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THE REVIEW
A Masterpiece... The album "Reign in Blood"... 20 minutes of pure thrash!
After their initial success with "Hell Awaits", the Slayer released this CD in 1986, which not only divided public opinion due to some tracks like "Angel Of Death", but incredibly excites fans. The first track of the album is "Angel Of Death". Putting aside political issues, the song is a thrash music masterpiece, four minutes that destroy any positive sentiment, a great performance by Dave on drums, King and Hanneman are spectacular, and Araya is fantastic as well. After "Angel Of Death", you can listen to "Piece By Piece" and "Necrophobic", two beautiful tracks. Next is "Altar Of Sacrifice", another masterpiece from the album, very fast-paced for a very short but extremely powerful song. Then we move on to "Jesus Saves", another great song, and "Criminally Insane", this song is also splendid. "Reborn", "Epidemic", and "PostMortem" are three negative, evil, aggressive poems, coming one after another, with the main theme being death.
The album closes with "Raining Blood", a Slayer masterpiece, legendary and irresistible. It starts with a fast and powerful rhythm, pauses briefly, then begins again aggressively, completing the album's work of destruction. If Metal is a negative poem, then this CD is a precious source, these terrifying tracks will give birth to new thrash groups and accelerate the birth of Death Metal. Later, with the album "South Of Heaven", Slayer will lose the rapid pace that distinguished this CD to darken the sound even more and will manage to repeat this success.
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Slayer's 1986 album Reign In Blood is hailed as a thrash metal masterpiece. The 20-minute album features intense, aggressive tracks like 'Angel Of Death' and 'Raining Blood.' Praised for its speed, technicality, and influence, it helped accelerate the rise of death metal. Despite some controversial lyrics, the album is a monumental success that thrills fans and inspired future metal bands.Tracklist Lyrics Videos
Slayer
Slayer was an American thrash metal band formed in 1981 in Huntington Park, California. They are widely regarded as pioneers of thrash and extreme metal and remained active until their final shows in 2019.68 Reviews
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By cliffburton86
29min and 40 sec of speed, fury, and massive technical prowess!
'Angel of Death,' inspired by the 'achievements' of the SS doctor, Joseph Mengele, represents one of the cornerstones of Slayer’s discography.
By Big D
"Angel Of Death kicks in: the riff is one of the most damnably granite and devastating in metal history, a pure frontal assault on the listener's ears."
"Reign in Blood is one of the most ingenious, most devastating, most powerful works ever conceived by the human mind."
By durasno7
Reign In Blood, or, the masterpiece of extreme music, the masterpiece of Slayer, the greatest manifesto of violence and rage that the human mind has ever conceived.
To be so-called metalheads and not own this album would be like not having one of those albums that encapsulate within themselves the very concept of 'Metal'.
By mirkopianta
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By death Trasher
A concentration of hatred, anger, and brutality never seen before.
Slayer can truly reign in blood.
