Reign in Blood
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Slayer and Rick Rubin |
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Reign in Blood ( English for "rule in blood") is the third studio album by the US thrash metal band Slayer . It is considered one of the most important albums in extreme metal and a milestone in its genre.
The album was released on October 7, 1986 on the hip-hop label Def Jam . Due to Def Jam's distribution partners Columbia and Geffen, it was the band's first album on a major label . However, due to the drastic cover artwork and the drastic content of some texts , their concerns contributed to a several months delay in the publication date.
The music on Reign in Blood is faster, hardcore influenced Thrash Metal which is perceived as extremely harsh. The lyrics mostly deal with human abysses, violence and death.
Emergence
New label
By 1985, all Slayer releases were on the underground metal label Metal Blade Records . In September 1985, Rick Rubin attended the New Music Seminar in New York City . Rubin co-ran the Columbia Records hip-hop label Def Jam with Russell Simmons and produced artists such as LL Cool J and Beastie Boys . At the festival that evening, however, there was no hip-hop on the program, but hardcore and thrash metal; it played Bad Brains , Megadeth and Slayer eventually.
“Slayer headlined. [...] I don't recall much of anything that night before Slayer. They totally annihilated. Clearly, no other band mattered that night at the Ritz. "
“Slayer was the headliner. […] I hardly remember anything from that night before Slayer. They completely destroyed everything. Clearly no other band mattered that night at the Ritz. "
Rubin was thrilled and decided to sign the band to his label. A few weeks later, in November, Slayer was playing in Brooklyn , whereupon Rubin went backstage after the show and introduced himself. Since band manager Brian Slagel was also the owner of Metal Blade Records, a lawyer organized by Rubin could get Slayer out of the contract because of the conflict of interest; Rick Rubin and his hip-hop label Def Jam signed a contract with the thrash metal band Slayer.
Songwriting
In contrast to later publications, Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King were the sole songwriters for Reign in Blood, although the two proceeded differently. Hanneman read books about the Holocaust , listened to music by the Dirty Rotten Imbeciles, and discussed his ideas with Araya when he drove from one party to the next. King, on the other hand, preferred peace and privacy in his work, while on the side he saw horror films like Nightmare on Elm Street , which influenced him while writing the lyrics. Piece by Piece was the first song from King's pen that was later released on the album. In between, the two guitarists met in Araya's garage, called "The Club Horizon", to work on their material together. Soon they had a 90-minute demo of ideas from which they put ten songs together. At this point, Araya and Lombardo also joined them and helped to process the 33-minute material, which was still exclusively instrumental.
admission
In January 1986, recording began in the small Hit City West studio in Los Angeles . The sound engineer was Andy Wallace , with whom Rubin had worked before. The actual recording phase lasted three weeks, starting with the drums. Every day, Lombardo and Rubin came into the studio at around two o'clock to record up to twenty takes over the course of the day . By the end of the first week the drum recordings were ready.
In contrast to Dave Lombardo, the two guitarists rarely started before 10 p.m. and worked mostly through the night. There were minor disagreements between the band and Rubin during the guitar recording, who requested more solos . According to Hanneman, if it had been up to Rubin, there would have been no rhythm guitar in Angel of Death , for example , but only a sequence of guitar solos and Araya's voice.
The use of reverberation was also an issue; Hanneman wanted to change the beginning of Jesus Saves with it, while Rubin refused to do so and tried to illustrate the - in his opinion acoustically negative - effects with a sketch. Still, Hanneman insisted on a try; Rubin was also impressed by the result.
Finally the vocal recordings began. Araya hadn't seen the lyrics until then; Raining Blood wasn't even complete. While Araya was singing the first songs, the two guitarists are said to have worked on the missing third verse of the song.
Because the musicians still had studio time available after the recordings, they decided to record their first song Aggressive Perfector again. Since they were now playing the piece faster, they wanted to hear how it would work now. This new version was released as a bonus track on later pressings of the album and some singles.
At the beginning of March all six participants flew to New York City to do mixing and mastering in the New Fresh Studios . There, after an idea by Rick Rubins, the remix version of Criminally Insane was created , which can be found on later releases as a bonus track. It became Slayer's only remix.
“I didn't not like it. But I liked it the way we did it [originally] better. "
“It wasn't that I did n't like it. But I liked the way we [originally] did it more. "
In New York, King and Hanneman revised their solos again. Then the mixing of the previous recordings began. It was only here that the band noticed how little material they had. A few years ago, thirty-minute albums were still quite common, but that changed with the advent of the compact disc . Metallica's recently released Master of Puppets album lasted almost an hour and the last Anthrax album Spreading the Disease about 43 minutes. Slayer's songs were only thirty-three minutes long together, and it turned into twenty-nine as we mix it up.
“When we finished Reign in Blood, we had this meeting with Rubin, and he was like, 'Do you realize how short this is?' And we're going, 'Oh, fuck ...' And then we all collectively looked at each other and said, 'So what?' ”
"After we finished Reign in Blood, we had this meeting with Rubin and he said, 'Did you notice how short it is?' And we 'Oh, damn ...' And then we all looked at each other and said 'So what?' "
Finally, rain and thunder noises were added, so the album reached its final length of 29:03 minutes. It was short enough to fit completely on both sides of the cassette version.
“I thought it was kinda neat that you had the whole record on one side of a cassette. [laughs] You could listen to it, flip it over, and play it again. "
“I thought it was kind of great that the entire album could fit on one cassette side. [laughs] You can listen to it, turn it around and play it back. "
publication
The release of Reign in Blood was planned for July 1986, with Columbia Records as a partner of Def Jam should take over the distribution. The label was critical of Metal , however , after Ozzy Osbourne bit off the head of a pigeon in front of a few staff members and was embroiled in a teen suicide lawsuit related to Osbourne and Judas Priest song lyrics.
A first review of a pre-release version by Rich Stim in Spin magazine , in which he accused the band of turning the Holocaust into a comic drama based on the text of Angel of Death , made waves on Columbia Records. According to George Drakoulias, an employee at Def Jam, those responsible at Columbia Records only listened to the first few words and then dismissed the song as "Pro Nazi". A metal band called Slayer (dt. Slaughterer ), whose fan club named Slaytanic Wehrmacht , the text of Angel of Death and the extreme Albums Cover in combination with this review were too much for the label. Label president Walter Yetnikoff pointed out that all of his shareholders were Jews. Columbia Records refused to cooperate, the company refused to publish Reign in Blood .
Rubin had to look for a new sales partner. Through his previous collaboration with Aerosmith , he had met John Kalodner , the A&R boss of Geffen Records . This was enthusiastic.
“I'll put this record out right now. I don't give a fuck. I do not care. The band's brilliant. "
“I will be releasing this album in a moment. I don't give a shit. The band is brilliant. "
Three months after the originally planned date, Reign appeared in Blood on October 7, 1986 by Geffen Records, although it did not appear in their catalog at the time, as the marketing was done by Geffen's partner label WEA . WEA International took over the publication for the European market, in the UK it was released by London Records . The first delivery took place in an edition of 100,000 pieces.
trip
Slayer was now well known enough not to play in small clubs anymore. Rubin organized her own manager for her. Since Cliff Burnstein and Peter Mensch, his first choice, were busy with Metallica, they recommended the tour manager Rick Sales to him. He had already worked for Herbie Hancock , INXS , Blue Öyster Cult and Dokken and was to remain the manager of Slayer to this day . His first assignment was to carry out the Reign-in-Blood tour to promote the new album. The band had chosen the thrash metal band Overkill as support for the US tour , while Malice accompanied them in Europe . But like the release, the tour was not without difficulties.
Inspired by the Parents Music Resource Center , which was founded last year, religious groups demonstrated before the band's concerts. Tom Araya's parents regularly received threatening phone calls, the harshness of which increased the longer the tour lasted. Eventually, the caller announced they would kill Araya on the upcoming show at New York's Ritz. His parents, who until then had only found the calls to be a nuisance, began to worry seriously and turned to manager Rick Sales. He immediately tightened the security precautions: concert-goers were scanned, more security personnel were distributed in the hall itself, and the security guards intercepted all stage divers in the photo pit . The band themselves entered the building via a fire escape at the back of the club. However, the concert went off without incident.
There was also friction within the band. Dave Lombardo left the band after a month, which is why the whiplash drummer Tony Scaglione was used for the tour in early 1987 in the opening act of WASP . It was only a few months later that Lombardo could be persuaded to return.
style
music
Reign in Blood is characterized by high tempo and music that is perceived as hard ( ). In addition to other early Thrash Metal releases, the influences were mainly contemporary hardcore and hardcore / thrash metal crossover bands such as Suicidal Tendencies , Dirty Rotten Imbeciles and Stormtroopers of Death , partly also hip-hop .
After Hell Awaits , which was produced with a lot of reverberation, the band - thanks in particular to Rubin's influence - hardly used any reverberation and very "dry" microphone positioning:
“I love dry, in-your-face aggressive rock, without tons of reverb […] So we recorded it: close miking of the drums, no echoing. The idea was to kind of let you feel like you were in a boxing match and just kept getting punched in the face. "
“I love dry, directly aggressive rock without a lot of reverberation […] That's how we recorded it: close miking on the drums, no echo. The plan was to make you feel like you were in a boxing match and being hit over and over in the face. "
Otherwise, few effects were used; the electric guitars were alienated with common pedal effects, Araya's voice with equalizer and some of his screams with reverberation.
In terms of playing technique, palm muting and double bass playing are to be emphasized, as they represent an innovation in terms of speed. In particular, a drum break in Angel of Death popularized the double bass game in metal. Another special technique is the use of flam taps for raining blood . Dave Lombardo hits a floor tom with both sticks ; With a slight delay between the two hits, it achieves a particularly deep sound, which Ferris characterizes as “ Lucifer himself pounding on the gates of Hell ” (German: “Lucifer himself knocks on the gates of Hell”). For the remix of Criminally Insane , which was released as a bonus track on later editions of the album, the band supplemented the drum sound with samples - a technique that is common in today's extreme metal.
The singing is often based on the speaking rhythm and hardly tonal . The emphasis and positioning of the vocals were partly determined by the songwriters, but mostly developed during the recording. Although the vocals are mostly not guttural - as is usual in extreme metal - they are still perceived as extreme and aggressive, at the same time the lyrics are understandable even at high tempo.
The tempo is very high - on average over 200 bpm - but changes frequently, as does the time signature. Slayer moved away from contemporary metal works in song structures and leaned more on hardcore; while Metallica's Kill 'Em All dominated pieces with a length of over six minutes, on Reign in Blood only three pieces reached a length of more than three minutes. The song structure with verse, chorus and solo expected by contemporary metal listeners was deviated greatly; so refrains were largely dispensed with. The set of instruments was also unusual; the two guitar parts are equal and not divided into rhythm and lead parts, drums and the rarely outstanding electric bass are barely perceived as a rhythm section .
The frequent guitar solos also differed significantly from previous metal bands; they were significantly shorter and less focused on melody; the rapper and producer Ill Bill calls the Reign-in-Blood solos “ Fucked-up serial-killer scribble-on-a-wall solos ” ( Ill Bill , German: “Fucked up serial killer-scribble-on-the-wall solos "). In terms of playing technique, however, the guitarists oriented themselves towards common metal standards and used, for example, tremolo , tapping and palm muting.
At the time of the songwriting, the band members were barely trained in music theory, the music is not based on keys and without essential cadence-harmonic twists. The melodic elements come mainly from the minor scales, the tritone plays a prominent role.
A well-known Slayer theme is the electric guitar part performed in unison at the beginning of Raining Blood . The piece begins with three drum beats, which are repeated several times after a break. This is followed by the guitar theme, which continues and complements the drum part with three short, deep, muffled E-flat eighth notes. It is followed by an E-flat an octave higher as the prelude to the main motif. The A on the third beat of the first measure is reached by a tritone jump upwards, followed by a second step up and down. The reached A concludes the phrase and is held for a count. In the second bar the motif is real twice - i.e. not true to the key - shifted down a semitone. In addition, the minor second up is replaced by a major third. The three passages of the motif represent a sequence . The entire theme is repeated three times, in the last two passages it is played a fourth higher by the second guitar. By using many dissonant intervals, the topic creates great tension.
Texts
All songs were written by Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King. Tom Araya only took part in the songwriting from the next album, South of Heaven . Both authors dealt exclusively with topics such as murder, fear and satanism; however, this thematic restriction was not deliberately chosen:
“Don't write about love, don't write about happiness, don't write about partying. Just write about bad stuff; it's more interesting ”
“Don't write about love, don't write about happiness, don't write about parties. Only write about the bad things; that is more interesting "
Another essential feature of the texts is the use of very unusual and elaborate words such as “ Disapprobation ” (German: “ Disapproval ”). The writers used thesauri to replace frequently used words, the use of which they even forbade themselves in some cases. Ferris writes: “ Without watering it down, Slayer's poetic touch made violence and bloodshed palatable ” ( DX Ferris in Reign in Blood , German: “The poetic style made violence and bloodshed bearable without watering down”).
The beginning is a song about the concentration camp doctor Josef Mengele , known for his medical experiments in Auschwitz concentration camp of his victims called Angel of Death (dt. Angel of Death ) had received. Both the text and the music were written by Jeff Hanneman, whose father fought in World War II and aroused his son's interest in National Socialism . Shortly before the album was made, Hanneman had acquired two books on Mengele, which made the subject topical for him. In the song he describes in drastic words the experiments that Mengele carried out on his victims.
“Pumped with fluid, inside your brain / Pressure in your skull begins pushing through your eyes / Burning flesh, drips away / Test of heat burns your skin, your mind starts to boil / Frigid cold, cracks your limbs / How long can you last / In this frozen water burial? / Sewn together, joining heads / Just a matter of time / till you rip yourselves apart ”
"Pumped full of fluid, in your brain / Pressure in your skull begins to push through your eyes / Burning flesh, drips off / A heat test burns your skin, your mind begins to boil / Freezing cold, blows your limbs / How long can you do it endure / in this ice water funeral? / Sewn together, connected heads / It's just a matter of time / Until you tear yourself apart "
The controversial text caused a sensation because it did not consistently portray Mengele as a "villain". Slayer was dismissed as racist, regardless of producer Rick Rubin's Jewish origins and the ethnic backgrounds of the band members Lombardo and Araya. Hanneman said on the accusation of glorifying National Socialism that it shouldn't actually be necessary to do the obvious. This would make those who read the text stupid, as if they did not know that Mengele was a bad person.
With Piece by Piece follows the next song that deals with human abysses. Coming from the pen of Kerry King, it describes his deeds from the perspective of a serial killer . Torn up, decaying, prepared, he is surrounded by those who have blessed the temporal through him.
Also Necrophobic , a collaboration of King and Hanneman, remains the subject forth in human experiments and the dismemberment of bodies.
Altar of Sacrifice is the one with the most satanic tendencies of all Slayer's songs and describes human sacrifice . From the point of view of an observer, King describes a scene in which a high priest with a dagger waits in front of the altar while the maiden dressed in white approaches. There is a change of perspective, the high priest explains to his victim what to expect. Then the perspective changes back to the observer, who sees how the priest is given devilish powers after the sacrifice.
Jesus Saves follows on from its predecessor track without any pause. It's the only song on Reign in Blood that isn't about death, dying, and killing. Written entirely by Kerry King, it is a criticism of the Christian religion and the bondage of its followers.
Criminally Insane takes up the issue of serial killers again. In this case, the criminal has already been caught and locked away. Now he is planning to escape so that he can continue killing.
"Branded in pain / Marked criminally insane / Locked away and kept restrained / Disapprobation, but what have I done / I have yet only just begun to take your fuckin 'life ."
"Drawn in pain / Marked as criminally insane / Locked up and locked in place / Disapproval, but what have I done / I've only just started to take your damned life ."
In terms of content, Reborn is an unusual song for Slayer as it takes the point of view of a woman. As a witch, she was sentenced to death at the stake only hours away. She now tells about how little death means to her, since she will surely be born again and then take revenge. The lyrics are from Kerry King, where Tom Araya replaced the repetition of the line I'll see life again with I will live again in the chorus .
Epidemic contains a socially critical sub-note. The song describes a plague that almost completely wipes out humanity, but also goes into its cause, poverty.
In the course of post-mortem , someone obsessed with death slowly becomes insane.
Raining Blood tells the story of the man on the album cover, the one with the goat's head. Trapped in purgatory after being cast out of heaven, he is waiting for his vengeance. The "raining blood," according to King, is that of the angel after he begins his deeds. Hanneman, who wrote the text, said in an interview that his first vision of the text was very different. Also Raining Blood should act by a murderer, and that one who has killed his girlfriend. It had rained that night and the last thing he saw before leaving the scene was his victim's blood mingling with the rainwater. The sight haunts him so much that he loses his mind and now sees blood coming down every time it rains, after which he kills again and again.
Artwork
The cover was designed by Larry W. Carroll, who made his living doing somber political illustrations for The Progressive , The Village Voice and The New York Times and as a drawing teacher at the Pratt Institute , among others . By peddling a portfolio of his designs, he'd also met Stephen Bryam, Def Jam's art director . In the spring of 1986, Carroll received a call from Def Jam and met Rick Rubin at Café Figaro in Greenwich Village , who gave him a cassette with the songs and set a single requirement: the band wanted a goat's head on the cover.
After listening to the songs several times and watching religious scenes, Carroll went to work. Carroll drew a collage with oil paints on a roughly 1 meter square hard cardboard , which he washed and then glazed . The design shows an underworld scene in dark, predominantly bronze tones. In the foreground sits a demonic figure with a goat's head in a litter , carried by three people with burned angel wings, erect penises and horned heads, one of whom also carries a miter . Several bodies were impaled on the walls in the background. One of them, at the top right, still has recognizable facial features. The model for this was a friend of Carroll, the painter Tom Dillon. To the right of it sits on a ledge a small figure that is said to resemble Jesus Christ . At the bottom of the underworld flows a red stream in which only the heads of the damned are visible. The Slayer logo, a pentagram of swords, and the album title in grotesque gray were added later by Def Jam.
Larry Carroll refuses to give an exact explanation, the picture should be open to interpretation. Kerry King told Metal Hammer in 1987 that no one in the band liked the cover: “ Some warped demented freak came up with the cover. ”( Kerry King , German:“ Some twisted, crazy freak came up with the cover. ”) In the American heavy metal magazine Decibel , Carroll reported that one of the band members had finally shown the design to his mother and she was“ horrible " found. Only then did Slayer decide to use the cover.
In the June 2006 issue of the US music magazine Blender presented its top 10 best heavy metal album covers of all time. The list, sorted by year of release, included Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973) as the oldest and Mastodons Leviathan (2004) as the youngest album, as well as the cover of Reign in Blood. According to the authors, “the class and substance of the drawing, with its chaotic cut-out technique and dark, saturated colors, already shows the meaning the album would have, although it seems much more ominous and claustrophobic than the liberating speed of the music ".
On the back of the cover is a photo that shows the band members, who were 20 to 23 years old at the time of creation. Charly Rinne, the first editor-in-chief of the German-language Metal Hammer, shot it backstage on May 26, 1985 at the Belgian Heavy Sounds Festival, where Slayer made his first appearance in Europe.
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Commercial success and awards
Although Reign in Blood did not receive an airplay , it became the band's first release to make it onto the US Billboard200 chart . On November 15, 1986, the album debuted at number 127 and climbed through numbers 114, 106, 99 and 98 until it reached its top position at number 94 in the week of December 20, 1986, where it remained for three weeks before dropping out of the US album charts after a total of 18 weeks. The album also made it into the UK album charts at number 47.
On November 20, 1992, Reign in Blood was awarded a gold record by the RIAA for over 500,000 units sold . Since Rubin and the band often changed distribution partners, there are no exact sales figures. Manager Rick Sales, however, estimates that the album has sold over two million copies worldwide.
Criticisms and Impact
When the record was released, the metal media were consistently enthusiastic. Rock Hard awarded 9.5 out of 10 points, Kerrang awarded the heaviest album of all time a total of five “K” (“Colossal!”) And called it “excruciating but at the same time breathtakingly brilliant twenty-eight minutes of the best Thrash / Death / Hate / Speed Metal , which you will probably hear this year [...] Reign in Blood is far superior to Master of Puppets [...] The notes that Hanneman and King get from their guitars on this [album] have to be heard to be believed . ”( Kerrang! October 2-15, 1986 ) The magazine later declared the album the“ Top Thrash Album of All Time ”. Metal Forces rated Reign in Blood at 97%, and in 1987 the magazine called it “the undoubtedly most extraordinary Thrash album ever released.” In November 1986, Don Kaye of Creem Close-Up stated that Slayer was now “the greatest metal album. Band der Welt "would be, exactly one year later, the magazine Reign in Blood voted number 1 of the 20" best Thrash albums of all time (so far). "
“Anyone who doesn't own Reign in Blood has no idea about the history of metal. It's a genre-defining milestone, a relentless assault on some of the best Metal riffs one could think of. "
In the over 20 years since its publication, new reviews are still emerging. When Allmusic was founded in 1991 , Steve Huey awarded the highest number of points for the "ice cold classic". Metal.de said about the “classic album” that “never before has a band sounded so brutal, so fast, so nasty and just so awesome as the four Americans from SLAYER on this disc. Far trumps her previous albums on these points, Reign In Blood is pure destruction and rage from the first second to the last. ”Journalist Albert Mudrian wrote in the 2003 Seattle Weekly that Slayer found Reign in Blood as the Holy Grail of Thrash Metal Clay Jarvis of the Stylus called it a "genre-definer" and the "greatest metal album of all time".
“Reign in Blood, it's a dogma. Slayer is a dogma. Reign in Blood is really top of the tops, definitely one of the best extreme metal albums ever. Not just thrash metal. "
“Reign in Blood, that's a dogma . Slayer is a dogma. Reign in Blood is really the crème de la crème, definitely one of the best extreme metal albums out there. Not just of Thrash Metal. "
Even the spin magazine in which even in 1986 those criticisms appeared that cost the first distributor of the band, changed his mind. In 2005 it published the cover story on the list of 100 Greatest Albums, 1985-2005 and put Reign in Blood at number 67, where, together with Master of Puppets at number 59, it was the only metal albums in the entire list. In 2006, Vampster published a special dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the “genre's milestone”. The British Metal Hammer gave the album at the 2006 Golden Gods Awards , the award for the "Best Album Of The Last 20 Years" (dt. Best album of the past 20 years ). Q magazine named it in its 2001 list of “50 Heaviest Albums of All Time”, and IGN Entertainment ranked it 7th of the 25 best metal albums on the grounds that “this album was the fastest metal album to date. It was so groundbreaking and unique that it took Metal into areas that most others still haven't reached. Although a separate genre has emerged for speed metal , there is not a single band that can even touch this masterpiece. ”( T. Ed ) The RockHard editorial team compiled a list of the 500 best metal in the book Best of Rock & Metal. and hard rock albums of all time, leading Reign in Blood to number 6. Die Zeit also compiled a list in which Reign in Blood is represented. In 100 Classics of Modernism , the sound carrier is ranked 79th. Journalist Matthias Schönebäumer said that the record was “a punch, the force of which unceremoniously reduced an entire genre to rubble”.
Reign in Blood inspired many later successful musicians. Rapper Necro is one of his influences as well as Ektomorf singer Zoltán Farkas, Cannibal Corpse drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz, Chimaira singer Mark Hunter or Slipknot guitarist James Root .
“Reign in Blood was the one album for everybody. Every song was an exciting song, and they definitely captured the essence of everything that thrash was about. "
“Reign in Blood was the one album for everyone. Every song was an exciting song and they definitely captured the essence of everything that Thrash is about. "
Die Zeit included the album in the Top 100 Modern Classics in 2007 (79th place).
"Rubin banned excessive ornamentation from the songs. Reign In Blood means musical condensation in a very small space: With just 28 minutes playing time, the album is one of the shortest in rock history. Epic feats were left to bands like Metallica, who previously presented the album Master Of Puppets On the other hand, it was necessary to stand out. With their highly compressed intensity, Slayer not only bridged the gap between Thrash Metal and its predecessor Hardcore Punk, but also allowed free jazz-like textures to be heard on a metal record for the first time. "
Above all, Dave Lombardo's drumming was highlighted:
"Above all, Reign In Blood is a great drum record: Dave Lombardo's speed and precise groove are at the center of this metallic thunderstorm, which at the end unloads in a ghostly finale."
Re-use
Reign in Blood's songs were often covered, and in 2005 Killick Erik Hinds even re-recorded the entire album on the H'arpeggione specially designed string instrument . Perhaps the most extraordinary cover of all, however, was Tori Amo's version of Raining Blood , which she released on Strange Little Girls in 2001 .
“A musician that I work with was playing me Raining Blood , and I just saw the picture of this woman's beautiful vulva bleeding over, into the mouths of the Taliban. And they needed to drink the blood of the dark goddess, who was so angered by their disrespect…. I think what [Slayer] do is brilliant. "
“A musician I work with played me Raining Blood and I just saw this picture of a woman with her beautiful vulva bleeding out into the mouths of the Taliban. And they had to drink the blood of this dark goddess who was so upset about her disrespect ... I think what Slayer does is brilliant. "
Kerry King found Tori Amo's cover strange: “It took me a minute and a half to find a point in the song that I knew where it was. It's so bizarre. If she hadn't told us, we would never have known about it. You could have played it for us and we wouldn't have recognized it. ” Japanese combat radio plays , Malevolent Creation , Chimaira , Vader and Mambo Kurt were also among those who covered Raining Blood . The same parody of the Frankish Fun metal band JBO however, mixed the style Slayers with the song It's Raining Men of the Weather Girls . A second favorite of many bands is Angel of Death , which was re-recorded by Monstrosity and Apocalyptica , among others . Hurling Metal Records released a Slayer tribute album in 2006 . Among the 16 songs, all recorded by Argentinian bands, were Angel of Death , Necrophiliac , Postmortem and Raining Blood .
Slayer himself also created a new version of Reign in Blood. As part of the Still Reigning Tour, where only the songs from their most famous album were on the program, a live DVD was recorded on July 11, 2004 when they performed in Augusta (Maine) . During the presentation of Raining Blood, 200 gallons of fake blood from a rain machine spilled over the band and their equipment, which almost destroyed the latter.
Reign in Blood was also used as a soundtrack. Angel of Death was used in Gremlins 2 , Jackass: The Movie , the documentary Soundtrack to War and the video game Tony Hawk's Project 8 , among others , Raining Blood is used in the 127th episode of South Park ( Die Hippie, Die ) to drive away hippies and accompanies the computer game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City . The music game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock has Raining Blood in the group with the highest level of difficulty under the title 8. Fight for your soul .
Track list
- Angel of Death - 4:51 (Music / Text: Hanneman)
- Piece by Piece - 2:02 (Music / Text: King)
- Necrophobic - 1:40 (Music / Text: Hanneman, King)
- Altar of Sacrifice - 2:50 (Music: King / Text: Hanneman)
- Jesus Saves - 2:54 (Music: King / Text: Hanneman, King)
- Criminally Insane - 2:23 (Music / Text: Hanneman, King)
- Reborn - 2:11 (Music: King / Text: Hanneman)
- Epidemic - 2:23 (Music: King / Text: Hanneman, King)
- Postmortem - 3:27 (Music / Text: Hanneman)
- Raining Blood - 4:17 (Music: Hanneman; King / Text: Hanneman)
Bonus tracks from the re-release
- Aggressive Perfector - 2:30 (Music / Text: Hanneman, King)
- Criminally Insane (Remix) - 3:17 (Music / Text: Hanneman, King)
literature
- DX Ferris: Reign in Blood . Continuum International Publishing Group, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-8264-2909-4 .
- Jarek Szubrycht: Slayer - Show No Mercy . Heel Verlag, Königswinter 2007, ISBN 978-3-89880-863-7 (Polish: Bez litosci prawdziwa historia zespolu Slayer . Translated by Diana Kostrzewski).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f D. X. Ferris: Reign in Blood . Continuum, 2008, Bad Day at Black Rock, pp. 89-94 .
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“The album starts with the words 'Auschwitz, the meaning of pain'. For sheer numbness of purpose, nothing beats 'Angel of Death,' Slayer's commentary on Nazi Joseph [sic] Mengele. Mengele was a 'sadist of the noblest blood' who 'toiled to benefit the Aryan race' by performing 'surgery with no anesthesia.' Jeez, if you ever wondered what effect Hogan's Heroes had on our culture, this is it - a view of the Holocaust as comic-book drama, as removed from reality as the Black Plague or Darth Vader. "
“The album begins with the words 'Auschwitz, the meaning of pain'. For the pure purpose of numbing nothing beats 'Angel of Death', Slayer's comment on the Nazi Joseph [sic] Mengele . Mengele was a 'noblest blooded sadist' who 'worked for the benefit of the Aryan race' by performing 'operations without anesthesia'. My goodness, in case you've ever wondered what impact a cage full of heroes has on our culture, that's them - viewing the Holocaust as a comic drama as removed from reality as the Black Death and Darth Vader . "
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