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can you plse do one only on jeff hannaman because he wrote alongside kerry and well he's not w/us anymore and his story needs to be told god bless from New Jersey..
I discovered Slayer in 1988.... I was 12, and just started playing guitar. I'm 47 now.... and I have the priviledge of teaching my 15 year-old son, how to play the same songs I learned at his age. Slayer.... are music icons. No different than Elvis, the Beatles, Zeppelin, Sabbath, and KISS. Period. I would argue, the most influential band in my life. Slayer fans know.... their music will never die. Ever.
Jeff Hanneman rest in peace a brilliant guitarist always remembered never forgotten a guitarist who made slayer who was so brilliant at mixing metal and punk👍👍🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
@@hankworden3850 I'm latin and there are certain songs that have that latin groove that makes you wanna dance bro... Blood Red and Skeletons Of Society come to mind...
I remember seeing Slayer for the first time on the Raining Blood tour in a small club in Syracuse NY when I was 17. I'm 51 now, been to a lot of shows, and without a doubt, the most intense show I have ever been to in my life.
I saw them so many times also , the last was on their farewell tour in 2019. They were badass to the end , the original OG's of thrash and stayed true to the genre to the end unlike Metallica! Slayer rules!!!
@@annetteslife Should have been in Pantera's in 97 on the Ozzfest tour. Talk about sick , been to hundreds of concerts since 81 and it was the sickest one I've ever been in. When they came on a wave went through the crowd like a tornado , over 30.000 people and my friend and had to form a circle to protect our girlfriend's at the time because it was so powerful if you didn't brace yourself you'd get swept up. But I've been in some pretty intense Slayer pits also!✌️🤘
@@annetteslife It was unbelievable and yeah it can get rough sometimes. Luckily though 99.9% of the time nobody is trying to physically harm you , especially when their were girls in the pit. I've never seen anyone intentionally trying to hurt anyone , that's why the metal community is awesome. Generally they're good people , half the fun of going to concerts is partying in the parking lot with complete strangers IMO!✌️🤘
I saw Slayer / Pantera at Long Beach Arena over 20 years ago. Mid show , Tom raises his hands up and says: *”Scream for me Long Beach…… SCREAM FOR ME LONG BEACH!!!! (pauses then says) ..…I always wanted to do that!!!"* ABSOLUTE LEGEND
My first ever concert was Clash of the Titans: Alice in Chains, Anthrax, Megadeth and SLAYER. I had only heard ...And Justice For All when I was shown Peace Sells and South of Heaven. From that day I was and am still obsessed with metal music. I just turned 46 on Halloween. I've seen Slayer at least 40 times and I still have most of my concert ticket stubs. I play drums and the first thing I did was learn to play every SLAYER song. I've met them all once but I used to talk to Kerry King at a local restaurant he frequented and I worked at. I cannot express how much I love SLAYER besides saying they are my favorite band EVER. I cried for days when Jeff Hanneman passed away. NOTHING, NO ONE will ever be as great of an influence on me as SLAYER still is to this day. Bad day? Blast SLAYER. Any album will do, my favorites are 1. Reign In Blood 2. God Hates Us All 3. Diabolus In Musica 4. South of Heaven 5. Hell Awaits. With Undisputed Attitude I know its a cover album but Holy fuck it is SLAYER thru and true. I will miss them until the day I die. Maybe I'll form a SLAYER tribute band.... SLAYER FOREVER!!!!!! SLAYTANIC WEREMACHT!!!! RIP Hanneman, cheers! SLAYYYYYYERRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾
That's the most beautiful comment. Could you start a Slayer cover band. I'd love to see it. The screams 🎉. The singer would have to be brilliant 🎉. Keep on Slaying 💪🏻🎶🎵🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
I grew up with Slayer, went to many shows. I was at the Forum for the last show, Tom just stood up there after the show for about 15 minutes thanking us and crying. What a band! NO ONE touches Slayer! R.I.P. Jeff
Being in the mosh pit at a slayer show is like being thrown in with the lions,and often,Slayer fans did not take too kindly to bands opening for slayer,so I've heard and read
@@jasonweinstock1282 depends on the city and who's opening. I can tell you though all the times I've seen Slayer the opener's got a good reception the best reception I ever saw open for Slayer was Chimera
I've seen SLAYER over 20x, to me they were the most influential band to be, how big they got without major radio play or mainstream promotion. That is a testament to the hard work they put into the band and to the legions of die hard fans. LONG LIVE SLAYER !!!!!
I saw Slayer and Megadeth in 2010 when each band played their albums that turned 20 that year; "Seasons In the Abyss" for Slayer and "Rust In Peace" for Megadeth. Megadeth was amazing, but Slayer was a totally different vibe....a darker atmosphere, as one would expect. The pit was much crazier for Slayer, the difference was stark! I was impressed when Tom nailed the high scream in Angel of Death since I didn't think he'd attempt it (they played songs from other albums too besides Seasons). There was also a lot of bass guitar in the mix which isn't really present on Slayer studio albums. Good times! \m/
I saw that show as a lark, because I liked metal as a teen, but had grown into other things. At some pt in that show, it stopped being a joke. The music is so damn powerful. Now I’m 44 and as much of a metal head as I was as a teen. Slayer rips. And just because I’m a good dad and husband in suburbia doesn’t mean there isn’t something wild and free that lives on inside me. I’ll sum it up this way: FUCKING SLAYER!!!!!
I am now 56, saw Slayer all over the world. first show was in 85 or 86 at the Stone in San Francisco with Venom and Exodus. LSD was cheap in the bay area, thats why the years are fuzzy. Since that show, I saw them in France, Virginia, and Az. about 15 concerts all together. The greatest band of all time.
@@cesarmiranda7696i went to Dead shows for the music. Already had sheets, but was open for more and the Dead lots and campgrounds had stronger and cleaner doses as well as some amount of ok stuff, occasionally get burnt with blank paper. Pyramids, gel, liquid were nice treats as different mushroom varieties too, hash when it was imported from the 3rd world and cheap. Brownies like you never dared eat again
AAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH! I saw them on the Venom/Exodus tour in NYC at the Ritz. I don't know why I like this coincidence but I do. I saw them several more times at L'Amour in the 80s and then again during their farewell tour in Munich, and I swear they are the tightest, fastest band in history. Just blistering. So much talent.
The first time I saw Slayer was in 2000 during the Tattoo The Earth tour. Slipknot was the headliner and fights were breaking out between the old school metalheads and the nu-metal kids. When Slayer hit the stage, I was up in the balcony and the whole crowd turned into a gigantic moshpit and it morphed into one of the biggest circle pits I've ever seen. By the time Slipknot hit the stage, everyone was too tired or sore to even mosh to them.
Growing up on Slayer was great 🤣👍 The biggest laugh I had was when, at the Dutch equivalent of highschool, I wore a huge Slayer patch on my jacket. The school was *very* much based on christianity, and mid 80s we got lessons in recognising the devil's work in reversed lyrics by the Beatles, Iron Maiden, and such. I was happily pointing out that, with Slayer (or Venom, or Merciful Fate, etc etc) you didn't need to ruin your recordplayer's needle by spinning the album backwards: the bad boy lyrics were all there already - and they never picked up on that 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm 57, still into metal, and yes: I still have thát jacket 🤘😎🤘
the art and imagery of metal was always cool.😍 i had my t's and jean jackets with the big patch on the back. still love all art and this genre just crushed it😤🙌🤘👹🤘😁🙋♂✌😎
I'll never forget in the summer of 86' I went to Florida/Bahamas with my friends family and listening to Reign in Blood on my Walkman on the plane and the woman the seat ahead turned around and asked me to turn it down.I said no and put my headphones back on.After we landed my friends father said he was proud I said no and it was not that loud coming from my headphones and screw people like that woman.I was 14 and still remember it like yesterday even at 50.
You sound like a spoiled little douche nozzle lmao! If she could hear it it must have been loud. I'm a huge Slayer fan but you're bragging about something that happened almost 40 years ago.
I was into Metallica, Iron Maiden, Anthrax in middle and high school ... then I got my hands on the Decade Of Aggression live album and sat down with a couple of friends for our first taste of Slayer ... and we were like holy crap this is awesome ... it was like a step forward from those bands, into pure speed ... so good ...
Saw Slayer in 06 and to this day was the loudest concert I've ever experienced. My ears were ringing for 3 days!! But it was insane and amazing. Toms younger brothers band opened for them and Tom came out during their set to say hello to the crowd and the roar he get alone was enormous. Great concert. I remember 2 older metalhead guys in their 50s passing me many joints during it just having a great time with these complete strangers. Great atmosphere.
Tom Araya (Slayer): "Without Venom, there’s a good chance there wouldn’t have been a Slayer. Their Welcome To Hell and Black Metal albums were a big influence on our guitarists Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman. We did covers of Venom, Maiden, Priest… Venom was a big influence on Kerry as far as the imagery, and how we did the song-writing. I still think that Welcome to Hell and Black Metal are fucking awesome records, and I still listen to them now actually. Venom was a huge influence, and we started working on our own songs and developed it."
Great to see the late great Tommy Vance interviewing Jeff at 7:16. It was he himself on his Friday Rock Show on BBC Radio 1 in October 1986 that introduced me to Slayer.
I saw Slayer 5 times back in the day. All when Jeff was still alive. There is nothing quite like a Slayer show. If you were an up and coming band and were good enough to land an spot opening for Slayer you were both the luckiest and unluckiest band around. You would get exposure but opening for Slayer is the most unforgiving job in music. No matter who is on the ticket they are going to deal with fans that came to see Slayer and they made sure everyone knew it. I remember shows where half of the crowd screamed and chanted for Slayer and a couple bands looked to fear for their well being. Slayer fans dont show up to hear other bands...they want FUCKING SLAYER.
Holy shit...so funny you say this. I went to clash of the titans tour back in 1991 close to Detroit. Alice in chains came on and people were non stop yelling "Slayer". Some dude said fuck slayer and within a second he got punched and was knocked out bahahaha..... That was my introduction to Slayer fans. It was great!!!!
True, but if you stuck it out, and attempted to open for Slayer each year, some bands like Overkill and Soundgarden were given basic respect after a few years by attempts.
Slayer has given me so much happiness... Considering Slayer paved their own way without radio play, MTV success, or algorithmic manipulation; it happened by making music that fans felt, absorbed, and shared. Slayer albums have been the soundtrack to my life. I've seen them multiple times, and each crowd yelling "SLAYERRRRRR" felt like extended family to me. The pits were inexplicable beyond generalizing them as violent chaos, but anyone who I saw fall down, was invariably scooped up by other Slayer fans. Slayer wasn't the biggest of thrash bands, but they didn't compromise either. I often wear a Slayer baseball cap at work in proud representation of my favorite band ever, and if one was to check out my music, Slayer's influence on me is undeniable. Great video, most info I knew, but it was still a great watch
yeah that violent yet KIND chaos was a special mark of their shows, at least in the early days. Of all the metal bands I saw as a young, rather small woman during that time, I never felt so safe as I did at Slayer shows. People really did look out for each other in surprising ways. It was awesome.
Ahhhhhh fucking Slayer....part of my teenage years....I will never forget hearing them for the first time, in 1987. In the back of a 1967 Nova. There were about 8 or 10 of us shoved in that car. And I was on one of my friend's lap, I think....lol....the driver put on "Angel of Death" as loud as possible and it blew my mind!!!! Been a huge fan ever since!!! I saw them for the last time in 2019 because of their retirement. Another reason that will always be an extremely special and memorable concert is because my bestest concert bud past away this past September, the night before my birthday unfortunately....damn it sucks...so that's my Slayer story....lol...😊😢
My ALL TIME FAVORITE band! I remember listening to "Show No Mercy", "Haunting the Chappel", "Hell Awaits", awe 0and "Reign In Blood" over and over again back in high school! When "South Of Heaven" came out, I didn't like it as much as their earlier releases, but I've come to appreciate it in the years since. Then, the almighty "Seasons In the Abyss" came out, and I was blown away! I've loved everything they've made since, even the albums people refer to as their "duds" albums. ("Diabolus In Musica" and "Attitude Of Aggression")
Kerry played solos for the Beastie Boys.I met them on the South of Heaven tour.Everybody was all Ego except for Jeff,he took time out to talk with fans and sign swag
I was not introduced to Slayer until well after many bands, due to the reasons mentioned they just weren't as visible to me as other metal bands. When I was 19 my first room mate in the barracks at Ft Bragg was a big Slayer and Mortician fan (he had been a drummer in a band in high school) and that was my introduction to Slayer. I couldn't get enough of Hell Awaits when I first bought that CD, I definitely did prefer it to Reign in Blood though I really liked both as well as Show No Mercy. A few years later they were touring and I got to see them in East Rutherford, NJ in 2006. Best concert of my life, the pit was absolutely insane. I was never even able to get in because we rushed the stage and the constant surging forward kept us pinned against the railing right in front of the band. I could just look back over my shoulder and see the limbs flailing and people getting lifted up and passed out of the crowd via the top because they were unconscious.
I feel sorry for all who never experienced a Slayer concert. I was 16 for the Slayer - Divine Intervention tour in Australia, I think it was in '94, maybe '95. I can't believe I was allowed to go lol. What a night!
I saw them on an Ozz-Fest. We were tripping on some really good colorful white blotter. The back drop had a video of an eye surgery up close as Slayer was playing. I had just had an eye surgery a couple years prior. This didn't help my trip lol! I struggled a bit with that lol
@@regularguysgarage3276 Yeah, I saw them with Biohazard and the opening band was Allegiance from Perth. I loved Allegiance, have no idea what happened to them though
Thank you for this masterpiece of documentary! I was 15 years old as I discovered Slayer. A schoolmate who was actually in another class gave me a burned cd - it was reign in blood. When I came home I put the cd in my player and was blown away. From that day on slayer had always a special place in my heart ( I kow that sounds not really metal!😂...) I alway come back to revisit slayer. For me as a German it feels bit strange to see the SS -runes on Toms Bass. My Grandfather was part of the WWII ( Wehrmacht Soldier) too but on the Nazi side of course man he told me things in age of 7 that defintley was not for my young ears but I felt he needs to talk about that to get rid of those memories and what he was doing during the war. I am not a Nazi but I am interessted in our dark history and man if you go to a German school you learn a lot about WWI +II to reflect our own history and beeing responsible for never let this happen again. Cheers
I was a teenager in 1985, and this album cover alone told me I absolutely couldn't bring this home, my Family is catholic and From Mexico, my mom would have been praying and very worried, so I originally missed this in its entirety
Been a fan since '86! What a time for metal music. So many great albums from that era, but Slayer is the cream of the crop for me 👌 RIP Jeff, thanks for the epic riffs!
my mom was friends with the slayer guys back in high school and she knew tom’s sister from school she tells me about all the times hearing them practice in the garage down the street from her house
Awesome documentry. Slayer changed my life when "Show No Mercy"came out but knokked me of my feet when "Reign In Blood "was lauched. Mentioning my other love Pantera gave me goosebumps \m/ They are my life's blood \m/ Seen the both many times. Was there at the Dynamo Eindhoven in 85. Miss the old metal shows.
I bought Hell Awaits when it first came out. I brought it to school to my 65 year old music teacher Mr. Weber he borrowed it and took it home. He came to me the next day and said this music is going to be huge someday soon, he said he loved it and made a copy on his double cassette player. Mr. Weber was an awesome music teacher. He loved bands like Sabbath, Judas Priest, and Maiden and now Slayer, he was grateful that I introduced them to him. Even he knew they were going to leave their mark.
I, too, am a 53 year old teacher. Recently took two students to see Cannibal Corpse and Mayhem....to bucket list bands I have always wanted to see. The two kids moshed while I laid back....KILLER SHOW
I had only 2 opportunities to see Slayer in concert. Saw them in 1989 in Albuquerque, New Mexico on their South of Heaven album and they opened up for Judas Priest and that's when the group got their big breakout opening for Judas Priest and at that time Judas Priest were one of the top Metal Bands during that era. Saw Slayer again in 1992 on their Seasons In the Abyss album and they were the headliner on the " Clash of the Titans Tour " Megadeth, Anthrax and Alice In Chains as I saw that concert in Lubbock, Texas, that was a BADASS SHOW
This was the problem in the 80's. People went after Slayer for being said Satanists yet nobody was going after Christian's for being Christian. I'm Christian and believe that no matter your religion, you're American. We have the freedom to choose.
Reign in blood has to be the best album of all time..and my favourite of all time .... I saw slayer on the clash of the titans tour in 1991..along with Megadeath ,anthrax ,and suicidal tendencies. What a gig that was.....
I was in my mid-thirties by the time i got the chance to see them live at the Newport in Columbus Ohio the energy was CRAZY and due to my advanced age, I couldn't move for three days after the concert, but it was worth it.
Great documentary. Well edited and very informative. It's just a shame RUclips won't allow monetisation and more music in a channel's videos. That's all this is missing but I understand why. Keep up the good work.
I listened to a lot of thrash metal when I was young and went to concerts with headbanging. It was a very beautiful youth, not like today only on the cell phone or computer.
Nice little doc. Fan since before RIB came out. Was there for the last show and the memorial fan gathering at The Palladium for Jeff. I will remember both days.
I'm so lucky to have all the early Slayer albums in their original pressings. I have seen them on every tour from beginning to the end. My favorite show was at First Avenue in Minneapolis with Motorhead and Overkill.
That is still the best show I have ever seen. December, 1988, South of Heaven tour! I remember leaving First Ave and my shirt freezing solid from the cold and sweat.
Well said brother. I too, began playing a BC Rich because of Slayer at around 13. I'm not good enough to teach anyone. But it keeps me busy and helps me relief stress after work.
SLAYER is the most influential bamd in my life. My absolute favorite band and inspired me to really get into music. Oddly enough as I look back their lyrics never did motivated to go out and murder anyone. And in retrospect its like a movie a very dramatic and harrowing episodes of life death and the evil of society.
I saw them in 1998 with System of a Down (1. album out, mindblowing and amazing performance!!) and Sepultura. It was as great as i expected it to be but i was surprised that half of the audience was young girls, other half was old metal dudes from the 80s with beer bellys but the mass of little girls was a little surprising. Slayer was on point and brutal, like a machine. There will never be anything like the 80s with the big 4 and all the other metal bands again, such an explosion of creativity and musical development and progress.
My first concert was at the Hollywood Palladium with Venom Slayer and Exodus. I was wearing parachute pants with a one-sided Motley Crue shirt that I got from swap meet. As I was going across the parking lot my friend saw me, they started yelling "Pouser!" . Pretty soon everyone in line who was trying to get in started yelling ""Pouser!"..... Yeah....1986??? Yeah, life is good a trip.....🤟🤟🤟!!!!!
Reign in Blood blew my mind. I listened to that cassette tape over and over and over until i knew every single second of it. The riffs, to this day, untouchable. DAVE LOMBARDOS drumming, absolutely 💯 % kick A** to this day
Slayer changed my life. Jeff Hanneman is sadly missed. Their music is something I can only describe as energy, pure energy and there is nothing else like it.
This is a very good, straight to the point documentary. Not too long and easy to follow. Even if you don't know who Slayer is you can learn alot about Heavy Metal music.
So glad i gotta seenthem on thier farewell tour. tom's speech about his life was incredible. Brought a teat to my eye. I watched a man walk away from his entire life, fulfilled. A special moment for me.
I just discovered your channel and I simply gotta say: it's awesome! Gotta work myself through all the videos on a lazy sunday. Thank you for the good work! Rock on! 🤘
My first time hearing Slayer: I was probably about 13. It was the early 2000’s and VH1 did a list of the greatest “hard rock” acts of all time, which encompassed hard rock, metal, and punk. I was just getting into heavy music and I was hungry to find more and more bands to get into. The entry for Slayer played and I hear snippets in the background that sounded cool. Then I hopped on the computer and downloaded a couple of Slayer songs. The first full Slayer song I heard was “Angel of Death”. My little 13 year old pea brain was blown away. I didn’t know that a band could play that fast! Been hooked ever since.
When I was about 9 years old my mum met a new partner who had two sons about 9 and 13 years older than I was. Whenever my mum would stay over, she'd take me and I'd sleep in the boys room. They were mostly with their mum so as an inquisitive kid I'd spend ages digging through their stuff. Like typical teenage boys in the 90s, I was finding porn mags, knives, dodgy comics and music. In a box I found 2 cassette tapes.. with covers the like I'd never seen before. "South of heaven" and "seasons in the abyss". Enormously curious the tapes went into the player, can't remember which way round but I can honestly say from that moment my life changed forever. Instantly captivated by this powerful music, think the heaviest band I'd heard prior was Status Quo 🤣. 25 years later and Slayer are still my favourite band, always chasing that rush of the first time I listened to them.
Great job 👏 Very well made Slayer doc🤘🤘 it's a shame the passing of Jeff and the band retiring ; took away my teen memories of hearing Reign in blood in 86 along with peace sells but who's buying ; master of puppets; pleasure to kill kreator; Dark Angel; metal church all the greatest thrash metal bands in that year. 🤘🤘
I was too religious to appreciate Slayer in the 80s & 90s. In ‘15, my wife and i saved up for a trip to Ireland for our 20th anniversary. It was fuckin’ beautiful, btw - if you get a chance to go, TAKE IT. Anyway, i couldn’t sleep on the plane coming back, so i went scrolling thru the in-flight entertainment options. So i dozed off listening to _Reign in Blood_ 😆 Holy cow, that album is so awesomely brutal. I saw immediately why the band is admired by fans and fellow bands alike. Unfuckinreal. That’s right, i became An Old, AND THEN became a Slayer appreciator. The Lord works in mysterious ways, i guess. 😉
Listening to Reign in Blood at the beach this older black guy comes over and was floored by Lombardos drums, guy was a jazz drummer.. put his seal of approval on it, that's when I knew these guys were just so much more than a metal band
I remember when I heard reign for the first time I was 13 and was already a Metallica fan but slayer took it too the next level and I have been a fan of slayer and the genre ever since!!!! Also slayer and Metallica are the reason why I picked up the drums both very influential to my playing!!!!!!!!!
same here. Got Reign in Blood when I was 15 and Master of Puppets about a month before that. Metallica lost me with the black album but Slayer never put out a bad album, they're all good.
I could've written the same post you did! At age 50 now, still have my 8 piece black Tama kit set up in a bedroom, it takes half the room and the other half is occupied with amps and a mic stand, which a mate plugs into and we jam out Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Iron Maiden. Very.... LOUDLY!
Hell Awaits is still my favorite Slayer song. Nearly 40 years ago, the band wrote the song, performed it and turned it loose on humanity, and it just seems like a timeless memorial to brilliance and dedication to a track that sets a standard. While perhaps not the most notorious song Slayer ever recorded, there was an aspect of darkness and evil that permeated it to the core and cemented it into the hearts of the fans for decades afterward.
So thankful we had bands like Slayer, Pantera, Sepultura, and Death (all death metal for that matter) in the 90's. You saved heaviness ! Great job on the video. Something VH1's behind the music never had the balls to do!!! 🤘
@@big_joe_8478 In the name of Heaviness! As long as it had fucking Balls! Not that Grunge trash, or gay shit like the Wack Album! Those bands I mentioned all had Balls! There were no sub gene's back then. It was heavy, or it was Pussy. There was no grey area.
SLAYER. Man seeing Slayer live was like getting into the happiest fist fight you'll ever be in. You got your ass kicked, your head hurts, your ears are ringing for the next three days, and you'll absolutely grin from ear to freaking ear.
I've been to the clash of the Titans in Louisville and I have been to Bogarts for a Sepultura concert that was the darkest concert I've ever seen. I still have my Slayer cassettes (had to upgrade to a CD) I used to have the "Blood Pack" which was pretty cool. Metal makes me feel the power through the music that gives your frustrations an outlet. I'm 54 now and I still love to listen to metal, gives me the energy to keep going! 🇺🇸👍🏻
I feel blessed. I'm from France and i saw Slayer live 8 times. I almost die 15 years ago during one of their shows when i was trampled in the middle of the pit. Luckily i survive but i always thought that it would have been an iconic death 🤘🔥🔥
I saw them in London in 2008, they did the whole of Reign in Blood to close out. I also was at the 2nd to last show, they played two nights at the forum.
Their first three albums are so intense and powerful. I was blown away by them as a teenager in the 80s and listened to them non-stop and knew every note and lyric. The fourth album was good but not quite as good. I haven't really followed them since. But Show no Mercy, Hell Awaits, and Reign in Blood -- absolutely the best most intense thrash ever. I saw them live in the early 90s and it was intense. It was like a Satanic ritual with the red lights and the raw power of the music and emotions of the crowd. It is memorable to this day.
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can you plse do one only on jeff hannaman because he wrote alongside kerry and well he's not w/us anymore and his story needs to be told god bless from New Jersey..
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Simply because „Angel of Death“ was and maybe still is misunderstood
I discovered Slayer in 1988.... I was 12, and just started playing guitar.
I'm 47 now.... and I have the priviledge of teaching my 15 year-old son, how to play the same songs I learned at his age.
Slayer.... are music icons. No different than Elvis, the Beatles, Zeppelin, Sabbath, and KISS. Period. I would argue, the most influential band in my life.
Slayer fans know.... their music will never die. Ever.
Well said my fellow metal head friend!! RIP JEFF 🙏🔥😛🥰😘🎵 slur🤟🤟
Slayer I meant !! Lol
I also discovered slayer in 1988
You can't compare Slayer with the Beatles.
Yea slayer rules all!💪👺👽@@AngryNegativeHistoryProject yea
RIP Jeff. An amazing guitarist. And an awesome guy. Jeff is a metal legend....
\m/ RIP JEFF!!!! \m/
Jeff was Slayer
A metal god Jeff hanneman
Jeff Hanneman rest in peace a brilliant guitarist always remembered never forgotten a guitarist who made slayer who was so brilliant at mixing metal and punk👍👍🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
I was lucky enough to meet them and hang out kinda back stage and Jeff was really cool normal guy
Personally, I'm absolutely FOR the warnings on the albums. Then I know straight away: This is good music
Except when it’s on a Limp Bizkit album 😂
@@legniak1 LMFAO!!!
First cassette I bought with the PMRC label was WASP The Last Command......what a killer, KILLER album that turned out to be!
@@legniak1 haha....But, you have to admit that Breaking Stuff is a decent tune
Lol . Well said my fellow metal head friend !
Slayer ! 🤟🤟
To me Dave Lombardo was the heart of the sound with the undeniable Latin swing to his drumming.
Are you serious? Latin swing?
Paul was way better
Dave was the sound of slayer
@Hobo 1 your out of your fu king mind not in the band slayer goof ball
@@hankworden3850 I'm latin and there are certain songs that have that latin groove that makes you wanna dance bro... Blood Red and Skeletons Of Society come to mind...
I remember seeing Slayer for the first time on the Raining Blood tour in a small club in Syracuse NY when I was 17. I'm 51 now, been to a lot of shows, and without a doubt, the most intense show I have ever been to in my life.
I saw them so many times also , the last was on their farewell tour in 2019. They were badass to the end , the original OG's of thrash and stayed true to the genre to the end unlike Metallica! Slayer rules!!!
Mine was 2016 when Anthrax and Death Angel opened for them. Best mosh pit experience EVER! I have been a fan since 87
@@annetteslife Should have been in Pantera's in 97 on the Ozzfest tour. Talk about sick , been to hundreds of concerts since 81 and it was the sickest one I've ever been in. When they came on a wave went through the crowd like a tornado , over 30.000 people and my friend and had to form a circle to protect our girlfriend's at the time because it was so powerful if you didn't brace yourself you'd get swept up. But I've been in some pretty intense Slayer pits also!✌️🤘
@@mikeg6666 that sounded awesome. I went home with few knots in my head and have seen people going home in stretchers.🤘
@@annetteslife It was unbelievable and yeah it can get rough sometimes. Luckily though 99.9% of the time nobody is trying to physically harm you , especially when their were girls in the pit. I've never seen anyone intentionally trying to hurt anyone , that's why the metal community is awesome. Generally they're good people , half the fun of going to concerts is partying in the parking lot with complete strangers IMO!✌️🤘
I saw Slayer / Pantera at Long Beach Arena over 20 years ago. Mid show , Tom raises his hands up and says: *”Scream for me Long Beach…… SCREAM FOR ME LONG BEACH!!!! (pauses then says) ..…I always wanted to do that!!!"*
ABSOLUTE LEGEND
Wonder if Bruce Dickinson ever caught wind of that
Imitation is the highest form of flattery 😊
Never forgot that glorious moment the first time I heard Live after Death. Bruce can pull that off like no other.
lol that's awesome and exactly what I would want to do
God bless you fellow rocker! Jesus christ of Nazareth saves sinners! If you like it heavy, MEGADETH weighs a ton!
My first ever concert was Clash of the Titans: Alice in Chains, Anthrax, Megadeth and SLAYER. I had only heard ...And Justice For All when I was shown Peace Sells and South of Heaven. From that day I was and am still obsessed with metal music. I just turned 46 on Halloween. I've seen Slayer at least 40 times and I still have most of my concert ticket stubs. I play drums and the first thing I did was learn to play every SLAYER song. I've met them all once but I used to talk to Kerry King at a local restaurant he frequented and I worked at. I cannot express how much I love SLAYER besides saying they are my favorite band EVER. I cried for days when Jeff Hanneman passed away.
NOTHING, NO ONE will ever be as great of an influence on me as SLAYER still is to this day. Bad day? Blast SLAYER. Any album will do, my favorites are 1. Reign In Blood 2. God Hates Us All 3. Diabolus In Musica 4. South of Heaven 5. Hell Awaits. With Undisputed Attitude I know its a cover album but Holy fuck it is SLAYER thru and true. I will miss them until the day I die. Maybe I'll form a SLAYER tribute band....
SLAYER FOREVER!!!!!!
SLAYTANIC WEREMACHT!!!!
RIP Hanneman, cheers!
SLAYYYYYYERRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾
That's the most beautiful comment. Could you start a Slayer cover band. I'd love to see it. The screams 🎉. The singer would have to be brilliant 🎉. Keep on Slaying 💪🏻🎶🎵🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
More importantly, Jesus christ of Nazareth saves sinners! God made you ! Jesus saves sinners! If you like it heavy, MEGADETH weighs a ton!
i totally agree and my favorite songs are final command, angel of death and chemical warfare
@@gregsimmons694shhhhhhhhhhhh
Having a birthday on Halloween is pretty metal...
I grew up with Slayer, went to many shows. I was at the Forum for the last show, Tom just stood up there after the show for about 15 minutes thanking us and crying. What a band! NO ONE touches Slayer! R.I.P. Jeff
They’ve reformed 😊
More importantly, Jesus christ of Nazareth saves sinners! God bless all the rattleheads! If you like it heavy, MEGADETH weighs a ton!
It was amazing seeing Slayer from 1988-2009 when I went to shows.
Miss that energy.
What happened after 2009? My first show was in 87 and it never stopped! I love Slayer!!
Being in the mosh pit at a slayer show is like being thrown in with the lions,and often,Slayer fans did not take too kindly to bands opening for slayer,so I've heard and read
@@jasonweinstock1282 depends on the city and who's opening. I can tell you though all the times I've seen Slayer the opener's got a good reception the best reception I ever saw open for Slayer was Chimera
@@floydsemlow8253 I have seen slayer live in 1991,as part of the clash of the Titans tour,with Megadeth, anthrax,and opening act Alice in chains
@@floydsemlow8253 I've never heard of the band Chimera..I'll have to check them out
I've seen SLAYER over 20x, to me they were the most influential band to be, how big they got without major radio play or mainstream promotion. That is a testament to the hard work they put into the band and to the legions of die hard fans. LONG LIVE SLAYER !!!!!
God bless you fellow rocker! Jesus christ of Nazareth saves sinners! If you like it heavy, MEGADETH weighs a ton!
I’m 55 and still a Slayer fan! Nice documentary. I look forward to more! Subscribed!
Me too!
56 here!
Why would you stop though? What are you “supposed” to be listening to now? Country? Show tunes? Glen Miller?
I´m 62. Saw them a few times and my oldest ticket i have is from 1987.Many greetings from Germany : - )
46 and black american. I love Slayer.
My sister saw them years back. She said "Slayer melted her face off"
Is her face ok or is she grotesquely disfigured?
Y&T melted my face off
@mullethead3031 🤣🤣🤣
🚀💥🎸🤘
Is she ok?
I saw Slayer and Megadeth in 2010 when each band played their albums that turned 20 that year; "Seasons In the Abyss" for Slayer and "Rust In Peace" for Megadeth. Megadeth was amazing, but Slayer was a totally different vibe....a darker atmosphere, as one would expect. The pit was much crazier for Slayer, the difference was stark! I was impressed when Tom nailed the high scream in Angel of Death since I didn't think he'd attempt it (they played songs from other albums too besides Seasons). There was also a lot of bass guitar in the mix which isn't really present on Slayer studio albums. Good times! \m/
I saw that tour, it was fkn AWESOME!! Me and buddy threw TF down and had a blast
@@clintoncox5917 Hell yeah brother! \m/
Best show I ever went to in Dallas. Still pissed I lost my Megadeth shirt
I was at this show in Detroit!!!! It was awesome.....
I saw that show as a lark, because I liked metal as a teen, but had grown into other things. At some pt in that show, it stopped being a joke. The music is so damn powerful. Now I’m 44 and as much of a metal head as I was as a teen. Slayer rips. And just because I’m a good dad and husband in suburbia doesn’t mean there isn’t something wild and free that lives on inside me. I’ll sum it up this way: FUCKING SLAYER!!!!!
I am now 56, saw Slayer all over the world. first show was in 85 or 86 at the Stone in San Francisco with Venom and Exodus. LSD was cheap in the bay area, thats why the years are fuzzy. Since that show, I saw them in France, Virginia, and Az. about 15 concerts all together. The greatest band of all time.
I used to go to Dead shows just to buy sheets! I know what you mean brother.....
@@cesarmiranda7696lol..
@@cesarmiranda7696i went to Dead shows for the music. Already had sheets, but was open for more and the Dead lots and campgrounds had stronger and cleaner doses as well as some amount of ok stuff, occasionally get burnt with blank paper. Pyramids, gel, liquid were nice treats as different mushroom varieties too, hash when it was imported from the 3rd world and cheap. Brownies like you never dared eat again
AAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH! I saw them on the Venom/Exodus tour in NYC at the Ritz. I don't know why I like this coincidence but I do.
I saw them several more times at L'Amour in the 80s and then again during their farewell tour in Munich, and I swear they are the tightest, fastest band in history. Just blistering. So much talent.
To this day. The best concert that I ever saw was Overkill, Motorhead, and Slayer in 1988 in Daytona.
The first time I saw Slayer was in 2000 during the Tattoo The Earth tour. Slipknot was the headliner and fights were breaking out between the old school metalheads and the nu-metal kids. When Slayer hit the stage, I was up in the balcony and the whole crowd turned into a gigantic moshpit and it morphed into one of the biggest circle pits I've ever seen.
By the time Slipknot hit the stage, everyone was too tired or sore to even mosh to them.
Growing up on Slayer was great 🤣👍
The biggest laugh I had was when, at the Dutch equivalent of highschool, I wore a huge Slayer patch on my jacket.
The school was *very* much based on christianity, and mid 80s we got lessons in recognising the devil's work in reversed lyrics by the Beatles, Iron Maiden, and such.
I was happily pointing out that, with Slayer (or Venom, or Merciful Fate, etc etc) you didn't need to ruin your recordplayer's needle by spinning the album backwards: the bad boy lyrics were all there already - and they never picked up on that 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm 57, still into metal, and yes: I still have thát jacket 🤘😎🤘
the art and imagery of metal was always cool.😍 i had my t's and jean jackets with the big patch on the back. still love all art and this genre just crushed it😤🙌🤘👹🤘😁🙋♂✌😎
Me too...me tooo...and me tooo!!!
The jean jacket vest with slayer buttons😊
Pics of the jacket!!
It still fits you decades later????? My leather jacket no longer fits me...
I'll never forget in the summer of 86' I went to Florida/Bahamas with my friends family and listening to Reign in Blood on my Walkman on the plane and the woman the seat ahead turned around and asked me to turn it down.I said no and put my headphones back on.After we landed my friends father said he was proud I said no and it was not that loud coming from my headphones and screw people like that woman.I was 14 and still remember it like yesterday even at 50.
She was a Fuckin Democrat Dude!
You sound like a spoiled little douche nozzle lmao! If she could hear it it must have been loud. I'm a huge Slayer fan but you're bragging about something that happened almost 40 years ago.
I was into Metallica, Iron Maiden, Anthrax in middle and high school ... then I got my hands on the Decade Of Aggression live album and sat down with a couple of friends for our first taste of Slayer ... and we were like holy crap this is awesome ... it was like a step forward from those bands, into pure speed ... so good ...
DOA is an amazing live album
the 3 best live albums of all time for me , Live after death, decade of aggression and Thin Lizzy's Live and dangerous.
Saw Slayer in 06 and to this day was the loudest concert I've ever experienced. My ears were ringing for 3 days!! But it was insane and amazing. Toms younger brothers band opened for them and Tom came out during their set to say hello to the crowd and the roar he get alone was enormous. Great concert. I remember 2 older metalhead guys in their 50s passing me many joints during it just having a great time with these complete strangers. Great atmosphere.
Protect your hearing.
Bro that dime and king footage is sooo dope. Great doc man . Damn that’s cool.
Seeing Slayer at Roseland Ballroom in my late teens with Messhugah and Sick of it All, is one of my best memories .
I was there
Tom Araya (Slayer): "Without Venom, there’s a good chance there wouldn’t have been a Slayer. Their Welcome To Hell and Black Metal albums were a big influence on our guitarists Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman. We did covers of Venom, Maiden, Priest… Venom was a big influence on Kerry as far as the imagery, and how we did the song-writing. I still think that Welcome to Hell and Black Metal are fucking awesome records, and I still listen to them now actually. Venom was a huge influence, and we started working on our own songs and developed it."
Great to see the late great Tommy Vance interviewing Jeff at 7:16. It was he himself on his Friday Rock Show on BBC Radio 1 in October 1986 that introduced me to Slayer.
Tommy Vance was a legend!
I saw Slayer 5 times back in the day. All when Jeff was still alive. There is nothing quite like a Slayer show. If you were an up and coming band and were good enough to land an spot opening for Slayer you were both the luckiest and unluckiest band around. You would get exposure but opening for Slayer is the most unforgiving job in music. No matter who is on the ticket they are going to deal with fans that came to see Slayer and they made sure everyone knew it. I remember shows where half of the crowd screamed and chanted for Slayer and a couple bands looked to fear for their well being. Slayer fans dont show up to hear other bands...they want FUCKING SLAYER.
Holy shit...so funny you say this. I went to clash of the titans tour back in 1991 close to Detroit. Alice in chains came on and people were non stop yelling "Slayer". Some dude said fuck slayer and within a second he got punched and was knocked out bahahaha..... That was my introduction to Slayer fans. It was great!!!!
True, but if you stuck it out, and attempted to open for Slayer each year, some bands like Overkill and Soundgarden were given basic respect after a few years by attempts.
I've seen that happen a bunch of times, you're definitely right about that
Slayer has given me so much happiness... Considering Slayer paved their own way without radio play, MTV success, or algorithmic manipulation; it happened by making music that fans felt, absorbed, and shared. Slayer albums have been the soundtrack to my life. I've seen them multiple times, and each crowd yelling "SLAYERRRRRR" felt like extended family to me. The pits were inexplicable beyond generalizing them as violent chaos, but anyone who I saw fall down, was invariably scooped up by other Slayer fans. Slayer wasn't the biggest of thrash bands, but they didn't compromise either. I often wear a Slayer baseball cap at work in proud representation of my favorite band ever, and if one was to check out my music, Slayer's influence on me is undeniable.
Great video, most info I knew, but it was still a great watch
I am just the same
🤘🏼
yeah that violent yet KIND chaos was a special mark of their shows, at least in the early days. Of all the metal bands I saw as a young, rather small woman during that time, I never felt so safe as I did at Slayer shows. People really did look out for each other in surprising ways. It was awesome.
Ahhhhhh fucking Slayer....part of my teenage years....I will never forget hearing them for the first time, in 1987. In the back of a 1967 Nova. There were about 8 or 10 of us shoved in that car. And I was on one of my friend's lap, I think....lol....the driver put on "Angel of Death" as loud as possible and it blew my mind!!!! Been a huge fan ever since!!! I saw them for the last time in 2019 because of their retirement. Another reason that will always be an extremely special and memorable concert is because my bestest concert bud past away this past September, the night before my birthday unfortunately....damn it sucks...so that's my Slayer story....lol...😊😢
My ALL TIME FAVORITE band! I remember listening to "Show No Mercy", "Haunting the Chappel", "Hell Awaits", awe 0and "Reign In Blood" over and over again back in high school! When "South Of Heaven" came out, I didn't like it as much as their earlier releases, but I've come to appreciate it in the years since. Then, the almighty "Seasons In the Abyss" came out, and I was blown away! I've loved everything they've made since, even the albums people refer to as their "duds" albums. ("Diabolus In Musica" and "Attitude Of Aggression")
Kerry played solos for the Beastie Boys.I met them on the South of Heaven tour.Everybody was all Ego except for Jeff,he took time out to talk with fans and sign swag
Oh yeah No Sleep Till Brooklyn
She's On it?
I was not introduced to Slayer until well after many bands, due to the reasons mentioned they just weren't as visible to me as other metal bands. When I was 19 my first room mate in the barracks at Ft Bragg was a big Slayer and Mortician fan (he had been a drummer in a band in high school) and that was my introduction to Slayer. I couldn't get enough of Hell Awaits when I first bought that CD, I definitely did prefer it to Reign in Blood though I really liked both as well as Show No Mercy. A few years later they were touring and I got to see them in East Rutherford, NJ in 2006. Best concert of my life, the pit was absolutely insane. I was never even able to get in because we rushed the stage and the constant surging forward kept us pinned against the railing right in front of the band. I could just look back over my shoulder and see the limbs flailing and people getting lifted up and passed out of the crowd via the top because they were unconscious.
I feel sorry for all who never experienced a Slayer concert. I was 16 for the Slayer - Divine Intervention tour in Australia, I think it was in '94, maybe '95. I can't believe I was allowed to go lol. What a night!
I saw them on an Ozz-Fest. We were tripping on some really good colorful white blotter. The back drop had a video of an eye surgery up close as Slayer was playing. I had just had an eye surgery a couple years prior. This didn't help my trip lol! I struggled a bit with that lol
I'm 14 and didn't get into Metal until after Slayer's final show. Now I feel jealous for everyone who saw them.
yep that was the Slayer & Biohazard tour
Thanks
@@regularguysgarage3276 Yeah, I saw them with Biohazard and the opening band was Allegiance from Perth. I loved Allegiance, have no idea what happened to them though
Reign in Blood has the heaviest, most powerful riff Ive ever heard in my life bar none. Without Slayer I would not be this happy about it
Started listening to SLAYER in 84. Their shows in small clubs in the mid 80's were wild and violent af, best shows I've ever seen.
Thank you for this masterpiece of documentary! I was 15 years old as I discovered Slayer. A schoolmate who was actually in another class gave me a burned cd - it was reign in blood. When I came home I put the cd in my player and was blown away. From that day on slayer had always a special place in my heart ( I kow that sounds not really metal!😂...) I alway come back to revisit slayer. For me as a German it feels bit strange to see the SS -runes on Toms Bass. My Grandfather was part of the WWII ( Wehrmacht Soldier) too but on the Nazi side of course man he told me things in age of 7 that defintley was not for my young ears but I felt he needs to talk about that to get rid of those memories and what he was doing during the war. I am not a Nazi but I am interessted in our dark history and man if you go to a German school you learn a lot about WWI +II to reflect our own history and beeing responsible for never let this happen again. Cheers
I was a teenager in 1985, and this album cover alone told me I absolutely couldn't bring this home, my Family is catholic and From Mexico, my mom would have been praying and very worried, so I originally missed this in its entirety
Been a fan since '86! What a time for metal music. So many great albums from that era, but Slayer is the cream of the crop for me 👌 RIP Jeff, thanks for the epic riffs!
my mom was friends with the slayer guys back in high school and she knew tom’s sister from school she tells me about all the times hearing them practice in the garage down the street from her house
God bless you fellow rocker! Jesus christ of Nazareth saves sinners! If you like it heavy, MEGADETH weighs a ton! God bless all the rattleheads!
So happy to see productions like this comin out in late 2022 you're a legend man
Reign set the bar. Absolutely brilliant album.
Awesome documentry. Slayer changed my life when "Show No Mercy"came out but knokked me of my feet when "Reign In Blood "was lauched. Mentioning my other love Pantera gave me goosebumps \m/ They are my life's blood \m/ Seen the both many times. Was there at the Dynamo Eindhoven in 85. Miss the old metal shows.
You might want to give my Pantera documentary a watch then as well 🤘
@@RAWMUSICTV Will do. Thanks mate
South of Heaven was the first Slayer album I bought in 88 it was in my Walkman nonstop for months !!
I bought Hell Awaits when it first came out. I brought it to school to my 65 year old music teacher Mr. Weber he borrowed it and took it home. He came to me the next day and said this music is going to be huge someday soon, he said he loved it and made a copy on his double cassette player. Mr. Weber was an awesome music teacher. He loved bands like Sabbath, Judas Priest, and Maiden and now Slayer, he was grateful that I introduced them to him. Even he knew they were going to leave their mark.
I, too, am a 53 year old teacher. Recently took two students to see Cannibal Corpse and Mayhem....to bucket list bands I have always wanted to see. The two kids moshed while I laid back....KILLER SHOW
I had only 2 opportunities to see Slayer in concert. Saw them in 1989 in Albuquerque, New Mexico on their South of Heaven album and they opened up for Judas Priest and that's when the group got their big breakout opening for Judas Priest and at that time Judas Priest were one of the top Metal Bands during that era. Saw Slayer again in 1992 on their Seasons In the Abyss album and they were the headliner on the " Clash of the Titans Tour " Megadeth, Anthrax and Alice In Chains as I saw that concert in Lubbock, Texas, that was a BADASS SHOW
This isn't Marty Tapia from Clovis is it?
@@DDT979 do I know you? Hit me up when u can
@@DDT979 yes, this is Marty Tapia from Clovis.
Dude the transition with south of heaven in the background actually gave me chills such a good riff
I'm 30 and I'm glad I got to see them with Jeff and Dave a few times!
Especially since those two were the band
@johntucci8826 I mean I respect Paul as a drummer but even Slayer knows Slayer doesn't sound right without Lombardo. RIP Hanneman! 🤘
Awesome documentary, HIGHLY recommended! Found some stuff out I didn't know about as a Slayer fan for YEARS!🤘Steve
This was the problem in the 80's. People went after Slayer for being said Satanists yet nobody was going after Christian's for being Christian. I'm Christian and believe that no matter your religion, you're American. We have the freedom to choose.
Reign in blood has to be the best album of all time..and my favourite of all time .... I saw slayer on the clash of the titans tour in 1991..along with Megadeath ,anthrax ,and suicidal tendencies. What a gig that was.....
Yet you don't even know how to spell Megadeth right
@@Phantasm2Cudaoh dear a miss spell... Sad man.. I never even noticed..but that'll be because of stoopid spell check ...
Reign in Blood tour was incredible. They were the middle band between Raven and headliner.....W.A.S.P.
Great work!
I have been binge-watching your channel since yesterday.
Could you please make episodes on Lamb of God, Cannibal Corpse, and Death?
That would be awesome
I was in my mid-thirties by the time i got the chance to see them live at the Newport in Columbus Ohio the energy was CRAZY and due to my advanced age, I couldn't move for three days after the concert, but it was worth it.
Great documentary. Well edited and very informative. It's just a shame RUclips won't allow monetisation and more music in a channel's videos. That's all this is missing but I understand why. Keep up the good work.
I listened to a lot of thrash metal when I was young and went to concerts with headbanging. It was a very beautiful youth, not like today only on the cell phone or computer.
Nice little doc.
Fan since before RIB came out.
Was there for the last show and the memorial fan gathering at The Palladium for Jeff.
I will remember both days.
I was 12 in 1989 when I heard Slayer for the first time. I was bothered, excited, and energized by what I heard. It was a great time to be a kid.
I'm so lucky to have all the early Slayer albums in their original pressings. I have seen them on every tour from beginning to the end. My favorite show was at First Avenue in Minneapolis with Motorhead and Overkill.
That is still the best show I have ever seen. December, 1988, South of Heaven tour! I remember leaving First Ave and my shirt freezing solid from the cold and sweat.
Well said brother. I too, began playing a BC Rich because of Slayer at around 13. I'm not good enough to teach anyone. But it keeps me busy and helps me relief stress after work.
This album is a thrash masterpiece and a game changer for sure! I adore it, long live Slayer! 🤘🔥
SLAYER is the most influential bamd in my life. My absolute favorite band and inspired me to really get into music. Oddly enough as I look back their lyrics never did motivated to go out and murder anyone. And in retrospect its like a movie a very dramatic and harrowing episodes of life death and the evil of society.
Great, wonderful documentary! Funny that Bostaph wasn`t mentioned. Wish it was longer so we could hear about all the 2000s badass Slayer records!
I saw them in 1998 with System of a Down (1. album out, mindblowing and amazing performance!!) and Sepultura. It was as great as i expected it to be but i was surprised that half of the audience was young girls, other half was old metal dudes from the 80s with beer bellys but the mass of little girls was a little surprising. Slayer was on point and brutal, like a machine. There will never be anything like the 80s with the big 4 and all the other metal bands again, such an explosion of creativity and musical development and progress.
Sorry you had to waste money on SOAD.
My first concert was at the Hollywood Palladium with Venom Slayer and Exodus. I was wearing parachute pants with a one-sided Motley Crue shirt that I got from swap meet. As I was going across the parking lot my friend saw me, they started yelling "Pouser!" . Pretty soon everyone in line who was trying to get in started yelling ""Pouser!".....
Yeah....1986??? Yeah, life is good a trip.....🤟🤟🤟!!!!!
Reign in Blood blew my mind. I listened to that cassette tape over and over and over until i knew every single second of it. The riffs, to this day, untouchable. DAVE LOMBARDOS drumming, absolutely 💯 % kick A** to this day
Very well put together.
Thank you!
SLAYER!!!🤘🏼
Slayer changed my life. Jeff Hanneman is sadly missed. Their music is something I can only describe as energy, pure energy and there is nothing else like it.
Seen them several times live. Absolutely amazing each and every time.
I can attest to this fr \m/
They’ve reformed 😊
This is a very good, straight to the point documentary. Not too long and easy to follow. Even if you don't know who Slayer is you can learn alot about Heavy Metal music.
I have met Tom before , he is so nice and friendly.
So glad i gotta seenthem on thier farewell tour. tom's speech about his life was incredible. Brought a teat to my eye. I watched a man walk away from his entire life, fulfilled.
A special moment for me.
They’ve reformed 😊
I got Show no Mercy at 15 years old when it came out and it changed my metal life forever 🤘
I just discovered your channel and I simply gotta say: it's awesome! Gotta work myself through all the videos on a lazy sunday. Thank you for the good work! Rock on! 🤘
I saw Slayer in 1995 at the International Ballroom with Biohazard and Machine Head. I was 14.
My first time hearing Slayer: I was probably about 13. It was the early 2000’s and VH1 did a list of the greatest “hard rock” acts of all time, which encompassed hard rock, metal, and punk. I was just getting into heavy music and I was hungry to find more and more bands to get into. The entry for Slayer played and I hear snippets in the background that sounded cool. Then I hopped on the computer and downloaded a couple of Slayer songs. The first full Slayer song I heard was “Angel of Death”. My little 13 year old pea brain was blown away. I didn’t know that a band could play that fast! Been hooked ever since.
Got to see these guys twice. Both kickass shows. Hail Slayer! 🤘🔥
When I was about 9 years old my mum met a new partner who had two sons about 9 and 13 years older than I was. Whenever my mum would stay over, she'd take me and I'd sleep in the boys room. They were mostly with their mum so as an inquisitive kid I'd spend ages digging through their stuff. Like typical teenage boys in the 90s, I was finding porn mags, knives, dodgy comics and music. In a box I found 2 cassette tapes.. with covers the like I'd never seen before. "South of heaven" and "seasons in the abyss". Enormously curious the tapes went into the player, can't remember which way round but I can honestly say from that moment my life changed forever. Instantly captivated by this powerful music, think the heaviest band I'd heard prior was Status Quo 🤣. 25 years later and Slayer are still my favourite band, always chasing that rush of the first time I listened to them.
SLAYERRRR!!!! My favorite band of all time. Damn I miss slayer.
They’ve reformed 😊
Discovered Slayer in 2016. Never listened to metal before. After Slayer, I never went back to current pop culture music anymore
I love slayer. Such an incredible band
Great video! Slayer is my favourite Thrash Metal band in the world. They playing in Ukraine, in Kyiv at 13.03.2011. And that was awesome!
great band always. got several of their albums still cds and vinyls.
I know mate
5:13 THIS, is my new favorite MetallicA picture. Cliff side eyeing Lars like 'you are the most MEDEOCRE drummer i've every heard' lmfao!
Great job 👏 Very well made Slayer doc🤘🤘 it's a shame the passing of Jeff and the band retiring ; took away my teen memories of hearing Reign in blood in 86 along with peace sells but who's buying ; master of puppets; pleasure to kill kreator; Dark Angel; metal church all the greatest thrash metal bands in that year. 🤘🤘
I was too religious to appreciate Slayer in the 80s & 90s.
In ‘15, my wife and i saved up for a trip to Ireland for our 20th anniversary. It was fuckin’ beautiful, btw - if you get a chance to go, TAKE IT.
Anyway, i couldn’t sleep on the plane coming back, so i went scrolling thru the in-flight entertainment options. So i dozed off listening to _Reign in Blood_ 😆 Holy cow, that album is so awesomely brutal. I saw immediately why the band is admired by fans and fellow bands alike. Unfuckinreal.
That’s right, i became An Old, AND THEN became a Slayer appreciator. The Lord works in mysterious ways, i guess. 😉
Listening to Reign in Blood at the beach this older black guy comes over and was floored by Lombardos drums, guy was a jazz drummer.. put his seal of approval on it, that's when I knew these guys were just so much more than a metal band
I remember when I heard reign for the first time I was 13 and was already a Metallica fan but slayer took it too the next level and I have been a fan of slayer and the genre ever since!!!! Also slayer and Metallica are the reason why I picked up the drums both very influential to my playing!!!!!!!!!
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same here. Got Reign in Blood when I was 15 and Master of Puppets about a month before that. Metallica lost me with the black album but Slayer never put out a bad album, they're all good.
I could've written the same post you did! At age 50 now, still have my 8 piece black Tama kit set up in a bedroom, it takes half the room and the other half is occupied with amps and a mic stand, which a mate plugs into and we jam out Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Iron Maiden. Very.... LOUDLY!
Hell Awaits is still my favorite Slayer song. Nearly 40 years ago, the band wrote the song, performed it and turned it loose on humanity, and it just seems like a timeless memorial to brilliance and dedication to a track that sets a standard. While perhaps not the most notorious song Slayer ever recorded, there was an aspect of darkness and evil that permeated it to the core and cemented it into the hearts of the fans for decades afterward.
That tune used to make the hair on my arms stand up as a 15 year old. Black Magic and Captor of Sin are my two favorites!
This should have been at least an hour long documentary IMO!!!🤘🤘🤘
Slayer don't do epics 😁
So thankful we had bands like Slayer, Pantera, Sepultura, and Death (all death metal for that matter) in the 90's. You saved heaviness ! Great job on the video. Something VH1's behind the music never had the balls to do!!! 🤘
Are pantera and slayer even deah metal? They're close, especially slayer but they mean close to thrash metal and groove metal
@@big_joe_8478 In the name of Heaviness! As long as it had fucking Balls! Not that Grunge trash, or gay shit like the Wack Album! Those bands I mentioned all had Balls! There were no sub gene's back then. It was heavy, or it was Pussy. There was no grey area.
SLAYER. Man seeing Slayer live was like getting into the happiest fist fight you'll ever be in. You got your ass kicked, your head hurts, your ears are ringing for the next three days, and you'll absolutely grin from ear to freaking ear.
I've been to the clash of the Titans in Louisville and I have been to Bogarts for a Sepultura concert that was the darkest concert I've ever seen.
I still have my Slayer cassettes (had to upgrade to a CD) I used to have the "Blood Pack" which was pretty cool.
Metal makes me feel the power through the music that gives your frustrations an outlet.
I'm 54 now and I still love to listen to metal, gives me the energy to keep going! 🇺🇸👍🏻
Hell yea I saw overkill at bogarts. Oh yea and carcass and napalm death. Good times.
"They were SLAYER and nothing would change that". Bravo sir, no truer words
Hopefully someday you'll consider doing a video about Kyuss. Thanks for this!
SLAYEEERRRRGGHHHH! 🤘
im indonesian always dreaming about slayer tour to indonesia.i guess it will be just a dream 😭
I feel blessed. I'm from France and i saw Slayer live 8 times. I almost die 15 years ago during one of their shows when i was trampled in the middle of the pit. Luckily i survive but i always thought that it would have been an iconic death 🤘🔥🔥
@@zobbilamouche1302 would have been truly iconic😳 glad you survived🙌🙋♂🤘👹🤘😁✌😎
I was 13 possibly 14 when I saw Slayer on head bangers ball playing Seasons in the abyss. That song was all I needed. Im now 46.
I saw them in London in 2008, they did the whole of Reign in Blood to close out. I also was at the 2nd to last show, they played two nights at the forum.
We need a part 2 to finish this story 🤘😎
Will most likely do that or an extended version in the future for the die hard Slayer fans!
@@RAWMUSICTV Slaaaaaayeeeeer! 🤘😎
Slayer are back together 😊
Their first three albums are so intense and powerful. I was blown away by them as a teenager in the 80s and listened to them non-stop and knew every note and lyric. The fourth album was good but not quite as good. I haven't really followed them since. But Show no Mercy, Hell Awaits, and Reign in Blood -- absolutely the best most intense thrash ever. I saw them live in the early 90s and it was intense. It was like a Satanic ritual with the red lights and the raw power of the music and emotions of the crowd. It is memorable to this day.
Reign in Blood made Metal worth being heard.
Back in 1986 this legendary album brought me to Thrash Metal and changed my music taste.
Now I'm 50 and still a Thrash fan.