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South of Heaven

Picked by Slipknot’s Corey Taylor Corey: “It’s my favourite Slayer album and my favourite Slayer song. The way it starts is so epic. It just keeps building towards another intro, y’know? You’re ready for it to fucking kick in and it doesn’t; it’s such a dick-tease. It infuriated me the first time I heard it, but then when it does kick in, oh my god...

Haunting The Chapel

Picked by Ghost’s Tobias Forge Tobias: “I like the weird time signature at the beginning. They were so gnarly back then. I’ve always been a huge Metallica fan, and Slayer in a way were all the things that Metallica weren’t and vice versa. Slayer back then did the most evil riffs ever, and there was just something genuinely hostile about them. There...

Raining Blood

Picked by Nightwish’s Tuomas Holopainen Tuomas: “I found metal through Metallicain 1992, when I was spending a year as an exchange student in America. My host family bought me a ticket to a Metallica and Guns N’ Roses concert in Kansas City. I was like, ‘Oh, that’s not my kind of thing’, but then Metallica came on and it changed my life. After that...

Angel of Death

Picked by Skindred’s Benji Webbe Benji: “I’m a Public Enemy fan, and they had a song called She Watch Channel Zero, and it used a sample that they had, and it was Angel Of Death. So henceforth, I used it and went, ‘Wow, that’s fucking so cool’, and someone said to me, ‘That’s a band called Slayer.’ I said, ‘What do you mean Slayer? It’s Public Enem...

Hell Awaits

Picked by Arch Enemy’s Alissa White-Gluz, Alissa: “Hell Awaitshas the same birth year as I do. It has back-masked messages in the intro and dark, thrashy, voluble lyrics… once the vocals finally kick in after more than three minutes of instrumental build, this song is extremely satisfying for those who love fast, angry, evil metal. Those signature ...

Mandatory Suicide

Picked by Lamb Of God’s Mark Morton Mark: “I love the cadence of the vocal – without being particularly melodic, it’s still really catchy. Dare I say it’s like a hip hop kind of thing, where there’s a pattern to lock into. The South Of Heaven album was so awesome to me. I liked Reign In Blood, but it was a little too punk and fast for me. I was lis...

Bitter Peace

Picked by Trivium’s Corey Beaulieu, Corey: “In my youth, I discovered Slayer. After I became a fan, Diabolus In Musica was released. Bitter Peacestarts off the record with heavy, catchy riffs, then grooves its way into a thrash-fest. I always thought this track was a grossly underrated Slayer song. It displays all Jeff’s writing greatness, from the...

Jesus Saves

Picked by Enslaved’s Ivar Bjørnson Ivar: “Jesus Saves is the Slayer song for me. I was listening to Slayer – like everybody else – as I started playing the guitar, and sometime during the first years of Enslaved this was the song we chose to cover for the [1995] semi-legendary Satanic SlaughterSlayer tribute album. We chose it because of the intens...

Reborn

Picked by Cradle Of Filth’s Dani Filth Dani: “For some strange reason,Reborn was always my favourite track on theReign In Bloodalbum, sandwiched somewhere between the album’s megalithic opener and closer. I love the hyperactive groove of the song, the tempestuous gear changes and, above all, the lyrics about a pact with the Devil and a witch’s retr...

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