This style incorporated a new groove into some songstructures and fan reaction was divided. Live Intrusion, a video of concert footage,was released the next year and features a joint cover of Venom's'Witching Hour' with Machine Head, who were Slayer's support on thespring 1995 tour. The new recordboasted songs about Jeffrey Dahmer ('213,' his apartment number) andReinhard Heydrich ('SS-3') amongst other themes of murder and the evilsof church and government. Vocal overdubs on 'Temptation' and a child'svoice pleading underneath the track 'Dead Skin Mask' (about necrophileEd Gein)?as well as the title track, which originally made use of aflute?were the most obvious signs of the band's growth.A double live album, Decade of Aggression, was released in 1991, andaside from a brief tour the next year (including an appearance at the1992 Monsters of Rock festival at Castle Donington, nothing new would beheard from Slayer until 1994's Divine Intervention. A video clip forthe title track had the band playing in the Middle East, shortly beforethe start of the Gulf War.
This song was included on the soundtrack tothe movie Less Than Zero.The follow-up album, Seasons in the Abyss, was more of a return to thesound of Reign in Blood and was greeted warmly by fans.
In2003 Slayer played the album in its entirety throughout their fall tour(something they never did on the original album tour).įollowing the release of South of Heaven,the band recorded a thrash-metal cover of Iron Butterfly's signaturesong, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. The result, 1986's Reign in Blood, has been called a'thrash metal masterpiece' and even credited with almost single-handedlyinspiring the entire death metal genre, at least in North America.Kerrang! Called Reign in Blood as 'the heaviest album of all time'. The intro to the album is a demonic-sounding voice repeating'Join us,' reversed on tape to play backward, and ending with an ironic'Welcome back' before the title track proper begins.After being offered a recording deal by Rick Rubin's Def Jam Recordings,the band signed and quickly began working on its third album with Rubinas co-producer. Musically it is the band's most progressive offering,containing only seven tracks, three of which clocked in at over sixminutes. It opens with the now classic 'Chemical Warfare,' which istypically one of two songs the band plays as a live closer.The band's second full-length release, Hell Awaits, expanded on thedarkness of Haunting the Chapel, as hell and Satan were common songsubjects. It was essential in gaining the band acult following and respect in the metal community.The band's second release, the Haunting the Chapel EP, was considerablydarker and more thrash-oriented than its predecessor, and is consideredto have laid the groundwork for what the band's classic sound wouldbecome.
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