Should i listen to slayer

Of course they have a wide and varied catalog. I especially enjoy when Slayer have awesome riffs and creepy lyrics and incredible energy. One might even say that Slayer know how to write good metal songs! You can quote me on that. Just listen to Slayer. At the end of the day, what we know is, fucking Slayer, right?

Put that shit on. Slayer rules. Metal rules. Hail Satan. That much is a given. But what do all those normal people think of them? Imagine hearing those songs afresh again. Lucky, Sarah, right? Or maybe not…. To say I was thrown into the deep end is quite the understatement. Essentially, I was sailed off to the middle of the Pacific Ocean, abandoned, and required to work my way to shore without even a single armband to keep me afloat.

Never one to turn down a challenge however, and fully aware that I desperately need to expand on my musical tastes, I enthusiastically accepted the request.

These guys clearly have a truckload of self-confidence. Shorter than the previous songs, at just under two minutes long, Necrophobic features a concise list of ways to kill, including strangulation, execution, amputation, and limb dissection.

Both a useful reference point for psychopaths, and a masterclass in how to rhyme methods of murder. Even their swansong, Repentless, though derided by metal critics as unadventurous at the time, still stands up as a top-drawer thrash record. If ever there was a record that delivered the stink and bruises of the moshpit, this is it. While many bands insist that their latest album is their best, King has admitted, with an impressive lack of ego, that he was fine with the idea they might never top Reign in Blood.

Nonetheless, it took them a while to get past its brilliance. Oddly, it kind of sounds like Slayer making a Metallica album. It rarely takes flight like their best, but it is a fantastic record. It is more trad metal than Reign, but it still has the swaggering confidence to the playing — and it might even be a good point of introduction for the timid.

For Spotify users, listen below or click on the Spotify icon in the top right of the playlist; for Apple Music users, click here. Slayer: where to start in their back catalogue.