for me personally( because i heard your point about art and how we can make it be respectfull to the people who died) art must say things the way they are and not care about if its shocking to people because that's the truth guys we have to face it i mean society was never really respectfull to the people who died only a small number of people trully respect the dead the majority of people are just hypocrites about that (perhaps even i am ) and they claim they respect dead people because that's what everyone expects from them and they say good stuff about the people who died because they dont want to look mean and because the dead don't live enymore to bother them because everyone cares deep inside just for themselves

Slayer is great at showing inside the mind of a sick lost person, but it’s so creepy

Slayer's lyrics primarily delved into the dark side of humanity, whatever that may have entailed. Mass murderers and serial killers were a particularly common subject, especially for Tom Araya and Jeff Hannemann, who were fascinated by them and how their minds worked. There's this song which is about Ed Gein, 213 which is about Jeffrey Dahmer, and Angel of Death which is about Mengele, all written by Araya and/or Hannemann, as well as similar songs about no one killer in particular but just the general mindset like Seven Faces, Deviance, Black Serenade, Playing with Dolls, and many more I can't think of right now. Slayer was actually part of the reason why I became so obsessed with serial killer documentary shows like Most Evil, and seriously considered getting into the field of criminal psychology.

7:40 slayer did their job

Child's voice isn't voice of the victim. It is inner voice of Ed Gein.

They have another song "213" which is about Jeffrey Dahmer and it's also awesome, and has "amazing" lyrics.

I don't think slayer writing a song about this subject is any different than watching a documentary on the same subject on TV. Aside from the kick ass music that's behind the story

Even though Slayer have retired, their legacy lives on. Sori's reaction was priceless, especially when the voice over of the little girls came on towards the end. Slayer wrote songs about the evils in the world and what Vin said about it being real life is all too true. There are sick individuals out there committing all sorts of evil, some are even in positions of leadership and power. You'd have to have had a really sheltered life not to realise that. Great reaction guys! One, of many, of my favourite Slayer songs.

If it makes you feel any better... Ed Gein did not kill any children, only two older women. He did however exhume a whole bunch of bodies from the local graveyard, and many of those were younger children. So... don't take this as me defending him or anything like that, but yeah.

Alternate title for this video: Vin & Sori mollywhopped by Slayer. Easily in Slayer's top 5. 🤘🔥🤘

Finally, I suggested this two fucking years ago...the scariest metal song...

I'm Christian too but doesn't offend me. This is a true story.

My favorite slayer song.. Ed killed 2 ladies the rest of the remains were from grave robbing

Ok yall messing with me now. This my favorite song by slayer. Thanks so much for doing so much awesome music and etc. Much love

How else would you rather learn about the existence of such people? Would you rather come to a realization that these people are real, through a song or through the evening news.

The look on both your faces was so worth it! This was like when you played last caress. You know it's coming and you sit there with popcorn waiting. Ed Gein was barely a serial killer. He only killed two people, I believe them both being in sequence was what qualified him. He was a paranoid schizophrenic, who was America's first look into the eyes of true insanity and inspired so many books and movies.

For the record unfortunately Gein confessed to killing 2 women. He was mostly known as a body snatched stealing bodies from the graveyards. All your favourite horror movies, Physco,Texas Chainsaw Massacre etc.. Are based on Ttheodore Gein

The fact that it made Sori sick means that the song achieved it's goal. These types of songs do not glorify.. they are meant to show us that 'this' exists so that way we do not go through life unaware of the possible dangers around us. The fact that she song is very good musically (at least in my opinion) makes it more likely the message (and raising of awareness) gets out to more people. Does this song need to exist? Nope. There are plenty of other ways to raise awareness.. but songs like this are Slayer's way of getting a specific message across.. and this one did it perfectly, imo.

In the 40's, the black man's blues was reviled cos white people didn't like dark, sexual music - they wanted happy tunes! In the 50's, rock n' roll music was demonized by the christian right cos Elvis shaking his hips to tempt young ladies to the devil's music! 😈 In the 60's, it was Jim Morrison of the Doors who was literally prosecuted for his "obscene" sexual gestures on stage 😲 In the 70's, Black Sabbath caused an uproar simply by mentioning satan... Alice Cooper was literally freaking people out cos of his macabre theater stage show 💀 In the 80's, people freaked at bands like Venom & Motley Crue for using pentagram imagery 🎃 The fact that Slayer can still freak people out w/ music & lyrics they put out back in 1990, means they did something right! Thank you, Jeff Hanneman (R.I.P.😷🤘)

I just realized that when sori introduces herself she is literally saying “im sorry” and i shouldn’t be laughing as hard as i am rn 🤣

You know, I've liked this song since day one. But I finally got around to watching this listen along and for some reason Sori's reaction to the child's voice at the end of the song made me look at it in a different light. I never considered how shocking this song actually is. Thanks girl. 🤘

Great song, Seasons in the Abyss was one of my favorite albums in high school.

I don’t think I have ever seen you two left speechless after a review!

Welcome to slayer y'all. They tell you the truth in the most brutal, in your face no bullshit way

You know, there's always a fine line somewhere. But I set store by what the great Japanese movie director once said: To be an artist means never to look away. I think part of an artist's job is to almost force humanity to look its demons right in the eye, without mitigation, without white clothes to cover the uncomfortable parts. To put it another way: the fact that Ed Gein happened is far worse than the fact that Slayer chose to depict him and his deeds in such a shocking and borderline disrespectful way. If we are to understand evil we need to be ready to be disturbed, shocked.

"oh shoot i fell asleep, didn't i?" relationships everywhere.

Christ’s crucifixion isn’t ‘the most brutal scene in human history’. It isn’t even close, and to talk about it like *that’s^ the worst we’ve done is incredibly blind to actual human history. You don’t have to be hyperbolic about it just because it’s your religion.

The first time ever i thought about the lyrics in this songs and the meaning of the "kid" that's talking in there and it creeps the hell outta me!

Peak--- slayer- song writing Era. Go On fight me. I'll wait

The Dark Funeral cover of this is amazing.

Pure art from hell. This band evokes in strong colors the deepest of hell

One of my favorite songs ever!!!!

ol Ed even killed his own brother out of spite and Ed's grave is not marked

One of my favourite songs musically growing up. I never payed too much attention to the lyrics. Sori made such a great point about ‘what if it was your daughter’. 😕.

This is a song about a man named Ed who used to sleep and dance with the dead: DEAD SKIN MASK! This was the live announcement for this song on concerts.... I loved this, it is Slayer describing true evil.

Obviously a lot of metal bands draw on twisted or dark subject matter, to varying degrees of goofiness and effectiveness. There's always been a strong connection in this genre to horror films (I mean Black Sabbath to start with..), and what I think is that, in this era, Slayer had more in common with the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre, rather than some glossy, sparkly and maybe superficially gorier big budget horror flick. They really nailed that icky vibe. It's still just entertainment, but they were just better at it than most.

I've always been fascinated by Slayer's POV on the subjects they cover in a lot of their songs. It reminds you that without dark there can be no light.

One of the best songs Slayer ever did. Scary as hi fk. Amazing solo too, but tell me a solo by Kk or Hanneman that isnt ?!

Always wanted to learn to play this.. The live version of this on "decade" is total bad ASS.. Any who research Ed Gein. That's what this song is about..

Slayer is and always will be my favorite group. I heard them when I was a around 13 in the 80’s. They are much better then Metallic and my second favorite is Megadeth.

Remember Ed Gein is the only way to be always ready to face that situations. Terror is a necessary wound to not forget what happens out there

Thing is...Tom Araya (singer/bassist) of Slayer is a reformed Christian. Has been for a few decades now. He's publicly admitted as such. It's just that that's what Slayer embodies. They don't give an ish. It's a form of entertainment. Also, "Seasons in the Abyss" is (arguably) one of the best thrash metal albums ever recorded. It's my personal favorite by them ("Hell Awaits" being a close second) but it also shows that just because you write/sing these kinds of things doesn't mean you believe/participate in such things.

I've been waiting for this one. One of Slayer's best

He didn't kill any kids so there is no family of this "child" to offend. I believe it was something creepy yet fictional to add to the song. Or as someone else said here, its Ed's inner child being tormented. Its documented he has TBE IQ of a child and that he never grew up emotionally because of his mothers abuse and considering it was her dying that sent him off the rails it makes sense. And for everyone saying he only killed 2 women, it can't be proven but its also very much believed he killed his brother as well.

And some will argue Metallica disspeared excuse the pun in 91 or even the 80s and never returned to form. 'Talent' doesn't mean better. Do tell me the last good record Korn put out btw

Ed Gein didn't kill he dug up the bodies, the only one he didn't dig up was his mom he left her body on her bed. And dismembered her. They have to understand how Tom writes, he writing from gein side, what he thinks and sees and feels

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable

1# Go watch KZfaq "Infographics" about Ed Gein (super interesting) #2 Slayer writes about "Real Life" (direct quote) #3 Ed didn't murder minors (but was twisted beyond belief) #4 His mother's religious fanaticism most likely played a major role in his mental decline. # 5 Vin made a great point about the display of deceased bodies (i.e. Saint Fortunata) On other hand... there's also a very twisted/sick psychology side of "attention seekers". So, have to recognize the differences. True.

slayer knows how to disrupt that comfort zone we all have are Shadow's and are Light good review yall take care

Gein's victims were all adult women in his local community. The song is a pastiche of what happened, just like Hitchcock's "Psycho". The song isn't glorifying the killing of young children.

I love this song. Slayer is a band that is a horror themed band, ghost stories themselves could have basis in a real tragic event. It's our way coping with true evil in the world or can be used as a warning even more for kids to not trust strangers. Some parents want to shield the eyes of "adult things" to their kids so they aren't afraid of the world, I think that's the wrong way to go about it, fear is the greatest emotion we have .. it means we're smart, fear the stranger, fear drugs, fear death.. and knowing how to confront what real life could have in store for us. As for respecting the dead.. we can't even respect the living in our world.

7:40 Priceless

Leif Edling of Candlemass Magnetude wrote a very similar riff in the song "Embracing the Styx " as a tribute to Slayer and this song , they even called the Slayer song during rehersals .

Slayer is my absolute number one favorite band of all time!

Hüsker Dü had a song about Joe Ture, called Diane. The song was covered by Therapy from Ireland. Played very gentle but pure evil. Try that one I want to hear your comments about it

Slayer told the truth. Whether anyone liked it or not.

I get what your saying about Slayer vs Metallica....However, Dave Lombardo was best drummer that came out Thrash movement. The scorn Lars gets is over the top but he can't touch Lombardo as overall drummer.

Ed was a shining example of what a good fundamentalist upbringing can produce.

Slayer isn’t talking about him as much as they’re describing the masks he made…simple smiles, psychotic eyes….that’s what the skin masks looked like.

One of the main reasons I personally listen to heavy rock/heavy metal is because of how real and true a lot of the music is and what is being said/sung is about real life. One way or another we all will hear the truth about real life, real world events. Slayer chooses to express it through their songs. Some people watch documentaries. Some listen to POD casts. Some read it in books. It's part of life. Good and bad.

Check out their song "Silent Scream" for Slayers view on abortion. Just like Dead Skin Mask they are not condoning the subject of the song, just exploring the subject matter in a similar way that horror movies do.

Slayer liked to use satire to ridicule ignorant behavior, but some people aren't intelligent enough to grasp their sense of humor, Tom Araya is a practicing catholic with a nasty sense of humor and so am i , so i completely understand 😂

One of my favorite Slayer songs. First time I heard it, the child voice at the end creeped me out. It sounded like it was coming from outside the headphones I was wearing. I actually pulled them out of my ears and looked around. Always loved music that can cause a physical reaction. Funny side note.....I didn't hear the Mr Gein correctly the first time either. I thought the kid was saying Mr King.....First thought after the song was done was, "Alright Kerry, you got me you bastard"........lol

To be honest I never understood why they had the voice at the end of this song. Ed Gein only killed two people and he kept neither of them captive. Maybe I am misunderstanding the reasoning for The Voice, but if it is supposed to be a voice from one of his victims, then it makes no sense. And Sori, neither one of his victims were children. They were both adults

While we're on the serial killer themed Slayer songs, check out their song "213." Song about Jeffery Dahmer. Everyone overuses the term "underrated" but 213 is easily one of Slayer's most underrated songs. Only played live during the Divine Intervention tour cycle.

The inclusion of the child-like voice really is odd. Ed Gein didn't hurt any children. If it helps any, the voice is a digital effect. It was Tom Araya who voiced it.

Messed up song as it should be. Because its important to know that people like Ed Gein actually exist. Great song.

THANK YOU for doing this song. Sori's reaction is PRICELESS. XD

Kerry & Jeff (RIP) trade solos on this. Gary Holt does it justice though after filling the role after Jeff passed. Check out their version of this from Wacken 2014 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fbF2qreku53PiZc.html&ab_channel=ZarThVader

I wonder what it is about the Midwest that attracts the most eccentric serial killers. Gein, Gacy, Dahmer, etc. Must be the weather.

The girl at the end of the song is Tom Araya’s daughter. Check out Slayer’s song “Psychopathy Red” about Russia serial killer Andre Chikatilo

Ed Gein never killed any kids. He only had one confirmed kill and it was an adult female. It’s suspected that he may have killed his brother but it was ruled as an accidental death and that’s never been changed. He was mainly a grave robber.

I kind of feel the same when it comes to WWII documentaries(NOW IN COLOR!!) or especially WWII video games. We're taking someone's personal hell they lived through and turning it into a form of entertainment that we can sit in the comforts of our own home and enjoy on TV.

By the end of the video, when they figure out what the song is about, the reaction is awesome!!!! 😂😂😂😂

Nothing like a SLAYER power balled.

I think it made people feel more deeply about his death, and personalized it.

You guys should check out literally anything by "Skynd" if this type of subject matter provokes... Pretty powerful stuff.

I believe both Norman Bates and the Leather face movie characters were derived from Ed Gein...

As others have pointed out this song has nothing to do with factual accuracy about Ed Gein. Amazing song that it is, its just a piece of art with lots of artistic license being taken. And re: (13.17) if you think some itinerant preacher being crucified for sedition is the most brutal scene in human history you need to learn more about that your religious brothers and sisters did to heretics. Start with the Munster rebellion and work your way from there...

next time try angel of death guys... short mention: mengele was hiding in my town back in the 50's, before move to move and die in sao paulo. (rest in hell, mengele)

Kawałek jest o skarpetce która przedarła się na pięcie, shockig

In absolutely no way shape or form is Metallica more talented than Slayer. Definitely easier to digest for the mainstream community but not creatively.

Slayer... they've done their work, to continue to offend and scare

A pleasant fragrance in the light of the moon

I've come to expect lyrics like that from Slayer. But the music is good

I don't think Metallica is more talented than Slayer. They're both extremely talented yet have very different styles

Love this song, this song gave me the creeps as a kid when I heard it, the girl screaming freaked me the hell out.

Fun fact. Gein actually only killed like 1 or 2 people. He would normally dig up corpses so he'd basically just make human clothes from people already dead. So, I mean... He's not, that bad? 🤔🤷🏼‍♂️😂

Vin...you finally started to understand real thrash metal shredding last time I heard you react to a slayer song (btw...the "solo" at the end of Raining Blood....is purposefully extremely chaotic as the drums go all the way faster and faster....Kerry King knows very much how to write melodic solos...listen to Divine Intervention....hell I got a live VHS I ripped 10 years ago and put on YT on my channel 5-6 years ago from 1995 during the Divine Intervention era....you get to ear 2 King solos one after the other then 2 Hanneman solos and it is one of their most haunting scary song of all....with Tom's christianity (he wrote the lyrics) showing a bit through the lyrics if you take a look. Again, the "solo" at the end of Raining Blood is like that on purpose....and often live they didn't play that part you don't understand because it was a great cue to go into another song straight away. I'm glad to have put this down now. But at least you understand their songs...Sori....well i'd be sorry if I couldn't handle thrash like her....although when she saw them play War Ensemble live she was awestruck about how good they could be live when in top shape...stop shitting on Slayer cos they got real big way late in their career while most other thrash bands were not playing thrash anymore, disbanded, or played groove metal in the 90's or worse...like Metallica or Megadeth..poppy alt rock. Slayer never compromised...only Overkill and Sodom in the rather large bands managed to stay true to themselves the whole time..to varying degrees of success (especially mid-late 90's Overkill). BTW, review more Overkill from their best albums, and please not Hello From The Gutter...everybody heard this song, but please do something from their first 4 albums...maybe 5....Horrorscope is many's favourite but they lost their virutoso guitar player...who wrote songs for 2 guitars but couldn't get along with any other guitarist and they lost him...never really to come back. Slayer are consistent AF, even their worst album is miles on top of any other metal band in 1998 (that's their "worst" album, Diabolus In Musica...and in retrospective....it's really damn awesome and doomy/sludgy and different!

Sorry this is the first time I’ve seen this video… well your reaction is visceral as the song portrays the whole thing very …accurately. I think that’s what’s so disturbing

Tom Araya wrote the lyrics to this song (likely with Jeff Hanneman too), his lyrics are always for their doomier songs....and talk about the human psychology of psychopaths...he is intrigued by them, he is *NOT* glorifying Ed Gein here. You guys do not understand this, so you can't understand Slayer and a thousand metal bands out there.

Two things. 1 Ed gein was reported to be a polite and respectful person but his mom was the only person he cared about and when she died he wanted to bring her back or become her. Second and most importantly the image of Jesus on the cross is beautiful. It reminds us of what he had to go through to save our souls. It’s only on the outside where it’s depicted as disrespectful. You have to remember that it actually had to happen and the outcome was beautiful. And in a way the suffering that Jesus suffers was beautiful because he said through it. “Forgive them for they know not what they do”. That is beautiful. I think that’s why the image of Jesus on the cross is glorified.

It's difficult and hard to separate the art of Slayer to supremacists, racists, fascists... But it's necessary, it's necessary to understand the 'photo' they are taking inside all those songs. It's not to be beautiful, it's to shock, to awake minds to the real world. It's not they really hate, but today I understand their lyrics as: "Keep an eye on EVERYONE around you, man/woman" and they use history and facts to do that and are direct to the point with all rage an intensity metal/trash asks to be. They throw, artisticaly, all our race mistakes and atrocities against our face, our minds in raw forms. This is unique - so, if I'm correct, NOW I'm understanding Phil Anselmo and Jeff Hanneman lyrics... Anyway, no justification for supremacist salutes and flags, nor SS or totenkpf guitar inlays, making it clear. But for sure Pantera, Metallica, Megadeth for example does this too, but all of them are original. To me, these are the big four, not only midiatically, but in a deep form on lyirics and meanings, more than the powerful and fenomenal instrumental parts.

Ed didn’t hurt kids but he was definitely hurt as one. Also, true story, today is Kerry King’s birthday and you did a Slayer video so 🤘🏻.

It’s always funny seeing your reaction after hearing slayer

and the silence at the end says it all but then i hear your kids in the backround and i played the song again funny enough(really good headphones) i can hear them and it makes the song that much more chilling

I don't find this offensive. If this was "disrespectful to the victims" a lot of things like books or forums on the internet would be too. It's the sad truth what we're capable of. They can make a documentary about this showing the most grotesque things. But when you slap it on with a band named Slayer that makes metal the media gives you shit for it.

this is one of the greatest love songs ever... tom araya also wrote lyrics about jeffrey dahmer and his obsession of finding a companion. the song is called '213', which was dahmer's apartment number where he killed most of his victims. always funny when christians try to understand slayer's lyrics, because mostly they fail and just feel utterly offended and disturbed...which is in fact only one of many intentions of tom's lyrics.

Metallica pussied out. After MoP and Cliff’s death it was all downhill. Slayer stayed true to their genre til the end

@ ashley winchester i agree with the he killed him angle. however, it being a reach, technically a fire can destroy enough of a structure to collapse on their heads. But if there were no large objects around the body, then, yeah.. killed him deader than Elvis in a Dark Age disco bar.