album. It was a journey that culminated with me FINALLY seeing them 3 Fathers Day's ago. It was the best gift my son and daughter have ever given me.
hell yeah!! consider face melted... Slayer did one of the most awesome live performances I've ever seen when they toured my city with Mastodon about 15 years ago... incredible musicians
When I was a little kid (Born in '77) my brother introduced me to rockmusic. He made me listen to Electric by THE CULT, Appetite for Destruction by Guns 'n Roses but also the first Iron Maiden albums and they all blew me away. A metalhead was born! In school (Back in '88) a dude, who was a few years older than me, gave me a cassette one day which contained the record South of Heaven by SLAYER and I was sold! They became my fav band and they always will be. 🤘
Not just thrash metal, damn near the pinnacle of it. Love your insight. Still lobbying for Death in the comments, I think I’ve heard they heavily inspired Gojira, but I can’t be sure. Anyways, thanks for the vids!
My band opened for Slayer on this tour here in Tucson. First major show we ever played. First time they ever played TUcson, too, so the metalheads were STARVING for Slayerrrrrr!!!
My grandmother bout me this album at a record-store when it came out, my first listen was on my Walkman in the car on the way home. I was thirteen, great memories, and a superb record. Still hoping for your reaction & dissection of, Cynic - Veil Of Maya...
Ive grown to love Slayer more and more over the years, just awesome band. Sae them live now on final tour and they just crushed it. Mosh pits and flames
I’ve been listening to Slayer since childhood. My dad always had metal playing. Thank you for your amazing work! Love hearing your breakdown and take on songs. Slayer for the win!!!
June 14 2004, Agora du Vieux port, Québec city, Québec, Canada. A friend took me to that concert and that's where i was introduced to Slayer. First act was Damageplan, they played a few Pantera song too.
I've heard a lot of reactors mention the same thing you did, about settling into a riff. They were masters at building up. And hey...you can glam about it all you want my man. I been a Slayer fan since '89 and never stopped listening to them . You can ask my kids, they'll tell you the same. I've told them since they were kids, that everybody needs a little Slayer in their lives. I swear, IMO, their music just never gets old.
I was 14 when this album came out. One of my friends bought the cassette. As soon as he got back from the Sam Goodies we all raced to his house to listen to it on his killer stereo system. We played it three times that night only because his parents kicked us out of their house. Classic! 🤘🏼🔥❤️🔥
The day someone reacts to this song and the one coming after, will make me a happy man! Listening to this in the arly 90's on cassette, the two songs were like one, interlinked by that long tune, and only hearing the first song, is as if someone cut One or a similarly epic metallica-song in two halfways...
The first time I heard this song I was on a bus travelling to get the ferry from Ireland to England on the way to Donnington MOR in '88, my mate and I met a bunch of fellow metal heads in a Dublin pub and they happened to have a boom box and this played on our journey. Maiden, Kiss, David Lee Roth, Megadeth, Guns N' Roses and Helloween were the bands on the bill that year, I was 18 and those good memories never leave me. This is probably one of my all time fave metal tracks, that intro is worth the price of admission alone... good times.
Oh its definitely Slayer for the win! Lombardo was an absolute beast, nobody could out play that guy at his best! First time I ever heard this myself and some friends were getting together to jam and this dude busted it out and said check this out gonna blow your fucking mind.And sure enough it did and we spent the week trying to jam it out! Couldnt get his sound my toms were to small as well as my cymbals. Daves sound was incredible it would crush your skull with a headset on! Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
First time I heard this was in an 89 IROQ Z28 camaro doing about 120 down the freeway at 3 AM with the headlights off, stoned and coked out with a couple of buddies when I was about 15 years old. What a memory to dig up these days.
Beautiful review. Sitting here at breakfast with a tear in my eye listening to you describe what this meant to you back in the day, and today. I feel you 100%.
I first heard Slayer in my mid-teens but didn't fully understand/hear them until I started playing drums in my late teens. This song made it possible for me to play Slayer with little experience while still being heavy.
SLayer is a really good band. I get why a lot of people are turned off by their imagery and stuff, but I also get that a lot of people are soft and need to get over themselves... Cheers Geebz!
Slayer, FOR THE WIN! Hearing this reminds me of my ski bum days in the late 80's and early 90's. Lots of Slayer, Pantera, Metallica, Primus, Jane's Addiction, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Melvins... you get the idea.
The first time I heard this was at the back of the school bus after a cross country tour. I was listening to Erasure, S'Express and the Pet Shop Boys up to that point. Imagine the impact on my 12 year old mind!!!!! All the best, Rich in Sweden.
This song and Dead Skin Mask were two of my favorites on this album. Brings me back to middle school when I moved to the South ad started getting into less melodic bands
Great video! love learning about the intricacies of my favourite metal songs, your commentary is so wise and detailed, love the passion you have for music! Sending love from Australia :) looking forward to more videos like this
Would love to see you do a track from Mr Bungles The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny. It was actually their demo back in the 80s, but thankfully for us they've recorded it with Dave Lombardo on drums and Scott Ian on guitar. Thrash at its legit finest and fun.
Love Slayer. Angel of death may be a little harder for most people to jump right in, but I dont think there is a bridge in all of metal that is more iconic and would love to hear someone break it down.
I'm still very happy i was able to catch them live in 2018. I've even a fan since I was 12?....but couldn't afford to get to live shows when I was old enough to work and such. Amazing musicians from an era of rock monsters
Great band, great track! Glad i was around as a kid to be part of the birth of the thrash movement. A time we will never get back. A time where studio work truly was blood, sweat and tears and the human element showed. All the tiny errors in studio make a track sound real, it sounds right. Todays work is so manipulated and flat it sounds almost fake. Damn, i had the best times of my life through the 80s. Todays kids will never experience anything like it. All the tech in the world cannot replace a decade so pure, so much fun and so interesting. The 80s truly were an amazing time to be alive. Not just the music, but everything about it from camping with your mates during school holidays, hanging around on train tracks and graveyards and forests and making rope swings, go karts, teahouses, having fires and cooking marshmallows. Even just sitting on a grassy hill at sunset smoking a joint and drinking a beer. As much as some of this stuff can still be done today, todays kids just dont wana do that. Its all about street trends, making tiktok vids for likes and follows, or insta etc. Not real world fun. Nor is gaming. When life had no tech, life was slower, much simpler but we had imaginations and used it everyday and made every day count. Every day was truly fun. Im still an old skool metal'ead my 4 kids also like metal, punk or rock. They are helping keep the flame lit. Anyway, peace ✌🏻🤘🏻
"Seasons In The Abyss" was pretty damn great, too! 3 in a row: Reign, South and Seasons were/are standouts on my soundtrack of life. Do Slayer 'reactions' every day - all day. Luv ya Geebz!
Saw Slayer when we got back from Desert Storm. Tommy found out most of our battalion was there and dedicated Mandatory Suicide to us. Been a Slayer fan from the beginning and will carry that love to the end.
🤘YES! SLAYER FOR THE WIN! sad i never saw them live! The solos are always not quite on the same note as the riffs! Meaning that it sounds like bad notes but on purpose! It’s just fantastic! Plus the singer talks more than he sings and it just goes so well with the rest! that to me creates the magic of their crazy sound! Next stop? A band from my country: VOIVOD! Aaawright! 🤘
YEP, 2 for today!!! Too much? Lol! Have a mellow day gang :)
Wishes us a mellow day........does a Slayer reaction!
Lol!
You too sir! Indeed if you're feeling mellow, get some Portishead on 😉
You can decompose slayer all day !!
There's no such thing as too much music. ❤
HELL YEAH A DOUBLE SHOT TODAY....T;HX BROTHER....PEACE...
Man, Dave Lombardo is incredible. I remember when this album came out. I was dating a huge metalhead in high school. He bought this and we spent hours listening to it and dissecting it. Macabre, dark, and so heavy. Just a fantastic track.
He is awesome on the latest Mr. Bungle Album. Raging wrath of the easter bunny
@@Youngie761 oh I’ve listened to all of it over and over. It’s incredible!
Lombardo! 🤘🏼😈🤘🏼
@@Youngie761 Add the fact you have Scott Ian on guitar and they're all having fun. Love that album
Ah ....those were the Days👍
Loved it, R.I.P. Mr. Hanneman...
I went to school with his cousin. He was a cool kid.
My head always starts automatically play the next song Silent Scream, the transfer is so smooth!
Same.
Same!
Ha Ha....My brain is doing it now.
Right?!
Finally some Slayer! I mean, you can't have an education in metal without Slayer 101. Hope you do more! Slayer FTW!🤘
That song came out in 1988 and to this day i have trouble to find better mixed drums
The white zombie album la sexorcisto . The drums sound amazing.
Yeah, this album and "Rust in Peace" have an unmatched drum sound.
Now we need you to do Seasons in the Abyss! \m/
WHOLE ALBUM 🤘
Absolutely. Right you are man
The drums sound so good on this track.
Yep, this entire album has the best drum sound, Rick Rubins 2nd Slayer production
But the bass is extremely low. Only AJFA has lower bass
@@paulpv7 really? I here it pretty clearly
its my third favorite Slayer album but my favorite for daves drumming
Drum sound is awesome on this album.
Heard this for the first time in 7th grade, I was 13, and had just discovered Slayer via Seasons in the Abyss. It was summer, hot, and life was good back then, in 91.
This album is incredible. Always one of my favorites.
This was a huge soundtrack to my life. I bought the cassette a few days after it dropped.. My mom wasn't too happy. Lol
My mom said not to get bad music at the cd store so I purchased Reign in Blood as well as With Roots Above by Devil Wears Prada to cancel it out.
Lol, fortunately my mom and dad listened to rock in the 60's and 70's, and let me listen to whatever I wanted.
@@randylejeune How about the Overkill single at the time F*CK YOU - boy my mother wasn't happy about that one!
Ditto ditto and ditto. They seem so innocent now hah
I didn’t let my mom hear anything I listened to lol. Way back my grandma bought me Twisted sister stay hungry on cassette and looked at the album cover and was like wtf! But she bought it for me anyway… I was for some unknown reason the golden child lol
The best reaction channel Geebz knows his stuff
A few years ago I bought this on vintage vinyl in a charity shop for 50p. Took it home and had it on repeat for weeks. It remains one of the best and one of my favourite metal records of all time.
The production on this album and reign in blood were incredible for the day...Rick Rubin was a pioneer in metal And hip hop production imo.
I'm old, I still call it rap. :-) Buy yeah, he was a great producer. It was a great time for both metal and rap. Both relatively new genres (yes metal is much older, but really it came into its own only in the 80's), yeah it's obvious I'm an 80's kid.
No matter how many bands I have heard or seen. No matter how technically proficient musicians get Slayer just has this attitude and sound that has not been replicated. Not to mention their strong song writing on their earlier albums! God I love this song and riff! Probably inspired generations of metal heads!
This album came out when I was 2. I heard it the first 10 years later. I've never looked back. I went from Slayer to Morbid Angel to Decapitated to In Flames to KALMAH. My current favorite band is CATTLE DECAPITATION...which I suggest you check out GEEBZ. SLAYER is where it all started for me at 12 years old. I am now 35 \m/ rock on GEEBZ
*SLAYEEERRR!* 🤘 Nice to see I have something from my youth in common with Geebz-being drawn to Slayer 😁!
Saw Slayer right b4 the pandemic and Primus was with them. I see Primus play Rush on Friday night which is our 1st show since TOOL on 3/9/2020! So excited!!! Love ya Geebz
Was that Slayer's fourth or fifth "final tour"? ;)
@@MrBadger their last one!
@@MrBadger i was gonna say the same thing! i thought they retired in 2018 lol
Spokane?
They had 1 final tour from 2018-2019.
Last show was november 2019
My friend Michael introduced me to Slayer in the 8th grade. Ill never forget. Unfortunately he committed suicide after our Sr year. Slayer holds a special place in my heart. Michael was an incredible person. Gone too soon
This song was great live. Saw Slayer with Lamb of God, Anthrax, Testament, and Napalm Death. Killer show...definitely melted my face!
omg Dave Lombardo ... that man made me pick up drums single-handedly! I love love love the intro and the tempo switch up's so much ... so much power and pushing force for the song.
Hell yeah!! You surprised the $h!t outta me with this one. Another album I wore out. Keep em coming brother!!
SLAYER FOR THE WIN!!
Awwwright!!🤙
The days skating to the SOH and RIB tapes when they came out are some of my happiest.
Slayer for the win 🤘
I'd love to see you react to “Seasons in the Abyss" song from the album of the same name. It's all over the place with amazement!🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
The way this song builds, instead of just immediately blasting you in the face like a lot of Slayer songs (not that there's anything wrong with that), is what makes it one of their standout tracks in their discography. Classic.
Wow, Geebz, how many times is it going to be where I finish listening to a bands work in my collection and you post a vid on them?!
Just got done listening to this and _Reign In Blood!_ It still amazes me how Slayer were able to ram so many titular tracks into a 29 minute album.
Kerry King is a beast of a guitar player, and Dave Lombardo stands out as one of the greatest metal drummers of this era.
Thanks, Geebz, and keep on rockin'! Awwwright! *Slayer ftw!
Huh huh, titular
I agree all the way…except about Kerry King. he’s an ok guitarist but the riff driven madness was Jeff Hanneman.
@@shotaholic1 Oh, yeah, absolutely, I just forgot his name... Tom as well, and such a humble guy.
@@JaySay yeah, I’ve seen plenty of interviews with Tom and I’m like, can we just invite him to our next cookout? he’s a rad dude. then, I’d see Kerry and be like, but this guys NOT invited. he’s a doucheknocker. lol
sorry, I can’t stand Kerry and his ego.
@@shotaholic1 He's just a hardass to me. Good attitude for the "metal persona" but I do care more about people who are gracious and down to earth
Those drums on the intro, always gave me the image of falling and smacking ledges on the way down, before landing face first against the corroded metal gates of hell! Otherwise, tis' always such a delightful intro...just the way Slayer intended.
When the drums kick in. AUDIO ORGASME!!!
Dude! When I first heard this, as I remember, there was a promotion through my local record store. Before SOUTH was released, the record store had a phone number, pre-recorded, that gave you a release date and played segments of the song. I must have called it a dozen times(for $1.99 each) just to hear the end and solo. Wow did I get grounded for calling over ten times, lol. I also called the Seventh Son of a Seventh Son number. Ahh, the fucking 80's.
"I don't know if they made a radio edit for this" - you made my day with this one :D
@Big Homie Steve The Metal Head we had some radio shows back in the day dedicated to our beloved music, but there it was in no way a necessity for a band to cut their song into a short "radio-friendly" track for the common radio listeners with short attention spans. Same time, bands like Slayer had no interest in being placed next to Wham or Rick Astley and would give 666 fucks if they were asked to change their music just to be there. :D
oh shit. i was wrong, they did it!!!!!111
th-cam.com/video/drK9RyKmc1A/w-d-xo.html
Right??? A radio edit.....Slayer....🤣🤣🤣
Your love and knowledge for music really shines through and brings a smile to my face ! Keep up the good work ! I would recomend you did a reaction to The band Death with the track Voices of the Soul. Just amasing stuff.
YES. Anything off of sound of perseverance!
Scream Bloody Gore or Leprosy is better imo.
@@lashedandscorned I never liked scream bloody Gore but leprosy is fantastic. Revocation do a great cover of pull the plug if you haven't heard it.
You need to react to Sepultura - Dead Embryonic Cells, live in Barcelona is.... just fire
The whole Arise album.
I remember I heard this for the first time at a friend's house, right after it had been released here in Norway. I still remember the goose bumps from back then.. and they still appear when I listen to this masterpiece.
SLAYER!! for the win \m/
And please do Seasons in the Abyss!
I love the way you break down music man. Seriously. I got one band that will blow you away. Faith no more. You're gonna love them!
This album came out before I was born. But my parents loved all types of metal, rock, etc. Slayer always scared me as a kid but I always loved the drums and bass. This song was always my favorite
I first heard Slayer in my sophomore year of high school (about 30 years ago) and over time, this song was put in my personal top 5 metal songs, with #1 being Ghosts of War off this same album. It was a journey that culminated with me FINALLY seeing them 3 Fathers Day's ago. It was the best gift my son and daughter have ever given me.
It's awesome to see you get so excited about one of my all time favorites
The best thing about this incredible song is that it leads into Silent Scream, which is Slayers best song, in my opinion.
BURY THE UNWANTED CHILD
Absolute belter 👌 thank you
hell yeah!!
consider face melted... Slayer did one of the most awesome live performances I've ever seen when they toured my city with Mastodon about 15 years ago... incredible musicians
When I was a little kid (Born in '77) my brother introduced me to rockmusic.
He made me listen to Electric by THE CULT, Appetite for Destruction by Guns 'n Roses but also the first Iron Maiden albums and they all blew me away.
A metalhead was born!
In school (Back in '88) a dude, who was a few years older than me, gave me a cassette one day which contained the record South of Heaven by SLAYER and I was sold! They became my fav band and they always will be.
🤘
Not just thrash metal, damn near the pinnacle of it. Love your insight. Still lobbying for Death in the comments, I think I’ve heard they heavily inspired Gojira, but I can’t be sure. Anyways, thanks for the vids!
My band opened for Slayer on this tour here in Tucson. First major show we ever played. First time they ever played TUcson, too, so the metalheads were STARVING for Slayerrrrrr!!!
Dummu Borgir carnival creation would be an awesome reaction for you. Love the channel. Awwwwright
Definitely one of Slayer's best..... Lombardo's drums are as powerful as ever..... and the open riff is creepy....
R.I.P. Jeff Hanneman 🤘🤘
i saw slayer a few years ago for my first concert, and they still killed it.
My grandmother bout me this album at a record-store when it came out, my first listen was on my Walkman in the car on the way home. I was thirteen, great memories, and a superb record. Still hoping for your reaction & dissection of, Cynic - Veil Of Maya...
Props to your grandma bro. She's got good taste in music.
@@Cyberphunk303 Yea, she was just the best 💗
We need some veil of Maya on this channel!! Agreed
One of Slayers best! I was 17 when this came out. Still listen to it this day. There is no band that has duplicated Slayers sound.
You’re doing all the songs my band in the 90’s covered!
Yeah braddah! Me and Slayer full power in high school Big Island early 90's! Great stuff mahalo's!
Yes GEEBZ! Excellent choice! I'm on board brother 🤘
Slayer for the win
Ive grown to love Slayer more and more over the years, just awesome band. Sae them live now on final tour and they just crushed it. Mosh pits and flames
Great video. I really like your dissection of Slayer's song.
I am so happy my friend you have literally no idea 🤟🏼
Surfboard wax and “donuts/baked goods”, eh Geebz?
Awwright! 😉
Slayer is awesome, I started listening to it in the 90s when I was a teen, such awesome memories
I’ve been listening to Slayer since childhood. My dad always had metal playing. Thank you for your amazing work! Love hearing your breakdown and take on songs. Slayer for the win!!!
SLAYER for the win!!!
June 14 2004, Agora du Vieux port, Québec city, Québec, Canada. A friend took me to that concert and that's where i was introduced to Slayer. First act was Damageplan, they played a few Pantera song too.
I've heard a lot of reactors mention the same thing you did, about settling into a riff. They were masters at building up. And hey...you can glam about it all you want my man. I been a Slayer fan since '89 and never stopped listening to them . You can ask my kids, they'll tell you the same. I've told them since they were kids, that everybody needs a little Slayer in their lives. I swear, IMO, their music just never gets old.
I was 14 when this album came out. One of my friends bought the cassette. As soon as he got back from the Sam Goodies we all raced to his house to listen to it on his killer stereo system. We played it three times that night only because his parents kicked us out of their house. Classic! 🤘🏼🔥❤️🔥
Love this song. I walked out to this at my wedding with my groomsmen.
Wouldn't mind a video from you on music history. You break this down so well, I might even understand it!
Slayer for the Win!!! I like your channel, I discover with you new bands and songs I didn't know! Keep going!!
The day someone reacts to this song and the one coming after, will make me a happy man! Listening to this in the arly 90's on cassette, the two songs were like one, interlinked by that long tune, and only hearing the first song, is as if someone cut One or a similarly epic metallica-song in two halfways...
PANTERA! PLEASE 🤘
Saw their final show right before covid! With Primus, Ministry, and Phil Anselmo & The Illegals (playing Pantera songs).
The first time I heard this song I was on a bus travelling to get the ferry from Ireland to England on the way to Donnington MOR in '88, my mate and I met a bunch of fellow metal heads in a Dublin pub and they happened to have a boom box and this played on our journey. Maiden, Kiss, David Lee Roth, Megadeth, Guns N' Roses and Helloween were the bands on the bill that year, I was 18 and those good memories never leave me. This is probably one of my all time fave metal tracks, that intro is worth the price of admission alone... good times.
Oh its definitely Slayer for the win! Lombardo was an absolute beast, nobody could out play that guy at his best! First time I ever heard this myself and some friends were getting together to jam and this dude busted it out and said check this out gonna blow your fucking mind.And sure enough it did and we spent the week trying to jam it out! Couldnt get his sound my toms were to small as well as my cymbals. Daves sound was incredible it would crush your skull with a headset on! Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
SLAAAAAAYEEEERRRR!!!!! Thank you for this!!! You do an awesome job here.
First time I heard this was in an 89 IROQ Z28 camaro doing about 120 down the freeway at 3 AM with the headlights off, stoned and coked out with a couple of buddies when I was about 15 years old. What a memory to dig up these days.
SSLLAYERRRR!!
I'd love to see you listening to Archspire. Involuntary Doppelganger is an insane example of musicianship.
Or lucid collective somnambulation. Actually anything they do. Relentless mutation is sick and their newest one is insane
Beautiful review. Sitting here at breakfast with a tear in my eye listening to you describe what this meant to you back in the day, and today. I feel you 100%.
I first heard Slayer in my mid-teens but didn't fully understand/hear them until I started playing drums in my late teens. This song made it possible for me to play Slayer with little experience while still being heavy.
I love how Raining Blood’s narrative in the lyrics is reflected so rawly in the composition and production of the track overall.
SLayer is a really good band. I get why a lot of people are turned off by their imagery and stuff, but I also get that a lot of people are soft and need to get over themselves... Cheers Geebz!
Slayer, FOR THE WIN! Hearing this reminds me of my ski bum days in the late 80's and early 90's. Lots of Slayer, Pantera, Metallica, Primus, Jane's Addiction, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Melvins... you get the idea.
dude silent scream. simply following this respectable song. bliss.
The first time I heard this was at the back of the school bus after a cross country tour. I was listening to Erasure, S'Express and the Pet Shop Boys up to that point. Imagine the impact on my 12 year old mind!!!!! All the best, Rich in Sweden.
This song and Dead Skin Mask were two of my favorites on this album. Brings me back to middle school when I moved to the South ad started getting into less melodic bands
i actually just listened to south of heaven yesterday. its a great track!
Great video! love learning about the intricacies of my favourite metal songs, your commentary is so wise and detailed, love the passion you have for music! Sending love from Australia :) looking forward to more videos like this
I'm so glad that I saw Slayer 3 times... Best of times 🇵🇹
Would love to see you do a track from Mr Bungles The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny. It was actually their demo back in the 80s, but thankfully for us they've recorded it with Dave Lombardo on drums and Scott Ian on guitar. Thrash at its legit finest and fun.
I would listen to the song this fades into as well Silent Scream
Love Slayer.
Angel of death may be a little harder for most people to jump right in, but I dont think there is a bridge in all of metal that is more iconic and would love to hear someone break it down.
I'm still very happy i was able to catch them live in 2018. I've even a fan since I was 12?....but couldn't afford to get to live shows when I was old enough to work and such. Amazing musicians from an era of rock monsters
Great band, great track! Glad i was around as a kid to be part of the birth of the thrash movement. A time we will never get back. A time where studio work truly was blood, sweat and tears and the human element showed. All the tiny errors in studio make a track sound real, it sounds right. Todays work is so manipulated and flat it sounds almost fake. Damn, i had the best times of my life through the 80s. Todays kids will never experience anything like it. All the tech in the world cannot replace a decade so pure, so much fun and so interesting. The 80s truly were an amazing time to be alive. Not just the music, but everything about it from camping with your mates during school holidays, hanging around on train tracks and graveyards and forests and making rope swings, go karts, teahouses, having fires and cooking marshmallows. Even just sitting on a grassy hill at sunset smoking a joint and drinking a beer. As much as some of this stuff can still be done today, todays kids just dont wana do that. Its all about street trends, making tiktok vids for likes and follows, or insta etc. Not real world fun. Nor is gaming. When life had no tech, life was slower, much simpler but we had imaginations and used it everyday and made every day count. Every day was truly fun. Im still an old skool metal'ead my 4 kids also like metal, punk or rock. They are helping keep the flame lit. Anyway, peace ✌🏻🤘🏻
I love that intro, it brought me joy
Slayer never made an album like this again. I wish they had continued with this vibe .
I don’t know man I feel Seasons was a pretty good follow up.
This is my favorite slayer track, but seasons is a great album too
"Seasons In The Abyss" was pretty damn great, too!
3 in a row: Reign, South and Seasons were/are standouts on my soundtrack of life.
Do Slayer 'reactions' every day - all day. Luv ya Geebz!
Slayer for the WIN! Man, this was my High School band right here. This and Carcass toward my Junior and Senior years.
Slayer! Love seeing this band on your channel. Fuggin awesome track, too!
Saw Slayer when we got back from Desert Storm. Tommy found out most of our battalion was there and dedicated Mandatory Suicide to us. Been a Slayer fan from the beginning and will carry that love to the end.
Saw this tour back in 1988 in Houston Texas
🤘YES! SLAYER FOR THE WIN! sad i never saw them live! The solos are always not quite on the same note as the riffs! Meaning that it sounds like bad notes but on purpose! It’s just fantastic! Plus the singer talks more than he sings and it just goes so well with the rest! that to me creates the magic of their crazy sound! Next stop? A band from my country: VOIVOD! Aaawright! 🤘
Slayer FTW, Awight!
Love your channel man, keep up the great work