At 8/25/10 02:36 AM, HeavenDuff wrote:
AniMetal is kind of right...
Of course I am.
For those of you who don't know, Slayer is playing Seasons In The Abyss in entirety on their tour with Megadeth who was playing Rust In Peace in entirety and testament as the opener. (it was an awesome show hahaha)
Anyway, a lot of my metalhead friends on facebook were all bitching about how Slayer's best album is Show No Mercy and that Seasons is a terrible album and all this shit and my one and only friend who agrees with me in saying Seasons In The Abyss is their best album posted this rant:
"Why are slayer playing Seasons In The Abyss instead of Reign In Blood or south of heaven? Little known fact about slayer: They weren't very popular in the 80's. Show No Mercy, Hell Awaits and Haunting The Chapel were very underground. What about their two most successful albums TODAY, Reign In Blood and South Of Heaven? They were both slightly successful but they weren't a commonly known band yet even among the metalhead community! Seasons In The Abyss is the ONE and ONLY slayer album before the 00's that was successful in the mainstream and it's the album that put slayer on the spot to begin with. In fact the only reason slayer are so well known now are because of these five reasons:
1.) The initial success of the album Seasons In The Abyss put them on the spotlight among metalheads to begin with.
2.) The stabbing and murder of that guy in a slayer pit in 1992 being the cause of the law where you can't bring weapons to concerts.
3.) Dave Mustaine shitting on slayer in the late 90's in a interview because "Megadeth is infinity more successful than slayer and it's no secret why"
4.) In retaliation to dave mustaine's comment on slayer, metallica got slayer to open for them on a europe tour in 2000.
5.) Raining blood being featured on MTV starting in 2003 making that song the hit that it is.
Those are the five reasons Slayer are successful as they are."
And his rant is pretty damn right, slayer didn't really become a big deal among the metal community till 1990-1993 and they didn't become a big deal among the nonmetal community until the early 2000's.
So whomever said slayer influenced a lot of death metal obviously has never heard of Possessed, Deicide, Obituary, Cannibal Corpse, Vader, Malevolent Creation, Morbid Angel, Autopsy, Kreator's first two albums, Pestilence, Immolation, Napalm Death, Carcass, Carnage, Entombed, etc.