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Jeff's disease that killed him literally sounds like a fucking slayer song

I'm having a quite hard time containing my anger that you put Show No Mercy to D.

I love 'Silent Scream' song... 'South of Heaven' is a great album... 👍🏻

Show No Mercy in D is hurting my soul

I’m gonna say it. Divine Intervention is underrated as fuck. The production and the riffing make the whole listen-through feel like you’re out in the streets at 2:46AM PST constantly looking over your shoulder and uneasy because there’s somebody stalking you with a knife, but you can’t see him.

I saw Slayer on their Reign In Blood tour and they were amazing. I didn't even like metal at the time but after that I sure as hell did.

Jeff didn't die from necrotizing fasciitis. He died from chronic liver failure (cirrhosis) from drinking heavily his whole adult life. Same thing that killed my father (750ml bottle of scotch and 2 liters of coke a day for 20 some years).

I was at a slayer show in the front row me and Jeff had the same obscure misfits shirts on he noticed and gave the horns. I was 19 and it made my year.

FUN FACT: Kerry Kings’s solos usually go: *DEELALELALELALELA DULULULULU WHAWHOOWHAWHOOOO DINALINDINALIN WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWW-*

Fun fact: I sang a Disney song at a Slayer concert.

I hope you guys liked this new deep-dive video format, it was a lot of fun! Which band should I cover next??

Seasons In The Abyss is a bloody masterpiece mate

I know it’s an EP rather than an album but I think it would have been worth mentioning Haunting The Chapel. It was an important bridge between Show No Mercy and Hell Awaits and Chemical Warfare is one of their best songs. That said, my favourite version of it is from their live album Decade of Aggression which is a great live record.

The Post-mortem riff rules!!!

"YEAH" - James Hetfield

Toms "death" is the best thing with slayer 🐐🐐🐐

Show No Mercy is A to me. I love the primitive Venom/Maiden worship and theres some classics on it

I do wish they stuck with the Show No Mercy sound for a bit longer

The Altar of Sacrifice / Jesus Saves combo is still one of the best 6min sections in metal history.

World Painted Blood is my favourite after Seasons. Works well with a beer or two.

I do love how Show No Mercy has that early black metal sound. Great companion piece to bands like Bathory and Venom as you mentioned.

divine intervention is my favourite slayer album, for me have the best drums, sick riffs, some good solos and a good experimentantion

That run of Reign, South, and Seasons is the greatest, but I also love the first two albums vibe and campiness so much. I also enjoy the cover album because I like that early hardcore punk stuff. God Hates Us All has a special place in my heart because it was released at the height of my slayer fandom when i was like a freshman in high school...

people can talk trash about slayer,but man do they have insane riffs

Hell Awaits is still my favorite Slayer album. Probably the only album of theirs I can sit through beginning to end.

Undisputedly... Show no Mercy is my favorite Slayer album of all time. There was a short time when they played songs of the first two albums with the speed of RIB on their live shows. Absolute Killers! Hell yeah!

Kerry and Jeff actually went to a guitar teacher before recording the solos for SITA. It's why the title track is so god-tier.

I actually love Divine Intervention, that live show was insane...WPB definitely grew on me, and Playing with Dolls has become one of my faves....

Divine intervention is a fantastic album .

Bostaph’s drumming on Disciple is insane through the end verses 🔥

I've been to a metal festival here in germany, in 1999 I believe. I knew Slayer at the time, but never before saw them live. So, since I was a big time fan, I was quite excited. Boy, if I knew what ride I was up to! They played just before sunset, and there where about 70 000 people at the festival - and it felt really everyone was before the center stage. From the opener to the encore, it felt like ten minutes, and I remember everything felt like a out-of-body experience. I never saw - and felt! - so many people united in one event, and one time, in one place. This was nothing short of a ceremony conducted by Slayer. They ARE the embodyment of metal.

Slayer slaaaaayyyys 💅

I remember listening to 'Reborn' thinking 'He's just singing nonsense'. Then I followed with the lyrics and realised he was singing every word perfectly.

Have to disagree a little, i think World Painted Blood is one of their best songs, and the album is quite decent! I also might be biased, because me and my friends used to absolutely piss off our entire school when we played that song in our music class. Volume on 11, ofc.

Work in theatre. Had a patient come in with necrotising fasciitis, from a SPLINTER IN HIS FINGER. We could see it climbing up his arm with our own eyes, first time I've seen several surgeons panic and work together, he made it but it was excruciating and I can't imagine the pain and fear that Jeff was in

According to an interview, with the band Venom, that I listened to years ago, it was Metallica, who were opening for them at the time who notified them of Slayer's existence. It's been almost twenty years, but IIRC, back around '83 or so, after a show, (Possibly) James set them aside and told them that there was this band called Slayer that channeled an image that was much closer to Venom's and that they should check them out.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who really likes God Hates Us All.

Divine intervention is great B tier AT LEAST. You put more mediocre albums above it

No One who's seen the OG Slayer Lineup live would never ask this, One of the rare bands who sound better than their recordings live.

Anyone that calls slayer overrated garbage deserves to spend a night with terry glaze

Divine Intervention is uninspired? It's one of their best. The last truly great and original album they made. With it's own guitar tone. Fucking hell its awesome.

Bradely: “today we’re are talking about Slayer. That’s spelled S… ummm L.. A… Y… umm umm E… R. There were two people.. a guy named Jeff who might have died?” Clearly a big fan😂

If you feel lonely and need a friend, go to an area where there is a lot of people on foot and scream “SLAYERRRRRRR!!!”

Make a similar vid but with Anthrax or Testament, that would be epic

Dude, World Painted Blood and Divine Intervention are AWESOME albums. I think you need to listen to them a couple of times in their totality and let the songs sink in.

You did Show No Mercy dirty AF Brad

I love all their albums. The big 4 from them being Hell Awaits, Reign in Blood, South of Heaven & Seasons in the Abyss. But I do love all their albums!!!

For me Show No Mercy is their best album.

Seasons in the Abyss is my all time favorite song ever!

Haunting the Chapel is their second release. It’s only an EP but I always count it as an album cause it’s were they upped their game.

And now they’re back together without Kerry King you’re gonna have a good video for that I bet 💀

Slayer are like The Beatles of extreme metal. Are they the best band to do that sort of sound? No, not by a long shot. But it’s also undeniable that their influence can be heard across a wide range of extreme metal subgenres and bands.

Slayer is one of the most influential metal bands. They didn't just influence thrash. They influenced extreme metal as a whole. I'm not the biggest fan but you got to give them their credit.

i played bloodline at a secondary school talent show a couple months ago and my drummer couldnt do it so i had to solo guitar it and it was sick!

Bradley, I appreciate that you seem to have good taste in metal, without being elitist/nerdy, and most importantly you know the importance of VIBES in a good metal album. Its an unquantifiable factor that you can only feel in your gut!

HI BRADLEY WHERE DID U GET THE SUIT FROM I WANT IT LOLLLLLLLLL ALSO WE NEED MORE SHIRTS LIKE MARSTER OFF PUPITS

World Painted Blood is killer album, Psychopathy Red could be a part of Reign in Blood and would fit there perfectly

They were phenomenal. No question. Ask anyone who was at the Marquee in 1985. Insane. At Hammersmith in 87 my ears bled. They were hitting incredible speeds. Even their peers could not believe what they were witnessing. They stuck to their guns and never sold out. In their last years after Jeff died, and Dave left, the magic mojo was gone forever.

God Hates is also my favorite Slayer album. fun fact i noticed, i had heard that Bloodline was made for some movie which came out a year earlier, so if you go and listen to the record, the mix for Bloodline is completely different from the rest of the album. i didn't notice that for years

I never really dug Slayer but a guy I used to work with dragged me to see them on the Christ Illusion tour. I thought I might as well go just to say I'd seen Slayer. I don't know if they were always like this but they were absolutely phoning it in live, really just going through the motions. Also that Bill Bailey bit about Slayer is 100% accurate.

My favorite album by them is seasons in the abyss

Beauty Through Order is a killer song from World Painted Blood. I love the way it builds, from high intensity to even higher and a very powerful release. Sofia 2010 (Big Four Tour) is a great live version!

...and now Slayer is back !!!

Slayer is the greatest. Not only where they present during the first "Bang!" of thrash metal, but their reckless abandonment of of musical conventions helped birth the more extreme genres. Morbid Angel, Deicide, Suffocation, Pestilence, and many others are basically just Slayer taken to its logical extremity. There where other bands around at the time, to be sure. But Slayer definitely belongs somewhere at very top.

My first slayer album was divine interventions so it is very close to my heart and I love it and because of that I love Paul vistas as my second favourite drummer next to Dave McClain when he was in machine head

You gave divine intervention a quick dismissal, it has some incredible tunes. 213 might be one of their best tunes ever

I thought Seasons in the Abyss was their Master of Puppets moment. If that makes sense.

South of heaven is my favourite Slayer album.

This single handedly made them reunite

at 6:42 what chord was that?

The TSOL cover is amazing

Anyone that thinks they are overrated wasn't around in 1983-1985. Easy to say now after 40 years... ugh

And now they reunited

Show No Mercy is top of the A tier for me. You also hated So Far So Good So What so maybe you just don't prefer pure Thrash. Gotta remember that Thrash came about combining elements of 80s Punk with NWOBHM. Show No Mercy is the album on Slayer's discography that has the most Punk influence, so it makes sense why you don't like it. Spot on take with God Hates Us All. It's a close 2nd to Reign In Blood imo

Certified legends

slayr = goooddd!!

Slayer was my first concert. I grew up listening to them so they are near and dear to my heart

Seasons in the Abyss is definitely one of my all-time favorite albums; it feels like the culmination of every lesson Slayer learned up to that point. The band having the foresight to not try and one-up Reign in Blood was one of the smartest decisions in metal imo, and probably in music in general. Mondo respect for that.

FUCKING SLAYEEEEER

Never heard anyone overrate Slayer. If anything, they’re criminally underrated

As a fan of Medieval and Renaissance art, I've always loved how Slayer's early albums depict hellscapes.

My top 3 are Reign in Blood, Hell Awaits, and South of Heaven. Seasons is really good but that first half of South is just perfect.

Slayer is legend 💪😎🎸

Show no mercy is their best album!!

10:48 "If it was up to me..." lol. Isn't it?

I don’t think anyone would’ve taken issue with South of Heaven being in S tier. Perhaps the most angry album ever made and Paul Bostaph just puts out a god level drum performance on every song. It has a very distinct sound and feel to it

Do one with Anthrax.

Both

World painted blood was Jeff's favourite, it's a solid album

As the FIRST metal album I ever listened to, God Hates Us All has to be my favorite Slayer album. Spotify's free daily mix that spat Disciple into my ears blew my 13 y/o mind \.../

They are GODS.......compared to Metallica.

Slayer Isn't Overrated Garbage. Metallica is lol

I would argue that Andy Wallace more influential to the Reign In Blood mix than what Rick Rubin had. However, it was probably thanks to that exact cooperation that it ended up sounding how it did in the end, polished but still raw.

You're old when you remember Kerry King with hair.

Yea I was relistening to GHUA recently and really its like nu-thrash but in a more refined form than Diabolus was, its pretty good

Yeah I'm pretty close to that. I do love GHUA, definitely #2 for me.

Jeff didnt actually die of Necrotizing fasciitis (Bacteria that eats Flesh) but it messed him up in a big way and couldnt really play anymore, with no way to get back. He drank himself to death due to depression and an already existing habbit of abusing alcohol. He died of liver failure which was also diagnosed a combination of the body dealing with the disease previously and his alcohol abuse.

definitely could've included 'undisputed attitude'.....it gives a good insight into why the band sounds the way they do and their covers are top tier for sure...also, as a metalhead from the 80's it was just amazing when they released reign in blood, and then followed it up perfectly with south of heaven and when seasons in the abyss came out we were all blown away even more.... i think anyone who didn't get to experience the excitement as it happened will probably have a different view on their discography but 'you had to be there'..

Undisputed Attitude is mostly covers, but Gemini was a pretty badass song. As a Gemini, loved it. 🤘 Their Dr.Know cover (Mr.Freeze) was also great.