Why Slayer Started Using Satanic Imagery  

True but not in the public eye. The best ppl look bad on the outside sometimes

Was thinking the exact same thing 😅 💯

​@@gabrieldzwonowski3363 hollywood has been making occult movies way before slayer.

1000%

@@gabrieldzwonowski3363you’re not paying enough attention then.

Meh Megadeth were and still are better

🔝 Powerful statement.

If people are weak, that's not Slayer's fault

Yeah you can tell by his laugh that he's evil and definitely satanic or I guess I should say Slaytanic 😂

Right….

Seriously. It's infectious.

And the best voice

Hails Satan

100%. Those old videos and even now. His heart shines through for real.

chilean smile

That intro is hype. It's a great rhythm exercise for beginners too. On the fly tempo and riff changes are always a good skill to have

The beak down in At dawn they sleep is still chilling to me

SAYE'AAT, SAYE'AAT, SAYE'AAT, SAYE'AAT, SAYE'AAT...

Thats my number 1 slayer album of all time, according to KK, they were listening to alot of Mercyful fate at the time and took the satanic theme up a notch from the first album

They wore makeup on that album 😂

Understandably when you think about it. I'm a parent and if you think back than, girls that were 16 were going to shows having parties and getting with the band members. People in general freak out about the same thing today we just have a different set of morality than we had back than.

Glam rock started as a way to freak out parents that had the typical Christian conservatives views. Men dressing like woman was frightening to them because of homophobia. Slayer wanted to freak out both those communities by being less subtle and more campy & extreme. But ironically, Tom is catholic lol.

So did Mötley Crüe🤘 😆 They did 👹 and make-up 😁

It always works lol that’s why all metal bands use satanic imagery

Do just 10 minutes of reading on that topic and you find out that most of the time, if it smells satanic, it is. Geezer Butler and Ozzy Osbourne were heavily into Alistair Crowley and the occult. The title track from Black Sabbath is based on a demonic encounter Butler had after painting his whole flat black and hanging pictures of satan everywhere. Surely „just a gimmick“ right?

​@@char.ger-3321that's cap.

Only for the first album

Spiders, another way to unravel humanity so spiders can take control

💔🤘🏻

Yeah these days if you wanted to be controversial playing around there, you’d be making Christian themed songs lol “North of Hell, Angel of Life, Silent Prayer, Reborn Again, Heaven Awaits, Show Mercy, etc.” hahahaha

​@@ESPLTD322Even going the Christian route makes you an Owl city, Twenty One Pilots, NF, etc. There's just enough Christain entertainment in the mainstream that it isn't rebellious either, lol.

Comon everybody knows that right now racism, anti wokeism and to not give a single f about political correctness is the most controversial. To the point that people even scared to admit it.

😆no kidding. I didn’t listen to it then and I definitely won’t listen to it now. Garbage in, garbage out.

​@@ESPLTD322 tbh dude, those sound like sick ass metal songs not gonna lie, dont start giving me ideas 🤣

Metal Santa

Or maybe god is, if the being is real.

​@@theunholinesswithin70 to be God is to be omnipotent. He would have no need, reason or desire to lie when he could simply think change into existence. 😂

​@@theunholinesswithin70 real

Religious followers = the original suckers.

Maybe it was a God that told you not to trust Satan as the original deceiver.

Metallica could be first or second, anthrax third and Megadeth fourth

@@chrisbond6406 you've no idea what you're talking about. Sorry.

I could hang with slayer, Dave seems impossible to be around for more than 5 minutes

@@chrisbond6406 you need to grow out your Metallica phase lil bro.

Mustaine has done nothing but cried and bitched about being kicked out of Metallica for 40 fckn years, and you think he's a badass? I love Megadeth's music (esp. the early stuff), but Dave has been a douchebag since day one. He cries more than anyone in the big 4, treats his friends and others like shit, thinks he's better than all the rest, etc. so, basically, he's a huge diva. He's more like the Brittney Spears of thrash.

I see what you did there

Nope. Fuck religion.

I don't think he is Catholic...

@@richevans609 he is

@@richevans609 he is famously Roman Catholic and always has been. Look it up yourself.

​@@richevans609 He actually is, look it up!

Just say player hater bwoodson

There's a picture with a slayer fans all tattooed up painted and dressed in black in one half of the pic. Tom Araya was in the other half with his family wearing a spongebob shirt, lol.

He was such a hottie back in the day 😍.

@@Debra-k1f Tom is still adorable! Like a big Teddy Bear. I just want to hug him!

@@IrishChola7 I know, he's always smiling!! 😊

My first thought was actually Dee Snyder lol

If anyone believed in all that hype, it could've been Kerry King and maybe Jeff, but Tom couldn't care less.

Oh stfu, looking too deep for things that aren't even there.

But they have embraced it only until these past few years. Back in the 80s, Tom was right, and the few "occult" stuff they did was considered highly transgressive (The Exorcist, The Omen, Poltergeist, you get it) and it had the same effect on the film industry as Slayer and Sabbath had in the music industry. Nowadays a film called "Summoning Satan" would be just another horror film, like it would be just another black metal album.

The irony is the catholic church has done more evil than any band ever could

Kerry: shut up about $ Lombardo or I will unalive you!

It is still around today. The trans panic

@@BonShulacompletely different

@@exanimusofficial How? Trans represent 0.3% of the population but rep have been hard focusing on that issue for years now

@@BonShula because satanists weren’t avtually committing guman sacrifices en mass, trans people actively push genitao mutilation on children. let’s wait until a brain is fully formed before ruining lives aye

Are Goddly themes innocent?

​@@cmbells7736What's a godly theme???

Imagine believing in religion in 2024.

Me too since hell awaits came out I've been all in

Jesus Christ! Do you not have a brain?

Why not? Maybe because it's fun?

Ask god, isn't that what yo gods do.

@@cmbells7736 my God scares no one.

@@papaki2027God scares people in his “name”

Cuz Blackie from WASP, GAVE the Pentagram to Nikki Sixx ta USE for Crue...EARLY WASP and (a COUPLE of) Blackie' earlier bands HAD ALREADY been using the pentagram in the tale end of the latter 70s early 80s era, and so.... Yeah, OTHER than a few supposed "occult based bands" in the earlier 70s? AND BLACK SABBATH of course! 😊.... THAT is really WHERE the pentagram WAS being used.

Me TOO! Back when it hit, I got it within a week or 2 of being released, I was a junior in HS, HAD my HS sweetheart and me listening to the NEW SLAYER in my bedroom, as I had a couch and my drum kit in the basement man cave of the house. Heard that whole child "talking /screams" coming through my Pioneer home stereo stack (STILL HAVE part of 😎) COME IN, along with the KILLER hypnotic like guitar riffing WITH LOMBARDO JUST SLAMMING AWAY 1/4 time on the kick drums! I thought 🤔😬 THAT IS , some EVIL SOUNDING CHYT!...Some SLAYER fans are burnt on the track, OR simply don't care for it but yeah... NOT me 😊..I STILL enjoy it from time to time.. Plus? It WAS, one of the 1st SLAYER SONGS that I learned to play on the drums as well 🥁, lol. 😎🤘🔥🤘

😂😂😂

Cuz Blackie Lawless GAVE IT TO NIKKI (Tha SWITCH) SIXX TO USE! Pre WASP and EARLY WASP actually WERE using the pentagram way before the Crue got REAL WELL known for it (as you said)..... SHOUT WAS definitely, SHOCK ROCK, BUT? It HAD a sound to kinda "go with it"...Then Theater of Pain hit, and THAT WAS IT, (unfortunately for the Crue IMO 🫤SMH 😞 WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT!)......

Facts.

Lol, yep, and that is what the Hollywood crowd is truly about

@@G_v._Losinj2_ImportantPlaylist Truth. But not only Hollywood, that's the killing part.