Slayer - Reign In Blood
| Release date: | 7 October 1986 |
| Style: | Thrash metal |
Owners: |
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01. Angel Of Death
02. Piece By Piece
03. Necrophobic
04. Altar Of Sacrifice
05. Jesus Saves
06. Criminally Insane
07. Reborn
08. Epidemic
09. Postmortem
10. Raining Blood
11. Aggressive Perfector [1998 re-release bonus]
12. Criminally Insane [remix version] [1998 re-release bonus]
Top 20 albums of 1986: 2
02. Piece By Piece
03. Necrophobic
04. Altar Of Sacrifice
05. Jesus Saves
06. Criminally Insane
07. Reborn
08. Epidemic
09. Postmortem
10. Raining Blood
11. Aggressive Perfector [1998 re-release bonus]
12. Criminally Insane [remix version] [1998 re-release bonus]
Top 20 albums of 1986: 2
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Lyrics Tomás Enrique "Tom" Araya - vocals, bass
Kerry Ray King - guitars
Jeffrey John "Jeff" Hanneman - guitars
David "Dave" Lombardo - drums
Additional info
Produced by Rick Rubin and Slayer.
Engineered by Andy Wallace.
Mixed at New Fresh, N.Y.C.
Mastered by Howie Weinberg.
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Rating:
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Rating: 10 |
The greatest metal record of all time. This topic is often debated upon in the Metal Kingdom and to most there is no definite answer. A worthy contender for this title is Slayer's 1986 masterpiece, Reign In Blood. Few albums withstand the test of time as well and even fewer have had such a huge impact on the metal world as this one. Read more ›› |
Rating:
9.2
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Rating: 9.2 |
Where does one begin reviewing an album with as much hype and influence as this? An album branded as revolutionary and with such a fanatical following. It is always going to be a difficult task, so I ask that for a moment we forget the hype surrounding this album and we look at the musical value it holds. Reign in Blood was in many ways a brave new world for Slayer. It had a completely different sound to anything before it; they abandoned all the pretentiousness of the long, drawn out, complex song structures they had experimented with on Haunting the Chapel and Hell Awaits. In this, it was far more accessible, yet they didn't sacrifice any of their integrity or alienate any of their core fan base. Their intention was quite clear, that this was to be the fastest, heaviest, angriest music ever to be unleashed on human ears. Read more ›› |
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4.5
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Rating: 4.5 |
For more than a decade, Slayer has proudly fused thrash and speed metal into loud, offering doomish dirges, voraciously boisterous and blasphemous songs groaning over lyrics that depict madness, suicide and murder in excess, a style which should definetly suit a ten-year-old metalhead. On October 7, 1986, Slayer released what was to become their masterpiece, "Reign In Blood". An album discribed by Kerrang! Magazine as "the heaviest album of all time" and peaked at number 22 on Metal Storm's "top 100 albums of all time" survey, a position that only "the crème de la crème" bands could get. Believe me, reviewing a very popular album from a very popular band isn't easy at all, but sometimes justice must be done. Read more ›› |
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 LeKiwiHigh Fist Prog Posts: 3381 From: UK  |
First and last track are great, but everything else is just copy paste. At least they're decent tracks for the most part.
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| LeKiwi High Fist Prog Posts: 3381 From: UK |
Written by deadone on 27.06.2015 at 16:54 None taken, I was expecting this sort of comment anyhow. I agree with you that the songwriting styles of those bands have little variation, but at least every single song is memorable (at least for the albums I've rated highly.) Play a song and I can name it in less than a second. I've listened to this album dozens of times and I still can't remember a single track  Edit: barring the first and last, of course 
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| LeKiwi High Fist Prog Posts: 3381 From: UK |
Written by deadone on 28.06.2015 at 04:38Actually - thinking about it - I believe that memorability is partially dependent on taste in some fashion. Ultimately, if you're not receptive to what you're being exposed to, it won't stick...unless it's something utterly bizarre
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| Jurgen33 Posts: 9 From: Poland  |
Some tracks are good, especially two biggest classics but this album so overrated. "7" is max.
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 metalhead23Posts: 1 From: Australia |
What can I say about reign in blood that I haven't already said before. It is one of the best slayer, no scratch that, it is one of the best trash metal bands ever made. Full stop. They made death metal what is today because of this album. Bless you slayer, without you, death metal would not be what it is today.
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| Metalheart39 Posts: 25 From: Germany  |
A masterpiece. I remember, when i listened it the first time. A real metalstorm came over me. Brutal & technical at the best. Still today one of the heaviest records ever made. Pure fucking classic. 
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 MattybuPosts: 2588 From: Canada  |
This is the best album, nothing else in metal can compare to it. There literally isn't one 5 second segment of this album that isn't sheer perfection and master-class on how to make music. Really just perfection.
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| Maco Handbanana Posts: 1572 From: Peru  |
Written by Mattybu on 11.08.2016 at 05:33 Hell Awaits says nonononononononononono.
---- I'm derp.
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| Dima Posts: 1523 From: Australia  |
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| Bad English Masterchief Posts: 45469 From: Sweden  |
Did it and I never het possession of this band, just typical 80's TM band, just saying
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| VIG Posts: 910 From: USA  |
I definitely used to love Slayer, nowadays I listen to albums like this every once in a while, but whether you like this or not, it is impossible to deny this is an absolute classic in all things metal. Same goes for Ride The Lightning, The Number Of The Beast, any of the first 4 Sabbath albums, etc.
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| VIG Posts: 910 From: USA |
Yeah, Slayer's been growing on me
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