SLAYER - SOUTH OF HEAVEN | Reaction 

Great reaction,, guys,, as always. Let me throw in my two cents. In my interpretation of the lyric, you're misreading it. As with much of Slayer's lyrics, they may appear "satanic" but actually deal with the evils of humanity (war, mass murder, terrorism, greed, etc).. While "South of Heaven" could refer to Hell, it more likely refers to Earth. The opening lines "Judgement day the second coming arrives, before you see the light you must die" is a very apocalyptic/Book of Revelations take on the end of the world, and the rest of the lyrics describe the evils of humanity and how we will face judgement for our sins. As I've long said, Slayer take the evils of the human race and neither condemn nor glorify it, but rather put it in your face and show us that all of us allow these things to happen. In this and other videos, Jojo seems to think us metalheads are violent psychopaths. We're actually nice people that express our angry, violent instincts in a safe, healthy manner, through the music we listen to.

@@michaelbaldwin8484 Thank you my brother. I'll make sure he sees this.

@@LFRFAMILY 😁

If you love the drummer, listen to Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss

@@michaelbaldwin8484 Absolutely correct. Most people overlook the meaning of the song. Two Members of the group, Tom Araya and Dave Lombardo the greatest drummer ever to me, are devout Catholics. Slayer are akin to watching a horror movie. South of Heaven is about the Earth and not Hell. it’s about all t\he evils on the earth.

That is the unfortunate truth.

This song aged well...

U'r right.

Truth but that’s our role

Truth, this 🌎 is & will be hell🔥 when YAH & and the final war begins!

One of the most clever titles in Metal! Proves who's really listening to the message.

Exactly. Because people don’t understand the misconception is saying south of heaven as hell when it’s not it is earth

It is specifically about a society falling away from God not just that people do bad things. Lines like "conform a new faith" and "Obtained by immoral observance a domineering deity" hint at the worship of a false God. "On and on south of heaven" implies it is an ongoing process.

Glad to see you here.

Glad you’re still here 😎🤘💗

I have a similar experience and reason for getting into metal! saved me!

Rock on brother, I'm glad you stayed around!

In 1990 me and a buddy were on our way home from a Slayer show in Dayton,Ohio, when my car broke down (alternator) This guy with his wife and daughter, stopped to help us. Total strangers, but it was different times, people didn't think twice about helping someone. Anyhow, we wound up crammed in the car with them, they ended up going maybe 30 minutes out of their way to drop us off right at my front door. A little less than 2 yrs later, I married that man's daughter. Here we are nearly 30 yrs later, and she's in the other room reading to our granddaughter, right now. I can tell you that her dad has since passed he was an awesome dude, but he was more than a little surprised when that random kid he had helped, showed up at his house asking for his daughter

You said A mouth full ! I wish these so called Rock station could have the balls and guts to play Slayer ! That's what's wrong with rock radio !

Yes! Now that I’m nearing 50, I told my son, once you’ve live a little and then hear the lyrics you’ll understand. Is it weird that some slayer songs have brought tears to my eyes? LOL. It sounds funny, but I have. Knowing what happened, how could Angel of Death not make you cry? It’s horrible.

That's why alot of us poor white folks are pissed off! 😄

It is specifically about a society falling away from God not just that people do bad things. Lines like "conform a new faith" and "Obtained by immoral observance a domineering deity" hint at the worship of a false God. "On and on south of heaven" implies it is an ongoing process.

As a metal head, he’s great, but there are others who absolute beasts. But still one of the GOAT’s

@@luiswiley372 sad thing is Slayer sounds like crap without Jeff and dave

@@luiswiley372 I will not not pick a goat on guitar, bass or drums there's is a lot of great musicians put there. It you are into rock check Wolfgang van Halen New albums is really good

@@metadeth578 very true the chemistry between the band members has to be there!

@@metadeth578 I’ll definitely look into it thanks for the recommendation

^This

Love me some dead skin mask

Anything on this album. Behind the crooked cross kicks ass!!

Dead Skin Mask is my all time #1 song. For 35 yrs I have followed this band, when I seen them at Camden NJ for their final goodbye it marked the 102nd time I have seen them live. SLAYER is Life. They never sold out and always gave 1000%. While far from perfect Slayer was,is and forever will be Top 3 most influential bands in the metal world......🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻"Fuckin Slayer"🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻...... Forever!.

@@jasondonnelly4926 Hell yes! It’s my favorite song off of this album. Mostly because I can relate to it (as a metaphor) and my upbringing. It brings me to tears most times I listen to it.

This.

Yes Cap?

@@WojMoj what’s cap mean?

@@m.f.culler9012 lie...no cap= no lie

What happened?

Where’d she go?

Don't know when this was recorded cause Jojo already reacted to this lol