I felt very similarly to God Hates us All, to me it was like the most Slayer that Slayer could be, and to me everything after just felt like the band trying but not really succeeding to be themselves, if that makes any sense.
Bradley world painted blood was their best since seasons or reign in blood easily anything bostaph sucks period their best work was easily with Lombardo and Hanneman
That’s kinda misleading honestly. Jeff contracted the disease, but that’s not what killed him. TLDR not being able to play with Slayer or play as well anymore made him depressed and he essentially drank himself to death :/
Necrotizing Fasciitis may sound horrific and it actually IS but it's by far not as deadly as liver failure, the disease that killed him. I love Alcohol but I hope people start to realize that if you drink large amounts regularly, alcohol is one of the deadliest drugs out there!
@@mitchvechart7164 Either way, after his death, Slayer should have let him back into the band and brought his corpse on stage every night. That would have been the Slayer thing to do.
@@tomasjonsson7141 same. South of Heaven just had something that clicked with me more than others. Maybe it was more of the groovier stuff. idk. The title track is amazing.
Same here, PHENOMENAL SHOW!!! Overkill on Taking Over tour opened. Small club called the LIVING ROOM in Providence, RI. The crowd that night was beyond VIOLENT, great stuff!!!
@@aprilkurtz1589 cool stories! In 2004 as a youngster I had the chance to see Slayer perform the whole of Reign in Blood. Dimebag and Vinnie Paul opened the show with Damageplan, just a few months before Dime's tragic passing. That was a hell of a show and I feel honored to have witnessed it.
I’m gonna say it. Divine Intervention is underrated as fuck. The production and the riffing make the whole listen-through feel like you’re out in the streets at 2:46AM PST constantly looking over your shoulder and uneasy because there’s somebody stalking you with a knife, but you can’t see him.
I was at a slayer show in the front row me and Jeff had the same obscure misfits shirts on he noticed and gave the horns. I was 19 and it made my year.
That would make my life. I met James Hetfield in the late 90's and he handed me his sweaty wristband and passed it to me over the gates using Lars' drumstick. I was 17
Jeff didn't die from necrotizing fasciitis. He died from chronic liver failure (cirrhosis) from drinking heavily his whole adult life. Same thing that killed my father (750ml bottle of scotch and 2 liters of coke a day for 20 some years).
@@atranfanatic you’re right, but the wikipedia article has all this too. Bradley didn’t take the time to read the whole thing (at least that’s how it appears in this edit).
Well, he drank so heavily in his last years because the necrotizing fasciitis impeded his guitar playing so much he took his frustration out on the bottle, so we can say that that killed him in the end.
@@paladinminipedro707 I agree, also Divine Invervention is underrated af, you gotta listen to that album paying close attention until you realize that it is a hidden gem
@@paladinminipedro707 But I disagree about this being the only album worth having by them, there are several albums that are pretty much fucking awesome
I know it’s an EP rather than an album but I think it would have been worth mentioning Haunting The Chapel. It was an important bridge between Show No Mercy and Hell Awaits and Chemical Warfare is one of their best songs. That said, my favourite version of it is from their live album Decade of Aggression which is a great live record.
Chemical Warfare definitely is one of my favorites from them…I would say everything from Show No Mercy to Seasons gives the band a metal god-tier status
That run of Reign, South, and Seasons is the greatest, but I also love the first two albums vibe and campiness so much. I also enjoy the cover album because I like that early hardcore punk stuff. God Hates Us All has a special place in my heart because it was released at the height of my slayer fandom when i was like a freshman in high school...
It does have sorta meditating quality. Even when I think about the record, let alone listen to it, like as I am typing. Probably why the Black Metal community should really honor it more. Dark Tranquil Mood Atmosphere Amazing record !!!
Undisputedly... Show no Mercy is my favorite Slayer album of all time. There was a short time when they played songs of the first two albums with the speed of RIB on their live shows. Absolute Killers! Hell yeah!
I remember listening to 'Reborn' thinking 'He's just singing nonsense'. Then I followed with the lyrics and realised he was singing every word perfectly.
I've been to a metal festival here in germany, in 1999 I believe. I knew Slayer at the time, but never before saw them live. So, since I was a big time fan, I was quite excited. Boy, if I knew what ride I was up to! They played just before sunset, and there where about 70 000 people at the festival - and it felt really everyone was before the center stage. From the opener to the encore, it felt like ten minutes, and I remember everything felt like a out-of-body experience. I never saw - and felt! - so many people united in one event, and one time, in one place. This was nothing short of a ceremony conducted by Slayer. They ARE the embodyment of metal.
According to an interview, with the band Venom, that I listened to years ago, it was Metallica, who were opening for them at the time who notified them of Slayer's existence. It's been almost twenty years, but IIRC, back around '83 or so, after a show, (Possibly) James set them aside and told them that there was this band called Slayer that channeled an image that was much closer to Venom's and that they should check them out.
Work in theatre. Had a patient come in with necrotising fasciitis, from a SPLINTER IN HIS FINGER. We could see it climbing up his arm with our own eyes, first time I've seen several surgeons panic and work together, he made it but it was excruciating and I can't imagine the pain and fear that Jeff was in
Have to disagree a little, i think World Painted Blood is one of their best songs, and the album is quite decent! I also might be biased, because me and my friends used to absolutely piss off our entire school when we played that song in our music class. Volume on 11, ofc.
Divine Intervention is uninspired? It's one of their best. The last truly great and original album they made. With it's own guitar tone. Fucking hell its awesome.
Totally agree, that was a truly great album. I don't get how it's not a popular choice, so many awesome songs. All I can say is that some people must hear through their ass.
I respect that but in my opinion none of the Big 4 had a truly great debut. All of them had to grow into their own identity. All of them basically sounded like they were blending their favorite bands at the start and it took a while for their truly unique sound to develop.
Bradely: “today we’re are talking about Slayer. That’s spelled S… ummm L.. A… Y… umm umm E… R. There were two people.. a guy named Jeff who might have died?” Clearly a big fan😂
God Hates is also my favorite Slayer album. fun fact i noticed, i had heard that Bloodline was made for some movie which came out a year earlier, so if you go and listen to the record, the mix for Bloodline is completely different from the rest of the album. i didn't notice that for years
I never really dug Slayer but a guy I used to work with dragged me to see them on the Christ Illusion tour. I thought I might as well go just to say I'd seen Slayer. I don't know if they were always like this but they were absolutely phoning it in live, really just going through the motions. Also that Bill Bailey bit about Slayer is 100% accurate.
@@lalolanda3996 Bill Bailey is an English comedian and musician, he had a bit in one of his show where he talks about Slayer - I cannot find a clip unfortunately. I did not realise until now that Axl Rose's real name was William Bailey.
I love all their albums. The big 4 from them being Hell Awaits, Reign in Blood, South of Heaven & Seasons in the Abyss. But I do love all their albums!!!
Bradley, I appreciate that you seem to have good taste in metal, without being elitist/nerdy, and most importantly you know the importance of VIBES in a good metal album. Its an unquantifiable factor that you can only feel in your gut!
Dude, World Painted Blood and Divine Intervention are AWESOME albums. I think you need to listen to them a couple of times in their totality and let the songs sink in.
Beauty Through Order is a killer song from World Painted Blood. I love the way it builds, from high intensity to even higher and a very powerful release. Sofia 2010 (Big Four Tour) is a great live version!
Slayer is the greatest. Not only where they present during the first "Bang!" of thrash metal, but their reckless abandonment of of musical conventions helped birth the more extreme genres. Morbid Angel, Deicide, Suffocation, Pestilence, and many others are basically just Slayer taken to its logical extremity. There where other bands around at the time, to be sure. But Slayer definitely belongs somewhere at very top.
Slayer is one of the most influential metal bands. They didn't just influence thrash. They influenced extreme metal as a whole. I'm not the biggest fan but you got to give them their credit.
Slayer are like The Beatles of extreme metal. Are they the best band to do that sort of sound? No, not by a long shot. But it’s also undeniable that their influence can be heard across a wide range of extreme metal subgenres and bands.
I can see that, I only like 2 Beatles songs and the rest I'd meh yet everyone acts like they are the best thing since sliced bread, I feel the same way about slayer lol. I grew up in the 90s when bands had a more evolved sound but if I were around in the early 80s slayer would be amazing
@@timd729 If we’re talking the earlier pop rock, British Invasion Era, to quote Quincy Jones, “They were no-playing motherfuckers.” If we’re talking the later, more experimental stuff, pretty much all the prog rock bands did that sort of thing with much more depth. Not saying they were bad, more like they established a template that future bands took to higher levels.
@@timd729 He said of 'extreme metal'. He's not wrong when it comes to the thrash metal scene Slayer in the top 4. Literally. That doesn't mean that the Beatles suck as the Beatles are in a totally different music genre.
My first slayer album was divine interventions so it is very close to my heart and I love it and because of that I love Paul vistas as my second favourite drummer next to Dave McClain when he was in machine head
@@ThisObserverI always thought Metallicas first 3 and Slayers first 3 tracked pretty closely. First was balls out og thrash, second got a bit experimental, and third was genre defining perfection.
I have no idea why "reign in blood" is considered as masterpiece. It's half an hour of the same fucking beat over and over again. The only good things about it are Angel of Death and Raining Blood. The rest sounds literally like a basic thrash beat on repeat. South of Heaven is their best hands down.
yo! Bradley, i'm currently working on a Megadeth parody project called "Holy Cow...Homework Due" but i dont now hot to use ai to averlap text and instrumental, if i were to send to you the text, would you make the song?
I never got big into Slayer, but as a metalhead, I felt obligated to buy Repentless off of iTunes when it dropped in 2015. I actually enjoyed it quite a lot! It also encouraged me to dig into their back catalogue.
They were phenomenal. No question. Ask anyone who was at the Marquee in 1985. Insane. At Hammersmith in 87 my ears bled. They were hitting incredible speeds. Even their peers could not believe what they were witnessing. They stuck to their guns and never sold out. In their last years after Jeff died, and Dave left, the magic mojo was gone forever.
