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Not my kind of music
Head banging not my favorite genre
Nah m8 respect the music
🎧This will not be the album that gets me into thrash metal. Sick cover art though, metal AF.
- Loud - Hard to tell when a song changed unless it ended - All the songs sounded the same
I'd rather play quake 3 arena
Nope
Well that fucked up my hungover cycle commute. If karma has any say then this lot will be reborn as a soothing acapella folk group.
Seldom enjoyable. Usually unpleasant. Favorite Song: Raining Blood (Guitar Hero 3) 1/10
Don't love the vocals, the guitars go pretty hard sometimes but other times are almost overwhelming for the sake of noise. Melodies all kind of blended together across songs. Did a bit of research on metal subculture and neo-nazis, obviously not all metal music/it's fans support Nazis, but slayer towed the line a little too close... Have to knock off a point for that. Top songs: None?
I respect heavy metal’s place in music history. If you track rock music from the 50s on it is sort of the natural progression to push its sound harder and harder. This music definitely has energy and I guess it was impressive from a technical standpoint, but I just don’t ever see myself getting into heavy metal, and certainly not thrasher metal. Not in this lifetime at least. I did listen to this thing from start to finish, but only because it had a really short runtime. Fav Songs (and I am using the term loosely here) Angel of Death Raining Blood
I thied.
not into metal
no thank you
This sounds like being loud for the sake of being loud. Sometimes there's a bit of guitar sound that's nice, but they usually don't play a compelling melody. The singing is also basically one note.
Not my thing
1.5
Yeah, not my favorite metal album. Music part was ok, but the over the top lyrics made them sound really stupid.
I read that this features in a number of "best" lists - best metal albums, best of 1986, etc so I really tried to be objective. It's very fast. But I hated the vocals and honestly, you can do much nicer things with guitars. Dreadful. Or to quote another, succinct reviewer: "horreur". 0 stars.
I was walking through a park listening to it on my headphones and actually felt guilty to be listening to something so ugly in a pretty place. Fortunately it’s not long so I did listen all the way thought but why is it on the list? If I could score zero, I would
Wow I really dislike this. From the artwork, to the song titles, to the music itself. It just does nothing for me.
Horreur.
Et gros slayer
Nope
Oh so… this is influential on what not to sound like I hope? Thank goodness it was less than half an hour because oh boy. It’s almost funny how bad it was but one more minute and it wouldn’t have been humorous anymore. Such a strange album.
... halfway through the album with headphones still on from somewhere inside my intestines erupted an unholy roar as I shredded off my clothes and sprinted full speed to the front of the house and dove through the window - shattering the pane and leaving screaming children in my wake, all the while having sliced my head in 12 places I felt nothing but the pleasure of the pain as I regained my footing - while drinking my own blood that was pouring down my face and giving me nourishment I ran to the end of the road where i killed that annoying stray dog with my bare hands and started eating the raw meat in the middle of the road and screamed SAAAAAATAAAAANNNNNNNN! to morning commuters ...how's *your* day going? 2/10 1 star
"Reign in Blood is the third studio album by American thrash metal band Slayer." Thrash metal band, need I say more?
This is literally the origin of the metal stereotype… The band members look as you expect. The songs are so short and the lyrics are some of the gimpiest I’ve ever heard. The cover! Why did you need to make a song about Josef Mengele…? This idiot can’t sing. Zero stars if I could. The whole premise of the album is to ask how to annoy parents in the maximum amount possible.
Nä, det här går inte att lyssna färdigt på.
Album Nr. 45 Absolut nicht mein Geschmack.
With all due respect, I just don't get it. Never have, never will.
Hope everyone feels better now.
Anger for angry's sake.
Before listening: I've never been a fan of Slayer. They are a bit to Fast Metal for me. And too much shouting and screaming. After listening: Nope, still don't like it. Some of the music was not as bad as I'd expected but the whole thing as a whole is just not my cup of tea.
"My mom calls her vaccum cleaner Slayer, because it has been around since 1986 and it sucked the entire fucking time".
Two metal albums back to back was tough.
I’m not a speed/death metal fan.
Harde gitaar zonder ideeën, geschreeuw als gezang, en teksten die alleen maar over bloed en dood gaan, wat een vreselijke droevenis.
Sucky album
I can appreciate that not all art is for everyone, and this album is just not for me. Listening to it felt like possibly the longest 28 minutes of my life. The album starts off with a song about the horrors of Mengele’s human experiments at Auschwitz that really just feels like an exercise in torture porn—it’s the aural equivalent of an Eli Roth movie. And it doesn’t get much better from there. Every song is about death or damnation or persecution (or all three) in the bleakest, most brutal way possible. The music follows in lockstep, relentlessly bombarding you as the singer growls the lyrics so quickly that you can barely make out the words. The speed at which they play is impressive, but there’s not much in the way of melody or even variation. The songs seem to bleed together into one long wall of noise that might just have you begging for death by the end. Again, I appreciate that art is subjective and not everything is for everyone. I can understand why some people are drawn to this type of music—I’m just not one of them. I can appreciate metal as a genre. I don’t mind Metallica, and I quite like a lot of symphonic metal. I’ve just never gotten into the thrash/scream-growl side of it. I’m also a fan of dark lyrics and goth music, so it’s not like I don’t understand the appeal of writing about depression and death and other dark subjects. I think The Cure’s Pornography is quite beautiful despite one music critic’s appraisal of it as “Phil Spector in hell.” But Pornography—and goth generally—has plenty of beauty in both the lyrics and melodies, even if it’s rooted in darkness. There’s none of that here. It’s just brutal and raw anger. I suppose I’m glad this music exists, because I’d hate to think what might happen if someone with this much pent up anger had no artistic outlet for it. But also, maybe just go to therapy?
Fuckiing awful.
😳
When I see an album and think hmmm... heavy metal, I'm not gonna like this, well this is the album I'm talking about. It's got all the screaming that I don't enjoy with the heavy instrumentals that I also don't enjoy. This album made me think that a spider living in my ear laying eggs isn't the worst thing that could happen to the inside of my ears
muy pesado, no me gusto
Ugh
Way too angry for me.
It was a little too intense for me. Felt like there was no time to breathe or think. Just overwhelming.
I generally enjoy Metal, but I have never really enjoyed Slayer. Hearing this record in its entirety did nothing to change that.
No interest. Boring, one dimensional album. Close to 0 out of 5. A 1
Just horrible. No other comments. Horrible.
Please play the guitar faster. Almost every song sounds the exact same. To be honest I skiped around the songs and I couldn't tell the difference between them. They all were nearly identical. 1 star
Not resonating with my taste. The repetitiveness and rawness of the sound and the vocal style don't appeal to me. Despite the commendable guitar performance, the overall experience was not good for me
Just not my jam.
I couldn’t get past the Nazi sympathy on track one to enjoy the rest of the album.
I tried , I listened to two whole songs
See also: the Metallica one
Not my jam
Not my cup of tea
Gave up 3 songs in…I say songs it was the exact same guitar ahd beat but with different lyrics… I say lyrics more a stream of conscious diatribe from an insecure adopted alterboy trying to stick it to the man upstairs
I’m proud of myself for finishing it.
I am sorry, i really gave it a shot. I just cant get behind this sound.
I understand the skills needed to play this but I think this style of music is INCREDIBLY overrated. Reminds me of avid washed jeans and mullets.
Heavy Metal/Thrash. No thanks. 0 out of 5 (1 out of 5 though since a zero isn't allowed).
This is the album I was most dreading coming up in the list. Not only do I hate the genre, musicality(!), vocals et al but it also has dredged up terrible memories of terrible people so the caveat to my score is that I have no impartiality. I cannot downplay my hatred. If I thought other albums have been a chore or a bit wearing this is just downright Purgatory. I spent 30 years blissfully unaware they existed, and I’ve spent the last 25 years avoiding them. Tomorrow I will go back to avoidance tactics. If I could score them zero I would.
Not for me-almost every song has the same intro, the album sounds like one long song. Just never been much of a metal fan, and didn't enjoy this album.
Rain of Shite
nah
Sorry I just can’t listen to this
I should preface this by saying that I've always loved heavy music and still listen to a lot of metal. That said, I hated this album. The guitar solos sound like they've just been pasted in without any regard to the rest of the song, the drums sound cheap, the vocalist is not a great singer, the lyrics are often childish and shoe-horned in without any consideration to cadence, chromaticism has been used as a substitute for creativity etc. I appreciate that it was important at the time for a number of reasons, but it's really not a good listen now.
I don’t listen to nazi shit
Awful.
1001 albums brings yet another album i never wanna hear again!!! I got up to part way through track 3... and lost the will to live.... but eventually I managed to at least part play all tracks on the album. Its all the same... Quite literally the same riffs throughout. Some would say their style is... full of energy... I'd say... full of shite.... You need to be full on stroking the white bunny with a frontal lobotomy and ears full of wax to even consider this type of thrash metal as worth listening too.
No
not my thing
Not for me.
What a theatrical mish mosh of angry screaming. Drums are sometimes interestingly good.
The author has lost it
One positive is that it was only about 30 minutes long. That's about it. The screaming is not necessary or welcomed. I am sure some love it because it is death metal and \"goes hard.\" I just don't see the appeal.
Felt very repetative, loud. Not a fan
Why would I listen to this moronic trash? If they're serious, then as satanists I have no interest in what they have to say. If they're not serious, they are dabbling in things they have no business dabbling in and are complete and utter idiots. Didn't listen. Won't listen. They have nothing worthy of consideration or merit. It bothers me I spent 1-1/2 minutes typing this.
Can’t get down with this type of content. I can appreciate the instrumentation, but that’s about it.
Didn’t like it
I’m sure someone loves this but this album made me feel like I was running full speed into a wall
I was ready for it to be over by the second song. It just got more intense as it went on though. The best part is that it’s only 35 minutes long. The guitar player and drummer are clearly talented, but this just isn’t it for me. I picked Raining Blood as my favorite song because the rain sounds at the beginning and end are nice (even though I guess they’re supposed to be blood which is not so nice). Favorite song: Raining Blood
Muito dedo no cu e gritaria. A Zeppelin (minha gata) tava com medo e andando com o rabo entre as pernas.
Meh. It’s Slayer.
Almost certainly the best album on this list
POV you’re waiting in the queue in CEX and you wish you were dead
Not only is this not at all a genre I enjoy, I usually don’t give 1-star just for that, but it is also just actively bad. Almost solely on the vocals which sound like the guy is constantly behind where he wants to be and is trying to catch up to get in rhythm with the instruments. Just overall not a good experience. 2/10
It was pretty boring. I just don’t like metal very much. I should probably go more into it, but that’s mostly what it boils down to.
As bad as jazz
Really tried - thrash metal just isn't my thing. 1/5
Is it over yet?
Just no.
Nope
Um, nope. Awful. Couldn’t finish it. I suppose you’ll either love it or hate it?
Terrible.
Repetitive and screechy. Not my cup of tea
Big nope. I don’t know what they intended but to start right off the bat trying to profit off the atrocities of the Holocaust means I can’t listen any further.
Not for me
Not for me
Not for me
I hate Thrash Metal. Fucking awful.
noise
Horreur.
6th December 2022 Listened while putting the Costco shop away in the morning. Chilled evening watching the Wonder and Traitors. Not my thing. Soz guys.
Vast heel leuk voor de liefhebber, maar ik ben een hater!
Hey, ik voel een groundhog day momentje: Op gronde van het feit dat dit kut muziek is, weiger ik dit te luisteren.
Brrrr.
Best to pretend this abomination never happened.
Trash
Death metal no
I am getting a headache…
Well that happened.
I just consistently can’t stand metal
After listening to this I suddenly felt the urge to eat babies and have sex with the dead. Fortunately I listened to some ABBA immediately after finishing this album, and those feelings subsided before I was able to act on them. Up until now I've taken the title of this book, "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die," as a given. Now, the question has arisen in my mind: "must" I really have listened to this before I die? Oxford defines the word "must" as "be obliged to; should (expressing necessity)." I believe that listening to this was not a necessity. Not only that, but my death would be a little better for not having heard it. But it's too late now. 1 star, although I did enjoy the slow ballads!
Disturbing. Utterly disturbing.
Listened to on 6/21/22 Favorite song: no I felt like I was being screamed at for a solid 30 minutes and did not enjoy pretty much anything about this album except for the guitar - VERY dark and disturbing
Well this was the epitome of an album I would never like. Horrible throat singing, mashed up noise, and over the top lyrics. Wasn’t a death metal guy before and can confirm I’m still not.
I was going to skip this but I wanted to make sure that thrash metal is amongst the metal genres that 1001 lists as my "least liked".
The themes here about Satan, blood, death etc are so cliched that this almost seems like a parody album, but I think the metal heads that revere this album will be seriously offended by that comment. This record is incredibly repetitive but also mercifully short.
Oh Dear.....Thrash metal, not a genre I like or are comfortable with. Can see very little in this album of credit in my opinion from the initial track "Angel Of Death" No matter how you explain it, it is about Dr Josef Mengele which as far as I am concerned is a no go area for items of entertainment, without proper condemnation, which I don't get from the song. Shock Rock at it's most distasteful. No earworms here.... reminds me of my reaction to post punk Oi! music, the world is not improved by it's existence! A no no from me I am afraid. Shouldn't be on the list.
for sure dude
Each to his own, but this is shockingly awful to me.
Wreszcie pojedynek ze Slayerem, wiedzialem ze bedzie to ciezki odsluch, ale czegos takiego sie nie spodziewalem, bo chyba od czasow junkyarda czy scuma takiego szrotu nie slyszalem, a takim wlasnie krazkiem jest w odsluchu Reign in Blood, czyli trzeci studyjny grzech popelniony przeciwko gatunkowi ludzkiemu przez Slayera, plyta z 86, ktora byla ich pierwszym albumem wydanym przez def jama, a jak def jam to nie moglo zabraknac pana Ricka Rubina, ktory stoi tutaj na strazy tego zeby uszy zostaly pogwalcone zwacymi brzmieniami gitarowymi, wspolpraca miedzy Rubinem a banda wychodzi poza ich tworczosc, bo jak na picku od Beastie Boysow slychac bylo pana Kinga, ktory jak sie dowiedzialem poza rwaniem gitarowymi rwie rowniez arkusze papieru i zamienia je na cos z pogranicza komedii i krindzu, bo nie wiem jak inaczej okreslic otwieranie plyty auszwicowym songiem, z calych 28 minut materialu bije taka prymtywnie agresywna energia, ze nawet tak krotki odsluch odejmuje czlowiekowi wiary w drugiego czlowieka z koszulka okraszona slayerowym merchem, ktory przeciez zalicza sie do topowych wyborow wszelakich kucow, przynajmniej za moich czasow, wiec o ile samo granie mogloby byc znosne, bo Rubinowska produkcja daje po uszach, to jednak kontent wokalno liryczny jaki serwuje w tym wypadku Tom Araya jest czyms co chce sie jak najszybciej zapomniec, a ze brak tutaj jakis wylacznie instrumentalnych utworow, wiec na plejke nie ma nic do dodania, poza nadziejami na brak kolejnych wydan Slayerowych na liscie
The drums make this album unlistenable.
No.
Wtf, I would rather shit in my hands and clap that listen to this!!!!! I finally stopped my ears from bleeding and my eyes have come back into focus now, after three tracks I realise that it is nothing more than noise with some kind of vocal attached to it, it’s a no from me. If I could give it zero I would do so
Opening track, Angel of Death, is obviously about Josef Mengele and his torture experiments in the Auschwitz concentration camp. I read that this was purely about their interest in the matter and they don't condone what happened. It feels a little too close to celebrating and glorifying an absolute tragedy representing one of the worst ever outcomes of humanity's existence. How can you feel alright with it knowing it will probably get into the hands of some neo nazis and become their anthem?? Totally grim. I actually can enjoy some thrash metal although it's not exactly my chosen genre, this makes me not want to listen to the rest of the album though. And it makes me angry. Update: I tried to listen to more of the album (4 more tracks) but I'm too mad, lol bye Slayer!
Eugh this was annoying on so many levels. Not just the terribly placed first track that Grace has described just all of it so unpleasant, how can you describe it any other way
What a load of shit. In the same way WWE is just a soap opera for hard men, this just consumer pop music for scary hard people
Monotonous and boring. Not a fan of instrument jerking.
Not my genre so can’t speak to why this record merits attention -- maybe the technical proficiency or speed of the playing? The extreme and outlandish nature of this record doesn’t make it worth knowing (in my view). The best that can be said is that you can barely hear the lyrics, which are apparently shocking. I hope these people are okay. Or were they just posing?
Not for me.
Appalling rubbish. Can't tell one track from another. Mad guitar - very fast but out of rhythm and key. Who likes this stuff apart from sad 13 year old loners?
Man, these vocals suck.
Stupid from start to finish. ZERO stars if it were possible.
Virtuosos del aburrimiento, suenan igual que Metallica pero sin las baladas. Todas las canciones son iguales. Esto no es heavy, es pesado.
Wow, this may be the greatest thrash metal album ever composed! … But, my ear holes say “No!”
I expected this to be shocking and it was. I was shocked by how boring it is. Next!
Every song the same
Ich verstehe es einfach nicht
i hate thrash metal
Hated it
Ma jok, žanr koji mi uopće ali uopće ne sjeda i ne paše.
une honte auditive, qui finance ces rigolos?
Just when I thought there was nothing worse than the Iggy Pop album. Are negative numbers allowed?
Boring af. Mostly very uninteristing guitarplay; the riffs are uninspired and the solos seem perfunctory. Within a song, the vocals sound the same throughout, no inflection at all. The lyrics seem to be nothing more than strings of "badass" sounding words. OK, it was heavy for its time, but what else?? Like or dislike, the other albums so far at least had interesting parts.
A little heavy for me
I am pretty sure if I don't hear this album before I die everything will be okay
Couldn't get all the way through. I'm just not a metal person. I will say there were sometimes some really cool guitar melodies.
not my thing too much screaming and too many satanic themes. the drums are too heavy as well and there isnt enough focus on the guitar which isnt too bad
No es mi estilo. No me gusta
Okay, yep. Still don’t like metal. Not sure I’ll make it too far into this one before I just turn it off. Yeah, I’m definitely not making it through this one. I think it’s probably the worst of the metal albums I’ve had on here. I think I’d give it 0 stars if I could.
Yeah, didn't like it then and it hasn't grown on me since.
Not my jam.
80 trash metal, energisk, temposkift, mørkt, elguitar