FIRST TIME listening to SLAYER - "Raining Blood" REACTION 

Fun fact; Tori Amos did a version of this song, of course with her own musical twist. The members of Slayer actually loved it and sent her a box full of merch after they heard it. Also, this track was used in an episode of South Park. Eric Cartman invaded a hippy festival playing this song. He said, "hippies hate death metal".

Ghosts of war is literally everything I love about slayer in one track..!!! A hidden gem in their catalogue

Yes please. More Slayer.

Amazing reaction. Reign in blood is considered the best Thrash Metal album ever. This song proves why :)

This whole album is pure aggression in audio form, now that you’ve listened to the opener and closer you gotta do the whole album. Postmortem is my personal favorite from the album

I got to see them play this live at an outdoor venue while it was pouring down rain. One of my best concert experiences \,,/

Slayer is my favorite band of all time. Silent scream or South of Heaven are other great lyrics. If you like guitar try suicidal Tendencies “ How will I laugh tomorrow if I can’t smile today(video version is the best not a big fan of extended one), can’t bring me down or also Insitutionalized

Slayer has a song they always introduce as a "love song" (seriously!) - it's called "Dead Skin Mask"

Interesting fact, Slayer was known to have tuned their 2 guitars slightly differently from each other so they could play a synchronized riff and have extra harmonies and a fuller sound... as evidence here in the first 30 seconds after the guitars come in

Enjoy your take on the song Lilly. I like to describe many of Slayer's guitar solos as sounding like a couple of cats fighting in a canvas bag.😆

Raining Blood, the album is I think a genre defining piece. My introduction to Slayer was the Raining Blood / Black Magic live video. I watched that at the ago of 15 or 16 and I said "This is simply brutal, it hits you in the face and makes you go through walls". After that I got deeper into Slayer and I still love it. I attented 5-6 concerts and I can still remember Tom smiling while the first tempo speed up and us moshing like hell and everybody scraming.... It will always be one of my favourite moments.

Young lady! Watching you react takes me down memory lane!! Reminds me of the girls I went to shows with throughout my 20s in the 80s. Full of life, insightful and ready for all that life brings!!!! Thank you! Keep rockin on! 🎸🎸🎸

I remember buying this tape and DEATH/ Spirtual Healing at the same time!! I was 10 or 11!! Was life changing!!! 😎 👍

Slayer never disappoint, especially their 1980's albums those are pure brutality back in the day. Love the Reign In Blood (1986) album it's a must for any Metalhead. Later those albums inspired the birth of Death Metal in the 80's, other extreme Metal genre with bands like Possessed, Poison (the German band), Death, Necrophagia, Autopsy, Morbid Angel, Slaughter (the Canadian band), Morbid Angel, Obituary, Deicide, Cannibal Corpse, Bolt Thrower, Suffocation, Macabre, Carnage, Entombed, Dismember, Grave, Unleashed, etc.

Give "War Ensemble" from Seasons in the Abyss a shot. Fun song! ^_^

Nothing like seeing that song live. Hearing the drums in the beginning and knowing what's about to come. Pure chaos!!! The Slayer pit..... man I miss that.

Been enjoying your reactions. Your very thorough on your comments and pay attention to detail of instruments and meaning of lyrics. ❤

You need to hear the whole Reign in Blood album (starting with the much better studio version of Angel of Death). The whole thing is less than 30 minutes long, but it's thrash perfection. Also War Ensemble is a great next individual song to get to.

I just turned 18 when I saw Slayer perform this live in the Ulster Hall, Belfast Northern Ireland back in September 1988. And yeah, that guitar solo scrambled my brain back then too. 🤘

1986 was the best year for metalheads.... All the albums that came out that year... MOP, Peace Sells, Reign in Blood, Somewhere In Time...

I mean, that final solo is really intended to be chaotic af

I remember this album being referred to as “the soundtrack to Hell”…sounds about right.

Disciple would be another great song to review, Great lyrics!

Not the most lyrical but Chemical Warfare is a hella good time 🤘 6:59

Seasons In The Abyss should be on the list. The intro is haunting.

Raining Blood is the climax of the Reign in Blood album, a seminal work the redefined Death Metal, with the assistance of producer Rick Rubin. To fully appreciate the song’s magnificence, you need to listen to it in the context of the full album (it’s only 30 minutes long). Slayer has no ballads, but they followed up Reign in Blood with an uncharacteristically slow album, South of Heaven. For something lyrical, try the title track or the closer, Behind the Crooked Cross.

I literally did laugh out loud at the last section when the outro “solos” take over! Great reaction Lilly, enjoyed watching your brain melt in real time.

YES!!!!! 🤘🔥🔥🔥🔥

The album Christ Illusion is awesome, the song Jihad has an awesome riff, Skeleton Christ is another great one from that record

There's a documentary called "still reigning" and it covers the entire album, etc.. this song they perform under a rain machine pouring red fluid on them as they play. It's pretty epic

I remember playing this song on guitar hero in like middle school 😂 goes hard af

Really love how much she enjoys this masterpiece!

I just couldn't go by without watching this. \m/

instant thumbs up for my fav slayer song :D

Imagine what we all thought hearing this for the first time in 1986. NO ONE was playing that damn fast.

That reaction was precious! :'D

I have gone down the rabbit hole of watching your Slayer REACTIONS

Listen to them all over and over and over and over again and again to and again

I saw Slayer 10 times live and Raining Blood is my favorite song!! Listen to Divine Intervention or Fictional Reality. Also, where’s the Death Metal love?Try Obituary - Final Thoughts , Insane / Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague, A Skull Full of Maggots / Deicide - Trifixion, When Satan Rules His World / Sepultura - Territory, Desperate Cry, Dead Embryonic Cells, Orgasmatron / Torture Killer - A Violent Scene of Death, Written in Blood / Six Feet Under - Still Alive, Lycanthropy / Morbid Angel - Eyes to See, Ears to Hear, Fall From Grace / Death - Pull the Plug, Suicide Machine / Country songs - Reba McEntire - Fancy (Bobbie Gentry Cover) / Charlie Daniels - Long Haired Country Boy / Jeannie C. Riley - Harper Valley P.T.A. / Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe / Won’t hurt my feelings if you don’t like some of these, but try some!!

Slayer are the OG kings of the breakdown and change ups!!

Dead Skin Mask and 213 are both really cool. Listen to the lyrics and you’ll quickly understand what they’re about. 🤘🏻

Good morning! I and I would like to say three things. First you're awesome, glad to see the younger generation getting into Slayer and Metal in general 🤘🏼💀🤘🏼 Second my Daughter showed me this, she is 15 and is a Metal Head just like all of us, makes me proud 🥲🤣 and now I have subscribed to your channel because checking out your reaction and take on hearing this for the first time took me back 33 years to when I was 13 and heard Slayers Second Album Hell Awaits for the time. That was the first Slayer Album I heard and the first one I bought. My brother (RIP) was much older than me but new I liked Metallica handed me Hell Awaits and said listen to this, I think you might like it, well he was right. Scared the shit outta me but I loved it!!!!! & now hear I am 46 years old and still a HUGE Metal Head. 🤘🏼💀🤘🏼 Third, check out War Ensmble, 213, or Killing Fields those are awesome and my Daughter and myself think you will like those. Have a great day! 🤘🏼💀🤘🏼

I love her comments.. She is smart.. Probably the most meaningful reaction videos you will find on youtube..

FWIW, what Tom Araya had in mind when he wrote these lyrics was a cavern with stalactites all over the ceiling; and, impaled on those stalactites were dozens of corpses. The blood dripped from the stalactites and, as they landed, they formed the structure of S'tan's new body. Dead Skin Mask is one of the most uplifting and beautiful songs in Slayer's oeuvre, so if that's what you mean by lyrical, that's what I recommend.

I really like your take on the lyrical content of these songs.

love the interpretation of that part being a march right before the lacerated sky. Awesome.

Hallowed point for sure has amazing lyrics

A classic that never goes out of style. You can pop this on anywhere and a mosh pit will break out, and at least one person yelling out SLAYEEEEEERRRRR!!!

Slayer lyrical songs… hmmm depends on what you’re after. I love Angel of Death, but maybe Dead Skin Mask or South of Heaven would be worth checking out. Or War Ensemble.

Lyrically I'd have to go with "World Painted Blood". Last time I saw Slayer was on their farewell tour. When they played this that "Marching" part, as you called it, it was me and about 7 or 8 other guys, none of us knew each other from Adam, stood in a line and just put our arms around each other and in unison headbanged to that. I'll never forget that for as long as I live.

6:16 and here my hopes for building up to bands such as Cryptopsy :) One band and genre at a time. Bless you Lilly! A great first, as always. Personally, I think that all other songs on Reign in Blood are in fact better than this closer. But there is no doubt that it's one of the two most popular Slayer songs. Slayer wrote about a lot of serious matters. "Silent Scream"'s lyrics are very grave, for any era. "Mandatory Suicide", "Expendable Youth", and also "Jihad" and "Unit 731".

You want some spicy lyrics, check out South of Heaven.

Criminally insane is also a great flawless song

YES!!! IM ABOUT TO WATCH!!

Slayer was ahead of it's time. Now it is Immortalized in music & song.

Funny that this song has no any hidden sense, in one interview Jeff Hanneman was asked what about this song, and he said "this is a song about a dude who got kicked out of heaven, and now takes his revenge on everyone"

Fucking Slayer!! The most bad-ass band in this planet!

Now imagine it live with red raining down on the crowd. Thanks for the memories, slayer.

Lily Jane would be so much fun to hang out and have her listen to music with. I love this channel. It's so much fun to see her enjoy great music

Another follower, love your vids, and passion :)

Slayer just sounds evil. The chord progressions, solos… they went all in. Have seen them a few times live….. so many cool stories from those shows. So awesome.

Was waiting for this one! Raining Blood is their best song IMO \m/

For Slayer, that was their version of a ballad.

If you want a lyrical Slayer song then you can check out - Silent Scream, Behind the crooked cross, or South of heaven. All are great choices.

This song is worth watching a live version of if for nothing more than seeing the mosh pit in action.

This song is the epitome of the hard ass speed metal of the 80's! Short & Loud ! Rock on Lilly!! 👹☠

Please react to some early slayer from their first album it has a whole different vibe and is personally my favorite slayer. I'd recommend the antichrist or metal storm/face the slayer

Seasons in the Abyss

I saw Tom Araya being interviewed on a BBC documentary and asked about this. He broke into the shyest, most endearing big smile, like you would never have expected, and he said "Raining Blood, is basically, a horror story". He also wasn't a metal fan, when they recruited him into Slayer. He was basically some kind classic rock hippy. He claims never to have heard metal until he was introduced to it by the other guys. I think he picked up the general gist of Metal, pretty well. Most lyrical song: maybe War Ensemble. They were just writing it about what the horrors of war are, in an unironic way, with a few metaphors thrown in about it being treated by, maybe, the higher-up generals, etc, as a sport, but one where the score is measured in human life. Then, just like presidential candidates adopt songs like Born In The USA for their election campaigns, army officers, reputedly, adopted War Ensemble and blasted it out of massive speaker at Iraqui soldiers during the gulf war to frighten them into a state of semi-submission, even before any shots had been fired. If you listen to it with that in mind, you can imagine how somebody from a different culture, who isn't used to hearing something like that, might actually quiver in fear at the thought of what is about to ensue.

I feel honored to say I’ve shed blood in the pit to this song lol one of my favorite concert moments

"Abolish the Rules Made of Stone." What a fucking brilliant, poetic lyric! Dang!

Wait until you hear, War Ensemble, or Hell Awaits or Criminally Insane

I do like that you get right into the music

Slayer!! 🤘🤘 this song is pure energy

Last time I seen slayer was on the big four tour. I wanted to see them on their retirement tour, but I didn’t have the money at the time so I missed out on that but I’ll be seeing metallic and Pantera this summer in New Jersey.

Awesome reaction

Such a great way to end an amazing album. Perhaps the pinnacle point for Slayer.

I'm a metal guitarist from Michigan and I think you are badass!

you can check the live version where actually rains blood... Jeff missed the spot, so it didn't rain on him... Tom and Kerry complained that they couldnt play well all wet, that they should have wait till the end of the song :D

btw they do a live version where blood is actually pouring unto them from the top of the stage

To be honest there is not any bad Slayer songs they truly are one of the Greatest Bands Ever. Just saying glad you are enjoying them Lilly 🤘

Yes please more SLAYER!! \M/

Band- Bad Brains. Song I Against I.

Definitely the title track for seasons in the abyss.

"random but yet made sense notes" yep thats the power of kerry king and slayer lol, awesome reaction

213! Based on actual events. Spill the blood is probably my favorite Slayer song, I think u would agree

Hahaha love your reaction girl

This makes you want to get a 100 mph speeding ticket

Dead skin mask is about Ed Gein. He danced with the corpses he unburied from local cemeteries. Cmon! He had a nipple doorbell. That alone should make the story worthwhile

This album is heavy metals supreme masterpiece, above all others!

MORE SLAYER PLEASE ❤

A very underrated song but definitely a hidden gem is Necrophiliac off the Hell Awaits Album.

Intelligent and incisive insight into this great song!😎

NOW I SHALL REING IN BLOOD!

In that solo, it always sou da like a goat screaming towards the end LOL. Angel of Death uses that sound in its solo too. It literally sounds like the final battle of the Apocalypse.

By far my favorite band!!!!❤❤❤❤

I love your "faces" while you listen to the music :)

For me "Raining blood" always goes together with the song that comes before on the album. Do yourself a favour and look for "Slayer - Postmortem / Raining blood". You will see why 😉🤘

You should definitely react to Skeletons of Society. Underrated track from Seasons in the Abyss but the lyrics are on point

Another one of my favorite albums is God Hates Us All, which was released on 9/11 2001.