#208
December 3 1983
Slayer
Show No Mercy
4 out of 5
Highlights:
Evil Has No Boundaries
Die By the Sword
Black Magic
Evil Has No Boundaries
Die By the Sword
Black Magic
I guess, the winter is the time to shred.
Somewhere between Raven & Venom and Metallica is this album. For early, 1st gen shred metal, it really gets the job done.
My ears have melted. I need to dunk my head in water.
Somewhere between Raven & Venom and Metallica is this album. For early, 1st gen shred metal, it really gets the job done.
My ears have melted. I need to dunk my head in water.
If not for the insipid, burn in hell, stormfire, death by dragons or something lyrics, this album would rate even higher. The musicianship is stellar.
I think it rivals the best of the era. From a playing stand point, it stands toe to toe with Metallica.
Here’s the thing: On the one side of Metal you have Ozzy & Priest and Sabbath and they are all sounding more and more commercial, desperate to keep that money machine running, running on the hamster wheel that Motley Crue talked about in The Dirt.
Way on the other side are the kids who grew up with that and put the hammer down and ran. Venom. Metallica. Megadeth. Slayer. The accessible-to-almost-everyone, song-smithing of the former groups who are still playing in the VCVCBC idiom are becoming relics. Replaced by players who sound like Eddie Van Halen after 6 months of crack cocaine instead of alcohol, for whom, playing like this is catharsis.
I don’t know enough about latter day metal to know what it morphed into. But I feel like this is either unsustainable or it is the absolute future.
Regardless, I definitely want to bang my head.
I think it rivals the best of the era. From a playing stand point, it stands toe to toe with Metallica.
Here’s the thing: On the one side of Metal you have Ozzy & Priest and Sabbath and they are all sounding more and more commercial, desperate to keep that money machine running, running on the hamster wheel that Motley Crue talked about in The Dirt.
Way on the other side are the kids who grew up with that and put the hammer down and ran. Venom. Metallica. Megadeth. Slayer. The accessible-to-almost-everyone, song-smithing of the former groups who are still playing in the VCVCBC idiom are becoming relics. Replaced by players who sound like Eddie Van Halen after 6 months of crack cocaine instead of alcohol, for whom, playing like this is catharsis.
I don’t know enough about latter day metal to know what it morphed into. But I feel like this is either unsustainable or it is the absolute future.
Regardless, I definitely want to bang my head.
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