Legend has it that Tom Araya stepped on a lego in the opening scream.

Slayer is a band that you might like or you might not the first few times & then one day you’ll just realize they’re your favourite band

One thing to remember about Slayer - its like going to watch a Horror movie; if you aren't in the mood for a Horror movie you won't enjoy it as much.

Metallica = The famous ones
Anthrax = The fun ones
Megadeth = The talented ones
Slayer = The evil ones

This video is as long as the whole "Reign in blood" album.

That transition is one of the greatest riffs in metal history. 30 years later and I still can't get enough of it

Just think of metal like a workout. Slayer is your high intensity level workouts. Metallica for you’re weight lifting repetitions for the steady groove. Anthrax is for the fun cardio. Megadeth is for the complicated lifts.

Slayer, riffs like bodybuilders and solos like Parkinson’s disease.

Jeff Hanneman of Slayer said about these lyrics, "I know why people misinterpret it – it's because they get this knee–jerk reaction to it. When they read the lyrics, there's nothing I put in the lyrics that says necessarily he was a bad man, because to me – well, isn't that obvious? I shouldn't have to tell you that."

song: starts

george: ok lets run that back a little bit

I was the same way when I 1st heard the song in the 80's, the fast part grows on you and builds for you to really enjoy the grove, The song alive is the most amazing experience.  R.I.P Jeff, Who wrote Angel of Death.

"He sounds like he's in excruciating pain" OH MY GOD SOMEONE FINALLY GOT IT IMMEDIATELY. And Jeff Hanneman wrote the lyrics to this song. He wrote the lyrics to pretty much all of their songs about war, his father was an allied soldier during WW2 and had a collection of German memorabilia that he would pick off dead Nazi soldiers. He told Jeff all about everything and it gave Jeff a lifelong interest in history and war. This is why people were so quick (and some sadly still are) to label Slayer as Nazis (meanwhile half of the band was Hispanic). Jeff Hanneman just wrote from the perspective of what happened, and this song is anti-Genocide, Jeff actually said in an interview something along the lines of "I wrote a song describing the horrors of Josef Mengle and how terrible it was, and then all the sudden I got labled a Neo-nazi, which I am not, I wrote the song because it's history."

This song is about a nazi dr’s human experiments in Auschwitz on its prisoners. Caused a lot of controversy at the time but the band does a lot of songs about world events and things that have happened.

Watching someone hear the breakdown for the first time is always a gift.

Reign in Blood album is 36 minutes of pure heaven for me.

This song is about Dr. Mengele, the "Angel of Death" of Auschwitz.

Is it wrong to think Beavis and Butthead were the early version of "Reaction" series?

The song is about dr. Josef Mengele who was called the angel of death

Death Angle, D.R.I., Exodus, Nuclear Assault and Overkill are my favorite 80s Thrash bands. They are such underrated bands with so much talent.

As a follow up you guys should do Dead Skin Mask. #MediumThrash.