0:13 Kill Again 5:22 Crypts of Eternity 12:09 At Dawn They Sleep 18:55 Praise of Death 24:27 Hell Awaits 29:56 Necrophiliac 33:40 Hardening of the Arteries

Imagine the one year membership only cost 10 bucks for the most legendary Slayer swag imaginable

LSD created 60's 70's rock and cheap beer created 80s speed metal.

The beauty of this is the laughing and beer cans cracking between songs. METAL DRUNK RIFFS OF DEATH

Us older metallers were lucky enough to see Slayer at their youthful best. My first concert was April 1985 seeing them w/Venom, Exodus. And in 1986 w/D.R.I., Bl'ast, Overkill. I saw them again when Seasons In The Abyss came out, then several times after they became a full blown arena rock band. But the the quality of their shows never came close to the first two times I saw them.

R.I.P Jeff - a true legend

Saw them live in 85. First time.. had a sore neck and injuries for about 10 days.. bruises and whiplash.

I still have my original Slaytanic Wehrmacht t-shirt that came with my $10 1-year membership.

"Hell Awaits" will always have THAT special place in my heart. It was the first Slayer song I heard live in 1985 in Dynamo/Eindhoven and the very first time I saw a stagediver in real life (I only had read about that "new" phenomenon in Aardschock magazine)). Besides Hellhammer/Celtic Frost, Slayer was like Death Metal to me in 1984 when too many friends began to like Metallica, lol.

Such massive talent, 4 different families of people created these 4 guys, and they crossed paths to create this, that just blows my mind... Life is an unbelievable experience and creation of life is so amazing, it's such a mixed bag of the best things in life, that exist on this earth, just obscure, real, creative, just a wild far out experience man...totally, but I love it, that is why life is so Important, they were just awesome together, R.I.P. Jeff Hanneman, and everyone else in the band, love you guys..😎💪💪👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸

I saw SLAYER in Jan '85 in Las Vegas for their very 1st time there. They played a few songs from Hell Awaits before it was released, including Kill Again and Necrophiliac. SLAYER in a small club was amazing. I sat in front of KFK, sitting on his monitor the whole show.

Must have been recorded in the garage on Hope Street. Those were the days.

I heard about this satanic band Slayer and went to Rock and Roll Heaven here in Jersey and that day bob blitz was there n said Hell Awaits came out today,so of course I got it,brought it home,played side one "join us...join us" in reverse, then the music....then at that exact moment,my life had changed forever!! Best show ever Nov,86,at the Ritz in NYC. Legendary show!!!! Ihad slayer painted across the back window of my blood red dodge viper, n got many thumbs up over the years.

These guys sure knew how to play their instruments. Great demo.

You can hear Kerry trying to push the pace during the "slower" part in Hell Awaits but Dave stays steady and pulls him back in.

I just love metal instrumentals.

Slayer are the finest Thrash/metal band on this planet.

This is REAL beer drinking METAL! \m/

Blood, sweat and beers

standard tuning is heavy too🤘🤘🤘

The drums are entrancing

Love hearing them so young and raw!

At Dawn they sleep my favorite track on Hell Awaits

Hell awaits will still be one my favorites ever

Man these demo's are so awesome to listen to. Only a handful of bands have better demos than the actual studio albums, Slayer being one of those bands.

One of the tightest drumming ever recorded.

This is double bass marathon , love it .

This is absolutely amazing! Had no clue this existed. The pure blood, high end energy of this is truly spectacular. This honestly blows away the actual studio recording of the album. Clearly, they had jammed out these tracks so many times at this point they were on autopilot muscle memory and able to blast them at max speed. The good 'ol days when thrash was still a final frontier of amazing riffage from coast to coast and country to country! 🤘💀🤘 Hails & Horns Up

That picture for hell awaits is actually awesome

This is far better than their last albums

The fuckin aggression man. SLAYER FUCKIN RULES

awesome don't take this down ever

That's the 7/84 rehearsal. "Hardening" was "Warlock's revenge" at this point.

an outstanding early version of " praise of death "

Thank you so much for uploading this to youtube.... When I was a teenager we had no internet.... If I would have had this on tape cassette in 1992 I would have been the coolest 16 year old in town... SLAYTANIC WEHRMACHT\m/

This is gold mine

R.I.P. Jeff Hanneman master of insanity!!!!!

At 16..42- the band explodes- so angry and fast, pure Slayer!

This so f-king beautiful, SLAAAYYEEER

The Heaviest Band of All Time!🤘🏻🔥🔥🔥🔥

1:30 the real deal. Copied by millions

Sounds for kill your sadness

They are so tight despite the bad mic'ing of Dave's drum kit this shit I-N-C-R-E-D-I-B-L-E!!!!

Now all those shirts are worth hundreds of dollars 😢

SLAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you sooooo much for posting this. This is soooooo RAW and BRUTAL!!!! So SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I went to every show SLAYER played up in the Bay Area for a span of 20 years. My favorite Thrash Metal band of all time. Even chipped a tooth in a SLAYER pit. Ha. Dave Lombardo f'ing RULES!!!! Their sound was never as hard without Dave. Sorry my honest opinion. He's GOD.

Oh my god thank you for posting, this is the best thrash release I've ever heard

fantastic find, all instrumental in the rehearsal room, wonderful. demonstrate their total professionalism and seriousness in their work, great.

Keep the spirit ALIVE OF THE ORIGINAL BAND AND RECORDINGS

Very cool hell awaits is my fav 80ds album

All hail slayer brings back so much memories

It's only 40 years later, but is it too late to join the Slatanic Wehrmacht Membership for the free shirt advertised in the image above?

This version of Hardening of the Arteries… DAYUM!

I will always love the 80s Slayer!

Beautiful!

JEFF-very good gitarist-R. I. P.!

this is mighty! THANKS!

This is Gold! Thank you for sharing!

*MELHOR BANDA DE THRASH METAL DO MUNDO* 🇧🇷

thanks for uploading, I am insane for rehearsals and demo tapes, as an aside... killer art page!

Thrash at it's most furious and vicious!!! Fortunate enuff to see the OG line-up. W-O-W!!! Thanks for sharing this.

Lurking in the dismal fog hungry for your blood!

Slayer ON FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sounds so fucken narly! Better than the studio album I might say. Raw!

Sounds Great !!!

This is so fucking badass!! Thank you for this....just amazing😎😈

Medium rare is always been better than well.......done! Thumbs WTF up!! Thanks for the glimpse

simply fantastic!

Incredible demo from "85" good quality too! Love demo's always did Raw Sound without the over mixing and over produced like a lot of bands now!

Brutales 🤘🏻

savage AF

Such a damn good find! See my Season's 89 Bloodpack with keyboards and alternate solo??

I actually have another version of Slayer rehearsing in Santa Cruz in a house right around this time. It is much longer than this with the entire hell awaits set with vocals with talking stuff between songs just like this. I almost suspect it might have been a day before this recording but the sound quality is not mixed and panned like here but is still great. There is also a song with just Kerry King or Jeff (I think Kerry) at the end where he's showing the band a new song. That song sounds more like it should have been in the next album but never made it onto Reign in Blood or any album. I got the recording from an older dude who was very much into the thrash scene from the bay area. He was passing joints to James at early Metallica club shows. lol He told me Kerry king was hella pissed that it got leaked out, we're talking like 84 ish, I suppose. He gave me a copy about 10 years ago and I gave a copy to one friend in the bay area but I'm sure he's lost it. I know I have it somewhere. It's on cassette and unfortunately it's somewhere in my garage that has 50 other boxes. The challenge is find it first, then find a cassette player (lol) which I don't have, run the output jack into the computer and transfer it.

How the hell did Tom ever "sing" on top of this chaos? Hahaa awesome

Hell No Longer Awaits

For Me , this is their masterpiece album. Blackened thrash Supreme. venom meets maiden with a large dose of inspiration from crossing paths with the thrash godfather Dave Mustaine and this demon was born

This is epic...

Why couldnt the album sound this badass?!!

Kickass.

DON'T GET TO SINGED AND ROCK ON IN HELL, HANNEMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

´When the drunkness comes `

perfeito

What a cool look into the young slayer band. How did you get this? Sounds great even with no vocals. Thanks for uploading. .Metal...

Facinant

for a good time play this at 1.25 speed and crack open a beer or three

The sound quality is excellent for a mid-eighties rehearsal tape. One question though, where was the album released via Roadrunner? Over here in the U.S. it was released directly through Metal Blade.

Thank you for uploading... Where did you get this??

As of this moment 6 people who don't get it...😒

This is better than the album. Raw and powerful

fucking brutal. love it

🔥🔥🔥🔥

ripping the snare 3:51

Now that they're "R.I.Pieces", I wonder how much my 4 Original Members Signed B.C.Rich Black & Silver Warlock will fetch?..... hmmm. HELL AWAITS! BESTEST ALBUM IMHO. LONG LIVE[UNDEAD] SLAYER🖤🎶🥁🌋🏴‍☠️🤘💀

Drum fill at 7:14 is Bru-hi-tal!!!

Slayer!!

tight

Д. Ханнеман просто гений...

My new soundtrack..

I read somewhere that Kerry said, prior to the loss of Jeff, that he was sore about all the riffs they put on Hell Awaits because they could have used a bunch of them for other songs for more records. Well if he felt that his creative well was going to dry up that fast... that's no fucking good. The last album Repentless is a testament to that riff-wise. I guess he likes one riff and tremolo chord chugging with wah solos per song. RIP JEFF HANNEMAN.

Funny how people say it's Jeff or Kerry playing bass on the studio recordings. So who's playing bass here? Sounds pretty damn good to me! lol

It's very possible Gene Hoglan is playing on this tape. He has said that the tape of him rehearsing Hell Awaits with the guys had been stolen. So I'm not sure if this is Lombardo or Gene. Sounds like all the fills are as they are on the record, but hard to say without his confirmation.