Slayer - Metal Storm/Face the Slayer (REACTION!) 

crionics is such an underrated song. probably the best off there first album

Crionics, Die by the Sword, Black Magic. even though 1st album is very Madien influenced, this whole album is great! This is my favorite Slayer album, front to back

Actually, Metallica's debut album "Kill 'em all" came out in mid- 1983... just months before Slayer's debut album 'Show no mercy' in late '83... Anthrax's debut album 'Fistful of metal' came out early 1984 (on Megaforce Records, same label as Metallica)... Megadeth was signed in 1985 and recorded their debut album "Killing is my business..." that year, released in mid '85... Exodus recorded 'Bonded by blood' in 1984, but it was not released until mid-1985... Those were the first thrash metal records 🤘🤘 However, there were metal albums that pre-dated Metallica's debut album in 1983, delivered by bands that helped inspire thrash metal... Motorhead was the obvious inspiration, playing faster than most in 1979 - 1983... Also from the UK (besides Judas Priest, Iron Maiden & Saxon), u had Venom... their albums 'Welcome to hell' (1981) and 'Black metal' (1982) were a huge inspiration to thrash metal... Raven also brought the aggression w/ 'Rock til you drop' (1981)... 'Wiped out' (1982) and 'All for one' (1983)... Germany's Accept were also cranking up the volume since 1979, and their 4th album 'Restless & wild' (1982) was a landmark album that doesn't get enough credit. Manowar was formed in 1981 and debuted in 1982 w/ the album 'Battle Hymns'... the record was not a success, and Manowar was dropped by their label... They signed w/ Megaforce Records in America and released 'Into glory ride' in 1983. Canadian bands also brought the heat w/ Anvil releasing "Hard n' heavy" in 1981... 'Metal on metal' in 1982... and 'Forged in fire' in 1983... Exciter released 'Heavy metal maniac' in 1983 and 'Violence and force' in early 1984... Voivod released 'War & Pain' in 1984... followed by 'Roooaaaarrr' (1986)... None of these bands should be overlooked for their contributions to the extreme metal scene.

On this song is very evident the influence of the new wave of British heavy metal

I love their entire first album

This is what Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and Venom would sound like if they were a supergroup. You can totally hear their earliest influences in this song. I love it. My first slayer was this album so hearing this is special to me 🤙🏽💯💕🎸

Spill the blood! Heavy nasty riffs! They would love that one

Dave Lombardo was 18 when this was recorded.....

The guitar work in old school metal always reminds me of the string section of an orchestra, or more prominently; the horn sections of a film score. I get the same visceral yet uplifting vibe I feel when I hear the trumpets and trombones in something like Conan the Barbarian, Lord of the Rings, or something set in ancient or fantasy settings. Big, bombastic, triumphant, and victorious. Another good example of that kind of fanfare is Ides of March by Iron Maiden. It's the intro track to their Killers album.

Slayer has heavy punk influences - good ear. The intro description was prefect; that's exactly how Slayer shows start. \m/ Fkn SLAYEEEEER!

I still remember listening to my step dads iPod and slayer black magic was on there and omg it changed my life forever so original so raw and heavy and fast.

WAR ENSEMBLE !!! One of my all time favorite drum songs! My top favorite Slayer song!

This is both a thrash metal song as well as a first-wave black metal song. It's very reminiscent of early Mercyful Fate and a bit of Celtic Frost

Show No Mercy is my favorite Slayer album by far, love every song in that album. ps. You guys gotta do Show No Mercy from this album

Early Sepultura is where you get those insane long sustained dark guitar notes

im so in love with song and the lyrics. give me a couple of beers and ill start head banging to it.

My favorite songs off this album, in order: Black Magic, Chemical Warfare, Die by the Sword, Haunting the Chapel. 🤘🏻

Black Magic and Die by the Sword off this album. Haunting the Chapel is an extended play album of songs that didn't make the first album.... Haunting the Chapel, Chemical Warfare and Captor of Sin are all "bangers", however their next album Hell Awaits really takes a turn more into the brutal thrash and really amplifies their talents as a band. The opening track to this album has one hell of a intro (sounds similar to one of the numerous openings of headbangers ball on MTV which is actually Prongs Lost and Found song), At Dawn They Sleep, Crypts of Eternity and Praise of Death are my favorites. 🤘😎🤘

What amazes me about this song/album is that Slayer waded their way out of all the bands that sounded just like this back then. Plenty of bands at that time had this same sound, but apparently Slayer is the only band that learned to evolve and continue to dominate. A simply amazing accomplishment.

You guys should just do the entire "South of Heaven" album because it's more your style. Then 213 off of their "Divine Intervention" album. Also from the "Seasons in the Abyss" album, Expendable Youth, Dead Skin Mask and Skeletons of Society

Great tune. One of the closest to Priest and Maiden musically. Might be my favorite Slayer deep cut.

I remember listening to Slayer in the late 80’s as a young teen. Saw them for the first time for the Clash of the Titans tour in 1991 in Hampton, Va. slayer, megadeth, anthrax, and Alice In Chains)

This one is a deep track....Early SLAYER....LOVE IT!

This is one of my all time favorite Slayer tunes. Super happy yall have got this deep into catalogs

Show No Mercy is great from beginning to end. 🤘

Great reaction! I'm glad you guys got around to Show No Mercy. It gets overshadowed by albums like Reign In Blood, but this album is a masterpiece in metal. Like you guys were saying on how liking Slayer gives you street cred, liking Show No Mercy shows you have an appreciation for metal. The riffs and lead work are that good. If you guys react to this album again, I highly recommend Crionics.

Slayer song I know you’ll 1000% love is skeletons of society 🔥 I promise you that

Solid choice, Tom channels his inner King Diamond at points, and you won't get any bad suggestions for more Slayer, like Hell Awaits or Killing Fields, but I once brought up Skeletons of Society and I'm going to stick with that. It's just one consistent heavy grove that you don't want to have end. Oh, and speaking of skeletons... 'Skeleton Chr*st" is a great groove one too! (youtube wouldn't let me spell the name...).

Kill'em All was '83

Yes you guys must do "Chemical Warfare" by Slayer

This was a great example of change of tempo in Metal. An exquisite sample of tempo change for the inspired to learn from.

Man this is such a sound of the times! I still have this vinyl from High School.

It's just so fun to watch you guys....reminds me when first started listening to rock/metal with my friends when was like 10 years old.....now I'm 45....:) Keep it up guys ...you guys always put a smile on my face ....thank you....:)

Slayer had some of the best guitar riffs ever

Skeletons of Society please lads.

Hahahaha!! When you said the ukelele I spit out my beer bro!! I got this image in my head of this song being played by frogs with straws in their mouth (for some reason) playing this song with ukuleles and fiddles... I agree the vocals here are more of a "geez we got this awesome song full of great riffs, but I guess we need to have some vocals in there too" kind of vibe. You know Tom Araya is the bass player as well as singer so he wouldn't care, but the record company probably did. This song has shows their great admiration for Iron Maiden.

“Crypts of eternity” and “at dawn they sleep” from Hell awaits

Their first couple albums are like listening to early ass Priest/ Maiden/ Fate/ Venom just sped up. It wasn’t til they met Rick from def jam that they got into the production that turned them into what was the slayer sound for the next 25 years. Each album has highlights that will go down in history. My fav is god hates us all. Christ Illusion, and repentless. But each release has epic can’t live without songs on them. Just my slayer two cents. Love your guy’s channel. ❤

Guys, it's Seasons IN the abyss, hehe cheers... you should go and listen Behind the Crooked Cross, outta south of heaven too.

I am the same way George, I am a bit more lenient with the vocals in Metal than other genres. With metal, in many cases the vocals compliment the music which they can get away with when the guitar riffs reign supreme while in most other genres the music compliments the vocals.

This song is soooo cool!

glad u liked it...Slayer did some experimentation on this one and let the minds just go.Their older stuff like this was awesome and kept the listener from being bored.

14:16 what a beautiful scene two hiphop heads headbanging to FUCKIN SLAYER 🤣🤘

I'm so glad to see this from you both... I bought this in 83. It's generic fare from the debut... top songs are Die By the Sword, Black Magic, Evil has No Boundaries, and the Antichrist. And then jump to Hell Awaits with the title track and At Dawn they Sleep!

So good. I grew up listening to this in the 80s...great album man...rocks.

Hey! I love metal and I love your videos! I've started branching out into rap and hip hop more thanks to you guys. Have you considered doing a video about different rap/hip hop artists that you think fans of certain types of metal would like?

Die by the Sword off this album really epitomizes early Slayer to me, it's got that that sinister feeling and aggression that they really built on heading into later albums, I saw you guys reacting to this and I immediately wished that you were doing that one.

I use too have this tapestry in my room 🤘😎nice review fellas keep up your awesome quest

The Antichrist is THE song off this album

I mean, as a 51 year old Slayer fan that bought that albumin 1983 at Tower Records I. Sacramento CA, I love this. However, it was hard for me to go back to this since the 3 following albums.

If you dug this, you may wanna give something from Death Angel's first album, the Ultra-Violence, a shot. Mistress of Pain or Voracious Souls are my recommendations. These guys were teenagers when they made this album too.

I love you guys! Greetings from Portugal!!!!

This is the first slayer song ive heard that ive actually enjoyed, cheers fellas!

Don't know Slayer that much.. But for me it's really cool to realize that early Slayer sounded kind of similar to early Iron Maiden.. love it! :D

Love the debut album. Has a great groove to it.

Show no mercy is amazing from top to bottom

SLAYER!

Listen to Black Magic off this album. But Hell Awaits is a great album of there's.

the great thing about this album for me personally is all of the early NWOBHM influence from Iron Maiden, Judas Priest , Venom and Def Leppard. Great album

2nd greatest debut metal album behind Exodus “Bonded by blood”

Skeletons of Society or Dead Skin Mask would be good for you guys

the intro is the metal storm....when it kicks in...that is when you face the slayer!!!!

a good thrash metal song is like a wild roller coaster

South of Heaven and Seasons in the Abyss. Sure, good introduction to Slayer. They became the songs during their live show when I go take a leak though.

Spill The Blood. The drums are the star of that one for sure.

you guys n slayer means i hit like even before i watch it. nice!

You also did Mandatory Suicide. Which was a great song. I discovered it on this channel.

It's too bad they don't tour anymore, because I would pay **SERIOUS** money to see your reactions at a Slayer show!

For the love of all things Slayer do Ghosts of War!!!

Also Slayer were on Def Jam records in the 80s, fun fact.

You guys need to check out a song from Katatonia's new album! Colossal Shade would be playlist guaranteed.

Never understood why they didn't open the album up with this set of songs. Great intro material.

Ohh man thank you for doing this song. Very underrated.

"World Painted Blood" would be a good one.

I about fell out of my chair when Ryan said, "Everbody Slayer f@*kin A!"Good stuff man, you cracked me up.

Been a while. True music lovers

slayer were extremely young here on this album - defining their sound and vocals - this is my favourite slayer album due to its rawness and appreciation for a bunch of kids just smashing it out

Awesome video. Metal storm / Face the slayer is one of the best Slayer songs. also can you react to the Slayer song Tormentor ? It's on the same album as Metal Storm / Face the Slayer.

My favorite song off this one is Tormentor. Very underrated riffs and a great jam!

My absolute favorite Slayer song and only saw them play it once in 1985.

SSLLLLLLAAAAAAYYYYYYYYEEERRRRRRRRR I like that you guys mentioned punk influences. From my knowledge thrash takes the hard rock of the 70’s and added punks tempos.

This was my first album I bought by slayer and instantly fell in love.....also the first album I heard tripping on shrooms.....Love x 1,000,000!

These two songs alone are the reason l love Show No Mercy before Reign In Blood.

for me its the song (postmortem)🤘🤘🤘

Guys, you really need to react to Hirax - "Demons Evil Forces." That intro and opening riff is iconic in terms of old school thrash!

Definitely the heaviest of the ‘Big Four’ thanks mainly to Rick Rubin’s production,often cited as the band that directly influenced the rise of death metal,pure aggression,graphic and violent lyrical content and down-tuned guitars…. FUCKIN’ SLAYERRRRRRRR 🤘🏻

AT DAWN THEY SLEEP👍-Hell Awaits

King of the mountain, I’m a legend tonight and Creatures of the night, Strutter, Black Diamond, Loves a deadly weapon are some kickass KISS songs around this time \m/

MORE SLAYEEEEER!!!

Slayers Disciple is a real gem. One of the few songs that gives me goosebumps every time. Piano Man is another one so you know it's elite company.

I really like this album; they're from my hometown and I can picture the environment the lyrics describe in these early songs. Divine Intervention, low-key, has some of their best stuff.

The Birthday Massacre: Goodnight, Sleepwalking, Always

I bought this album when I was like 12 years old. I was looking for the most brutally evil face ripping thing I could find. Been a fan ever since. You mention that there are a lot of riffs in this, but a lot of the riffs in the middle and end of the song call back to elements in riffs in the intro and earlier in the song. Cool compositional flex for a band that were basically teenagers at the time. Anyway, FUCKIN'SLAYERRRRRR!

That was a great point George made about the vocals and different genres. I think with metal, It's more about the 'character' of the vocals rather than any innate singing ability and the instrumentation takes precedence over everything else. It's just like with horror movies going in you know what to expect. The harsh vocals just 'fit' with the overall theme of the music.

i think thi is the best slayer song, very creep and heavy! perfect.

10:10-10:39 They got a dude with a Baphomet on his head and shit - this had me rolling. Agree with everything you said between these time stamps.

🤘FUCKIN' SLAYER!!!!!🤘 I think you've hit on the notion of the phrase, it's almost a badge of honor among fans. Please consider listening to Sick Of It All's - Just Look Around ('92)

The Ocean, Jurassic. Great post metal. Play it and trip out. Very old Slayer takes me back though.

love that bruthas know about metal.

Ha. I love Araya's style of singing. It's perfect for slayers sound. Even his screams are awesome. I think an over technical style of singing would kill the vibe.