Bands That Sound Like SLAYER
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- Опубликовано: 4 авг 2024
- Today we're going to check out five bands that sound like SLAYER. SLAYER is a legendary thrash metal band from California. They are part of the Big 4 of thrash and they are the most aggressive and evil sounding band out of those four. Tom Araya, Kerry King, Jeff Hanneman and Dave Lombardo was the classic lineup of Slayer that recorded their classic 80's catalogue. With Reign in Blood being considered a metal masterpiece. So in todays video I'm going to share five bands with you that I think sounds like Slayer. Enjoy!
#reigninblood #bigfour #slayer
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Bands featured:
Kreator (Ger), Sacrifice (Can), Insane (Ita), Onslaught (UK) & Exumer (Ger)
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
00:49 Kreator (Ger)
03:24 Sacrifice (Can)
05:16 Insane (Ita)
06:59 Onslaught (UK)
09:06 Exumer (Ger)
11:20 Summary
BANDS THAT SOUND LIKE SLAYER
Featuring bands such as: Kreator, Onslaught, Exumer, Sacrifice & Insane.
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The Music in the video is from:
The bands included in the video +
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Here is the Spotify playlist with more bands that sounds like Slayer: open.spotify.com/playlist/3orQBxd0TJ5hLeP8R4o9QW?si=b40b01196e4c4d76
Have you ever heard of an obscure album called Evil Brew from the 1980’s from a band called Cremator? They had some interesting music, can be heard on you tube, they only released on cassette tape, so sound quality is only ok. Check it out if you get the chance.
yeah it was a suck ass production but yeah. hehe@@shauno6799
Great list! I think Dark Angel - Darkness Descends has those earl Slayer vibes. Also: SLAYER!!!!
yes sir, on the playlist already.
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Your comments never disappoints. ;) Cheers!
Any real "metal" is ruthless
Couldn't have said it any better
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Sacrifice is so underrated in thrash. Forward to Termination is a killer! Good to see Exumer also: Catatonic is one of my fav tracks!
yes, brilliant stuff. Cheers!
Sepultura was too unique to be called derivative of Slayer but the early stuff did have that vibe. Good stuff I'm always learning something here from you.
thanks man, cheers!
Infernal majesty none shall defy sounds like slayer as well great video as always!
I almost put 'em in the video.
I.M have their own unique sound. You just can't put them in the "they sound like Slayer category"
Suicidal Angels from Greece sounds like Slayer. Especially the track Bloodbath. To me Kreator sounding like Slayer is like saying Anthrax sounds like Exodus though. Bands will always influence each other but the combination of songwriting, vocals & style distinguishes them.
Not really like slayer, but like old kreator or like annihilator
I agree, suicidal angels sounds like slayer
I could actually feel the Slayer influence on that Kreator track very clearly.
@@The123neilya, music wise. But that voice sounds like a angry teenager yelling at mom😂
I agree Suicidal Angels they sounded like Slayer.
Great job Ruthess! Furthermore, Living Sacrifice's first album sound Slayer too.
"Band That Sound..." need to continue!!!!
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Damn you took me on a ride down memory lane with Kreator Extreme Aggression album. I remember being 18 years old in 1989 and working at an auto parts store. I remember one Friday getting off work and cruising to the local record store and bought the cassette in the new releases racks. When I got home I smoked a bowl and blasted it. I don't get Slayer-vibes from Kreator though. They both were aggressive, but slightly different styles. And I still love Onslaught's The Force. I had bought the record when I was in high school. I love Onslaught's Halfway To Sanity as well with Steve Grimmett handling the vocals.
good stuff! 🤟
Being a fan of Show No Mercy(it's my favorit Slayer album), discovering Insane was magical, back in 2015.
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Hobbs Angel of Death were always known as Australia's Slayer
yes on the playlist already. ;)
Great list! Exumer was the first band I thought of when seeing the video title... I do think that their second album "Rising from the Sea" sounds even more like Slayer. The vocals from Paul Arakari (which are awesome) also sounds more like Tom Araya and tracks like "Decimation" and "Shadows of the Past" are pure Slayer worship 🤘
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Speaking of Exumer, their vocalist and bass player Paul Arakari was in my Guitar class in Frankfurt American High School in Germany, way back in 1984-85, we were both seniors at the time. Great memories, I'm sure that he was pretty surprised to be able to join a professional Thrash Metal band like Exumer!
Awesome compilation. Thank you!
thanks, Cheers!
I NEEDED a video like this!
Many thanks!
thanks Cheers!
Love this video format. Always discover some "new" bands.
THANKS BOSS. Cheers!
Sadus has a close Slayer vibes as well. Great video 🤘
yes sir, Cheers!
been waiting on this one!! Love you vids bro you gotta do Bands like DEATH!!!!
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Wow very good video!🤘
Merry christmas! 🤘🎅🤘
Instant like after I clicked before i even watch the whole video. Big W
thanks boss
Great list man. Really brutal thrash metal.
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Brilliant! I hope this inspires people to branch out. I also love Australian band Harlott - very Slayer inspired.
yeah, that's the aim with these, pick a popular band and help people to find similar shit.
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Gran video!
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What made Slayer so unique is Tom's powerful and commanding voice, without the cookie monster stuff - you could actually hear what he is singing (especially early stuff). These other bands just aren't close (imo). Listen to Ghosts of War for example
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This was awesome.
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Very good and accurate list with a few bands I criminally missed out on checking out at the time.
A good modern Thrash band who don't sound totally like Slayer, all the time but sometimes sound very, very like them in parts, is Enforced. I often hear 'Slayerisms' in lots of other bands because I've listened to them so much, my ear is acutely attuned to noticing them, haha.
High On Fire have lots of Slayerisms, at times. It's a kind of lead flourish, or inflection, that I'm not sure whether it was Jeff or Kerry who was responsible for making it up. Maybe it was both. I'd love to know.
An Enforced song that is absolutely chock full of these Slayerisms, is a song called Malignance. It starts out with Slayerisms, goes on in a Slayeresque style and, then, around the 2.20 mark, it goes all in with the Slayeristic goodness in such a blatant way that they obviously don't give a shit who knows it.
I imagine that being told 'You sound quite like Slayer' would be considered a massive compliment to everybody in all of these bands.
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Great video, i'd love to see this one with pantera
naah, I've done too much on that band already. haha
Good list. Love Exumer. Maybe Arakara from Florida could be worth a mention? A relatively new band. The song "Blood Harvest" for their album "Burial Ground" is just classic thrash metal.
I added them to the list.
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mine too. ;) Cheers!
Great list. I have to include Sodom and The Haunted.
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Second time I've watched this. Nice one
thanks boss. Cheers!
Great video! Cople the vocals sounded very close to Schmier from mighty Destruction though
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I listen to onslaughts, the force alot this last summer, it got me playing guitar again and got me through a really hard breakup. 🤘🤘
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Nice video😃👍
thank you good sir! Cheers!
@@RuthlessMetalYT 😃👍
Viking, Do or Die album, great stuff😊
indeed!
I agree about Exumer, Onslaught, maybe Insulter, but Sacrifice and Kreator have their own sound. Especially Kreator.
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I think KREATOR definately deserves respect and recognition for their work.
They were going for it all the way. ENDLESS PAIN is one of my personal " Foundational" metal albums, absolute fury and heart.
@@saltpeter7429 Kreator was my introduction band to German thrash. No one is saying that they don't deserve respect and recognition. They're the most well-known European thrash band, so I think that they got enough of both. I just do not think that you could put them in the "Similar to Slayer" category. Yes, they play fast and aggressively, but their style, and sound is much different.
@@Annihilation_0f_The_Wicked9066 I actually agreed and thumbed up your comment.
I love Kreator.
People can like what they want,
I love Slayer as well.
@@saltpeter7429 I love both bands as well and i've seen them multiple times. Of course people are free to like what they want. I didn't like Endless Pain in the beginning, but later it became one of my favorite. I much prefer it to their later works
I hadn't heard of Insane before this video, but they sound fuckin great! It's also kinda funny that their logo looks similar to the Slayer font. 😂
yeah they ripped 'em off pretty good. :D
To me, Sodom is like Slayers cool cousin.
Great video as always🤘
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Your the man RM!! SLAYER!!
thanks boss.
@@RuthlessMetalYTyour very welcome 🤘
Fantastic. I've been singing "Satan worships me, pardon me not" instead of the actual lyrics of "Secret whispers speed, drive me nuts" in Possessed by Fire for only the last 35 years as the vinyl release didn't have a lyric sheet.
As Slayer were my favourite band from 87-90 I loved any other band that sounded like them. I think some of the euro thrashers like Necrodeath's Fragments of Insanity record, Pestilence's Malleous Maleficarum, Assassin with Interstellar Experience, Agressor's Neverending Destiny and the classic UK Hydra Vein album Rather Death Than False Of Faith were real 'bridging' bands for me into death metal/grindcore once the disappointment that was (to me) South of Heaven came out.
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Excellent selection, unfortunately I don't have Spotify, a band called Dew Scented I think sounds like Slayer too, for example their album Inwards, greetings!
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You picked great bands dude all of them are so underrated thrash metal all the way.
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Kreator is underrated? what the fuck?
I got this obscure thrash album CYCLONE/BRUTAL DESTRUCTION sounds just like early Slayer
yes sir, that one isn't on spotify though so I can't add it to the playlist.
love all these bands, possessed by fire is one of my favorite albums and i think it was peak thrash
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Good job Ruthless Metal!
Sacrament albums “Testimony of Apocalypse” and “Haunts of Violence” also sounds pretty much like Slayer IMO. 🤘🏼
yes sir. cheers!
thanks I checked out insane. It does sound like show no mercy
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Infernal Majesty - None Shall Defy
yes, unfortunately not on spotify
I never really heard the Slayer influence so much in Kreator, but I can hear it in that track…. and now I can’t unhear it.😂 Also, I’m sure you could easily make a longer list.
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Kreator is one of those groups that had its own way of developing music. you should not give in to someone else's opinion and look for something that does not exist, namely the influence of Slayer. Kreator has his own unique recognizable style that is absolutely nothing like the style of Slayer
@@user-gn4lv5sl5t I can now hear the similarities to Slayer in this particular song. I wouldn’t call that giving in. Further more, I agree with you that Kreator definitely has their own sound and style. I prefer Kreator over Slayer personally.
@@billybarbier8275 what slayer song does this sound like? or which of the riffs here in particular sounds like a particular Slayer riff?
To me, that song by Kreator reminds me a lot of the Slayer track Cleanse The Soul, the main riff specifically.
Sodom had some very Slayer sounding riffs later in their career
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Speaking of Onslaught... when Steve Grimmet sang for them on "In Search of Sanity"... the album had one of the best tracks they've ever done "Lightning War"... highly underrated band (and album).
yeah, it sounds like a completely new band on that record.
RIP Steve Grimmet
Insane mentioned!
yes
Sacrifice is my favourite thrash metal band for sure!!
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Loudblast (French death metal band) at the beginning and until the split album with Agressor called Licensed to thrash sounded like Slayer
Their first official album Sensorial Treatment is similar to the first 2 Sepultura albums. On the Cross the threshold EP they covered the slayer song Mandatory Suicide
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Blood Feast - Kill fore Plesure is one of my fav album sounds like early Slayer!
yes, it's on the playlist. ;)
Sacrifice's forward album is just insane, one of the best of all time, I'm listening to Slayer since 98 when I was 14 , only this year discovered sacrifice, I'm blown away
yeah, sacrifice is a beast of a band. Cheers!
Onslaught i already knew, but this band Insane is so similar to Slayer. Very cool
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Dude. Spirit World. All the sick harmonized minor riffs but with hardcore vox and just super tight everything. Like a modern day Slayer for the 2020s.
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Glad you mentioned Exumer sounding like Exodus as well. I think the Exodus influence is more predominant in their later albums.
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Living Sacrifice first album sounds like Slayer. The song Obstruction is a good example while you can hear Living Sacrifice develop their own sound.
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mention also to the band E-X-E, with their album "Stricken By Might"
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I would add to this list:
- The Conjuring (with album Tortured Spirits)
- Violbast
yeah that conjuring stuff sounded very slayer like.
So many good bands back then.
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Bra som vanligt. Funeral Nation (After The Battle) och Holy Terror är ju också hyfsat lika Slayer. Holy Terror kanske inte på sången dock.. 🤘🤘SKÅL!!
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Hydra Vein was very Slayer sounding too.
Hellbringer is great Haunting/Hell Awaits worship.
yeah they are already on the playlist.
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Dark Angel - Darkness Descends & Morbid Sain̲t̲ - Spectrum O̲f̲ Death are another ones that fits perfeckly on this list. Brutal Thrash Metal....
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i remember listening to insane solely cuz they made a show no mercy like album, show no mercy is top tier
yeah, it was a cool release however completely unoriginal. :D
KORZUS - Ties of blood (album)
KORZUS - Discipline of hate (album)
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here are some more bands that sound like Slayer.
Voor (Canada)
Oblivion(New Jersey)
Betrayel (California)
Hell Razor (California)
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Oblivion rules🤘🏽
can u do bands that sound like Death next :)
I'm not much of a death metal guy. :)
@@RuthlessMetalYTwell can u do bands that sound like anthrax?
I think Kreator and Sacrifice had a sound all their own. Kreator tuned a lot lower than Slayer early on, then became a very melodic band. Not to mention, Araya sounded a lot more "human" than Petrozza. Sacrifice were their own beast, as well. I think the biggest thing these bands had in common was "thrash."
Araya was quite aggressive on some records too. Yeah I'm not saying that Sacrifice wasn't but come on, if you can't hear some Slayer in their music I don't know what to say. :)
I never realized that Kreator ever sounded like Slayer at the time. Neither Onlaught's The Force... but now I get what you mean.... I'll definitely pick up Insane's album and Exumer's possessed by fire... honorable mention for Canada's own Infernal Majesty, NONE SHALL DEFY used to melt my brain at the time... Biiiig Hell Awaits vibes... I suggest it for the playlist....
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Onslaught really stood out to me
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With Slayer sadly gone, we could might as well turn to these bands for those intensity and speed. I definitely had seen Slayer for the 2nd and last time in their farewell tour. It had been awesome and we're going to miss them.
Out of all these, I certainly know and like Kreator (which I've also seen but only once. I'd like to see them again). Still active when Slayer is gone, this is certainly my most favorite here in this list and I know them more than the other Teutonic Thrash bands. Kreator is similar to Slayer, but they are their own thrash entity and is harsher than Slayer (vocal-wise). The rest here, don't know them but they might or could be interesting; ones that caught my attention are Insane (as I like Show No Mercy, one of Slayer's best) and Exumer (wow, just as you said, a mix of Slayer and Exodus. I'll be checking them). Sacrifice isn't bad too.
However, let's not forget, there's the matter of waiting for Kerry King to announce his new band, coming in 2024. His new band could be potentially like a new Slayer and may be added here by extension, but we can never tell though still worth noting.
Listen to beggar of scorn form suicidal angels you won't regret it
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Insane's album cover and logo even looks like Show No Mercy
yes sir
Anihilated's "The Ultimate Desecration" is the first album that always comes to my mind when thinking about Slayer soundalikes.
yes sir, on the playlist already. ;)
You missed the living sacrifice debut album which is closer than all of these others.
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The vocals of kreator from that mille are unhearable
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In my humble opinion Tiamat on their album "Clouds" had a type Slayer sound like - In A Dream and The Sleeping Beauty.
I added them to the playlist. Cheers!
@@RuthlessMetalYT Cheers!
You're kidding right? Clouds sounds nothing like Slayer.
@@MetalPersonJ It's just my own opinion. I play guitar so the minor to major intervals to me seem to be similar.
If you don’t or haven’t listened to Suicidal Angels you’re missing a trick. Sensational riffs , solos and overall vibes…. Start with my favourite track atm ‘ The Trial ‘
yes, I've heard 'em. they are fine.
@@RuthlessMetalYT I only discovered them a year ago myself.Really enjoying them…
Hellbringer is another band that sounds like Slayer. They’re like Hell Awaits Era. Fantastic band
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I was going to say the same thing - Awakened From The Abyss...great band!!!
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To me, Kreator sounds as if Slayer and Testament had a baby.
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Infernal Majesty
yes sir. 🤟
KREATOR Endless Pain. 1985.
Play it back to back with Hell Awaits.
Not such an easy call.
They were teenage kids giving it a hell of a go, along with SEPULTURA dropping Morbid Visions.
I think these albums rate, and have a particular charm and integrity.
In the end no one really sounds like SLAYER,...because there is and always will be only one.
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I was really sad that you didn't include Morbid Angel on this list. Absolute disciples of Slayer
sure but vocals are quite different
@@RuthlessMetalYT I mean yeah sure, but instrumentally they're almost identical. No worries though. I love your channel man.
THANKS BOSS. Cheers!
Onslaught actually reminds me of Exodus.
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Especially vocals !!
Sacrifice - Torment in Fire is a masterpiece, it's almost like death metal, then the second album which you showed here sounded more like thrash metal, not death thrash like the debut anymore.
yeah, it's definitely more extreme than the rest of their catalogue.
@@RuthlessMetalYT the same with bands like Kreator, and Sepultura, after Morbid Vision and Schizophrenia it got less extreme, and in the case of Kreator Pleasure to kill and Endless Pain was way more extreme than the following albums as well.
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Austrailian Band HellBringer sounds like Slayer circa Hell Awaits and Reign in Blood.
on the playlist. ;) 🤟
I think the country that had the most Slayer influence was Germany. Of the big 4 the influence could be seen by all 4 in the states. UK and most of Europe but the German scene had it's own sound which became very similar to Slayers sound. If you check out the early albums by German bands (Sodom Kreator are 2 that come to mind) you see almost a black metal element that disappeared after their fisrt couple of releasers and became a lot like Slayers direction not a rippoff by any means but an influence.
I agree agent orange is a great album by Sodom.
Sodom shares the same spot as slayer for me 🤘🤘
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The Force is an unsung classic! Listened to it about a week ago and it still holds up! But the funniest thing about them is the song Metal Forces sounds like System of A Down's Prison Song decades before hand. So if you want to fuck with SOAD fans just say Onslaught wrote Prison Song before they did haha.
As for Kreator, Pleasure To Kill is more definitive IMO (more brutal than anything Slayer has ever done). I would have added Sodom to this list. Specifically albums like Persecution Mania, Agent Orange and Tapping The Vein. Even M-16 blows away anything Slayer did after 1990.
yeah, great music never goes out of style.
Enforced from Va or MD. Best new school thrash band going in my opinion.
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Violent Force has a lot of Slayer ...Especially the vocals. Sign of Evil for example, is very Show No Mercy-ish.
yes sir
You just forget to mention "Hobbs (Angel of Death)" from Australia
it's already on the playlist. ;)
The first, the self titled Living Sacrifice album
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nice..i think Torniquet should be included..
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slayer and kreator are my favorites,they totally sound diff.
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Witchery
Living Sacrifice (first album)
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Infernäl Mäjesty.
yes I almost put 'em in the video.
I wonder if Kerry King's new band would be included here? That remains to be seen and if it'll sound very much like Slayer.
it will probably sound very modern.
3 years stand us this band and nothing news about that,mr.king is frustated beacause tom has a very big problems with is back this guy has his body thrashed like no other 25 year old has taken his head off his shoulders while kerry barely moves the body and walks up and down the stage but he is not happy that tom is abandoning slayer, kerry was disrespectful to tom.
Slayer are back reunited 😊
I nominate Cannibal Corpse. Influence is obvious on first, but also on their latest album. But you could also put many extreme metal bands here, anyway.
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