Reign In Blood [PA] - Slayer

Advantages: if your a hard core metal head buy the cd. you cant go wrong
Disadvantages: there are none

...my first time seeing slayer was the reign in blood tour in 86 at Lamour in Brooklyn N.Y. i was first turned on to slayer in 84.my buddy played show no mercy and hell awaits for me. they have been my favorite thrash band since.they never sold out,never went soft, and always kick ass. i have never seen them play a bad show.i have never been dissappointed. i think they are always consistant in the studio and live.i am a pure metal head fromm the age of 13 and inn the past 27 years no other thrash bands kept up. slayer is the only band that is still going strrong. Oh yea Reign In Blood in my opinion is by far the best thrash metal album of all time.......... Read review

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Advantages: Furious and terrifying
Disadvantages: Over too quickly

...Ahhh…this is it folks, the thrash bible, so listen and learn. This is what thrash metal is all about - it’s fast, aggressive music concerned with little other than violence and death. It’s tight and technically astounding, while maintaining the raw, dangerous edge that made Slayer hated by the moral majority. To begin with, we have to look at this album in a historical perspective. When I look at British metal in the eighties, I see Iron Maiden. Slayer are the band I see when I think of America in the same period. They invented thrash metal and continue to be its best representatives today - they haven’t calmed down and they haven’t slowed down. Slow is certainly the last word you would think of to describe this album - it clocks in at only a little over 29 minutes, and this is a full album... Read review

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Advantages: awesome album for thrash fans
Disadvantages: sucks for everyone else

...‘Reign in Blood’ was one of the first albums I ever bought and it still sounds good today. Loud, brash, fast and ultimtely brutal, ‘Reign in Blood’ was the album that confirmed Slayer as a leading light on the thrash scene. Opening with the uncompromising ‘Angel of Death’ and roaring through to the superb ‘Raining Blood’, this album is a supreme piece of speed metal. Despite appearances of being the usual satan obsessed death/thrash album typical of the early 80s, the band claim that it is more a tongue in cheek look at Christianity and a test of people’s beliefs rather than anything else. With an album sleeve packed with pentagrams, fire, a goatheaded protaganist etc. coupled with lyrics which invite you to ‘enter to the world of satan’, ‘praise hell, satan... Read review

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