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Out of print in the U.S.! For nearly 25 years, Slayer have remained the most important and influential Speed Metal band in history. Reign In Blood is their 1986 mind-numbing opus featuring 12 tracks including 'Angle Of Death', 'Necrophobic', 'Altar Of Sacrifice' and more. Warner.
Slayer: Tom Araya (vocals, bass); Kerry King, Jeff Hanneman (guitar); Dave Lombardo (drums). Slayer: Tom Araya (vocals, bass guitar); Jeff Hanneman, Kerry King (guitar); Dave Lombardo (drums). Widely considered the pinnacle of speed metal, Reign in Blood is Slayer's undisputed masterpiece, a brief (under half an hour) but relentless onslaught that instantly obliterates anything in its path and clears out just as quickly. Producer Rick Rubin gives the band a clear, punchy sound for the first time in its career, and they largely discard the extended pieces of Hell Awaits in favor of lean assaults somewhat reminiscent of hardcore punk (though distinctly metallic and much more technically demanding). Reign in Blood opens and closes with slightly longer tracks (the classics "Angel of Death" and "Raining Blood") whose slower riffs offer most of the album's few hints of melody. Sandwiched in between are eight short (all under three minutes), lightning-fast bursts of aggression that change tempo or feel without warning, producing a disjointed, barely controlled effect. The album is actually more precise than it sounds, and not without a sense of groove, but even in the brief slowdowns, the intensity never lets up. There may not be much variation, but it's a unified vision, and a horrific one at that. The riffs are built on atonal chromaticism that sounds as sickening as the graphic violence depicted in many of the lyrics, and Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman's demented soloing often mimics the screams of the songs' victims. It's monstrously, terrifyingly evocative, in a way that transcends Reign in Blood's metal origins. The album almost single-handedly inspired the entire death metal genre (at least on the American side of the Atlantic), and unlike many of its imitators, it never crosses the line into self-parodic overkill. Reign in Blood was a stone-cold classic upon its release, and it hasn't lost an ounce of its power today. ~ Steve Huey Slayer's major-label debut remains one of the most brutal metal albums ever recorded, uncompromising in its extremes; ironically, it's their mainstream breakthrough release. Infusing its thrash sound with a hardcore-punk influence, the cacophonous quartet shifts from supernatural terror to real-life horrors with shorter songs such as "Necrophobic" and "Postmortem". The change is most notable on the gruesome depiction of Nazi butcher Josef Mengele on the frenzied epic "Angel of Death". Only the apocalyptic closing number, "Raining Blood," hearkens back to the semi-melodic Slayer style from SHOW NO MERCY and HELL AWAITS. Throughout its short running time (28 minutes, an EP even by 1980s standards), the Rick Rubin-produced REIGN IN BLOOD unleashes a malevolent maelstrom of sound. Propelled by Dave Lombardo's pummeling percussion, Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King let loose their roaring guitars, often trading leads in their unorthodox, wailing style, while bassist Tom Araya barks and shrieks the lyrics with maniacal glee. Slayer is one of the few metal bands that genuinely sounds evil, and with REIGN IN BLOOD it would inspire a legion of thrash- and death-metal followers eager to join the horror show.
Spin (p.78) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] paint-peeling speed-metal classic." Spin (p.104) - "[T]his is the thrashiest thrash ever." Q (7/01, p.91) - Included in Q's "50 Heaviest Albums of All Time". Q (8/00, p.127) - Included in Q's "Best Metal Albums Of All Time" - "Officially the heaviest album ever made....displaying an overwhelming preoccupation with death and Satan..." Slayer Reign In Blood Songs Reign In Blood Music Review Average Rating: (4.8 out of 5 stars)    List All Reviews I CAN BELIEVE YOU DON´T HAVE THIS ALBUM!!! Where have you been since then?!?!? It´s the best thrash album ever!!! Repetitive riffs??!?!? Satanic lyrics?!?! No... Just thrash, to be copied for ages to come... Toc! Toc! Toc! Rainning blood!!!! Submitted by kid (sp/sp/brazil) Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 2 of 2 found this helpful.
Who's metallica ? Alot of mainstream people state metallica the best thrash band of all time, SLAYER IS THE BEST THRASH BAND OF ALL TIME! the people that say metallica is better always brings up that extremely overrated black album, I got so sick and tired of dumb people raving about metallica when I was in school I started to beat up people who liked them it was easy to do because they were all posers, If you want real metal and don't have Reign In Blood then you've been slacking terrible it is a must have for any REAL METALHEAD Submitted by DeathMetalHead (Morbid Falls, AZ) Was This Review Helpful? Yes No
Brutal What metal fan doesn't know Slayer or their acclaimed masterpiece "Reign In Blood"?
Every song here is as brutal and heavy as the last. It ends with one of the heaviest Slayer songs in existance "Raining Blood".
The CD is classic, buy it! *Although Hell Awaits is better* Submitted by Jake (Winder, Georgia) Was This Review Helpful? Yes No
slayer rules i gonna buy this album
slayer is better than metallica
the kings of metal
james moore metalhead Submitted by rmoore2 (glenbrook) Was This Review Helpful? Yes No
Shining out the pen Being sort of casual Slayer fan,this is the second of thiers,I have purchased.Seasons In The Abyss,being my first.They are fast becoming one of fave bands.The music is so raw and has great energy. Really from beginning to end,this one rocks!!!! Angel of Death and Raining In Blood,the ones I was most familiar with.But after hearing the whole thing,I can add a few more greats to fave list.That being,Piece By Piece,Jesus Saves,Criminally Insane,Reborn and Postmortem.Boy,what I have missed.A 1986 album and for twenty plus years,what I have missed. If you are a die hard,you,of course,know the album.If you are a growing diehard like me,check this one out now!!!! It will totally kick in your cd player.Go scare your neighbors with the Gods of Thrash!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BTW,I was lucky enough to buy at $13.99 for this import.
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