Have you ever heard of an obscure album called Evil Brew from the 1980’s from a band called Cremator? They had some interesting music, can be heard on you tube, they only released on cassette tape, so sound quality is only ok. Check it out if you get the chance.
Suicidal Angels from Greece sounds like Slayer. Especially the track Bloodbath. To me Kreator sounding like Slayer is like saying Anthrax sounds like Exodus though. Bands will always influence each other but the combination of songwriting, vocals & style distinguishes them.
Damn you took me on a ride down memory lane with Kreator Extreme Aggression album. I remember being 18 years old in 1989 and working at an auto parts store. I remember one Friday getting off work and cruising to the local record store and bought the cassette in the new releases racks. When I got home I smoked a bowl and blasted it. I don't get Slayer-vibes from Kreator though. They both were aggressive, but slightly different styles. And I still love Onslaught's The Force. I had bought the record when I was in high school. I love Onslaught's Halfway To Sanity as well with Steve Grimmett handling the vocals.
Sepultura was too unique to be called derivative of Slayer but the early stuff did have that vibe. Good stuff I'm always learning something here from you.
I think KREATOR definately deserves respect and recognition for their work. They were going for it all the way. ENDLESS PAIN is one of my personal " Foundational" metal albums, absolute fury and heart.
@@saltpeter7429 Kreator was my introduction band to German thrash. No one is saying that they don't deserve respect and recognition. They're the most well-known European thrash band, so I think that they got enough of both. I just do not think that you could put them in the "Similar to Slayer" category. Yes, they play fast and aggressively, but their style, and sound is much different.
@@saltpeter7429 I love both bands as well and i've seen them multiple times. Of course people are free to like what they want. I didn't like Endless Pain in the beginning, but later it became one of my favorite. I much prefer it to their later works
What made Slayer so unique is Tom's powerful and commanding voice, without the cookie monster stuff - you could actually hear what he is singing (especially early stuff). These other bands just aren't close (imo). Listen to Ghosts of War for example
Great list! Exumer was the first band I thought of when seeing the video title... I do think that their second album "Rising from the Sea" sounds even more like Slayer. The vocals from Paul Arakari (which are awesome) also sounds more like Tom Araya and tracks like "Decimation" and "Shadows of the Past" are pure Slayer worship 🤘
Speaking of Exumer, their vocalist and bass player Paul Arakari was in my Guitar class in Frankfurt American High School in Germany, way back in 1984-85, we were both seniors at the time. Great memories, I'm sure that he was pretty surprised to be able to join a professional Thrash Metal band like Exumer!
Speaking of Onslaught... when Steve Grimmet sang for them on "In Search of Sanity"... the album had one of the best tracks they've ever done "Lightning War"... highly underrated band (and album).
The Force is an unsung classic! Listened to it about a week ago and it still holds up! But the funniest thing about them is the song Metal Forces sounds like System of A Down's Prison Song decades before hand. So if you want to fuck with SOAD fans just say Onslaught wrote Prison Song before they did haha. As for Kreator, Pleasure To Kill is more definitive IMO (more brutal than anything Slayer has ever done). I would have added Sodom to this list. Specifically albums like Persecution Mania, Agent Orange and Tapping The Vein. Even M-16 blows away anything Slayer did after 1990.
To thrash fans, none of these bands sound like Slayer.. except Insane who are clearly doing it deliberately. Lets face it, only Slayer sound like Slayer
KREATOR Endless Pain. 1985. Play it back to back with Hell Awaits. Not such an easy call. They were teenage kids giving it a hell of a go, along with SEPULTURA dropping Morbid Visions. I think these albums rate, and have a particular charm and integrity. In the end no one really sounds like SLAYER,...because there is and always will be only one.
Infernal Majesty - None Shall Defy is absolutely exactly like Slayer, and to my knowledge the only band to have a Vocalist that sounds like Tom Araya. Even though Ventor's( Kreator Drummer)Vocals are close, no one on Earth sounds as much like Tom Araya as Chris from Infernal Majesty does. Still no one does the unique high screaming that Tom Araya used to do . Probably the most recognizable screaming in the history of Metal. King Diamond is unique, but there have been imitators that match his style, and Steve Bridges of Witchfynde sounded just like King Diamond on the 1980 song Stagefright, which predated Mercyful Fate. No one has yet been able to duplicate Tom Araya's screaming, and no one prior sounded like him
Sacrifice - Torment in Fire is a masterpiece, it's almost like death metal, then the second album which you showed here sounded more like thrash metal, not death thrash like the debut anymore.
@@RuthlessMetalYT the same with bands like Kreator, and Sepultura, after Morbid Vision and Schizophrenia it got less extreme, and in the case of Kreator Pleasure to kill and Endless Pain was way more extreme than the following albums as well.
I think Kreator and Sacrifice had a sound all their own. Kreator tuned a lot lower than Slayer early on, then became a very melodic band. Not to mention, Araya sounded a lot more "human" than Petrozza. Sacrifice were their own beast, as well. I think the biggest thing these bands had in common was "thrash."
Araya was quite aggressive on some records too. Yeah I'm not saying that Sacrifice wasn't but come on, if you can't hear some Slayer in their music I don't know what to say. :)
I think the country that had the most Slayer influence was Germany. Of the big 4 the influence could be seen by all 4 in the states. UK and most of Europe but the German scene had it's own sound which became very similar to Slayers sound. If you check out the early albums by German bands (Sodom Kreator are 2 that come to mind) you see almost a black metal element that disappeared after their fisrt couple of releasers and became a lot like Slayers direction not a rippoff by any means but an influence.
You missed LIVING SACRIFICE debut = it is so SLAYER, that event Tom Araya consider it as regular SLAYER album 😂 And also HEAVENS FORCE that sounds like Show No Mercy...
Very good and accurate list with a few bands I criminally missed out on checking out at the time. A good modern Thrash band who don't sound totally like Slayer, all the time but sometimes sound very, very like them in parts, is Enforced. I often hear 'Slayerisms' in lots of other bands because I've listened to them so much, my ear is acutely attuned to noticing them, haha. High On Fire have lots of Slayerisms, at times. It's a kind of lead flourish, or inflection, that I'm not sure whether it was Jeff or Kerry who was responsible for making it up. Maybe it was both. I'd love to know. An Enforced song that is absolutely chock full of these Slayerisms, is a song called Malignance. It starts out with Slayerisms, goes on in a Slayeresque style and, then, around the 2.20 mark, it goes all in with the Slayeristic goodness in such a blatant way that they obviously don't give a shit who knows it. I imagine that being told 'You sound quite like Slayer' would be considered a massive compliment to everybody in all of these bands.
I had some bands that sounds like Slayer: Band > Album > Reference *Hellbringer > Awakened From The Abyss > Hell Awaits *Eternal Evil > The Warriors Awakening Brings the Unholy Slaughter > Show No Mercy *The Conjuring > Tortured Spirits > 90's Era *Sakrificer > Relentless Torment > Reign In Blood *Slaves > Insolent Aggression > Show No Mercy *Infernäl Mäjesty > None Shall Defy > Solos Like Hanneman and 80's Era
I disagree with Onslaught. They had their own sound, and im pretty sure they formed before Slayer. Their 1985 album Power From Hell is a proto death metal album and the album The Force is just classic thrash.
How about Annihilator? Canadian trash metal band from the 1980s onwards. Past the 1980s, they went a bit too mainstream (although Remains in '97 is a return to form), but they are still a pretty classy speed/trash act.
Razgate. Italian thrash metal. Sound exactly like Slayer. Liten to To The Rope. You will freak out how much they sound alike. Oh and........your welco e. Lol
Excellent selection, unfortunately I don't have Spotify, a band called Dew Scented I think sounds like Slayer too, for example their album Inwards, greetings!
Kreator - Pleasure to Kill sounds so much like Slayer that I thought it was Slayer the first time I heard it. The song Death is Your Savior could have been on a Slayer album. Pleasure to Kill is the closest thing to Slayer I've ever heard. All their other albums sound nothing like Slayer.
Back in day was nah not going to hear this band they wanna be slayer or metalica or ect their wasn't media seems like today present u can be able say hey stop thrash rip off cus u can and be able to judge cus back then whatever comes out the mouth and the thrash is similar or be moshpit Bash to just love whatever bands come up and enjoy. All information was newspapers and magazines so i wouldn't judge or say anything it's like u re invented light bulb just diffrent shape and form, something and similar links like veins rooted vibes. it's hard to understand how media never was yet envolvol so enjoy what you preach
Korzus from Brazil is definitely a Slayer clone with the only difference that the frontman doesn't play any instrument, their album ' ties of blood ' is worth listening imo
Not sure if I agree, maybe the first record but the vocals are so different and Death Angel had more funk in them than evil and darkness. Merry christmas! 🤘🎅🤘
"Blistering solos?" More like god awful squily whammy bar solos without much melody, at least from Kerry. Jeff had a bit more restraint and composed better solos in my opinion.
Imagine Reign in Blood with Hotel California solos... While that is a great solo, it does not belong on Reign in Blood, because the RiB solos are perfect for RiB.
