0:13 Kill Again 5:22 Crypts of Eternity 12:09 At Dawn They Sleep 18:55 Praise of Death 24:27 Hell Awaits 29:56 Necrophiliac 33:40 Hardening of the Arteries
Us older metallers were lucky enough to see Slayer at their youthful best. My first concert was April 1985 seeing them w/Venom, Exodus. And in 1986 w/D.R.I., Bl'ast, Overkill. I saw them again when Seasons In The Abyss came out, then several times after they became a full blown arena rock band. But the the quality of their shows never came close to the first two times I saw them.
I honestly don't listen to them after Seasons. My favorite albums by them are the first two. Imo Rick Rubin fucked their sound. He got rid of the chorus pedals they used. Guitars before RIB sound different than after The demo of Reign gives a glimpse of how it might have sounded if Rubin never got to them. When you hear interviews with some of the guys from Danzig, they say Rick Rubin wanted to " AC/ DC " things up. As in no pedals. He did the same with Slayer.
I wish I could have seen them in 85/86. I first saw them in 88 in Albuquerque, then just 3 months later I just happened to see them in W Berlin. Then again in 91 in Albuquerque and then again 4 months later in Lubbock, TX. Those were the days!
@@cepolt Do you have any references to this?? I love the lo fi type production on Hell Awaits and would like to get more information on their sound around this time.
Such massive talent, 4 different families of people created these 4 guys, and they crossed paths to create this, that just blows my mind... Life is an unbelievable experience and creation of life is so amazing, it's such a mixed bag of the best things in life, that exist on this earth, just obscure, real, creative, just a wild far out experience man...totally, but I love it, that is why life is so Important, they were just awesome together, R.I.P. Jeff Hanneman, and everyone else in the band, love you guys..😎💪💪👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸
Slayer were really thrash, but so much that they escaped the realm of thrash and influenced a lot of death metal bands. If you ask me, the perfect and finest thrash band is probably Anthrax, but my fav is always MOTHERFUCKING SLAYER!!!!!!!!!
"Hell Awaits" will always have THAT special place in my heart. It was the first Slayer song I heard live in 1985 in Dynamo/Eindhoven and the very first time I saw a stagediver in real life (I only had read about that "new" phenomenon in Aardschock magazine)). Besides Hellhammer/Celtic Frost, Slayer was like Death Metal to me in 1984 when too many friends began to like Metallica, lol.
Exactly! Thj same people who are too deaf to see the huge difference btween METALLICRAP and SLAYER! One is Thrash and the other is just speedy heavy metal.
@@snakepitguy Kill 'Em All is literally a 100% thrash album. In 1984, Fight Fire With Fire was more intense than anything Slayer had released up to that point. In early 1986, Master Of Puppets was heavier than anything Slayer had released up to that point as well. Metallica made thrash albums all throughout the 80s. Anthrax and Megadeth (in the early days) were closer to "speedy heavy metal". Slayer and Metallica were the most intense thrash bands of the Bay Area back in those days. Please, take facts into consideration before crapping on one of the most influential thrash metal bands of all time.
I saw SLAYER in Jan '85 in Las Vegas for their very 1st time there. They played a few songs from Hell Awaits before it was released, including Kill Again and Necrophiliac. SLAYER in a small club was amazing. I sat in front of KFK, sitting on his monitor the whole show.
Right on, where did they play? I'm from the Vegas area & I saw Slayer play The Huntridge before the Divine Intervention album was released. (which was also a week or two before the infamous Circle Jerks show there) Tom Araya said "we wanted to see how you would react to our new drummer." It was an awesome show because the venue was small. They played Mind Control & 213
Cool man, you beat me with a few months as I 1st saw them live at Dynamo/Eindhoven in May 1985. It was eclectic! They opened with "Hell Awaits", all fists were in the air during the intro, chanting to Dave Lombardo's floor tom beat, and Kerry f King partly climbing on the PA in a cool metal pose! Also the first time I ever saw a stage diver, oh the memories. I miss those times! 🤘😎
I heard about this satanic band Slayer and went to Rock and Roll Heaven here in Jersey and that day bob blitz was there n said Hell Awaits came out today,so of course I got it,brought it home,played side one "join us...join us" in reverse, then the music....then at that exact moment,my life had changed forever!! Best show ever Nov,86,at the Ritz in NYC. Legendary show!!!! Ihad slayer painted across the back window of my blood red dodge viper, n got many thumbs up over the years.
Man these demo's are so awesome to listen to. Only a handful of bands have better demos than the actual studio albums, Slayer being one of those bands.
Same thing when they used play alot of hell awaits live-it's faster and heavier,.....this is excellent, watch..."..Slayer - 1986 - Live At The Ritz - NY [Full Concert] "
Rick Renner yeah iknow that show very well. I saw them on that exact R I B tour (Royal Oak Music Theatre in Royal Oak Michigan basically Detroit) Overkill opened up for them and we met Kerry after the gig and I remember when one of Overkill's hanger ons was walking by as we were talking to Kerry and he said anybody got any Coc? We all said no and the guy said man I thought this was Detroit Rock City (obviously meaning rocks of Cocaine) and Kerry just gave him this awesome look like you f****** moron drugs are for dipshits, which I thought was really cool even though I completely destroyed my life with drugs been clean for 15 years.
This is absolutely amazing! Had no clue this existed. The pure blood, high end energy of this is truly spectacular. This honestly blows away the actual studio recording of the album. Clearly, they had jammed out these tracks so many times at this point they were on autopilot muscle memory and able to blast them at max speed. The good 'ol days when thrash was still a final frontier of amazing riffage from coast to coast and country to country! 🤘💀🤘 Hails & Horns Up
Jeff Hanneman said in an article I read before he died that Slayer practiced all the time. Back then they got along, were into the material, so practicing wasn't a chore to them. It was clear among other bands that these guys were tight and sophisticated in playing.
Thank you so much for uploading this to youtube.... When I was a teenager we had no internet.... If I would have had this on tape cassette in 1992 I would have been the coolest 16 year old in town... SLAYTANIC WEHRMACHT\m/
SLAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you sooooo much for posting this. This is soooooo RAW and BRUTAL!!!! So SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I went to every show SLAYER played up in the Bay Area for a span of 20 years. My favorite Thrash Metal band of all time. Even chipped a tooth in a SLAYER pit. Ha. Dave Lombardo f'ing RULES!!!! Their sound was never as hard without Dave. Sorry my honest opinion. He's GOD.
Agreed 100%. The mix/production on that album really left me wanting; murky with all the punch of a pillow fight. This on the other hand is ass kicking!
Just listened to both this and the actual album and they sound almost the same in terms of rawness. This rehearsal was a bit more brutal but was sloppy in some parts and quite a few solos were missing. This is still good for when you want to switch it up though.
I saw them 7 or 8 times between 1985-91 all over SOCAL & Baja. Including the riot show at the Hollywood Palladium with Danzig '88. Always amazing. Also saw them with Venom and later DRI. It's all coming back to me...
I actually have another version of Slayer rehearsing in Santa Cruz in a house right around this time. It is much longer than this with the entire hell awaits set with vocals with talking stuff between songs just like this. I almost suspect it might have been a day before this recording but the sound quality is not mixed and panned like here but is still great. There is also a song with just Kerry King or Jeff (I think Kerry) at the end where he's showing the band a new song. That song sounds more like it should have been in the next album but never made it onto Reign in Blood or any album. I got the recording from an older dude who was very much into the thrash scene from the bay area. He was passing joints to James at early Metallica club shows. lol He told me Kerry king was hella pissed that it got leaked out, we're talking like 84 ish, I suppose. He gave me a copy about 10 years ago and I gave a copy to one friend in the bay area but I'm sure he's lost it. I know I have it somewhere. It's on cassette and unfortunately it's somewhere in my garage that has 50 other boxes. The challenge is find it first, then find a cassette player (lol) which I don't have, run the output jack into the computer and transfer it.
For Me , this is their masterpiece album. Blackened thrash Supreme. venom meets maiden with a large dose of inspiration from crossing paths with the thrash godfather Dave Mustaine and this demon was born
@Lamb of god Central lamb of god "rapes" Slayer? Nahhhhh, you have your opinion but my opinion is the complete opposite. And Slayer came way before LoG so I dont understand what you mean by why cant people hear it, and without Slayer majority of bands like LOG, Pantera, Sepultura, as well as death metal bands wouldn't have been started or would've been delayed, Sepultura says without slayer they wouldn't exist like they do. Nobody played that heavy, dark feeling and extremely fast thrash style until Dark Angel's we have arrived album in 1984, you have fast Crossover Thrash, Hardcore punk and Speed metal bands like DRI, Misfits, Minor Threat, Suicidal Tendencies, Agent Steel etc but they were not dark and heavy like Slayer.
The sound quality is excellent for a mid-eighties rehearsal tape. One question though, where was the album released via Roadrunner? Over here in the U.S. it was released directly through Metal Blade.
I read somewhere that Kerry said, prior to the loss of Jeff, that he was sore about all the riffs they put on Hell Awaits because they could have used a bunch of them for other songs for more records. Well if he felt that his creative well was going to dry up that fast... that's no fucking good. The last album Repentless is a testament to that riff-wise. I guess he likes one riff and tremolo chord chugging with wah solos per song. RIP JEFF HANNEMAN.
Jason Cookman not easy to write a whole album (music and lyrics) for a band like slayer and add he pretty much used all of his mind whwn he was young,though I like it
I did read King say that some songs or large parts of were written during Hell, but didn't work into the album scheme of HELL, RIB, South and Seasons. The songs ended up on God Hates 15 years later. Great songs are always written but when most of an album is being done and already has a theme or specific sound, feel, those songs aren't added to not throw off the total album scheme. You can hear it later on imports that add that missing song, and something just doesn't jive, thought the song is good. You can tell it was never meant to been on that album. Especially when they remix the newly added songs years later, they blatantly stand out as if they were recorded somewhere else, at a different time, even if they weren't.
Now that they're "R.I.Pieces", I wonder how much my 4 Original Members Signed B.C.Rich Black & Silver Warlock will fetch?..... hmmm. HELL AWAITS! BESTEST ALBUM IMHO. LONG LIVE[UNDEAD] SLAYER🖤🎶🥁🌋🏴☠️🤘💀
It's very possible Gene Hoglan is playing on this tape. He has said that the tape of him rehearsing Hell Awaits with the guys had been stolen. So I'm not sure if this is Lombardo or Gene. Sounds like all the fills are as they are on the record, but hard to say without his confirmation.
