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"Angel of Death" is the opening track on American thrash metal band Slayer's 1986 album Reign in Blood. The lyrics and music were written by guitarist Jeff Hanneman . They detail the Nazi physician Josef Mengele 's human experiments at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II .
In 2005, the Slayer tribute band Dead Skin Mask released an album with eight Slayer tracks, including "Angel of Death". [73] The death metal band Monstrosity covered the song in 1999, [74] while the track was featured on the classical band Apocalyptica's 2006 album Amplified / A Decade of Reinventing the Cello. [75]
Slayer has been accused of holding Nazi sympathies, due to the band's eagle logo bearing resemblance to the Eagle atop swastika and the lyrics of "Angel of Death". [217] "Angel of Death" was inspired by the acts of Josef Mengele, [218] the doctor who conducted human experiments on prisoners during World War II at the Auschwitz concentration ...
"Angel of Death" (Hank Williams song), 1954 "Angel of Death" (Slayer song), 1986 "Angel of Death" (Thin Lizzy song), 1982 "Angel of Death", a song by Angel Witch on Angel Witch, 1980 "Angel of Death", a song by Helstar on the album Remnants of War, 1986; Angel of Death, a symphonic poem by George Whitefield Chadwick, 1918
"Raining Blood", along with Reign in Blood ' s opening track "Angel of Death", is an almost permanent addition to Slayer's live set-list, and was Hanneman and King's favorite track to play live. [13] At the end of the Still Reigning DVD, there is a finale with the band covered in fake blood during the performance of "Raining Blood". [14]
Josef Rudolf Mengele (German: [ˈjoːzɛf ˈmɛŋələ] ⓘ; 16 March 1911 – 7 February 1979) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and physician during World War II at the Russian front and then at Auschwitz during the Holocaust, where he was nicknamed the "Angel of Death" (German: Todesengel). [1]
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Hanneman's favorite album was Reign in Blood, and he enjoyed performing the songs "Raining Blood" and "Angel of Death". [5] He contributed lyrics and music to every Slayer album, having formed a music and lyric writing partnership with Araya, which sometimes overshadowed King's creative input. [25]