Slayer "Angel Of Death" & "South Of Heaven" | REACTION 

Same with Iron Maiden.

I first heard them in 6th grade on a hard rock public access show my elementary school janitor/basketball coach did.

2 time Grammy award winners.

@@darkscorpion-donzaloog Iron Maiden is main stream heavy metal from England. Slayer is speed metal

@Rick Ross There is no major distortion in Slayer music. Compare Slayer with Old Metallica , Annihilator and Sepultura. Slayer's tune is not thrash sound. Slayer is aggressive Speed Metal faster than Over Kill and Megadeth . These bands are not Thrash Metal. What made these bands great in the 80s is their non mainstream legacy and aggressive lyrics. Of The BIG FOUR only Metallica was pure thrash. Metallica defined the thrash metal sound in Master of Puppet and took it to the mainstream with and Justice for All. Sepultura combined the Thrash distortion with guttural vocals.

I drove an hour and a half to see Slayer in Moline, IL last night and I didn't see a single swastika anywhere. Great show, go see them while you still can.

It’s on all their merch dude, always has been.

@@MorbidAngel31775 I have Slayer shirts, hats, CDs, vinyl records, socks, coffee mugs, posters, and DVDs. None of them have a swastika. Is this a new Mandela effect?

Your right I thought they were talking about the eagle you see everywhere my bad sorry.

Ryan Johnson let me tell you, I’ve been a SLAYER FAN for 35 fucking years and not once have I ever thought or saw them promote racism or hatred towards another race or human. They used imagery to talk about Angel of death by talking about what Joseph mengela committed towards the Jews and others alike. Did they use pictures of German helmets with swastikas on them? Yes! Was it authentic and real? Yes, it depicted Nazi Germany. Was it how they truly felt? Hell No!!! Jeff was a history buff when it came to his fathers war and that in no shape or form classified him or Slayer as Nazi sympathizers in the least. They did the history research and brought it to life in a song. Let’s keep Jeff’s name clean and honor him by not calling him or Slayer, racist bc they aren’t.

Infamous butcher Angel of Death! R.I.P. Jeff Hanneman!!! I’m wearing your shirt as I write this brother!!! SLAYER FOR LIFE!!! 🤘🏽🤘🏽😞💔

Will Wel great insight dude

This guy knows the truth. Jeff just had a fascination with it. Never wore it. And just like Lemmy Kilmister and Ozzy Osbourne are world war 1 and 2 , also Nazi history guys.

@Me Hes a reborn again Christian like Mustaine.

@Me I'm not quite sure but like 10 years ago or something like that

@Mehe said he was raised catholic.

That's a good Dad right there

I couldn't buy a Ratt Cassette, because it had lewd girls on the cover. You were lucky.

fuck yea!!,..greatest pops right there 🤘😁👍

Jeff did have the Totenkopf on his guitar (Stickers and Inlays) but unoess you know it was used by the SS it just looks like a Skull and Crossbones.

And one of his guitars got a Waffen SS decal

And so did Lemmy.

@@JayG666 exactly... And lemmy had a black gf and a big love for Little Richard

@@DjStinger Yup.

But if there's one thing I know, it's that the Boyz N the Hood are always hard.

Dough boy

@@grendeltech haha yeah one died from aids...ones an actor who plays the po po...one is a producer and who cares about the other 2

the artist formally known as craig lastname never did

I think they might be getting confused with slayers fan club. The slaytanic wehrmacht. (Wermacht Means War Machine in German.) Whose logo was a skull with a German type helmet on it. No swastika though.

Nope but some of Jeff Hanneman's early signature guitars from ESP had some wwII inlays that were a bit controversial (S&key)

@Bobby K well said!

@@samunden what is s&key ?

Yep.

Best show I’ve ever seen, Atlanta, dual Bill, PANTERA, and Slayer back to back. Slayer played Rain in Blood front to back. Goose bumps just remembering that show. And I’m 50, seen these guys since the 80’s. No one like em.

Mandatory Suicide is my fave. Wish he'd listen to that one.👍

I agree only fall back is that you've to go and find a hard copy, social media channels butcher it with ads.

As inaccurate as it is though.

@@norsefury74 Seemed mostly accurate?

Slayer = 😁

I totally understand...Metal saves lives...Because otherwise...I would kill without it...Its beautiful natural release of anger and hate...I fucking love it

Indeed. Slayer have two songs involving the nazies, Angel of Death and Behind the crooked cross. Angel of Death is a viceral and graphic condemnation of Dr. Mengele, not just describing some of the horrors he comitted, but pulling no punches in describing him as a sadistic serial killer who found a station in life that would allow him to be a sicko ("Rancid angel of death, flying free", these are not kind words to describe someone with). Real Neo-nazies of course are Holocaust deniers, they want to belive it never happened, and would never write a song like this. Behind the crooked cross describes a German soldier who was swept up in the Nazi ideology before the war, only to discover too late durring the war that he is fighting for the bad guys. It's a song about the horror of being trapped in a war machine that he nolonger belives in, that he feels is tarnishing his very soul, but he is still just one man, he can't stop this war machine. In the end he vows to do only the bare minimum ordered of him and nothing more, because this is his only means of resistance, and prays that he can live with the shame of what he has done. No Nazi would write a song like that, not in a million years.

@@Grobut81 don't forget SS-3

@@Grobut81 and the final command too 🤘🤘🤘

Theyre all flaming liberals.

As a matter of fact no Nazi would write a song like this. They are not beating around the bush regarding this topic. They dive right into hit and it hits you like a train - the way it should be.

A lot of great bands called it the thrash bible

Without doubt. That and South and seasons

Yep the Japanese scientists were known as Unit 731. I believe Slayer did a song about that as well.

@@Will_Wel They certainly did, and it can be found on the World Painted Blood album. Good song, too.

@@AO968 thanks. Couldn't remember specifically. I know every guitar riff and song sound in my mind. But I'm terrible with song names.

@@AO968 world painted blood is hell of a good album

Germany has apologized for what they did to the jews but Japan has never apologized for what they did to the Koreans, sadly

Of course their not racist,

Also two of their members are Latino. Would be pretty fuckin weird for them to be Nazi sympathizers.

I think Tom Araya’s family is Jewish, too lol well, one of those guys’s family is ... maybe Jeff Hanneman

@@buzzbomb67 catholic

@@howiejohnson7227 correct, thanks …I caught that after I wrote that, but forgot to fix it … distractions lol. I remember them saying one of them was Jewish though, so Im not sure which … maybe Kerry?

Same man, I been a Fan since 84-85 and I'm Black. I don't think they are racist, but Tom's wife might be, her twitter gets pretty wild, and Anselmo is definitely racist, (from Pantera). Everyone isn't innocent. Public Enemy might be racist too in all fairness and Nas.

Still holds up to modern metal bands to date.

Yep. Can't believe it's only like 33 minutes long - but it was cool to turn the cassette over and start it all over again.😀👍

Dead Skin Mask.

Ghost of War!!

Ghost of War!

Ghost of War!!!!!

1986

Agree, gotta do raining blood. One of Slayer's best.

Facts

Yep, it's the Snowflake generation, cancel culture that has now graduated from liberal institutions that is writing this stuff.

@@norsefury74 TBF it probably doesn't have much to do with any of those buzzwords. It probably predates it.

Half the band is Latino. Dave Lombardo is Cuban.

Tim is from South America. Chile I think

rip

Yep, especially the song jihad

Me too 🤘

Yes I did. And also have tickets to see them at their final show at the Forum.

Saw them in Hershey on Wednesday. My throat has not recovered yet.

And 213

facts \m/

Yep. I just subscribed because of that.👍

Tim Loney Possessed

I've noticed, It seems a lot of the reaction channels from people who grew up listening to hip-hop. Usually head Bob at half speed during the moments when they should be double timing their head.

I've been listening to metal for 35 years, and I never knew that there was an "acceptable" way to headbang. It's kind of the whole point, you move the way you feel to the music. But, to each their own.

@@rexfellis not how to headbang. Just that you can tell when someone is getting the rhythm as intended or not. Like the slow parts or the Fast Parts in the pit.

@@rexfellis real talk, man!!! Commend you for your comment 🤘👍

I say headbang how you want and he can head banging how he wants and I'm going to do it my way too! One of the things I've received from Rock and especially I won't tell you what to do don't tell me what to do I won't listen anyway sometimes even if it best for me.. let's just get together with our people start with a big circle all the sudden what the mood is right we slam each other around but pick each other up when we hit the ground! Can't wait to see you all my brothers and sisters next week in Vegas for sadly my last Slayer show. It's crazy my first was 1987 I was about 15 my parents threw away I don't know how many Slayer albums tape CDs and my dad started out cool I was seven when I got Quiet Rot,twisted .... They just didn't understand what the big four what is really about but it's what made me so much more well-adjusted then all these other so-called good kids I've adopted special-needs and do more for others than I do for myself. But I'm the black sheep of the black sheep on both sides my family. And I'm still wearing those evil satanic racist t-shirts where's my goody-goody cousins prison rehab and living with their parents yes I rub it into my aunts & uncle's all the time! They tried to take Me in and raise me right my parents did a better job but this point needs the strict+military+ religious guidance but haha you should see how their kids turned out

August 3!!!

@@kevinpfluke4817 \m/

Omg I love Dance of the Manatee! Fantastic song and band

Metal Mike88 none. They owned Def Jam (Def American). They released the record under a different banner that they still owned

@@monkeyballs512 No they didn't dumb ass. It was Geffen Records.

By the way Dave Lombardo is Cuban and Tow Araya (singer/bassist) Chilean.

A sun symbol that represents good fortune iirc.