One of the most romantic songs ever. A pure love song.

They did 213 in '95 at Dayton Hara Arena and when Tom introduced it all he said was, "Now it's time... For a love song", and they just went into it.. 😂

My view has always been that at their best, Slayer had a knack for writing songs about the dark side of humanity. Songs that deal with war, the Haulocaust, serial killers, terrorism and other topics on "the evil that men do". They neither glorify nor condemn it, but rather metaphorically stick it in your face and rub your nose in it, as if to say "You human race, you did this, you allowed this to happen."

Probably one of my favorite tracks ever!

That's why we love slayer

Silent scream is brutal, both musically and lyrically

OG Slayer fan here. There is a reason they're part of the big 4. Their 1st 5 albums are absolute gold, while the later ones are very good.

One of my favorite Slayer songs!

Killing fields is the first slayer song that I heard and I was hooked

This is actually my favorite slayer song and album. Lol i never felt romanticized by serial killers but i felt fascinated mostly because criminology was always a huge interest of mine.

The whole Hell Awaits album got me hooked on Slayer. Specifically the song "At Dawn They Sleep".

I used to think I knew a thing or two. I thought I was a metalhead. The last few months have strained that belief. Now this. I did not know this song was about Dahmer. That's not great, but what _really_ disturbs me is that I was never curious enough about the title or lyrics of _213_ to look anything up. You've brought me knowledge, LJ. I'm less ignorant than before I'd watched this. I'm worried about the state of my mind and soul, now, yes, but finding out I've something to worry about it infinitely better than believing I'm fine. Huh. Some late night in the late 80s, I dialed in some college radio show or another that was showcasing some metal, and they announced the next song as _Reborn_ from the album _Reign in Blood_ by Slayer. I could barely handle it. I bought the cassette soon after that. My neck has been sore ever since. And apparently, my brain might be scrambled.

The entire Reign In Blood album got me hooked!

So happy you did this one, I was one of the people suggesting 213. Love your Slayer reactions. 🤘

even slow SLAYER is fire

"Altar of Sacrifice" from Reign In Blood is in my Slayer top 5. It's only 3 minutes but it's sinister and brutal as fuck both musically and lyrically.

My favorite band of all time!

Nice to see someone reacting to this one, not a lot of ppl do

My favorite by them would be At Dawn They Sleep. It is one from early in their career that is about vampirism. Highly recommended

"Hell Awaits," but the live version, the one from Decade of Aggression: Live. And you have to start from the beginning. That's the song that made Slayer my favorite band. I like this live version better than the album version. Rock on Lily, I love what you're doing. It reminds me of when I heard all these songs for the first time so long ago. 🤘

One of my favorites of theirs. Spirit In Black is my personal favorite and should be listened to by everyone.

I am so glad that you did this song it is one of my favorite songs from divine intervention album!! Especially those lyrics are amazing!! It really gives that disturbing vibe about Jeffrey dahmmer!! The editing on that video!! Jesus! This song still haunting me since it came out and after watching the Netflix series I came back to watch this reaction..

My introduction to Slayer was "South of Heaven". Buddy of mine was like "Dude, if you like Metallica, Megadeth, Testament and Exodus. You gotta listen to Slayer!" So he lent me his Slayer South of Heaven cassette. I FRICKEN loved IT! So next day, off to A & A records I went. I bought that cassette and any other Slayer album I could find. One of my favorite songs is "Disciple" from the God Hates Us All album(2001), I have mentioned it to you previously. But I am mentioning it again, because you REALLY should check it out. Enjoyed your reaction, as ALWAYS. Keep up the GREAT work Lilly Jane! 🤘🤘🤘

Lilly you're going have to disinfect and have a priest do an exorcism of your computer.

Been waiting for someone to react to this one... It's always been one of my favorites.. I really feel they captured the essence of the whole situation with this song. Of course the only way Slayer could.

Same album: Divine Intervention...good song awesome lyrics.!!

Black Magic from the Show No Mercy album. Some old school Slayer. Used to listen to that before my hockey games in high school. A great song to get you pumped up

Reign in Blood 1986 as a 16 year old into various metal that album made me a Slayer fan for life!

Second best track off of Slayer's most underrated and underappreciated album.

I had the VHS tape called 'Live Intrusion' back when stuff was still coming out on Video Tapes, and I remember how Tom Araya introduced the song: "It's time to sing you a love song. Actually it's a new Slayer song. It's about taking someone behind closed doors, ripping her legs off, and then eating her to DEATH". My opinion is that this was the PERFECT introduction to the song. Just my own personal opinion anyway. Oh, and if you want to hear another song about a Psychopath/Sociopath killer, you need to check out the song 'I, Madman' by Ancient.

Great reaction! I’ve heard this song for nearly 30 years and it still creeps me out. It’s fucking great🤘

Awesome reaction! Probably my favorite video of yours! Your choker and eyeliner look so great!

It wasn't just one song that got me into Slayer. It was my friend's older brother blasting the South of Heaven album, while we got baked and played Road Rash 2 and Mortal Combat on the Sega Genesis, that got me in to Slayer. Hahaha....good times. 😂

This is a SLAYER love ballad

Love your SLAYER reactions! ❤️ Add Hallowed Point to list!🤘🏻

Slayers song Gemini is amazing!

Slayers version of a love song. 🖤

Ditto head is a awesome fast song to react to 🤘🏼

I remember living in Wisconsin when the NBC station showed when the jury found him sane.

I was one of those people who wrote that. In fact, every time I see a Slayer reaction, I suggest people react to this song. You're the first who has as far as I've seen.

This is my favorite Slayer song. In fact, my wife and I consider it “our song”.

this is one of my favorite slayer songs. actually most of my fav slayer songs are hidden gems.

Another dark subject song is Silent Scream!! You'll figure out pretty quickly what it's about as you listen. Killer song too!!

my frav is at dawn they sleep, heard it in the late 80's, was then hooked on Slayer, saw them live in Brisbane (QLD) in 93, alsolutely brillant and saw them again on the last tour, so awesome even without Jeff.

SLAYER IS THE SHIT!!!! MY FAVORITE AT LEAST. Pretty much any album will rock your world.

Not the song that got me into Slayer, but one of my favorites is Disciple from the Album God Hates Us All. Fittingly it was released on 9/11/01.

This song just punches you in the face over and over and over again.. 🤟🏼🤟🏼🤟🏼

At Dawn They Sleep is one of my favorite slayer tracks

That song you described for me is "Mama Said"or "Where The Wild Things Are"

I got to see the Original Slayer line-up back in 06 , for the Unholy Alliance tour... I was only 14 , was my 1st proper metal gig , was an absolute banger to say the least. Lamb of God also tore the place up ... Alexi Laiho too with COB

You know, everyone who does reaction videos to Slayer songs always does the most listened to songs. I want to hear songs that not everyone knows. Antichrist, Necrophiliac, Disciple, and Crypts of Eternity are all songs I'd love to see reactions to. Thank you for your consideration.

You can't take these kinds of lyrics too seriously... yes, '213' was about a real monster... but we all know Slayer does not condone or romanticize these horrific crimes. It's just brutal lyrics for brutal music's sake... You look at a death metal band like Cannibal Corpse, who were so controversial w/ their horror-themed lyrics (which u could barely understand because of vocalist Chris Barnes' gutteral voice)... They wrote the lyrics the same way Stephen King wrote horror novels. Chris Barnes (former Cannibal Corpse vocalist) wrote the band's most gory and violent famous tracks, like "Hammer smashed face"... "Stripped, raped and strangled"... 'A skull full of maggots'... 'Meat hook sodomy'... And yet, Chris Barnes is a pot-smoking hippie 😂 When Barnes left Cannibal Corpse in 1996, vocalist George 'Corpsegrinder' Fisher took over, but it was the bassist Alex Webster and drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz who took over writing the lyrics... and they came up w/ equally brutal lyrics for Cannibal Corpse tracks that Corpsegrinder would deliver vocally on the records and in concert. Tracks like - 'Orgasm through torture'... 'Dismembered and molested'... 'Blowtorch slaughter'... 'Death walking terror'... 💀🔥 Other members of Cannibal Corpse like guitarists Rob Barrett and Jack Owen would also contribute lyrics... In their documentary 'Centuries of torment'... Alex Webster reiterated that he expected that their audience would know that the band never expects them to do the things they write in their lyrics ever... Paul Mazurkiewicz said that he wrote lyrics because he aspired to deliver that level of gory lyrics that Chris Barnes had written while he was in the band... It was challenging to keep coming up w/ ways to envision brutal violence and death, but they've kept that tradition going til today. Their vocalist George 'Corpsegrinder' Fisher said that he approached delivering the lyrics w/ seriousness, but not by the content... more of the attitude and sonic attack of his gutteral vocals. Producer Jim Morris recalled tracking Corpsegrinder in the studio in 1998 and the track was called 'Dismembered and molested' by Cannibal Corpse... and he would go through the lyrics as Corpsegrinder was doing his vocals in the recording booth. Morris found the lyrics so absurd that he had to duck down so that he could start laughing without Corpsegrinder seeing him 😂 Of course, Corpsegrinder came out of the booth and saw Jim Morris laughing and recalled being asked, "How can you sing that with a straight face?" It's all taken w/ a grain of salt... nobody in death metal bands aspires to be a serial killer or murdering rapist as far as I know... I've met death metal vocalists and lyricists like Karl Sanders of Nile, Erik Rutan of Hate Eternal/ Cannibal Corpse, (the late) Trevor Strnad of The Black Dahlia Murder, Barney Greenway of Napalm Death, Alex Camargo of Krisiun, Steve Asheim of Deicide... they were all very mellow, nice fellows... 😈

I love Slayer because they don’t condone all the stuff they sing about but to let you know that we as a human race can be all these things and the music reflects what we as a society, human species, are capable of doing and have been doing since the beginning of time.

Tom wrote it from the killer's perspective...DAHMER. 🤟👹

You just have to love slayer, the insane lyrics, the solos that sound like the screams of insanity itself, and dave Lombardo for his drumming. The intro on this song is one of my favorites , it's unsettling, creepy and readies you for what's coming just like that long held note at the end of dead skin mask. No other band I know excites me and horrifies me like slayer does.

I remember Tom Araya calling this a love song right before playing this song in concert. 😂😳💀

Hell Awaits! One of THE best intro's in metal history! After listening to the opening you just want to throw around your furniture. In fact I think that's what I did....lol

Reign in blood got me hooked many moons ago

Die by the sword was the first song I heard by them off their show no mercy album🤘

I went to a tattoo convention in the mid 90s. There was a booth selling Dahmer dolls about 1ft tall. You could undo his flannel shirt , open his belly, there were fake bones in his stomach.

I’ve mentioned this before, but for your next Slayer song you can’t go wrong with the music video for “The Eyes Of The Insane” I’d consider it to be a must-watch (the video is so good it won a Grammy Award), and is one that I’d really be interested to see your reaction to. *Pre-Warning-* It has a number of potentially triggering themes, so just keep that in mind. Do not watch on a day when you’re already not in a good place mentally.

My favorite Slayer songs are raining blood , war ensemble , Dead skin mask , south of heaven , black magic

"Smooth, blue black lips..... I start salivating as we kiss. Mine forever this sweet death........... " Now THAT'S a love song!! :)

If you're going to listen to early Slayer songs off the albums Show no mercy, Haunting the Chapel or Hell Awaits listen to Live versions of the songs. Sounds a lot better and is amazing to watch!

War Ensemble was what got me hooked.

Song that got me into slayer was thr first song I ever heard from them. Disciple

Love this song...

I think a top 5 is all you can ask of long time Slayer fans. There are too many good ones.

my favorite slayer song is DIVINE INTERVENTION

Dead Skin Mask originally, but since then 213 is top shelf Slayer.

Please do one for Slayers Bloodline. For Dracula. And Their song Human disease

The song is called " Two thirteen " 2.13

There’s bands with Albums with 3 good songs. Every Slayer Album and Song hits.

"213" was Jeffrey's apartment number. Tom bought his fridge at an auction before the building was torn down.

if slayer horrifies you ..check out Cannibal corpse album Tomb of the mutilated or Autopsy Macabre Eternal the song sadistic gratification is a classic

my favorite songs of slayer are:angel of death and bloodline

Probably the first slayer song that got me hooked was Spill the blood spooky and slow but cool.

Damn... the SLAYER song that got me hooked? There's so many!!! I'm going to have to say War Ensemble. But so many others!!! Spirit in Black, Crionics, South of Heaven. BTW... I'm only mentioning ones u haven't reacted to yet. You've already covered some of the most noteworthy

My favorite slayer song is Gemini but the song that i first heard was Angel of death.

"Necrophiliac" from their Hell Awaits album. Or "Ghost of War" from South of Heaven

Awesome!!! 😀 😎 👍

Just a heads up 213 was Jeff’s apartment number. Reason for the name of the song.

Great music video

I so was wanting u to listen to this one! It will give u chills! This is real shit

My first Slayer song was The Antichrist. Yes I am that old.

Her face tho 😍 🤣 😭 😂

Temptations or spirit in black. But Black Magik is my favorite hooked on slayer song

Okay these reactions are all well and good but it's time for some fast and aggressive Slayer! War Ensemble, Chemical Warfare, The Antichrist, Hell Awaits, Bitter Peace, Angel of Death (the studio version, with lyrics), Kill Again, At Dawn They Sleep, Repentless, Spirit in Black, Captor of Sin, the whole Reign in Blood album...

For some really hardcore lyrics check out "Jihad" . Not for the faint of heart.

Skeletons of Society , Spirits in Black and Born of Fire rip too . The first song I listed is my fave of the three though . The lyrics are gnarly and has a haunting chorus . Thanks again Lilly Jane !

Here we go, I was one of those who suggested to try this song after reacted 'Dead Skin Mask' :) What is my favourite Slayer song? No way to tell this... maybe Circle of Beliefs... ??? ... because probably that's the most heavy and fast head-ripper-down motherfucking madness that Slayer ever recorded???, 😅😅😅 I find pretty unfathomable that no one mentions this masterpiece...

Kerry king and Slayer really nailed it on this song. The calm parts reflecting Dahmers quiet periods and the more aggressive parts reflecting Dahmers spiral into murder, dismemberment and his love for the people he had killed.

213 is EPIC

My favorite Slayer song (atm) is Necrophobic

I LOVE you for listening to me and watching this

ben rocking Slayer for a long time seasons is by far my favorite but Divine intervention underrated

Fuck Yessss.... Jeff Hanneman in his fullest on this song. Awesome reaction. Love your channel Lilly😍😍😘😘

Bless you Lilly! Can't say I'm a fan of anything past Seasons in the Abyss... :) But there are some shining moments in each albums nonetheless, and can be considered one of them. Even though it very must "south of heavens" 2.0 (the song).

My brothers old band Gomorrah covered Jeff’s actions in their song Human Trophies back in the early 90’s. It’s on Spotify, be warned its death metal 😂🤘🏻🤘🏻

The first song that I ever listened to is raining blood follow by War ensemble