Slayer discography review
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Slayer do a fantastic job of taking this little observation and cramming as much evidence for it into one little album, offering 1 song with an interesting lyrical concept (Angel of Death), and nine songs written by, one could presume, a child after watching any boring horror movie. You must next question whether the argument that cheesy lyrics are to be taken as fun is an objectively sound argument against claims that they are, in fact, just awful lyrics. One must wonder how Kerry King is interested in playing the same solo for 7 songs, much less 26 years delving into speculation, one might presume that he is just an angry man-child, armed to the teeth with a Floyd rose guitar, an effects pedal, and two words: *** and jesus. Follow this with another incomprehensible solo involving a lot of explicitly obvious faked talent and repeat 7 times and you have the rest of Reign in Blood. Everything in between follows basically the same patterns as any other thrash song you’ve ever heard: one guitar intro, drums sporadically follow, both guitars play said riff, then speed up the tempo to 300 bpm so you can see how fast they can play high, random notes. Drop that, look at this little album objectively, and you find that even though its runtime clocks in at a measly 28 minutes, it really went on for about 20 minutes too long. From an objective standpoint, the album is incredibly seminal, setting the stage for many subgenres and imitators. The intro track Angel of Death has been ripped off countless times because of its memorable riffing and hooks looking elsewhere, you also have the one-two punch of Postmortem and Raining Blood, standing proud as one of the best examples of catchy Satanism, but aside from that, one must ask oneself how interesting the album really is. Running with our allegory, this woman happens to not be a very ambitious girl, a fact you find yourself grateful for, since she only goes on for about half an hour, setting the grounds for what should be the average length of a thrash album (though no one ever follows it, much to the disdain of almost anyone with a mild interest in thrash). The album, to go on a loftier allegorical note, is kind of like a beautiful woman with a really awful voice the best moments you have with her are right when she starts talking and right when she finally shuts the *** up.
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However, it is Reign In Blood that gets the most credit for influencing countless bands, and why this is may be one of the strangest phenomenon in metal, aside from why people think Kerry King is a great soloist. Aside from Haunting The Chapel and South Of Heaven, they basically were the archetype of the thrash trend and naturally got popular because of their easily digestible style. Slayer, for a better size of their discography, is one of these bands. That’s not to say thrash metal was a problem, but there was an overflow of terrible wannabes doing everything the worthwhile bands did (fast, groovy riffs, terrible lyrics, yelling vocals, useless solos) and ended up doing it worse. Hair metal was the main reason, but many elements of the thrash genre were also to blame. The 1980’s were arguably the worst period for rock music.