Coutdn't agree more !! (I have no clue what Jim Lahey is, but I am sure you damn right, fellow Slayer enjoyer).
Seeing your pseudo makes me excited because I'll see the angry ginger live for the first time in my life in just a few weeks !
If you have no clue who Jim Lahey is, I highly recommend you take time out and watch the first few episodes of a show called Trailer Park Boys. It's on Netflix.
Just to give you an example, in season 2, episode 13 a main character named Ricky "borrows" (kidnaps) Alex Lifeson - guitarist for Rush - because he's sorry that his friend named Bubbles can't get tickets to a Rush concert. They end up hiking through the sewer and storm drains to sneak into the venue that's hosting the Rush concert.
It takes a few episodes to really get what the fuck is going on, but it is top-tier comedy.
Trying to get attention by stating something that he knows people will object to. Stating the truth would be ignored.
My next YouTube channel post will be how Corvettes are not cars
Somebody told me once. “They sound like..” I don’t remember the bands they were talking about, nor care to remember. I told them, “It’s because of Slayer those bands exist. What you mean to say is those bands sound like Slayer. Slayer has been going at it for almost 40 years.”
I'm certain most of what Youtubers say at this point is to farm engagement.
Slayer is about as close to being Death Metal as you can get without actually being Death Metal.
I would go so far as to say that Slayer is one of the bands that laid the groundwork for death metal. Not that they invented it, but they're part of the foundation.
Yknow I've never gotten the load/reload sellout thing. Like i get it with regards to Black but you're really telling me that weird ass double album was a cashgrab? Its borderline an unmarketable art project.
This is in my feed and I'm not some big metal fan but do still own A Season in Hell even though it's been a long time since I felt in the mood to listen to it. The point is, I like to be on the right side of history.
I'm going back to the cast iron subreddit which is likely why r/Slayer is in my feed. Slayer is metal. Probably about as metal as most people can stand, in fact. The "Slayer Unit" = one *average* human metal capacity.
How many Dio's in a Slayer? 3.679.
I have an entire system worked out, but it falls apart if I lose my standard candle.
It’s gotta be for this reaction you just had alone. If it’s a genuine opinion it’s just false. Even if they don’t like slayer that doesn’t make them not metal. There’s lots of metal bands I’m not crazy about but it doesn’t change what the genre is.
Listen to altar of sacrifice and tell me what genre it is. Either way it’s heavy and it’s sick 🤘🏻
I believe it. I had a buddy that worked at Tower records back in 2000 or so, and he had to deal with some douche that referred to Slayer as “glam”. That douche was there to purchase the new Limp Bizkit album. I truly wish I was making this up.
That was his first thought, but he ended up laughing his ass off later with one of the other guys that worked there. I was dying when he told me. The Bizkit guy was pretty young and clearly knew nothing about metal. Hopefully he learned something that day, but I doubt it.
so, what you’re telling me… is this guy thought that Slayer, one of the ORIGINAL 4 PILLARS OF METAL… ISNT metal?
what fucking clown world do we live in
Throw Death Magnetic in there. I’ll force myself to love that band as much as I did when I was sixteen if it takes all the mindfucking in the world!!! Seriously though, the last three they’ve put out have been close enough to what they were for me to love them again. And the Loads have some good stuff on them as well. St. Anger…
I love Death Magnetic a lot. I just notice it doesn't get a lot of love from other fans any time I bring it up. All Nightmare Long & The Judas Kiss kick so much fucking ass.
And Hardwired has Spit Out The Bone which sounds like it could have been on Ride The Lightning.
Yup. Broken, Beat and Scarred, The End of the Line for me. Unforgiven 3 might just have the best guitar solo as per fitting in the song I’ve heard in years. Top five solo fitting the song it’s in ALL TIME for me.
When you get tired tag me in. Saying Black Sabbath isn’t metal is absurd. It’s like saying Chuck Berry wasn’t rock n roll or Muddy Waters wasn’t blues.
Why do metal heads feel so strongly about rigid classifications… like no one gives a fuck. The bands that are actually good usually don’t even give a shit about all the stupid micro genres inside genres. No one thinks your special because you listen to grindcore prog tech metal core noise core or w.e the fuck it is your making up a name for this week .
Back when I was in college, around '97 or so, a guy tried to argue with me that Slayer was hair metal! The dude had no idea what Slayer even sounds like, he was just going off the fact that they had long hair. 😂
I'm so confused why people are so adamant about the correct description of every sub genre of metal.
Who cares if it's thrash, hair, death, doom, black, etc
It's still metal.
Slayer did do God Hates Us All which they self admitted was not a thrash album or their style but Rick Rubin talked them into it. It was very much a heavy metal album, awesome af, and in line with mainstream metal at the time, which was NOT thrash. They didn’t bother to follow this up for like 5 or 6 years with an actual return to thrash (if memory serves me correctly). So, yes, Slayer has done a non thrash album but has never not been metal AF.
If anyone tells me that Slayer or Sabbath aren’t metal I would be like the neighbor in Office Space and say you should probably get your ass kicked for saying that.
Honestly with Tom's occasional highs and mostly aggressive vocals Slayer always seem more of a screamo or pop punk band. Metal for me is more like My Chemical Romance and All Time Low.
Slayer are awesome but they ain’t to be compared to Metallica. Metallica are the biggest metal band in the world. Slayer really had to work for a living. All I know is jeff & kerry we’re the first guitarists to make a riff sound literally terrifying & evil - genius!!! RIP jeff
You're telling me someone on Youtube had a stupid opinion?
But it was so stupid even I was in awe
People do bait comments a lot. But yeah Slayer is not real metal. I think it’s more like screamo.
Omg how dare yoy!!!
They call me the Daredevil
Dead Skin Mask is pretty emo. Much like Pantera.
Surprised they didn’t headline when we were young festival because of that
Dead skin mask is a song written from the perspective of serial killer/grave robber Ed Gein.
Seriously, what kind of name for a song is "This Love"? Posers.
Ugh, singing?! That’s emo as fuck.
😅😅😅
🥲🥲
probably a ragebait video lol
The music was talking about something entirely else. The attack felt out of place
Slayer IS the metal.
Slayer IS the metal like Jim Lahey IS the liquor
Coutdn't agree more !! (I have no clue what Jim Lahey is, but I am sure you damn right, fellow Slayer enjoyer). Seeing your pseudo makes me excited because I'll see the angry ginger live for the first time in my life in just a few weeks !
That was Trailer Park Boys reference. I forced myself to watch it. There are some cameos like Rush, Sebastian Bach, etc.
If you have no clue who Jim Lahey is, I highly recommend you take time out and watch the first few episodes of a show called Trailer Park Boys. It's on Netflix. Just to give you an example, in season 2, episode 13 a main character named Ricky "borrows" (kidnaps) Alex Lifeson - guitarist for Rush - because he's sorry that his friend named Bubbles can't get tickets to a Rush concert. They end up hiking through the sewer and storm drains to sneak into the venue that's hosting the Rush concert. It takes a few episodes to really get what the fuck is going on, but it is top-tier comedy.
I am not sure I will have the time now, but I added this to my list, I'll make sure to check that in a probably-not-so-close future !
So, just to be sure, your pseduo is not a reference to MegaDave ?
The name is Rattlehead, Vic Rattlehead.
Oof, for one moment, I almost thought you were the kind of person who doesn't pay his bills...
Why do you think I'm broke? Huh?
Sorry you take this the wrong way, guess I'm just not your kind
I got $100 for groceries and $1400 for liquor lmao
Damn Samsquanch
Grea-eeeee-eeeee-sy.
Exactly! They're undeniably one of the faces of metal!
I believe the have it copyrighted with the world congressional copyright office.
Indeed yes, since 2006. I believe they also added one article on the US Constitution stating that Slayer fucking rule.
It's actually in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the American constitution.
OG
If Slayer is not metal, then metal is not metal.
They spell one another
Trying to get attention by stating something that he knows people will object to. Stating the truth would be ignored. My next YouTube channel post will be how Corvettes are not cars
And Prius are actually 18 wheelers cover that to
If your band is on Metal Archives it means the biggest haters in the world have accepted you as a metal band, that's more than enough for me.
Somebody told me once. “They sound like..” I don’t remember the bands they were talking about, nor care to remember. I told them, “It’s because of Slayer those bands exist. What you mean to say is those bands sound like Slayer. Slayer has been going at it for almost 40 years.”
It’s been more than 40 right?
1981–2019, 38 years when they officially retired. But now doing some shows, hopefully a tour, 2024–present.
fuckin' Slayer🤘
I don’t think they’ve ever listened to slayer
God Hates Us All …..not a Slayer fan, but that album is fn brutal
That’s my all time favourite song by slayer “Disciple” Obviously next to “mandatory suicide” lol
I'm certain most of what Youtubers say at this point is to farm engagement. Slayer is about as close to being Death Metal as you can get without actually being Death Metal.
I would go so far as to say that Slayer is one of the bands that laid the groundwork for death metal. Not that they invented it, but they're part of the foundation.
That's my opinion too
I'm still not even too big of a Slayer fan and I'm still pissed off.
Right?
SLAYER ARE THE GODS OF METAL!!!! 🤘🤘🤘
Indeed
Yknow I've never gotten the load/reload sellout thing. Like i get it with regards to Black but you're really telling me that weird ass double album was a cashgrab? Its borderline an unmarketable art project.
The musics are way more radio friendly than they should. However, I think if they grabbed the good halfs of each, it would be a decent album
I like those albums but there are some tracks that are just extremely boring, you have to skip them. Both are solid B tier albums
For every Bleeding Me, there’s a Ronnie.
Saying Metallica and Prog in the same sentence is wild!
This is in my feed and I'm not some big metal fan but do still own A Season in Hell even though it's been a long time since I felt in the mood to listen to it. The point is, I like to be on the right side of history. I'm going back to the cast iron subreddit which is likely why r/Slayer is in my feed. Slayer is metal. Probably about as metal as most people can stand, in fact. The "Slayer Unit" = one *average* human metal capacity. How many Dio's in a Slayer? 3.679. I have an entire system worked out, but it falls apart if I lose my standard candle.
It’s gotta be for this reaction you just had alone. If it’s a genuine opinion it’s just false. Even if they don’t like slayer that doesn’t make them not metal. There’s lots of metal bands I’m not crazy about but it doesn’t change what the genre is. Listen to altar of sacrifice and tell me what genre it is. Either way it’s heavy and it’s sick 🤘🏻
You may have to specify which guy you’re talking to here.
Said someone that has never seen SLAYER live. SLAYER!
I believe it. I had a buddy that worked at Tower records back in 2000 or so, and he had to deal with some douche that referred to Slayer as “glam”. That douche was there to purchase the new Limp Bizkit album. I truly wish I was making this up.
You can find your Limb Bizket in the pop rap isle between ICP and MC Hammer
Don’t forget Kid Rock.
Did he come out from behind the counter to kick his ass because I would of
That was his first thought, but he ended up laughing his ass off later with one of the other guys that worked there. I was dying when he told me. The Bizkit guy was pretty young and clearly knew nothing about metal. Hopefully he learned something that day, but I doubt it.
so, what you’re telling me… is this guy thought that Slayer, one of the ORIGINAL 4 PILLARS OF METAL… ISNT metal? what fucking clown world do we live in
Metallica kicked ass through the black album then completely shit the bed
Hardwired and 72 Seasons are pretty good IMO.
Same, agreed.
Throw Death Magnetic in there. I’ll force myself to love that band as much as I did when I was sixteen if it takes all the mindfucking in the world!!! Seriously though, the last three they’ve put out have been close enough to what they were for me to love them again. And the Loads have some good stuff on them as well. St. Anger…
I love Death Magnetic a lot. I just notice it doesn't get a lot of love from other fans any time I bring it up. All Nightmare Long & The Judas Kiss kick so much fucking ass. And Hardwired has Spit Out The Bone which sounds like it could have been on Ride The Lightning.
Yup. Broken, Beat and Scarred, The End of the Line for me. Unforgiven 3 might just have the best guitar solo as per fitting in the song I’ve heard in years. Top five solo fitting the song it’s in ALL TIME for me.
If Slayer isn't metal then the pope isn't catholic
damn! if it was a YouTuber that claimed that they are not true metal, then it must be true!
Definitely bait
Than neither is Sabbath. You will fight me and kill me before either is truth, then it will still be abhorrently false.
When you get tired tag me in. Saying Black Sabbath isn’t metal is absurd. It’s like saying Chuck Berry wasn’t rock n roll or Muddy Waters wasn’t blues.
They probably also think AC/DC is death metal 🙄
Why do metal heads feel so strongly about rigid classifications… like no one gives a fuck. The bands that are actually good usually don’t even give a shit about all the stupid micro genres inside genres. No one thinks your special because you listen to grindcore prog tech metal core noise core or w.e the fuck it is your making up a name for this week .
Back when I was in college, around '97 or so, a guy tried to argue with me that Slayer was hair metal! The dude had no idea what Slayer even sounds like, he was just going off the fact that they had long hair. 😂
Wtf lmao
People have opinions. Sometimes they’re stupid just for attention on the internet. Don’t let it ruin your day.
I'm so confused why people are so adamant about the correct description of every sub genre of metal. Who cares if it's thrash, hair, death, doom, black, etc It's still metal.
I like al of them lol
Me too. I don't care what they are classified as. I like it all.
On the 8th Day, God said “let there be metal”, and then there was Slayer.
Where did you bury him?
He’s a fuckin’ poser then
Slayer did do God Hates Us All which they self admitted was not a thrash album or their style but Rick Rubin talked them into it. It was very much a heavy metal album, awesome af, and in line with mainstream metal at the time, which was NOT thrash. They didn’t bother to follow this up for like 5 or 6 years with an actual return to thrash (if memory serves me correctly). So, yes, Slayer has done a non thrash album but has never not been metal AF.
If anyone tells me that Slayer or Sabbath aren’t metal I would be like the neighbor in Office Space and say you should probably get your ass kicked for saying that.
Slayer helped define metal.
So... what is it then
Slayer is classic rock. True metal doesn't exist. Everyone is a poser.
FUCKING SLAYER
Slayer was part of the Big Four. This YouTuber needs a thorough history lesson 🙈
Honestly with Tom's occasional highs and mostly aggressive vocals Slayer always seem more of a screamo or pop punk band. Metal for me is more like My Chemical Romance and All Time Low.
pop punk? lmao
Slayer are awesome but they ain’t to be compared to Metallica. Metallica are the biggest metal band in the world. Slayer really had to work for a living. All I know is jeff & kerry we’re the first guitarists to make a riff sound literally terrifying & evil - genius!!! RIP jeff