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Hell Awaits is the second studio album by American thrash metal band Slayer, released on April 8, 1985, by Metal Blade Records.The band's 1983 debut Show No Mercy became Metal Blade Records' highest-selling release, and as a result, producer Brian Slagel desired to release a second Slayer album.
Hanneman composed both music and lyrics for every Slayer album until his death in 2013. Born in 1964 in Long Beach, California, [2] [3] Hanneman listened to heavy metal and hardcore punk in his childhood and adolescence. He was working as a telemarketer in 1981 when he met Kerry King, with whom he founded Slayer.
"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 .
"Angel of Death" † Jeff Hanneman Reign in Blood: 1986 [5] "Altar of Sacrifice" Kerry King Jeff Hanneman Reign in Blood: 1986 [5] "Americon" Kerry King World Painted Blood: 2009 [6] " The Antichrist" Jeff Hanneman Jeff Hanneman Kerry King Show No Mercy: 1983 [7] "At Dawn They Sleep" Jeff Hanneman Kerry King Tom Araya: Jeff Hanneman Hell Awaits ...
Slayer in 1983. From left: Kerry King, Dave Lombardo, Jeff Hanneman, and Tom Araya. Slayer was the opening act for Bitch at the Woodstock Club in Los Angeles, performing eight songs—six being covers. [2] While performing an Iron Maiden cover, the band was spotted by Brian Slagel, a former music journalist who had recently founded Metal Blade ...
God Hates Us All is the ninth studio album by American thrash metal band Slayer, released on September 11, 2001, by American Recordings.It was recorded over three months at The Warehouse Studio in Vancouver, and includes the Grammy Award-nominated song "Disciple".
Undisputed Attitude is the seventh studio album by American thrash metal band Slayer, released on May 28, 1996, by American Recordings.The album consists almost entirely of covers of punk rock and hardcore punk songs, and also includes two tracks written by guitarist Jeff Hanneman in 1984 and 1985 for a side project called Pap Smear; [2] its closing track, "Gemini", is the only original track.
Slayer submitted a range of material for the record company to choose from, instructing them to return a track list of what they felt to be the best items. [3] Following this, Slayer looked at the returned material; if the recorded track was a “good” performance but the band "didn’t care for the song", they asked the record company to ...