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Anyone in here big Slayer fans? I am, and I felt like making a thread so all of us can discuss them. I'll start this thing off by asking, what are some of your favorite riffs from Slayer songs?

Angel Of Death!

I agree, that song and riff is awesome, anytime I go into a guitar shop, that's one of the things i'll play, and everyone stops and listens, even though it isn't even that hard, haha.

I like the tremolo bit at the end of Postmortem, The main bit in Raining Blood, the solo from Angel of Death, and that bit of riff right before the solo...


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Tormentor is my fav slayer song , also a koo riff is RAINING BLOOD!!!!

slayer is soo heavy :evil::evil::evil::evil:

[QUOTE=olaf]Tormentor is my fav slayer song![/QUOTE]

Yes!

Anyone like the song Seasons in the Abyss? I think it is great.

[QUOTE=RayTuRd]Anyone like the song Seasons in the Abyss? I think it is great.[/QUOTE]
Love that song.

Dead Skin Mask.

Anyone have the new dvd. I wanna get it.

[QUOTE=PoliticallyIncorrectMetalhead]Anyone have the new dvd. I wanna get it.[/QUOTE]

I have War at the Warfield, but not the new one. I don't think I'm gonna get it, though. His vocals in WatW were, very sadly, very bad. The years old belting out screams and yells has taken its toll on his voice. When the (attempted) the scream from Angel of Death, you know, THE scream, it hurt me to listen to it because its sooo bad. He can't hit ANY high notes now.

[QUOTE=bassaholica2004]I have War at the Warfield, but not the new one. I don't think I'm gonna get it, though. His vocals in WatW were, very sadly, very bad. The years old belting out screams and yells has taken its toll on his voice. When the (attempted) the scream from Angel of Death, you know, THE scream, it hurt me to listen to it because its sooo bad. He can't hit ANY high notes now.[/QUOTE]
At ozzfest he sang awesome.

slayer is alright i don't like them as much as i used to i would say their best work is spill the blood or south of heaven. i don't judge vocalist on live performances because singing live is hard to do, soundmen suck, and they can't use the added depth of multiple takes (mults).

[QUOTE=bassaholica2004]I have War at the Warfield, but not the new one. I don't think I'm gonna get it, though. His vocals in WatW were, very sadly, very bad. The years old belting out screams and yells has taken its toll on his voice. When the (attempted) the scream from Angel of Death, you know, THE scream, it hurt me to listen to it because its sooo bad. He can't hit ANY high notes now.[/QUOTE]

I felt the same way. That ruined the dvd for me. What's weird though is that I saw them back in June and he sounded just about perfect.

[QUOTE=$$$$$K0rn4lyf666$$$$$]slayer is soo heavy :evil::evil::evil::evil:[/QUOTE]

Wow, you are one hard core mofo, I can tell by your user name.

ANGEL OF DEATH!!!

It's gonna get my vote in the top 100 songs poll, right after Raining Blood. :wave:

I have all Slayer albums and I am a huge fan, favorite album would be Seasons, Soth of heaven and you guessed it, REIGN IN BLOOD!

-Mark

At dawn they sleep have some pretty eerie riffs, especially the intro.

seasons in the abyss and raining blood are the best songs

blood red has an awesome solo

black magic is also good (from show no mercy)

i love Angel Of Death, coz it defines so much about the style

I don't care much for Kerry King but I love Jeff Hanneman, he is the man. :thumb:

[QUOTE=Cipher Hour]I don't care much for Kerry King but I love Jeff Hanneman, he is the man. :thumb:[/QUOTE]


i've become confused on slayer's solos when i hear a very technical solo i think it is hanneman but i look in the booklet and it is really king or vice versa. king has a horrible reputation and i'm confused about how he got it when i hear some of his solos then i hear other and say to myself (yeah, he really does suck).

Kerry has a history for writing really "weird" and out of place solos while Hanneman has written a lot of Slayer's best solos. King just has a reputation for being a bit of a bad songwriter I think.

that's true, it's just all of the sudden king throws a curve ball on you and makes you ask yourself if he is really that bad. i think i'll stick with hanneman though. araya needs to fix his open e basslines to show some more chops, slayer dosen't have the most wild guitars.

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best slayer song = Hell Awaits

[QUOTE=Vio-lence]best slayer song = Hell Awaits[/QUOTE]

hey dude have you ever heard of kaos?

but the my fav slayer song would have to be angle of death, **** it the whole album kicks arse.

Any riff from AoD gets my adrenaline pumping
also the hell awaits intro does it for me.

Kaos eh?

hmm doesnt ring a bell

[QUOTE=Vio-lence]kaos eh?

hmm doesnt ring a bell[/QUOTE]


really? I got linked to vio-lences site from kaos's web site.

google kaos amoungs us

and they are pretty good.

yeah, the connection between vio-lence and kaos is that their website are desgined by the same person.

PS Vio-lence rule, check them out

Hell Awaits!!! **** I love that song, I have a live version of it and it's **** cool.
Spill the Blood is pretty cool too.

[QUOTE=MetalNightBodomNight]i've become confused on slayer's solos when i hear a very technical solo i think it is hanneman but i look in the booklet and it is really king or vice versa. king has a horrible reputation and i'm confused about how he got it when i hear some of his solos then i hear other and say to myself (yeah, he really does suck).[/QUOTE]
Kerry just plays it and Hanneman writes all the really good riffs and solos.

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i would have to say AoD, Raining Blood, and Postmortem are my favorite. they get my blood running. and since we are talking about Slayer i thought i would add, IM GOING TO SEE THEM IN DEC!!!! WOO!!!! YAY FOR SOMA!!!

for everybody knocking kerry king, yes i like jeff hanneman better, but nobody here can knock kerry king, cos hes better than us! he writes heaps for slayer and his solos may not always be in place with the song (although most of them are still in key!) but some of jeffs arent either, but thats the general idea of slayer. theyre not a band that has amazing perfect in key solos like a steve vai or a joe satriani. it wouldnt suit the music anyway. i doubt anyone in this forum can write a slayer style solo like kerry king can.

and by the way for the guy who said they get mixed up with whose solo is whose in the songs, in head phones kerry is on the right and jeff is on the left. you can still here the solos in both, but one is louder and better quality than the other.

[QUOTE=RayTuRd]Anyone like the song Seasons in the Abyss? I think it is great.[/QUOTE]
'Tis my favourite.

It and Angel Of Death.

What turns me off from later Slayer is the lyrics. Why did they have to give King the lyric duty? Hanneman's were so much better. Compare Raining Blood to Threshold. :rolleyes:

I just picked up there new DVD, slayer owns!! My favorite songs would be Seasons in the Abyss and Angel of Death.

Slayer are fvcking awesome. You wouldn't think it though looking at my username, subtitle or avatar :rolleyes:. Anyway, the new DVD still reigning is superb, Daves drumming is as good as ever, Toms vocals, despite a few bad reviews of recent times were pretty good too, Jeffs solos were excellent as always although he did have some problems towards the end of the show but I'm sorry to continue the torrent of King bashing but his solos just didn't take form of anything on Reign in Blood, they sounded more like stuff off Diabolus and GHUA.
To name a top 5 list of Slayer songs is impossible because you really are spoiled for choice but I have phases with Slayer where I'll really be into later stuff from Divine, Diabolus and GHUA but more often I'm into the older stuff. At the moment though i'm into one song in particular which is War Ensemble, probably because I was playing it on guitar the other day but I know that in a short space of time I'll be really into some other song, Chemical Warfare say.
That's what's great about Slayer, they've got that much great material it's very hard to lose interest.

Seasons in the abyss and raining blood are my favs, i got their live album a few weeks ago "decade of aggression" and its f'kin' awesome.

*100 posts, takes a bow*