I had never been with a band that was that focused, that driven and honestly that talented,” Slagel says. “Being in the studio with those guys was eye-opening. “They were very serious and had a vision of what they wanted to do, which really was quite a bit different from the other bands,” says Slagel, who released Slayer’s first two albums, 1983’s raw “Show No Mercy” and 1985’s “Hell Awaits.” They were all longhaired metal kids, but Hanneman was also a punk-rock fanatic, and he brought the speeded-up energy of the Dead Kennedys and the Misfits to the band’s two-guitar metal foundation. One up-close witness to Slayer’s earliest period was Brian Slagel, who met the original quartet as he was creating his fledgling Metal Blade Records label out of his mom’s garage in Sherman Oaks. Slayer’s impact can be heard in acts like Lamb of God, Marilyn Manson and System of a Down, and within the riffs of some of the youngest generation of metal, including Code Orange the band still reliably attracts new waves of young true believers in black T-shirts and tattoos. Especially controversial was “Angel of Death,” about ghoulish Nazi physician Josef Mengele, a song Def Jam partner Columbia Records refused to release as part of “Reign” the album ultimately came out on Geffen.īeginning with “Reign,” Slayer earned four gold albums in the U.S., but if it never reached the platinum status of certain metal contemporaries, no band was more influential on future players of heavy music.
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Ever.) A full generation younger than metal originators Black Sabbath or Judas Priest, Slayer could have continued onward for another decade or more, presiding over mosh pits internationally with speedy guitars, pentagrams and bleak horror fantasies.Īside from songs of pure madness and mutilation, Slayer explored real-world themes through the anti-religious screeds “Jesus Saves” and “Jihad” and several blood-soaked antiwar tracks. The music of thrash is insanely fast, with a panicked machine-gun beat and a hornet’s nest of guitars, sped up from the examples of Eddie Van Halen and Randy Rhoads into something quicker, harsher.
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