The former drummer from Slayer, Dave Lombardo now plays in Mr Bungle and during a show I attended they treated us to the title track of this album Hell Awaits, which started off heavy as hell, but then in true Bungle form hilariously morphed into a Spandau Ballet song True

This album was very influential for death metal thanks for its unique dark and evil sound

On ‘South of Heaven.’ they slow it down. And that is one of my favorites from them.

You're killing me reviewing the soundtrack of my life on each video, Molly.

Favorite Slayer album! At Dawn They Sleep is amazing. Don't miss Haunting the Chapel EP too, it pairs really well with this album.

Great review as always Molly! I think Reign in blood is where they really came into their own and found their identity. My favorite albums are South of Heaven and Seasons in the Abyss which both came right after Reign in Blood. I look forward to those videos eventually 😊

I love those first two Slayer albulms. You should also check out To Mega Therion by Celtic Frost for similar vibes

Great review! This was their reverb heavy album influenced by Mercyful Fate, which definitely gives it a proto-black and proto-death sound. At Dawn They Sleep is my personal favourite, though ive also always loved the outro to Hardening of the Arteries

Show No Mercy is also worth checking out in your Slayer journey.

SLAAAAYEEEER

Love this album sooo much, they played in the Bay Area all the time for this album! They might be from LA, but we made them our own!

Here's what you got to keep in mind. This came out in 1985. Just for comparison let's take a look at the top 10 songs of that year. 1 "Careless Whisper" - Wham! 2 "Like a Virgin" - Madonna 3 "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" - Wham! 4 "I Want to Know What Love Is" - Foreigner 5 "I Feel for You" - Chaka Khan 6 "Out of Touch" - Daryl Hall & John Oates 7 "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" - Tears for Fears 8 "Money for Nothing" - Dire Straits 9 "Crazy for You" - Madonna 10 "Take On Me" - A-ha Yeah, for anyone not a fan of all that, or the scene around all that at the time, this album was a gift from the gods themselves. Also my all time favorite photo I've ever taken at a concert is Slayer performing the song "Hell Awaits" with the entire goddamned stage on fire! Just because they could.

I was expecting Seasons in the Abyss but this is a good album. This has more of a death metal sound that thrash. They slowed it down on South of Heaven. Seasons in the Abyss is like a mix of Reign in Blood and Seasons in the Abyss. 1990 was a great year for metal. Rust in Peace, Painkiller, Seasons In The Abyss and Cowboys From Hell. Just to name a few.

Dave Lambardo the drummer here is one of my all time favorites.

Ooooh, now this album..... I arguably love more than Reign in blood.

I was just playing this cd in my car yesterday. One of their best in my opinion

I know this is a Slayer video but I had to suggest you react to Sepultura's Beneath the Remains and Arise. Because they sound a bit similar to Slayer.

Great review Molly. Still say the intro to Hell Awaits is one of the best in metal. Im gonna throw this on, while I walk the dog today. Your reviews are giving me warm fuzzy metal memories . And never have i heard springy in a Slayer review. Cant wait till you get to seasons in the Abyss.

good stuff Molly. Hope you dig into other 80s classics like Overkill, Nuclear Assault, Tankard, Kreator, Destruction and more. Such a great decade for metal...mainstream and underground.

Yes! One of my all time favorite albums! 🤘I love “At dawn they sleep”. Thx for sharing your journey Molly! Glad you’re enjoying Slayer. 👍

Wow!!! I cannot believe that I'm just getting to this reaction, I must have missed it since we here in Corpus Christi TX were worried about the storm Beryl, I'm glad i scrolled down to check what I had missed....my favorite Band growing up, was 14 going on 15the year this dropped...❤

Slayer during this album have cited Mercyful Fate as an influence (Mainly Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King) on the writing which led to much longer and progressive songs to be created. It's def one of my favorite Slayer albums

Probably the greatest introduction track ever. 4:54 "I'm never going to get sick of that." in reference to the sudden stop and restart. I'm still not sick of it and I remember when Thrash came on the scene. That is one of THE hallmarks of Thrash.

Molly lamb of god when?

Great album. The title track, At Dawn They Sleep, and Crypts Of Eternity are my favorites on the album. One of the band members, Kerry King, recently dropped his first solo album and it’s worth checking out. But yeah, for Slayer, I’d say do Show No Mercy or South Of Heaven next. Nice reaction👌🏻

My favorite Slayer album. It literally sounds like it was recorded in hell. Despite breaking up in 2019, they’ll be performing three shows later this year: twice in September (Bridgeville, IL and Louisville, KY) and once in October (Sacramento). If you live in or near any of those locations, you can try nabbing a ticket.

The first couple albums were pretty raw, but you can still hear how much influence they had on other bands. At Dawn They Sleep is definitely the standout track on this one. Nobody really knew how to record music like this yet, it was brand new, so they basically cranked up the reverb on everything lol.

Tom's bass In, At Dawn they Sleep, towards the end sounds like a tuba. lol I always loved the production of this album. I was 14 when this came out and it was the best thing I ever heard.

I Love Slayer and your videos! Can't wait till' you do Christ Illusion! My personal favourite! Keep up the good content

At Dawn They Sleep!!!!

The intro to At Dawn They Sleeps is in 13/8 or 15/8 -- very unusual for its time. That said I'm enjoying your reviews. :)

right at the beginning, they are saying su nioj which is backwards for join us. Its supposed to be the whole Satanic backwards message kind of thing and then they say Welcome back after the sunioj thing. kind of cool and also creepy for those times when the whole satanic panic thing was going on in the 80s. first 5 songs go for the throat and hold ya down for sure. awesome reaction video btw!!!

Thanks for reminding me this album exists.

Back in my day ..., It was called speed metal.,🤟🤟🤟

definitely the most evil sounding slayer album.

Hell Awaits indeed! And this was what hell must sound like, sounds like fun! Next Check out South of Heaven or Season in the Abyss.

Well guess what I'll be listening to in the car going to work tomorrow. Loved this album when it came out, had never heard anything so fast back then. I like Tom's bass being a bit higher in the mix. Wasn't this the album where the producer made Dave Lombardo record all the cymbals separately?

Love the content Molly! and if nobody has told you yet today, Your Beautiful!

Amazing album

….South of Heaven next?!?!! 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽

I was looking forward to this since you reacted to Reign In Blood! At Dawn They Sleep and Necrophiliac are my favorites. Please react to Ripping Corpse - Dreaming With The Dead album. The most unique death metal band, imo. Also my favorite band!

Lombardo is a legend! Love their early stuff, with "Seasons in the Abyss" being my fav.

Great reaction as always. You should definitely react to some Queens of the Stone Age in the future. I would recommend starting with either Songs for the Deaf or Like Clockwork!

i love this album😇

This was the first Slayer album I ever heard because I accidentally ordered it on one of those 10 CDs for $1 deals in a magazine back in like 96. Scared the bajeebus out of me lol.

Divine Intervention was always my favorite Slayer album. Keep in mind, if you listen to it, that it has a slightly more modern sound, having come out in the mid 90s. The drumming is insane!

The echoing is reverb and this album had it in spades. "Reign in Blood" did not use reverb and has a more 'in your face' sound. Both albums are classic. One thing I also liked about Slayer was the soloing. It is often pure chaos with no rhyme or reason. The solos are often not even played in the "right" key. But they sounds prefect for their songs.

Molly, please listen to the band Down! The front man is the singer of Pantera and the rest are alll well know New Orleans musicians. They have 3 albums and 2 EPs and and amazing single about losing Dime Bag after he was killed. (Pantera Gutarest) Please Please Pretty Please 🙏

Good review, hell awaits is a classic. I highly recommend you check out symbolic by death, it ls absolutely life changing !!

Tom Araya (Slayer lead vocalist/bassist) does have a pretty sick melodic voice. He has about the same range as James Hetfield, and while not quite as raspy, it somehow sounds more intimidating. This makes me excited when you review South Of Heaven or Seasons In The Abyss one day as those albums is where Araya's melodic vocals flash the most (although he's still primarily a yelling vocalist 😅)

Your smiles are pretty af. I’m so glad you’re listening to Slayer!! They’re definitely one of my favorites

I always thought Hell Awaits was too short and a bit monotonous, but it's still a good record. That devilishly-evil and speedy sound are really on point here 😈

At Dawn They Sleep is epic!

Fuck yeah amazing choice

You’ve got to listen to asphyx - last one on earth. It has the perfect blend of that slow dark and atmospheric doom metal sound with that fast balls to the wall death metal that made pestilence so great 🤘

Another classic banger...you must check out Possessed's Seven Churches and Death's Scream Bloody Gore for classic analog grimness

On the three albums, "Reign In Blood", "Hell Awaits" & "South Of Heaven", they follow a certain guitar riff and drumming rhythm concept that they change up differently and stick to on each of those recordings. Which seems like you have noticed and will hear when you react to "South..."

Yeah🤘😎🇵🇭

I haven’t seen a recommendation for the first Metal Church album, but I think you’d really dig it👍

More Slayer!

I notice that you mostly react to guitar based music. Is that what you prefer to listen to, or behind the scenes do you listen to more electronicy music as well? Just curious. Because I'd be perfectly happy to see you react to all sorts of stuff outside of the rock / alternative / metal spectrum if you fancy it. On a side note, I think this got some classic facial expressions out of you, as it should be. Nice reaction. 😆

You should react to Dark Angel's Darkness Descends

Slayerrrrrr!!!!

You should listen to the early genesis albums. Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, Selling England by the pound, The lamb lies down on broadway

Great review!

I loved this album as a kid, it was so evil sounding that I felt I was doing something that's forbidden 😅 At Dawn They Sleep might be my favourite Slayer song ever, it's probably their most progressive track with "Face the Slayer" from the debut. And Necrophiliac I think is basically a death metal song. If you swap Araya's vocals with Chuck Schuldiner's it could easily be on Death's first albums.

If you like Slayer, you will love Napalm Death.

Show no mercy slayers first album is also probably their best, put that one on your list molly

Great reaction, i think you should listen to Primus one of the most original bands that exist, even if you don't like them, they won't leave you indifferent to their sound.

JOIN US

Molly please listen to Killswitch Engage :Alive Or Just Breathing album

More slayer 🤘🏼

Praise Of Death is easily my favorite Slayer song.

still love that molly do albums -yes im old but sometime there was thoughts behind a album

Divine Intervention... for reasons but yh SLAYER have fun

Would love to see you review ween, especially pure guava

Playing Doom in 90's earing Slayer

Its Slayer not a nursery rhyme its going to be heavy thats why we love Slayer

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@ 6:24 OMG!

This album is so progressive & heavy as hell. They were definitely influenced by Mercyful Fate at this time 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽

Please do LD.50 by mudvayne They're super crazy!

I'll say it again... South of Heaven

I do love Slayer, but for me they have a 1:3 Trash Ratio - for every stand-out song there's three very average or worse songs. It works out on average to being about 3 songs per album I'd actually go out of my way to listen to.

SU NOIJ SU NOIJ SU NOIJ They’re saying “Join Us” backwards, creepy! Haha 😅

I don’t always listen to Thrash Metal. But when I do, I prefer Slayer.

Do burzum aske

I don't know if you are gonna check South of Heaven next or Show no mercy. Show no mercy is my fav!

Everybody grab your crosses for this one! Slayer at there most evil. React away!

lol its funny to ear you discribe sound you ear and you so cute

It’s ok to not like some stuff sometimes. Nobody cares anymore.

Unfortunately the mix isn't good on these earlier records. Tom sounds like he's in a tiled bathroom.

People are gonna kill me but this is actually my least favorite Slayer album But I do like the song HELL AWAITS

Why are you doing this?

I missed Haunting the Chapel and Captor of Sin. 🥲

In the Face👊🤘🔥