1. Seasons in the Abyss 2. Reign in Blood 3. South of Heaven

Christ Illusion is a modern day metal classic! Great rankings guys.

Top 6 1. Reign in Blood 2. Seasons in the Abyss 3. South of Heaven 4. Hell Awaits 5. Repentkess 6. Show no Mercy

I like that you have the young man's perspective also.

Reign in Blood will always be #1 for me. Absolutely flawless. Seasons, South of Heaven and Hell Awaits are all fantastic, but those have a couple of tracks that I may skip. Not the case with Reign in Blood. 28 minutes of perfection. No letting up at any point.

That’s just so awesome... A young fan into the conversation as well as their first producer/Metal Blade figurehead, doing the countdown on their catalogue. Rock on, guys!!! 🤘

I Love Slayer!!! One of my 3 favorite bands ever!!!

1. Hell Awaits / Haunting the Chapel 2. Reign in Blood 3. South of Heaven 4. Seasons in the Abyss 5. The rest ... :)

Hey guys, just wanted to say, I love your channel, and love these rankings, it's awesome seeing guys older and younger than me into the same music I love, up the irons!🤘

01. South of Heaven 02. Reign in Blood 03. Show No Mercy 04. Seasons in the Abyss 05. Haunting the Chapel 06. Hell Awaits 07. God Hates Us All 08. Divine Intervention All the rest can be mixed and matched as I don't find myself picking any of them up much. Not bad and loved seeing them done live and moshing it up to them; just not something that sticks out much. Great job guys, loved the rankings. Was great to hear some stories behind the scenes as well as getting a younger persons perspective on a generational band like SLAYERRRRRRRRRR!

Great Show! My top 5 ranking: 1. South of Heaven 2. Reign in Blood 3. Seasons in the Abyss 4. Hell Awaits 5. Show No Mercy

1 Reign in blood 2 Seasons in the Abyss 3 South of Heaven 4 Hell Awaits 5 Show No Mercy 6 Christ Illusion 7 World Painted Blood 8 Divine Intervention 9 Undisputed Attitude 10 God Hates Us All 11 Repentless 12 Diabolus in Musica

Never understood all the hate for Diabolus, yea it's got a couple of nu metalish missteps but most of the album has a killer doom/groove vibe I really dig

My top SLAYER albums are #1 - South of Heaven. #2 - Seasons. #3 - Reign in Blood. #4 - Hell Awaits. #5 - Divine Intervention #6 - Christ Illusion. That's it. all the rest or verygood albums in my opinion. but these or their greatest of all times. Verygood video Pete.🙂\m/

Voivod Ranking Yes! Will be looking forward to that one!

Divine Intervention is a great album.

Fantastic show. So good to see and hear the legendary Brian Slagel. The US heavy metal scene owes him (and Metal Blade) so much. Nr1 Show no mercy and South of Heaven (very different albums but amazingly strong song writing, top to bottom). Nr 2: Hell awaits and Reign in blood, their darkest, fastest and meanest two albums. The 2 albums that pioneered and forged the foundation of extreme metal.

never forget buying Hell Awaits back in 1985..A real WTF moment. So love the way the title track changes gear twice then full throttle, I had never heard anything like it, and I did have Venom's debut album. 1. Reign In Blood (saw them in 87 on that tour in Birmingham UK, they had the audacity to use Symptom of the Universe as intro music in Sabbaths home city. And I still have the T Shirt) 2. Seasons in the Abyss 3. Hell Awaits 4. Haunting the Chapel 5. South of Heaven

Well done guys, I have a Thing for south of Heaven, its a change for the speedy type of things they have done, the riffs are phenomenal and the singing from Tom is top notch.. Its my number one after that its all the classics ofcourse..

Where did the guy in the bottom left get that Number of the Beast poster? Looks gorgeous with the blacklight. Also, big props to the kid - he knows his stuff and is so young - Rock on brother!

Pete, @littlepunkpeople is a great addition to your roundtable! Elliott is insightful for every album he ranks: Year Released, Musicians involved in the recording, Favorite Songs and why the album is important to him, personally...parenting done well! Although I don't own much of Slayer's later catalog, I thought 'Repentless' was awful due to the logy drumming by Paul Bostaph. The timing feels uncomfortable to the point where he is falling behind the beat rather than being on-top-or-ahead of it. Albeit an exception to the list, it found its way on there nonetheless and with that I mean, 'Live, Undead.' I think that is the best representation of that earlier material; it is more intense, visceral, stentorian and downright frightening. That said, here is my 'Top 5 Slayer' 5 - Seasons In The Abyss (Besides the title track and 'War Ensemble,' I thought the album was (overall) pretty "sleepy" with songs that didn't catch my attention...yet good enough to make my Top 5. 4 - Reign In Blood (Too short...I also own the copy on DefJam with 'Reigning Blood' botched by mastering gone awry. For years, I never knew where the song started and ended!) 3 - South Of Heaven (This was my first Slayer album I purchased on CD...#nostalgia. The title track, 'Ghosts Of War' and the artwork are enough for me to rank it this high) 2 - Show No Mercy (This bridged the gap between NWOBHM and extreme metal for me...Slayer at their most melodic and with songs that make it into their sets to this day!) 1 - Live Undead/Haunting The Chapel (Even though it was 1988 when I took the chance and purchased it, the cassette of the HTC EP was my first ever foray into "extreme/black metal"). I was scared beyond belief, but felt there was something worth mining. Due to its brevity, I was able to compute its raw energy and come to accept its horrorshow lyrics that ultimately influenced me to go back and purchase 'Show No Mercy.' Combined with 'Live Undead' there is no better combination than those two releases (Studio EP and Live LP)...kudos to @metalbladerecords I would be a fabulist if I said Slayer was an integral part of my adolescence...they were not. While, 'Live Undead' is still VERY nostalgic to me, I think it still ranks as the best representation of their early catalog. IMO, there is no better recording of 'Die By The Sword' than on 'Live Undead.' Cheers, B

World Painted Blood is a really underrated album imho - would make my top 5

1.) Seasons in the Abyss - All great songs with no filler. The one I re-listen to the most. 2.) Hell Awaits - Love the insane energy and the imagery of the lyrics 3.) Reign in Blood - Legendary album to be sure, but there's a couple filler tracks in the middle that prevents me from ranking it more highly. 4.) South of Heaven 5.) God Hates Us All - Disciple, Bloodline and Warzone are some of my favorite songs of their whole work 6.) Divine Intervention - production/mixing could be better, but overall good songs. Some of the darkest most disturbing lyrics of their whole career! 7.) World Painted Blood 8.) Repentless 9.) Christ Illusion 10.) Diabolus - Some filler tracks, but not as bad as its made to be. 11.) Show No Mercy - I respect the ground work laid on the album and the signature songs like Black Magic, The Antichrist and the title track, but it's not something I want to listen to again. 12.) Undisputed Attitude - OK cover album. I got to see Slayer on the Final Tour at the Oakland Arena in Oakland back in November 2019. It was intense. They kicked lots of ass and certainly went out on top!

1. Seasons in the Abyss 2. South of Heaven 3. Reign in Blood

Excellent episode!

First Slayer show I saw ,was on the Haunting the chapel Tour when I was 15. Cabaret Metro in Chicago about 300 in attendance. They played Necrophiliac which was super cool. I remember Hanneman peeing into a 5 gallon bucket on side stage and them drinking Budweiser 🍺 great memories!

Thanks for including Haunting The Chapel. It’s only an EP but I’ve always thought of it as their second album. That’s when they became more aggressive. I love all Slayer!!!

Hell Awaits is my favourite, and I think it's an absolute masterpiece. It sports brilliant use of reverb, and I love the way it seems to be 'bookended' by the fade in at the start and the fade out at the end. The lead guitar breaks sit perfectly in the mix too, I sometimes find Slayer leads to be a bit too spikey sounding when they are brought up in level up and sitting proud. And the artwork is awesome too, just to top it off..Hell awaaaaaaiiiiiiiitts!!!!!!!!!

Love the video lads

HERE WE GO!!!

awesome stuff, guys. 1. show no mercy 2. south of Heaven 3. seasons in the abyss 4. reign in blood 5. hell awaits

More Elliott on the channel please :)

1. South of Heaven (my favorite album by far) 2. Show No Mercy 3. Hell Awaits 4. Haunting The Chapel 5. Reign in Blood 6. Seasons in the Abyss 7. Divine Intervention 8. Diabolus in Musica 8. God Hates Us All 9. Christ Illusion 10. World Painted Blood 11. Repentless 12. Undisputed Attitude

Its amazing that Steve Keeler is wearing Krisium tee! Cheers from Brazil! 🤘

Thank you for your ranking of Slayer.🎤🎸🎵🥁

Please rank the VENOM albums...my favorite band of this genre !

Enjoyed the show! Since You've got Brian Slagel on the show how about Top 10 songs of Lizzy Borden and Malice, two great Heavy Metal bands that were on Metal Blade?

Awesome show!!! Crypts Of Eternity!!!

This is by far my favorite group on this channel

Pete, the Slayer Felt Forum show was in 1988, for the South of Heaven Tour, not the Reign in Blood Tour, I was there, insane show, there tons of cops and bloodied people even before the show started, and then the sear cushions started flying

Here are my favourite Slayer-LP's: 1. South Of Heaven 2. Reign In Blood 3. Seasons In The Abyss 4. Show No Mercy 5. Hell Awaits 6. World Painted Blood 7. Divine Intervention 8. Christ Illusion

Mine first listening of Slayer was "Hell awaits" in 1985 and i love it from the beginning. Then 1st album, but didn't like it maybe, because of very low quality bootleged tape. And even after "Reign" came in, the 2nd remain my favorite. I think first 5 albums it's a Slayer's classics.

Show No Mercy is a truly great and catchy album from the very first to the last second. Hell Awaits comes in at 2nd, 3rd is Either Reign or South.

Diabolus is so gravely underrated, the speed, agression, and groove is amazing on that album!!

I have heard ALL their albums MANY times and after all these years and after all these listenings, Reign in Blood is still my favorite album of them...and it will always be

I really don't listen to much metal these days. Was a huge Slayer fan for quite a long time. But I still to this day pull out "Hell Awaits" from time to time. Very progressive, almost like if Yes put out a thrash album.

Never understood the fuzz about Diabolus in Musica, great album!

Undisputed Attitude kicks ass! Yeah, obviously its a cover album and can't really be considered in this sort of list, but worth mentioning at least! I listen to it a lot more than their later albums in the catalog 🤘

In tribute, I listened to a Raining Blood live version video and Angel of Death while watching/reading this.. (close caption). I wasn't that into Slayer back when my kids were little because their faces were like 😳😩😫. But now they like Slayer, hard rock, metal, thrash metal, etc. now that they're in their 30's. Great show. ✌️🤟

I have to agree, there are NO bad SLAYER albums

can you guys put a time stamp to where you talk about the albums that matter?

1. Reign In Blood 2. God Hates Us Hall 3. South Of Heaven 4. Diabolus (Yes I'm the one fan of that album haha) 5. Christ Illusion

This is a tough one, but I'll give it a shot! 1. Seasons in the Abyss 2. Reign in Blood 3. South of Heaven 4. Hell Awaits 5. God Hates Us All 6. Show No Mercy 7. Divine Intervention 8. World Painted Blood 9. Christ Illusion 10. Repentless 11. Diabolus In Musica I can't really rank an EP in an album list. If I was going to include the covers album it would be 9, just after World Painted Blood!

Masterpiece Tier: 1. Seasons 2. South of Heaven 3. Reign in Blood Excellent Tier: 4. Hell Awaits 5. Show No Mercy Great Tier: 6. Christ Illusion 7. Divine Intervention 8. Haunting the Chapel Ep Good Tier: 9. God Hates Us All Decent Tier: 10. Diabolus in Musica 11. World Painted Blood 12. Repentless

Which movie did they mention at the very end of the video? I did not get the name of it.

Repentless is so heavy and great album!!!! blow me away! WE WILL MISS YOU SLAYEEEEEER!

SLAYER - EVIL OF THE BIG 4 My Top 5 albums are 1. Reign In Blood 2. Seasons in The Abyss 3. Hell Awaits 4. South Of Heaven 5. Show No Mercy

Nice to see so many comments ranking South of Heaven as Number 1. It was my introduction to Slayer so is special to me, I’ve read that Kerry King slags it off which I don’t get. But for me, it’s impossible to choose between Reign in Blood, South of Heaven and Seasons in the Abyss.

I love all of Slayer's catalog but their first six albums are MASTERPIECES to me. My top six at the time would have to be. 6. South Of Heaven 5. Hell Awaits 4. Divine Intervention 3. Seasons In The Abyss 2. Reign In Blood 1. Show No Mercy

Great list. 1. Show No Mercy 2. Seasons 3. South of Heaven for my top 3

I understand putting at South of Heaven at 7th, because it was a letdown from Reign In Blood. It did grow on me, but I hear where Pete's coming from.

One of the first extreme metal bands I heard. I'd rank their albums like this: 1. Hell Awaits 10/10 2. Reign in Blood 10/10 3. Seasons in the Abyss 9/10 4. South of Heaven 9/10 5. Show No Mercy 9/10 6. World Painted Blood 8/10 7. Christ Illusion 8/10 8. Divine Intervention 7/10 9. Diabolus in Musica 7/10 10. Undisputed Attitude 6/10 11. God Hates Us All 4/10 12. Repentless 4/10

Show No Mercy for me... I bought it here in the UK on import from a metal hang out called Shades Records.... I must have been one of the first guys in Europe to own a copy! Still have it... Metal Blade Records and the album cover were enough for me! Sx

I still like Diabolus in Musica. It was a nice bridge for me at the time. I was 15, hadn't really latched on to Slayer or much of any faster metal; I gravitated towards heavier mid-paced stuff at the time. I was at the record store one day, saw that Slayer had released a new album (this is 1998) and decided to give them another chance and bought it. It had a good mix of mid-paced heavy shit I liked, but I was finding I started liking the faster parts more, so I started getting their earlier albums and digging more into thrash in general. I get why it's at the bottom of their lists though. Some of those songs were great live as well. \,,/

Shock! No reign in blood as nr. 1.

I think these are all pretty damn good. "Diabolus..." has some bad choices on it, but it's better than most other band's releases from that time. 13) Diabolus in Musica 12) Undisputed Attitude 11) Christ Illusion 10) World Painted Blood 9) God Hates Us All 8) Divine Intervention 7) Repentless 6) Haunting The Chapel EP 5) Seasons in the Abyss 4) Show No Mercy (Evil Has No Boundaries is still my favorite song of theirs) 3) Hell Awaits 2) South of Heaven 1) Reign in Blood Thanks, guys! I came back to edit my choices to include the EP after watching.

Have the bootleg vhs of that Forum Reign show, from back before youtube existed haha. Reign and South of Heaven are tied for first with Seasons following shortly after.

Nice shirt, Steve. Greetings from Brazil.

HELL AWAITS!!

Agree with Elliott for this one - Seasons

Surprised no RiB at #1, but glad two of the choices were 'Show No Mercy'. That album has it's own charm and is frequently overlooked.

Here's mine: Hell Awaits Reign in Blood Show no Mercy/Haunting the Chapel (since it came out soon after their debut) I stopped regularly listening to Slayer afterwards and moved on to heavier stuff (since I was very disappointed in South of Heaven). I first heard of Slayer when someone played Show no Mercy at a party (~early 84). At the same party, someone played Venom Black Metal as well. I got hooked since then.

Hell Awaits, Reign, South & Seasons are my favorites 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

I have all those Super7 Slayer figures!! Love ‘em!!

I love Undisputed Attitude. I grew up listening to those punk songs.

Great show ! Big surprise of the varieties ! It would be boring when all say Reign in blood ! I agree ! The newer albums are great but not in my top. 1 South of heaven 2 Seasons in the abyss 3 Reign in blood

I really like Repentless.I just recently bought it because I listened to others instead of listening to it myself.

Hell awaits 1, Show no mercy 2, Reign in blood 3, South of heaven 4, Live undead 5, Christ illusion 6, Divine intervention 7, God hate us all 8,

Personally, when i rank eps in a bands catalogue, i dont take away points for the short length, but that's just me. So for me, haunting the chapel is in my top 3 for Slayer. Do disrespect to Elliott, of course! What's cool about being his age, is that you could have a dad that grew up on Slayer. My dad listened to the Beatles and shit, which I've never been into.

My Favourite Album is 'Decade of Aggression' - All the Big Songs The Songs Sound brilliantly Aggressive Live - Love it

My Top 12 Slayer Albums "SLAYER!!!!!!!!!!" 12. Undisputed Attitude 11. Diabolus in Musica 10. Relentless 9. Christ Illusion 8. God Hates Us All 7. Divine Intervention 6. World Painted Blood 5. South Of Heaven 4. Seasons in the Abyss 3. Reign in Blood 2. Show No Mercy 1. Hell Awaits I Have To Agree With Pete About Show No Mercy, That Album Got Me Into The Band.

My rankings for Slayer. Legendary band. 1) Reign In Blood 2) South Of Heaven 3) Haunting the Chapel / Live Undead 4) Seasons in the Abyss 5) Hell Awaits 6) Divine Intervention 7) Show No Mercy 8) Christ Illusion 9) God Hates Us All 10) Repentless 11) World Painted Blood 12) Diabolus in Musica 13) Undisputed Attitude I saw them in '86, '88 and '91. Every show was killer!

My #1 is Show No Mercy. So many underrated gems on this record that were rarely a part of their livesets: Die by the Sword, Black Magic, Metal Storm/Face the Slayer, the title track Show no Mercy, and my personal favorite Slayer song: the criminally underrated Crionics! Besides a demo version or two, most of these songs were disappointingly not even included on Slayer's Soundtrack to the Apocalypse boxset with 4 or 5 discs. Show No Mercy, not the incredible production quality of Reign in Blood, probably even lacks the absolute 100% perfect bangers like Angel of Death, but overall my favorite thrash record by any of the big 4.

My ranking (my favorite song on the album): 11. Repentless (Repentless) 10. Diabolus in Musica (Stain of Mind) 9. Christ Illusion (Cult) 8. Divine Intervention (Divine Intervention) 7. World Painted Blood (World Painted Blood) 6. Show No Mercy (Fight till Death) 5. God Hates Us All (God Send Death) 4. Hell Awaits (Hell Awaits) 3. Reign in Blood (Raining Blood) 2. South of Heaven (Behind the Crooked Cross; my favorite Slayer song) 1. Seasons in the Abyss (Skeletons of Society)

Don’t have a full ranking yet but I agree with Pete wholeheartedly on South of Heaven. Good but not my favorite, especially because Reign In Blood still hits so hard

To the gentleman named Elliot: You pronounced the word psychopathy perfectly on the first try.

I want to see one of these types of videos with all the Megadeth or Metallica albums

Hell Awaits is tops for me but I had it on cassette and the production is already lacking. That's why I love those songs that are on Decade of Aggression so much more. And in defense of Diabolus, Bitter Peace is a great song.

I listened to South of Heaven and Seasons of the Abyss this morning. Still haven't recovered from the gut punch metal mayhem.

Hello Pete,how are you? My favourite 5 Slayer albums are- 1) Reign In Blood 2) Divine Intervention 3) Hell Awaits 4) South Of Heaven 5) Seasons In the Abyss An Honourary Mention for the Haunting The Chapel e.p.,for me Slayer's coming of Age! Unfortunately,after Divine Intervention they (for the most part),lost their way,and for me,were paying too much attention to the likes of Machine Head & some of the catchiness of Nu-Metal (World Painted Blood is more like traditional Slayer & has some good stuff on it though).

Hi pete south of heaven is my fave , have you done a piece on the brit band SKYCLAD yet ? , brilliant thrash , folksy ? band , lots of violin and crunchy guitars , and evil vocals from Martin Valkyrie and quite political themes , also the band that they morphed from ( Sabbat ), the first two albums of SABBAT are excellent as well , featuring Andy Sneep on guitar , one of current metals good record producers.

Slayer had a chemistry amongst the four guys that was magic. I like Bostaph but without the original lineup it just isnt the same. *FAVORITES* #1 Seasons In The Abyss *#2 Christ Illusion* #3 South Of Heaven #4 Reign In Blood #5 Show No Mercy #6 World Painted Blood #7 Hell Awaits #8 Haunting The Chapel ------------------------- #9 God Hates Us All #10 Divine Intervention #11 Repentless #12 Diabolous In Musica I dont understand lack of enthusiasm around Christ Illusion. i loved that album. Return of the original lineup and i thought they delivered big time. It was much groovier than usual, the solos were improved and Dave clearly inspired the band to be much more creative (see JIHAD). To me they picked up where they left off with Seasons. Its like loving Terminator but disliking Terminator 2. I just dont get it.

I got a question for Brian slagel, im curious since hell awaits was 7 songs n haunting was 3, why wasnt it combined as a full length?

1. Seasons Of The Abyss 2. Reign In Blood 3. South Of Heaven 4. Hell Awaits 5. Show No Mercy 6. Christ Illusion 7. God Hates Us All 8. Divine Intervention 9. Relentless 10. World Painted Blood 11. Diabolus in Musica. The one that's truly diabolical!

Man Elliott was on the right track had it real close to the way I would have ranked them the rest of guys really surprised me with your ranking. Can't understand why a lot of people put god hates us all so high up that album sucked it was the 98 album part 2 there was only 3 to 4 good songs on there if that Elliott ranked it right where it goes second to last cause if there's one thing u all got right was ranking the 98 last I applaud u for that. To me in my opinion slayers sellout albums were season's in the abyss and the 98 album and God hates us all I think even south of heaven a bit cause south and seasons seem to be a lot of people's favorite and God hates us all and the 98 album were nu metal that was slayer selling out for the times. But hey a lot of bands got off track in the 90s but in the end they all got back on track. And there's one thing I don't understand why do people rank the 2006 and 2009 and 1994 albums so freaking low those albums are great they sure are better than god hates us all that's for sure to me those albums are very underrated big time. As a pre teen growing up in the 80s and living for the music I saw people who wouldn't listen to slayer all that much until south of heaven and seasons came out then they jumped on the slayer train seasons has a polished sound a little mainstream but slayer showed people they could play their guitars and compose real songs cause people would give them crap about their solos and easy playing as a bass player to me slayer rules they are one of my favorite speed metal bands u see slayer to me is in a league of their own when I approach a song or piece of music I'm writing I go in with a feel not if it doesn't have a thousand notes it sucks u see doesn't matter if a song is 3 notes or 300 a good song is a good song even though some people think we'll it's not technical enough it sucks yeah right. I love how slayer writes their music because people will remember it they will remember angel of death 20 years from now more than any dream theatre song. But just my opinion I like the sea of tranquility especially when they rank albums it's fun to see how other metal heads rank albums and hey everybody has a right to their opinion so to each their own sometimes u agree other times u don't it's all good it will give u something to talk about. And it's good to see the young metal heads keeping the music alive and well horns up to u Elliott keeping on rocking man.

Hell - Reign - South 10/10 Show - Seasons 9/10 Divine 8/10 God - World - Repentless 7/10 Diabolus - Christ 6/10

Ok I want that Iron Maiden Poster! Lol

The band Algebra is my new Slayerish go to.

Hell yeah elliot! I love Pshycopatic red to 🤘

My personal favorites: 3. Show No Mercy 2. Hell Awaits 1. Raining Blood.