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Huntington Park, Los Angeles CA, United States (1981 – present)

Slayer is an American thrash metal band from Huntington Park, California, formed in 1981. The band was founded by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King. Slayer rose to fame as one of the leaders of the American thrash metal movement with their 1986 release, “Reign in Blood”, which has been called “the heaviest album of all time” by Kerrang! The band was credited as one of the “Big Four” thrash metal bands, along with Metallica, Anthrax, and Megadeth.

Slayer is best known for speaking through perspective without being necessarily sympathetic to the cause of their inspiration. Slayer’s musical traits involve fast tremolo picking, guitar solos, double bass drumming, and shouting vocals. The band’s lyrics and album art, which cover topics such as death, deviants, suicide, genocide, necrophilia, insanity, Nazism, religion, Satanism, serial killers, and warfare have generated album bans, delays, lawsuits and strong criticism from religious groups and the general public.

Since their debut record in 1983, the band has released two live albums, one cover album, one box set, three DVDs, one VHS, two EPs, and nine studio albums, four of which have received gold certification in the United States. The band has received three Grammy nominations, winning one in 2007 for the song “

Eyes Of The Insane”, and one in 2008 for the song “

Final Six”. They have headlined music festivals worldwide, including Unholy Alliance and Ozzfest.

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1	Raining Blood full track	6,423
2	Angel of Death full track	5,251
3	World Painted Blood full track	3,294
4	Piece by Piece full track	2,808
5	Postmortem full track	2,765
6	Jesus Saves full track	2,740
7	Altar of Sacrifice full track	2,654
8	South of Heaven full track	2,618
9	Necrophobic full track	2,609
10	Snuff full track	2,516
11	Criminally Insane full track	2,465
12	Hate Worldwide	2,354
13	Public Display Of Dismemberment full track	2,311
14	Psychopathy Red	2,263
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chruma69 wrote:
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bartek18016 wrote:
4 hours ago

SLAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRR!!

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KingRattlehead wrote:
4 hours ago

heh look at this guy

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assMEN wrote:
6 hours ago

and nirvana is the phase you go through while listening to slipknot.

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Nonclique343 wrote:
8 hours ago

Entry level garbage, this is the phase you go through directly after Slipknot.

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assega wrote:
yesterday evening

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thrasher86 wrote:
yesterday evening

@rockthelotus what a douche that reviewer was! haha

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Aeysee wrote:
yesterday afternoon

Come to Graspop Metal Meeting in Belgium plz [2] SLAAAAYYYEEEEEEEEEERR!!

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SnowOcean wrote:
yesterday afternoon

Seasons in the Abyss was the best

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GaVron-kun wrote:
yesterday afternoon

SPREAD A LITTLE HATE WORLDWIIIIIIIIIIIIDE!!

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MelancholyRage wrote:
yesterday morning

World Painted Blood!!!

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bluntbulletloco wrote:
yesterday morning

Good ol slayer, sure brings me back to 01

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GER_capo wrote:
yesterday morning

Angel of Death!!!

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enu665 wrote:
Wednesday evening

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5BYo5xMTbU

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johngebreadman wrote:
Wednesday evening

Hell awaits=SITA>RIB=SNM>WPB>GHUA=South of Heaven>divine intervention>undisputed attitude>diablous in musica=christ illusion. I think South of Heaven, title track aside is quite overrated

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Illian_El-Tano wrote:
Wednesday evening

Слеер это круто))

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Lucifieri666 wrote:
Wednesday evening

world painted blood better than christ illusion

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Lietvyris wrote:
Wednesday afternoon

Daawaaać! SLAAAAAAYER KURCZE!!!!

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rockthelotus wrote:
Wednesday afternoon

LMAO at this review on itunes: http://tinypic.com/r/24muq06/6

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james_thorne41 wrote:
Wednesday afternoon

if your pissed off at how shit death magnetic was and what it did or rather didn't do for thrash and heavy metal in general, then take out your frustrations on the lady gaga shoutbox!

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