Reign In Blood

trash metal is just not for me. 5.5/10

This is the soundtrack to my older brother beating me up when I was a kid. His passion for Slayer was akin to his passion for making my life difficult. Although some of the musicianship seems decent, to me Slayer will always be enablers of shitty big brother behaviour.

The musical equivelant of someone who doesn't know how to play Street Fighter mashing buttons - occasionally you'll see some cool stuff but its mostly just chaos.

Highlights: "Raining Blood" An attempt to outdo earlier heavy metal acts that succeeds in the wrong ways and comes out parody. Pretty monotonous and unmusical. Putting the snare so high in the mix on the offbeat is rough, but the guitar solos are the worst part: misguided maximalism that's not on the beat, doesn't have a melodic arc, doesn't regard the key, and recycles a handful of patterns and techniques over and over. When the vocals do this, sputtering as he rushes to finish an unrhyming couplet, it's at least funny.

Eh, I kinda already knew that I didn't like Slayer much. This album was enlightening for sure since I've not listened to much Slayer before this, but it did just confirm what I already figured as much. It's rather shouty, the drums are way too similar each song blasting the snare over and over again, I feel like there is practically no melody in the vocals. Maybe I'm being too reductive or harsh, but I do still feel Slayer is just not for me. I can respect the guitar playing a decent amount, but I generally would still prefer most other types of metal over thrash I think. All in all, would not listen to again.

boring af...

Not my thing

Slightly faster, slightly angrier Metallica. The lyrics are just comical - maybe this sounded heavy and cool back when it came out, but now wow this sounds pretty lame. Even listening to this at the gym it barely gave me anything to push myself, just couldn’t stop from thinking how silly it sounds. Guitar work is impressive, as is the drumming. Pretty sure I’d take Megadeth or Anthrax over this any day though.

slayer did not go home; they go so hard on reign in blood. a little too hard for my own tastes; i'm not entirely sure i've heard music like this before. of course, i'm sure that there's many people who love their thrash metal and satanic lyrics. it was far from bad music, and i know they were early to this scene with this album's release in 1986. a precursor for sure, but like many early influences, it's not quite as good as the later music. so i'm left with appreciation!

Okay, so I enjoy metal music. But I guess I draw the line at thrash metal because for me this album is NOT. This had elements of Metallica's style, but without any kind of discernible beat. That said, this arrived in 1986 and clearly sets a standard for more hardcore thrash metal that would take on a life of its own into the 90s and 2000s.

Not my shit tbh but I didn’t find this enjoyable to listen to and unlike other thrash bands it didn’t have any hooks

Not really into speed metal except for Metallica’s older stuff

Leo-muziek, noemden we dit bij ons thuis, naar de gelijknamige buurman die dit soort grafherrie altijd uit zijn slaapkamertje liet schallen. Wat maar weer bewijst dat fans van dit soort muziek vaak hele rustige lieden zijn die geen vlieg kwaad doen. Er zou een interessante dissertatie geschreven kunnen worden waarom dit soort bands zich zo graag wentelen in religieuze thema's, gepaard met een obsessie voor dood en verderf; en waarom hun fans dat dan luisteren. En dat is ook vast wel eens gedaan. Tja, als ik dan toch moet luisteren naar gillende gitaren uit de jaren tachtig, doet u mij dan toch liever Van Halen maar.

Ekki alveg minn tebolli. Þokkalegir sprettir hér og þar.

not my cup of tea tbh, seems a bit boring

Didn’t hate as much as I thought I would but gets quite boring quite quickly

Not one of the songs went “Slayer” (halo) Was an ok album was more rock like than much of the pat albums.

Meh. I can't put my finger on the exact reason(s) why, but this rubs me the wrong way. It feels more like noise than music.

Appreciate this album, its place in history and Rubin's influence, but it's not for me.

To fast for me

Does exactly what it says on the tin, its a Slayer album. 35 minutes is usually a quite short album but for something at this breakneck speed it actually feels like its a bit too long, I reckon they could definitely have got the point across in 20 minutes

Haha! Yesterday’s choice was Getz/Gilberto very mellow, quiet samba jazz album and today it’s noisy thrash metal from Slayer - literally sublime to ridiculous. Too noisy and thrashy for my taste (same as for recent Sepultura, Megadeath, Anthrax, some Metallica, etc). Thankfully over within 30 minutes.

It's kind of loud! LOL.. Good for what it is, but not my thing. 2.5

honestly more enjoyable than i thought it would be. instrumentation is craaazy, not keen on the vocals though. understand the influence this has however. would be 2.5 stars if i could

When I read this album was produced by Rick F Rubin, I thought it might be a bit palpable to the Metallica loving side of me. Well, I would say it’s a sprinkle, or a dash. There are moments of Metallic metal, such as partially through “Epidemic,” but melody and rhythm are drowned out by the relentless thrash. I need to be angrier.

Thrash metal is gross

Well the music was actually OK, some amazing guitar solos and the drummer was insane. Bit the singing, or should I say shouting, was not so good! And so angry! Also a hit repetitive. Not sure I will be listening again anytime soon!

Slayer metal is too metal for me

'80s metal stays losing. idk thrash has never been my thing, but I'd still pick metallica over these guys any day. All that speed & momentum, and nothing interesting done with it. Also they're setting off my Dad Rock alert, where the lyrics and themes probably freaked out a lot of parents when this first came out, but these days it just seems cute

What an absolute racket. I'm certain a lot of people will really love this but it's too much for me.

Slayer is overroepen. Voila, ik heb het gezegd. Alle nummers lijken te veel op elkaar

Angel of Death draaide ik nog eens tijdens de betere DJ avonden, maar een hele plaat is echt teveel van het goede.

I didn’t hate it. There are a couple of good riffs and I like that it’s short, brutal and to the point. But it’s a bit *too* thrashy for me, and too samey to boot. It’s probably not something I’d choose to listen to again. Raining Blood brings back happy Guitar Hero memories though. 2.5

Loud, hard and fast. 2.5

In the immortal words of Marcus Brody, "I'd rather spit in your face."

This starts out very rough and gets better and better as the album goes on. It peaks at the very end with the transition from the strong "Postmortem" into the excellent "Raining Blood". But overall that means something like 20% of the album is of good quality. I think it's helpful on this one to compare it to Metallica, because they're sonically very similar. Metallica got better and better with their composition, sound quality and production value on each of their first four albums, and with the sound quality and production value on Black Album as well. Relative to that trajectory, I'd locate "Reign in Blood" somewhere between "Kill 'Em All" and "Ride the Lightning", and closer to the former than the latter. It's played largely like punk rock - they basically get into a super-fast thrash groove in 5th gear and stay there. There's nothing with either the depth of composition or change-of-pace that e.g. "Fade to Black" provides. Until the last two tracks, they don't really play around too much with even multiple grooves per song, let alone varying the sound. And their production quality is low - the singer is just OK, the sound quality is DIY-level poor, and they don't do hardly anything with the instrumentation. It sounds like they got in the studio and just banged it out - which is an aesthetic, but not one I like. The last two tracks were a strong finish though.

meh ritme is er wel, volume ook, maar ... ga ik niet nog eens luisteren

Heavy riffs and guitar solos, didn’t / couldn’t pay attention to the lyrics. Went by fast so that’s good?

Always enjoyed the title track but the rest of the album was more challenging. Not really my cup of tea.

Fun riffs. 2.5/5

At the risk of sounding like an auld fart, after track 3 I was looking to see how much more I needed to listen to. I have a headache.

Muy rápido. Aburrido. Estresante.

Best Song: Raining Blood. A recognizable riff that launched a thousand video game rock band simulators. Worst Song: Necrophobic. The whole song it felt like the lead singer was struggling to keep up with the pace of the rest of the band, giving the whole song a sort of back-foot awkwardness that makes everything feel off balance in a bad way. Overall: Given how passionate, how dramatic, how intense metal music can be due to the freedoms of the genre, I am always disappointed to find an album that's so boring. Try something different! Be weird! But don't just plod along with this morose seriousness. This album is like a drive through the worst kind of rural highways, maybe somewhere in Saskatchewan. Sure, the drive might be a little faster than the posted speed limit, but there isn't anything interesting to look at along the way. The road doesn't even bend or turn. It just goes and goes until you find yourself wondering "are we there yet?"

Boring and monotonous

Wanted to like this but it just hurt my brain

No me atrapó

No me asusta nada. En otra época habría pensado que era demasiado duro para mí gusto pero vamos que se escucha como si tal cosa. No esta mal, rápido, 12 canciones en apenas 35 minutos de la versión Expanded. No lo veo imprescindible hoy en día.

I can never connect with the music through the anger.

So I finally have now heard a Slayer album. And they are thrash without the talent. Boring riffs, terrible vocals. Even Raining Blood sucked. Granted, I'm not huge on thrash, but there's a notable difference and enjoyment level between this, and say, Metallica or Megadeth.

What i expected

Not bad for a genre I never listen to, but not my taste

No thanks, not for me.

Almost comical. Seems a lot longer than it is because it is so monotonously aggressive.

Guitar was goid and while I didn't dislike it, I didn't exactly enjoy it either. I appreciated that it was short and to the point though!

Exhausting

Blood, die, die in blood

Not my thing. Heavy metal.

It was an ok metal album. Incredibly short. Some of the guitar riffs were good and memorable. The lyrics were a bit too far off for me. 4.9/10

Some cool drum parts.. but I've always said, Slayer sucks

Starting this record now. It's the first one that I've honestly wondered whether I can make it through the whole thing. I'll just say this - I don't listen to a lot of metal. But I've heard metal that I like way more than this. It just doesn't impress me as that great. Once you bring a double-kick pedal into things, the music degrades quickly. I like super heavy music that is made using more conventional rock tones/instruments/technology. Like, If you need more gain than a Les Paul through a Plexi, you're probably seeking some real dumb guitar tone. And, don't get me started on china crash cymbals. But, this is better than that Metallica record we listened to a few weeks ago.

Wow. I hate this. It sounds like a parody and makes me want to yell at my parents that they don't understand me. Raining Blood is kind of sweet though. Probably 1.5 but I'll give it a 2 because of Raining Blood.

it's not for me lads

It's too fast for me. I get that speed is one of the defining characteristics of thrash metal but in this case there's not much else here apart from the speed. Technically the album is solid, but that's not enough to peak my interest.

Nope

Technically difficult, but thrash is paradoxically boring if it has no intensity variation. RAWR RAH ARRHEHR RAH RAH RAH RAH RARARARARAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! for 38 minutes, becomes background noise after three minutes. The last track is ok. Metallica is much more consistent at recognizing this.

Odynamiskt och tråkigt. Jag gillar metal, men detta sommar jag till.

hmm skönt riff på reign in blood. annars äre inte min kopp av te

Another band I really never heard when they were getting airplay and were talked about by some friends. I don't really connect with hard-driving thrashy metal like this, but I can absolutely appreciate how difficult this music is to play. Certainly doesn't lack energy.

only got one track!

Not as awful as I expected but only enjoyed parts of it. Never a whole song either. It was ok, there's plenty worse out there. Enjoyed some of the riffage. 2*

Right on the edge of too heavy. Enjoyed some of the music but the songs were better when there was no singing.

at least it was only 28 minutes

metal . nothing pops out to me

I don't really know what to do with this album. I'm going to try to split the difference, which is probably the wrong thing to do. Musically, this owns. However, there's a Nazi problem. The opening track is named after and makes explicit references to Josef Mengele, who experimented on prisoners at Auschwitz. If you read or listen to the lyrics, they stop short of glorifying him; in fact, it's kind of just their usual shtick with the inspiration coming from a different source. In an interview, Jeff Hanneman basically said, "We didn't say he was bad because it's self-evident." It's clear they're following the same playbook that was so successful for them when it came to Satanic Panic: Create the controversy, fan the flames of it by issuing some non-denial denials, and earn street cred with the rebellious teenagers that make up the core of their fanbase. Are they literal Nazis? Maybe not. Probably not. But they sure didn't have any problems using Nazi imagery on multiple occasions to move records and merchandise, so they can fuck right off. Best track: Raining Blood

Kirjaimellisesti raskasta kuunneltavaa. Oman genrensä kärkinimiä toki, joten miljoonan kärpäsen ansiosta yksi tähti lisää.

It’s cool. Very high energy and intense. Not for me personally but I hear the appeal.

Nope

Unfortunately, I can tolerate this music even less today than I could back in my youth. This thrash metal stuff is just mindless, rapid-fire guitar playing accompanied by screaming vocals and highly questionable lyrics.

I'm aware there is an audience for thrash metal but it's always been somewhat confusing to me. In small doses I get an inkling of what it is that brings someone to the music, but I really can't listen to anything like this for any extended time. I can understand an occasional song here and there to showcase the speed of the musicians or to get a chuckle out of the common death metal tropes in all the lyrics. After that I have to move on. Slayer's Reign In Blood is fine I guess but I can't tell what makes it stand out from anything else in the genre. Maybe I'm completely ignorant to it but it sounds like the same tricks across the board. The myriad of over the top death metal tropes in all the lyrics get laughable as they are constantly singing about the most ridiculous angsty goth-teen topics at every turn. After a couple songs everything starts to sound the same to me. I'm not even sure how they play something like this live where it just seems like the band would be racing to get through it while the vocalist rips out lyrics too fast to follow or understand most of the time. If you need an adrenaline boost or something to pull you out of the depths for a couple minutes, sure I guess throw on a Slayer song to amp you up. From there I gotta move on but evidently it works for other people. Reign In Blood wasn't the worst but I just can't engage beyond the surface level for any of it. Even at a pretty modest 28 minute length I was ready for it to end and hoping to get back to something else. People have different tastes which is entirely OK. 1.37 stars

We got blood, we got slayer, 'eff off.

Weird I got two thrash metal albums back to back, but I vastly preferred the Anthrax album to this one. This felt incredibly repetitive and got boring quick

it’s just the same noise over and over again

Thrash metal built from blistering guitar riffs, pounding drums, distorted bass, and screamed vocals feels like being strapped into a runaway machine that has only one setting: maximum speed. The sheer intensity is impressive, but for me the relentless barrage leaves little room to actually engage with the music. The album is brutally efficient at what it wants to do, yet the constant aggression makes it feel simply exhausted.

This was horrible. Awful noise, terrible lyrics, glad it only took half an hour but even that was too long. Now playing the Kinks' Village Green Preservation Society to recover and come back from this literal hell.

I marvel at their belief.

A full album is too much. 1/5

Why am I being punished like this??

-ah fuck another metal album. we'll see how this goes. -thirty seconds in. they're on thin ice. -this album is less than half an hour. i was hoping it would be longer so i could justify not wasting time on it. but now i feel kind of obligated to listen to it all the way through. just know i'm rolling my eyes the whole time. -the guitar is nice sometimes but i'll say that about any song. -i'm on "altar of sacrifice" and i'm giving up. i feel like i've lost years off my life or at least a decent chunk of energy

Just can't do metal

Goddamn I hate metal so much. The only redeeming quality for me is the drumming, which is unfortunately ruined by everything else. From another review: “In jazz, sometimes it’s about the notes you don’t play….clearly these guys never got the message.”

2/10 I just can't get over the incredibly immature lyrics. They sound like they're written by a really angsty teenager who is totally misunderstood by everyone, even though he lives in an upper-middle class suburb and has his own big 75" TV in his bedroom (which also has its own ensuite bathroom). Like... grow up, dude.

😱

I wish I could give this 0 stars.

yuck

Is it over yet?

the musics fine, but the lyrics... aggressively shit

I’ve tried listening to this album before and it gave me a headache. Guess what it fucking happened again. I don’t even dislike metal! I enjoy far more annoying albums! I don’t even think it sounds bad! But it’s the only album that consistently gives me a headache

Not my taste.

I didn’t hate my parents enough in high school to like this.

So silly

C'est tout le temps la même chose un peu nan?

Not for me at all. Had the benefit of being short and fast paced

Enough metal already

God I hate metal so much

Speed rock / death metal is never going to be good to me

I appreciate what they're doing but I do not enjoy metal at all.

this was hot garbage. very gross

Awful. The guitars are cool but I cannot enjoy this style of vocals, which is not singing. This is definitely what differentiates Metallica and Megadeth from Slayer at the advent of Thrash Metal. I need the singing.

Did Not Listen - No Interest

Niet echt mn ding

Bah c'est juste des mecs qui pensent que si ils jouent vite c'est bien (non), je pense que le batteur a découvert le concept de double pédale juste avant d'enregistrer l'album c'est pas possible autrement. 30 minutes de bruit blanc aurait été plus agréable que cette torture de bruit. Pas de riffs mémorables, pas de mélodie, rien de prenant juste des bruits qui s'enchainent. Ah oui et la voix est à chier aussi Dieu merci c'est que 28 minutes

Album #158 Slayer: Reign In Blood Yesterday I was given a 28-minute album, one ‘Elvis Presley’ by Elvis Presley; and though it was hardly my favourite album ever, I couldn’t help but think that it would be hard for an album that short to offend me. Well, today I received yet another 28-minute ordeal, this time its length was not enough to save it. Okay, maybe its length helped a little, because if this thing were an hour it may have been my least favourite album on this list so far; and I wouldn’t say that ‘offend’ is the right word for this either, more so ‘cringe’. The album immediately lets you know its entire schtick on the first track, just mindlessly babbling shit that sounds offensive or risky, almost like a child trying to conjure up something to say to seem dangerous in the schoolyard. Yes, we get it, you talk about the Holocaust and Satanism, your music is really different than all of these other mainstream bands. I get how, for 1986, this would be an insane thing to hear for many people, but considering the reputation that this album has, I sort of expected my ears to be bleeding in pain after hearing this; instead, I really just felt bored. There is almost no variation in the songs, to the point where I didn’t even realize a new song had started multiple times, and I understand that may be down to me not listening to this type of music much, but even then, when I listen to jazz, I can still draw a line between tracks. I understand people liking this, I really do, it’s the same thing as enjoying straight gore horror movies as a kid, it’s just a way of feeling something that doesn’t exist in your own boring life, which is why most goth kids come from the suburbs. What I am surprised about, though, is how critically loved this is. Thrash metal, in general, to me seems like some pretty low-brow music. Not to look down upon it since I enjoy my fair share of low-brow media, but it is weird to me that this is seen as good, but God forbid a band use synthesizers. Best Songs: Raining Blood, Altar of Sacrifice, really nothing else Worst Song: Angel Of Death Score out of 10: 3

lixo p crl. quem achou que satanismo e gritaria era algo legal? coisa de retardado

Not for me . Just noise . Every track started the same . Thank goodness it was only 28 minutes long .

Put off listening to this because I knew it would be dogshit, finally bit the bullet and it was confirmed.

Reign in Blood by Slayer was always going to be a tough listen for me, so I was very thankful to discover it only lasts 29 minutes. There really isn’t much I can say about this album because it is completely not my thing. It’s loud, aggressive, relentless and honestly just exhausting from start to finish. I can appreciate that it was probably hugely influential within thrash metal, but musically I found very little to connect with here. The speed and intensity never really let up, and after a while every track blended into one long wall of noise for me. Fans of the genre will probably love the chaos and aggression, but personally I struggled to find anything redeeming in it. Favourite tracks: I genuinely couldn’t pick one. Least favourite tracks: I struggled to find a redeeming feature across most of the album. Album artwork: Horrible, but to be fair it probably suits the music perfectly.

A bit too aggressive for me... 1 star

So bad I really thought this music only existed in a "make fun of metal" format. Garbage.

Nope

No Thanks

Pass.

Considering I don’t know anybody that would listen to this album I would like to know who does? What is the percentage of the population that listens to this? It’s like living under a freeway overpass.

Just no...

Personally, this is the single worst genre of music.

I'd rather listen to Dire Straits 20 least-popular songs, than Slayer's 1 most-popular, but hey that's just me. EDIT: After doing some research the consensus is "Les Boys" off the 1990 album "Making Movies" is Dire Straights most disliked song, so I tested my theory. I was correct.

den to exw katholou me toso heavy metal, it's just noise actually

No

NFM

I just don't get thrash metal. It always has me coming away thinking "are they serious?" Is this joke music? I don't think it is. It's just lame.

Did not like this but maybe that's because I was fully at my desk lookin like this https://tenor.com/view/tired-office-cubicle-bob-parr-the-incredibles-gif-7767100

Album number 296, and by far the worst one I've listened to. Might even be the worst album I've ever listened to. I've been somewhat surprised with some of the metal that has come up to this point. It's never been a genre I've liked, but I've found that I can at least appreciate bands like Metallica, System of a Down (got their debut yesterday and gave it a surprising to me three stars), Rage Against the Machine and some others. But this is just abysmal. Lyrically, it feels like they're just trying to offend (and likely giggling about it). The songs that Spotify had the words for led to me just shaking my head that anyone finds enjoyment in this. The songs without lyrics on the app were at least an improvement in that I couldn't understand anything being shouted. There was no nuance at all here. It was just bludgeoning for the sake of doing so. And no, it won't get a star for being less than 30 minutes long.

Thankfully this album is only 29 minutes long.

1+ Stars (3/15)

"Fuck's sake" said my brain at the beginning of every song after the first couple of tracks. There is actually no need! I'm sure there are songs about the Holocaust, and Satan, and dismemberment, and your insides rotting that are sensitive and tuneful, but not here. 1001 has served me up with a portion of shit with a side order of shit and shitty sprinkles on the top. And no fucking gravy. You can have PostMortem for pudding. It's the only thing resembling a track. The bad thing about this app is the inability to give no stars. Posting the review is the only reason this gets a star. Fucking awful.

I hate trash metal. Tough listen. It all sounded the same to me. Felt like the vocalist was struggling to keep up with the rest of the bans lmao. Never listening to this again. Didn't even finish it. 1/5

yeah nah……… definitely not for me

Some of the instrumentals are good, the shouting is horrendous

Absolutely not.

The drums are fun, raining blood is nostalgic cause of guitar hero, but it’s not the genre for me.

Everything sounds the same.

Thrash isn’t as bad as death metal, but it’s still mostly garbage.

Whenever people ask me what kind of music I like, I usually respond by saying pretty much everything, except for when people are screaming at me. It was a pretty honest answer, as I never really had any interest in that type of music outside of the guitar and drums. I feel like now that I've sat down and listened to this album in its entirety I can say with my entire chest that I was right. I found almost zero enjoyment in this album apart from some instrumental solos that admittedly got my head banging or blood pump. But every... single... time... that Tom Araya opened his mouth to let sound spill out I was removed from any sense of good times that I was having. It's just a mess, a wall of words seemingly thoughtlessly put together in manner devoid of any rhythm or meter. No detriment to the album, but it's hard for me to listen to any of the lyrics without cringing a little, but I'm not too proud to say that's likely due to being unable to find any semblance of lyrics or ideas I could relate to. Which is a shame, because there are glimmers of cool in here that I could find, namely with the instrumental lead-in and out of Raining Blood. In the end, the incredibly short 28 minute ride felt like it was one hour-long song, very little to distinguish each track from one another, causing what should have been a glue-you-to-the-back-of-your-seat half hour to feel more like a painful drag. I hope there's more to this genre than this, or at least that there's something out there for me.

All force and adrenaline. Nowhere near as enjoyable for me as any of the Metallica albums that have come up, or, heck, even the Megadeth.

15/02/2026 1. angel of death - immediately what i was expecting when i got this album... was hoping this generator would maybe make me more open to metal, but it's somehow making me not like it more. admittedly, really liked the screeching sound. the riff in the instrumental just before 2 mins in really sounds like the kmfdm song in the living end.... googled it and it is kmfdm sampled it! 2. piece by piece - very edgy. 3. necrophobic - this one does not have lyrics on spotify. what the fuck is he saying. like the screeching of the guitar. not much else. 4. altar of sacrifice - went through this whole song not noticing that it had changed from the previous track so didn't write anything and am not listening to it again! 5. jesus saves - slower beginning is nice. again, cannot understand what is being said. 6. criminally insane - all of these songs sound the same to me. 7. reborn - only good thing about this album so far is that it's only half an hour long. 8. epidemic - lyrics are back so i can understand the emo shit he's saying again :( 9. postmortem - do americans pronounce tourniquet like that??? harrowing discovery. 10. raining blood - thank god this is almost over. liking the atmosphere at the start. ruined a bit by the drums and overly loud lightning effects but whatever. the only enjoyment i got from this album was being reminding of better songs from the riff in angel of death. don't like metal, not for me. really love the album cover though, reallllllly beautiful, will have to look up who painted it :)

Play fast and loud and yell quickly about death..... this album is a pizza cutter; all edge, no point. (also........after listening to the first song I had a question about lyrics, so I did a quick dive into the band and found out that quite a few people think they might be Nazis..........and tbh, I agree that they might be.)

Vile.

Just awful.

Mira, lo de Venom me resultó gracioso y me sorprendió no tener que para el álbum con dolor de cabeza. Por desgracia, lo de Slayer ya me parece una broma pesada. Y más cuando me dio por leer cosas sobre el grupo y resulta que o les caían especialmente mal los nazis, por mucho que escribieran la primera canción del disco pensando en Joseph Mengele. Los temas, que de eso se trata, me han parecido un verdadero tostón. Cero ganas de repetir.

I understand that some might like sheer raw power and tightness of the sound. But repetitive lyrics about death, disease, necrophilia, mass murder etc. … puh. Especially turning the Holocaust into a B-horror movie and Mengele into a mystified personification of evil makes this almost unlistenable to me.

I really don't like trash metal, it's aggressive music, hateful, and angry. The music has no melody, and it has the same tempo and rhythm. There is nothing I like here. The only thing is that it is only 28 minutes long.

This is a genre that I am not a fan of and this album didn't change my opinion on it. I imagine that if you are tapped into this kind of music the songs would song different and unique but to me they sound to similar. I do appreciate the fact I can understand the lyrics compared to screamo (although I didn't really like them) and the drums. I'm giving it a one but it didn't stand a fair chance with me because the style of music it is.

2/10

Fuck off with this shit.

Not my music...AT ALL.....

very much not thrash metal enjoyer today

Not my vibe

Was putting of listening to this all morning, finally started at 10:15 ish T1 yeah basically what I expected, this is somehow worse though. The lyrics are so cornball. “I’m so angry and get no pussy!!” Good production 3:39 yo this is straight up nonsense, no modality, legit sounds like just random notes. When you think of muddy playing and jimmy paige u think sure there’s some random shit he’s doing that probably wouldn’t be intentionally replicated every show he does, but still it fits and makes his solos special, this is just the noise and random filler shit except for the entire solo. T2 wow this a new song? Also I do high key get how Metallica could turn this into something, kinda sounds like master of puppets or enter sandman with the drop tuning open string chugs and chromatic line cliches. Definitely like this one more than the first. T3 alright starting to see how although this might be ass, it could be fun to listen to to hear different metal influences, can definitely hear the birth of Black Sabbath in this one 1:04 another random note shit but this time it’s fitting into the track a little better. It’s just all so fast though, like it feels like the artists don’t respect consumer’s ears enough to listen to their music and instead need to overstimulate the audience with just so much noise, random key changes, and words that sound like they are not in english, well maybe Medieval English. I know that’s not true and they are serious very real artists but that’s my naive take on basically all heavy slash metal. T4 what’s the deal with death and satan? Remeber when Paul McCartney shouted about a playground? Am I supposed to be scared? Because I am. Maybe coolest song from an instrumental or rather musical aspect, and the drums and rhythm are IN THE POCKET big time, very tight playing, excellent drums and for the most part it’s excellent in tempo changes, doesn’t always sound very good, but is extremely difficult to do. T6 apparently Jeff hanneman played a les Paul esp on this?? Kinda shocking. Kinda cool tho to hear how evh’s red special/Frankenstein came to be, certain sounds and frequencies from this album I’m sure that he wanted and certain that he didn’t want, probably ultimately led him to the decisions he made on gear. T7 song sounds same as others, the talking is so weird I can’t get over that. Funish guitar run 1:00-1:30 but man I’m just waiting until this is over. T8 Ayo Metallica, this your flow? When in doubt pinch harmonic T9 almost at the end. Like this intro so far, best in the album that I remember. The rythym sections are doing some cool stuff here, unique sounding composition as well. I feel like this could’ve been a good 2nd song on the album— but maybe since it’s here that means the final song is gonna be sick. why do they keep asking if I want to die? No? T10, here we go, big buildup, fav song in the album precedes it, let’s see what we got. Alright the lighting and the two lead guitars I’m liking it. Pivotal point here for me at like 1:07 at the end of the double stop chugs, they needed to make a change and I liked the way they did it. Great tempo drops for that recurring riff. This songs seems very fun to play on guitar. Yoo he’s playing the same riff but on the downbeats now @2:20~ hell yeah never hear that. Kind of a weird cut to the rain but actually kind of nice, abrupt at first but it settles. I wonder what the idea/concept behind this album is and why the last 45 seconds is just rain, are we dead now maybe? Last two songs are making me slightly less wish there was a 0 star rating option, still a firm 1/5 and would probably be much more hated by me if it didn’t have those last two songs. Definitely fun to see where inspiration is drawn from, but I did not enjoy listening to that album.

nah

Can’t. Can’t even finish listening. <1

I mean I can appreciate it on some level but no. 1

No bloody way

nope

Not my kind of music, way to heavy listening today at least.

80's thrash metal. No thanks. I tried to listen, and failed. Pitchfork: n/a Rolling Stone: 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time #6

Frenetic metal, pretty rough

I like heavy metal but did not like this. A lot of speedy playing, but many of the solos were non-sensical and non-melodic. Just got tired of the vibe.

Absolutely not my kind of thing, still tried to listen with a willingness to change my mind...but it didn't.

not my kinda tune

I like the slow dancey smoochy ones like Altar of Sacrifice and Criminally Insane

“Unyielding kings of agony Test your body chemistry Pulmonary overthrow Possession of your inner throne Infections quickly override Malicious, domineering strike Floods your veins, commit slow death Deteriorate, your maker's met” I think we can conclude from this verse alone that the lyricist is no Percy Shelley, and that this is music for people who don’t really like music. In fairness however, Slayer pose a profound question when they ask the listener “do you want to die?” To which the answer upon being forced this thrash trash was an unequivocal “yes” from me. It may be genre defining, but I get little enjoyment from its oeuvre. A good addition to the list, if only to reinforce my opinion that thrash metal/death metal is pile of steaming poo.

The best thing I can say about this is that it wasn’t obnoxious. Metal is clearly not for me!

Awful

Nope

No thanks. P

I love Metallica even more after this experience. 1 star.

Not for me

Horrible.

C'est ridiculement mauvais, kessé ça! Chaque «chansons» (pis je me sens même généreux d'utiliser le terme chanson entre guillement pour désigner cette régurgitation sonore) sonnait tellement similaire dans leur médiocrité que j'ai effectuer mon petit test. Vous pouvez l'effectuer à la maison, c'est vraiment facile: part n'importe quelle toune à environ 45 secondes, pis dit moi crisse que c'est pas l'osti de même riff à chaque fois. Ridicule, ainsi qu'honteux et humiliant pour la crédibilité de cette liste, j'veux pu jamais revoir ce cover de ma vie stp

Gruselig

This has very little if any redeeming value!

Devoid of any sense of fun or any kind of catchiness, or any prettiness. I know that's what it's going for, but I didn't like it at all. 1 Star.

This is my Rubicon. Cannot cross.

i just don't want to listen to this.

Hard pass.

I just don’t get slayer

ugh

Guessing there weren’t a lot of females at Slayer shows back in the day.

Every track sounds the same:/ Not for me, dog.

Kul i typ en minut sen aldeles för tungt

A thousand monkeys with a thousand instruments could top this inside of fifteen minutes.

Yuck.

I still don't get thrash.

On the plus side, this is only 28 minutes. On the negative side, most everything else.

Not for me.

don’t mind metal but I prefer actual singing 1/5

No thank you.

Not my thing

Ugly noises

That's disgusting.

*pushes soap box into place* the only good thing about this record is the hook riff of reign in blood the vocals sound like a fat kid who just ran up the rocky stairs and is trying to speak the speed is impressive but the riffs are not the drums are very repetitive in the patterns used. solid patterns but maybe play more than 3 for an entire record their fans are generally closed minded one dimensional people (thus why they can only scream slayer at any show even if slayer isnt in attendance) this band live is the single most boring thing ive seen on a stage. zero stage presentation zero movement zero set design they either start or end with reign in blood and have so since this album all in all there are multiple bands who do this genre better.

Not my cup of tea.

FORFERDELIG PÅ ALLE PLAN

Not my tempo. 1/5

I was in a bad mood when I started listening, then I was real mad

Coming in at whopping 28 minute long album, this was about 25 minutes too long. I can thrash for a couple minutes, and give it a good laugh, but then I’m good on all the BPMs and chaos rhythm.

I found this tough. I can take thrash metal in small doses but an entire album is too much for me.

Not for me.

Not my type of music

Writing a song about mengele and then claiming you just find him interesting is some serious edgelord shit.

bääääh, was für ein schrott.

Thrash metal Zmeczylo mnie w chuj

Just stop! Please just stop!

Terribly noisy.

Tja, ech be halt wie ke Metalhead ond das mues mer glaub si wemmer das Albom wett chönne gniesse oder so. Guet ech weiss jo ned öb ergendöpper das cha gniesse, wahrschiindlech eher fiire. Hauptsach bestohd das Albom us ned meh als sehr herti Rockgitarre, sehr schnellem ond luutem schlagzüüg ond e stemm wo chli öppis omeschreit ond das alles i extrem chorze loops. Das füehrt dezue dasis schwerig fende, öberhaupt zwöi verschednigi lieder vonenand z onderscheide, osser wenn grad de tetel omegschroue werd. Es esch also absolut ned mis ond ech werd chuum ergendeinisch weder zo dem zrogg cho.

This was every bit as bad as I expected. 1 star or F.

Need a singer but Band are ok.

What a waste of time.

Shit is ass. I wrote in my Metallica review that I always thought classic thrash metal sacrificed depth for intensity but I enjoyed that album because it had more to it. This is just straight garbage and a prime example of what I meant. I can understand liking this because of it being kickass but speedy satanic nonsense doesn't do shit for me. Good riddance. (1/10, 1/5 on this scale, fuck this)

*eyeroll*

Honestly, why? Not for me

Nope

A guess a guy screaming details about the devil and his (her) fellows whilst his buddies talentlessly assault their instruments in the background isn’t my thing. Go figure

Yeahhhhhh NO. No Thank You

Thrash metal is… not my thing.

Nope, I’d rather sit and listen to the Dirty Mac’s Whole Lotta Yoko on repeat for the half hour it takes to listen to this garbage. I nominate this album for the 1001 albums to avoid while you’re alive.

Just noise. He's just shouting words at you, there is zero musicality in the vocals. I'm not even sure they're coherent sentences. The guitarist is not too bad, but unfortunately he's shackled to this shitty singer. Angel Of Death sounded like it had some white supremacist lyrics or something like that. Can't even tell if it was pro or anti, the singing was that bad. Altar Of Sacrifice had some good music, at least. My head hurts now. I'm going to bed. Best song: Altar Of Sacrifice

hatar

This project has taught me that I like Metal. It has now also taught me I loathe Thrash Metal.

Blind album and artist. Know them by name only, and now will avoid this name. Can't believe I gave such a notable band that I see everywhere a 1 but here I am. Did not like and would not seek out again.

Nty.

Music for eight year olds

As good as Metallica are, the rest of the big 4 pale into insignificance. Anthrax are awful, Megadeth are megadull, while Slayer suck sadly. The drummer must be fit.

Once was enough!!

This did not slay, Queens

Noise. Zero stars

zu heavy. zu metal

Jeder Song ist gleich, keine Melodie nur full geballer

p554. 1986. 1 star. Redundant Motorhead wannabees with half decent lyrics. However, there is nothing here that hasn't been done before.

I just find this type of rage so fake and pantomime? Laughable. Survived half of the first song and knew I'd heard enough. As usual in metal, excellent guitar work; shame about the vocals.

Great musically but just to much for me.

Oh, from the sublime to the ridiculous. This is rather an exhilarating album, with a stupendous fast pace. I can't really judge the lyrics, as they all came across as "argle-wargle-bargle" - but I understand from Wikipedia that at least the album opener caused some controversy. This really isn't my taste in music, but it's always good to be exposed to albums one wouldn't necessarily play. I did feel it was aimed at a certain audience with somewhat juvenile tastes. That said (and maybe because of this), it seems this was quite influential on the thrash metal genre. Despite the album's brevity, it was quite exhausting, and the individual tracks were pretty samey. For an album of under half an hour, it seemed to last for an eternity.

To quote one Alan Parzridge: "Just noise"

Not a fan

Songs to make your mom and dad chuckle out of second hand embarrassment.

At least it was short 🙉

Added this to my “gonna go out and fuck some shit up” playlist.

Yea I'm not listening to this

not my thing. would give it an extra .5 if possible for the technical proficiency but unsurprisingly i didn’t like it at all

It's a stretch to call this music.

I will not be listening to this under any circumstances. Namaste.

no me gusta el genero

Nope

Nope.

Refused to listen.

Not my type

I don't have time for this

No me gusta

Noise

29 minutes of this was painful. Couldn’t have listened to another second.

Too much yelling for me

I knew by the cover I’d hate it. Listened to three tracks for 2 seconds each which confirmed my hate. 👎

No no no no no noooooooo! Death metal puts me in a bad mood every time, and this is even worse than average.

no

That was…interesting.

Bunch of awful noise

Lärm und sonst nichts!

this was so astronomically dumb i couldn’t stop laughing…it really sounds like they put all the grossest edgy bullshit that a 15 year old redditor would find cool in a hat and pulled them out at random to compose (generous word there) the lyrics. there was an instrumental break (end of “altar of sacrifice” into “jesus saves”*) that i found mildly interesting but as soon as the vocals started again it was back to total dumbass horse shit. the best part of this record is that it’s less than half an hour long. thank god for small mercies. *even typing these song titles is making me laugh

i just couldn't do it i listened for maybe 30 seconds

The understated songwriting of Paul Simon with the unmatched harmonies of CSN. You won’t find them here. This is thrash metal. Angry, “I want to see your skin rot and melt away” thrash metal. It certainly has its place, and I can see how some are drawn to it as an outlet for pain and frustration. But I can’t say I enjoy listening to it.

apparently I like Thrash metal...but reading about Angel of Death being based on Josef Mangele immediately turned me off of this album and band. Maybe unfairly given their comments about the song. But I just didn't have much interest in getting through this one as a result...

Awful

I dont understand how anyone could find this "horrowing" but it definitely isn't interesting

I have never heard a slayer album before. I had heard of the band though. But damn this music. It just doesnt do it for me. The songs felt too high tempo. Like they were just fast for the sake of it, regardless of the melody. I think thats why i have always been drawn more towards bands like maiden, metallica etc than this kind of stuff. You can tell musically the band is talented. No doubt about it. They are good musicians. The drummer specifically is a bad ass. Theres some good guitar work too. However, that does not save the album. The track "jesus saves" could not even save this thing. Wow, 28 mins long i thought. Probably 28 mins too long after a reflection. For me personally, this was absolutely junk.

Not for us, we gave up and listened to nightfall in middle earth instead. Which is very good, and would be 5 stars.

"Bara" 28 mínútur. Ég hélt þetta út. Mun ekki hlusta aftur, því þetta er bara ekki fyrir mig.

Ci sono alcuni bei momenti musicali ma che testi banali, ogni canzone è la stessa esaltazione del diavolo e di morti dolorose, dopo la seconda canzone diventa prevedibile e perde ogni effetto scioccante, al punto di far ridere

Extremely energetic, very violent and strange lyrics. Not my cup of tea.

Reminds me of Scum but without the kindness to have 30 second songs.

Awful metal shit

la cosa più bella di quest'album è stata una recensione in francese che ho letto mentre lo ascoltavo e che mi ha fatto pisciare sotto distraendomi dal nulla cosmico che stavo ascoltando. ve la riporto perchè merita, merci mon ami. J'ai fait écouter cet album à Satan qui m'a bien confirmé que c'était de la merde. poesia.

Nope not listening to this one, sorry Slayer.

Ist das Musik? Oder kann das weg? Und die Texte finde ich auch ganz furchtbar!

Dne

Really not my thing and listening to it gave me a headache in the end ! 1*

Maybe the worst shit I have ever heard. I guess parts of it were kind of funny?

Edgelord album, raining blood is the only song I'd listen to again.

Of acadamic interest. The super fast drumming and guitar. Music perhaps suitable for violent chase scenes in films, or when doing SPRINT or HIIT training/exercises. But not so much for listening, or for any kind of pleasure/mood making. But I knew that before pressing play, didnt I?

I’m afraid I was away the day they did thrash metal.

can't listen to it. Too annoying rock

How can anyone like this music? Can't even hear the lyrics, may as well just be instrumental.

When this album popped up I was pretty sure that I was going to hate it. I was right.

No

01) Angel Of Death - 5,0 02) Piece By Piece - 4,0 03) Necrophobic - 4,0 04) Altar Of Sacrifice - 4,0 05) Jesus Saves - 4,0 06) Criminally Insane - 4,5 07) Reborn - 3,5 08) Epidemic - 4,0 09) Postmortem - 4,0 10) Raining Blood - 5,5 TOTAL: 4,25 (43/100) Current ranking: 209/215 Even without listening, I can assume that this will get the lowest rating from me. How can anyone take this kind of music and lyrics seriously? Btw, until recently I was convinced that this type of music is called TRASH metal, and honestly for me it is nothing but trash.

Not for my ears

No

Relentless

1. angel of death - 1 2. piece - 1 3. necro - 0 4. altar - 1.5 5. jezuz - 1 6. inzane - 1 7. reborn - 1 8. epidemic - 9. mortem - 1.5 10. blood - 1 11. perfector - 0 12. inzane remiz - 1

The most important thing to me in rock/metal albums is the chemistry between the guitars, drums and vocals. I feel like there was only one song on this album where I can say that was present 1.5/5

I did catch a glimpse of why some people might enjoy this as I had it playing driving to an appointment when I was late and stressed. The vibe was chaos. But I cannot take seriously the bad music because of the much worse, awful and cringe lyrics. Pissing off the parents by writing a screaming song about a Nazi? Nah.

Not even a half hour in length, but it still felt long. No fucking thank you.