I'll never understand the hate for Diabolus. When it came out, I thought it wiped floor with everything else that was happening in metal at the time. Still think it's great.

Totally agree RE Divine Intervention being underrated. Killer thrash album

What a killer collection of Slayer records. Great ranking.

I have SOH as number 1. The vocals, the riffs, and especially the drumming (Lombardo's finest hour imo) propels it to the top of my list.

Hi Mr Boulder, how would you rank the big 4 "weakest" albums? - Anthrax: Volume 8, The Threat Is Real - Megadeth: Risk - Slayer: Diabolus In Musica - Metallica: St Anger Would love to hear your thoughts! @MrBoulder

Love all your reviews mate. Keep up the top-notch work!

Need to step up my Slayer collection, only albums I have are the legendary Hell Awaits and Reign in Blood . Want to get Show no Mercy up next , cheers friend 🤘

New to the channel but really enjoying so far. Glad to see World Painted Blood get some love. Really good record so late into their career. Best album since Seasons.

my slayer album ranked: 1 - show no mercy 2 - south of heaven 3 - reign in blood 4 - christ illusion 5 - seasons in the abyss 6 - hell awaits 7 - divine intervention 8 - repentless 9 - world painted blood 10 - god hates us all

Very nice ranking James! I am a huge fan of Divine Intervention (my entry to Slayer) and it is imo criminally underrated. Just shows the power of the album that might introduce someone to a band. Same goes for me with Metallicas Black album.

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

Great Slayer ranking, James! I'm surprised Show No Mercy is low on the list. But, I agree with Diabolus in Musica; even though, I do like it.

i agree with you on your ranking Mid to late 80s,early 90s imo Slayers best work!

Great ranking James! I've still got half of their discography to go. Yeah I'm not a fan of the production on Hell awaits, the bass mix is higher than the guitars you can't hear what's going on properly. Can't really argue with your ranking, even though for me Regin in blood is No.1 🤘😊

I wasn't a big Slayer guy but I did love the Divine Intervention album.

Reign in Blood is my #1 easy. Absolute perfection. Seasons is a close second.

Great video Mr Boulder! No arguing with those top 3 classic records. All the best to ya mate.

Hey mate, really interesting video! Yes, I agree that 'Diabolus...' is easily their worst, and believe it or not, my absolute favorite is also 'Seasons...'; just the perfect balance between the old and the new! In my view, 'God Hates...' is extremely underrated; "Exile" and "Warzone" are sick tracks! And of course all of their 80s albums are simply classic! Take care.

1. Hell Awaits 2. Show no Mercy 3. Reign in Blood 4. South of Heaven 5. Seasons in the Abyss 6. Divine Intervention 7. World Painted Blood 8. Christ Illussion 9. Repentless 10. God Hates us All 11. Diabolus in Musica

11.Diabolus 10. World painted blood 9. Relentless 8. Christ illusion 7. God hates us all 6. Divine intervention 5. Show no mercy 4. Hell awaits 3. Reign in blood 2. South of heaven 1. Seasons in the abyss

Great list. Obviously you were born in 74/75/76, because you started with Seasons as a teenager. Seasons was my first Slayer album I bought in 1990. I was 14 and I must have listened to it around 10000x. Still, Reign in blood is my Nr 1. Right after comes Seasons.

Killer ranking!! Very similar to my Slayer ranking I did a while back 🤘Seasons number 1 for me also.

I completely agree with your entire ranking. I love Divine intervention, and Seasons has much better songs than reign in blood. I’d love to have heard you compare ‘Diablus in Musica’ to Grip Inc’s ‘Nemesis’ just for a bit of fun.

I just listened to the whole catalogue the other day and was surprised that besides God Hates...(which is their worst) not one of their albums is over 45 minutes long. We all know about Reign but when I put Seasons and South in and it says, like 32 minutes or something, and I went...'Really?'... some of their records like Diabolus and WPB were a chore to get through, but even they're only 40 minutes long. I guess Slayer knows how to get in quick, snap your neck, and get out fast, not a lot of extra filler there, unless you get a whole album of it like Diabolus. Also I hadn't thought about the song Mind Control for probably 25 years until you mentioned it, not a very memorable side 2 to Divine Intrvention if I'm being honest. Cheers.

Good ranking. Can't argue with the top 3. good to hear your thoughts on them. World painted blood is a great album and show no mercy is one I want to pick up as I like the sound on that one. 🤘🤘

My favorite album by Slayer is Seasons in the Abyss. Cheers!

I respect your opinion on Seasons in the Abyss as your #1! I'm curious about why u didn't rank Haunting the Chapel? Was it because it was a EP? Was it too sloppy in your opinion?

1 hell awaits , 2 reign in blood , 3 South of heaven , 4 haunting the Chapel Ep, 5 seasons in the abyss, 6 show no mercy 7 God hates us all , 8 divine intervention , 9 christ illusion, 10 repentless, 11 diabolis in musica, 12 would painted blood and last that covers album, can't even remember the name. Cheers mate

I really like Diabolus In Musica. I think it is far better than Repentless and several others. I get why it has such a harsh reception but I think some of the songs have an eerie, creepy feel that makes it worth a listen. It is definitely more interesting that a lot of their other albums. My personal favorite is South of Heaven.

For me Repentless is definitely their worst... and hell awaits my favorite. South second, reign third Nothing comes close to the feeling of hell awaits, you can also hear the Bass... blew me away when a friend gave me the tape in 84...

I agree with your top 4. So glad you put divine intervention at number 4. but then Id replace hell awaits with show no mercy even if it sounds like a bit like maidenish lol.

Great list !! I love Seasons as well

Seasons is a perfect record!

Completely agree with your top choice. I always feel Seasons in the Abyss is slightly better than Reign in Blood.

Top video mate, seasons in the abyss is their best album in my opinion, I'd say your ranking is spot on, great band a big miss.

Every song on Divine Intervention was brilliant.. The Last great Slayer album

Hello .. what about Death albums ranking

Surprised you put show no mercy so low. It’s not got the best production but it’s the blueprint and has a lot of strong songs.

I would love all these albums on Record :) I only got them all on cd :)

1. Seasons. 2. South. 3. Reign

I have almost the same top 3, South Of Heaven is my number 2 and Reign In Blood number 3 and obviously Seasons In The Abyss is my number 1.

Good ranking, not miles away from mine. Divine Intervention is great and yes usually overlooked.

MY fave two slater albums are Reign in Blood And Hell awaits I like hell awaits cos you can hear the bass guitar and Reign in blood is my fave cos it just soo hell bent for leather. I do find it interesting that you like divine intervention more than hell awaits but its cool thats what makes it interesting. Diabolus is not that bad but I agree with what you said about it too :) my least favourite is the punk cover album. I thought repentless ewas pretty good though :) Great Ranking :) Slayer do have so many good great albums I don't think they have a ttruely alful album except the punk cover album maybe undisputred attitude

Seasons is a mixture of Reign's agression with South's complexity. Araya decided to 'sing' on south instead of yelling. South is my fave album cause of Lombardo's jazz drum fills.

Listened to world painted songs you mentioned they are good. I was wrong.

Divine Intervention is very underrated imo

There should be a slayer album called heaven awaits!

I’m in the minority, but I’m a fan of Diabolus. I wasn’t feeling it when it came out and I saw them on that tour. I like it better than the following albums. I’ve revisited Christ Illusion many times and can’t find anything I like about it. Their last few albums are a lot of filler imo. It’s hard for me to pick a favorite album. Their first five are just great.

My top 2 are 1. Seasons 2. South.

Divine intervention is my favourite

Do your arms not get tired?

Show no mercy is my favorite

Reign and Seasons are 🔥🔥🔥

Top two are the same for me but the other way round - Reign in Blood has got to be number one for me. Hell Awaits is an odd one never really been able to click with it for some reason - and it almost sound too evil if that's possible for Slayer! Love World Painted Blood definitely my favourite of the later years genuinely scary and aggressive without being gimmicky plus some awesome grooves. Hanneman was always my favourite Slayer member so it kind of ends there for me, it just doesn't seem right without him.

All that Slayer vinyl drool

The production on hell awaits and show no mercy let them down I think. If they sounded as good as south of heaven or seasons in abyss and reign they would be even better than they are I think.

What? Every hard-core Slayer fan knows RIB is absolutely #1.

Show no Mercy is an Iron Maiden album.

I would put the first 5 in the top 5, with Hell Awaits on top, and after that God Hates us all, Divine Intervention and Diabolus in Musica. I don't care much about the rest of the albums.

reign in blood south of heaven haunting the chapel (got to count it even if it's an EP) hell awaits divine intervention show no mercy seasons in the abyss god hates us all diabolus in musica christ illusion world painted blood repentless

For me, first 5 Albums must be ranked worst to best as it is original order, and then, WPB < Repentless < Christ Illusion < DIM < Divine Intervention < GHUA. Greg Fidelman who made also last 3 Metallica albums really ruined WPB album. Those are the worst guitar tones and mix I have ever heard for Slayer and Metallica. Hopefully Terry Date made the Repentless and the album Itself had a very good sound.

hot take, but I like Divine Intervention better than Seasons these days

You think Christ illusion is better than show no mercy? It’s time for your medication 💊 go see your doctor right away.

Funny - I am convinced Kerry King is the reason they started incorporating the horrendous nu-metal “influences”.

I stopped buying Slayer after Divine Intervention. I will buy interesting bootlegs , but not new Slayer. Slayer died with Jeff Hennemen

Show No Mercy being #9 is blasphemy

Divine Intervention > Seasons

Man you are Too Metal. Calm down!

Scrum disagrees with you.

This guy loses all credibility with where he ranks Show No Mercy, stopped watching there