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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.
Released in April 1985, Slayer's second full-length album, Hell Awaits, expanded on the darkness of Haunting the Chapel, with hell and Satan as common song subjects. The album was the band's most progressive offering, featuring longer and more complex song structures. [7]
Slayer is an American thrash metal band formed in 1981 by guitarists Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman, who recruited vocalist and bassist Tom Araya, and drummer Dave Lombardo. [1] Slayer's first two albums, Show No Mercy (1983) and Hell Awaits (1985), which were released on Metal Blade Records, did not chart in the United States. [2]
Hell Awaits: 1985 [8] "Hate Worldwide" † Kerry King World Painted Blood: 2009 [6] "Haunting the Chapel" Jeff Hanneman Kerry King Haunting the Chapel: 1984 [16] "Hell Awaits" Kerry King Jeff Hanneman Kerry King Hell Awaits: 1985 [8] "Here Comes the Pain" Kerry King God Hates Us All: 2001 [14] "Human Disease" Jeff Hanneman Kerry King Tom Araya ...
Show No Mercy is the debut studio album by American thrash metal band Slayer, released in December 1983 by Metal Blade Records. Brian Slagel signed the band to the label after watching them perform an Iron Maiden cover.
Araya was employed as a respiratory therapist in the early 1980s and used his earnings to finance Slayer's debut album Show No Mercy (1983). Much of Araya's lyrical content is about serial killers, a subject he finds interesting; his first credited lyrical contribution was the vampire-themed track "At Dawn They Sleep" from 1985's Hell Awaits.
Waits’ then-unknown girlfriend Rickie Lee Jones appears on the back cover of Blue Valentine, a year before the release of her debut album and its improbable pop hit “Chuck E’s in Love.” 1 ...
Live Undead is the first live album by American thrash metal band Slayer. It was released through Metal Blade Records and recorded in New York City in front of a room of people. It has been questioned by both critics and authors that the audience sound may or may not be faked.