TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Slayer
Slayer
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.0113
Slayer Album Rankings
1
What constitutes a classic album? What is it that separates truly timeless, revolutionary albums from merely great ones? One would have to assume that a major factor is originality.
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2
Back in the '80s, none rivaled Slayer when it came to the title of "most dangerous band." Not Motley Crue, not even NWA.
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3
This review is actually an accident.
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4
The most powerful, viscerally brutal album the quartet have released to date
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5
Not since the maniac thrash of 1986's genre-eclipsing Reign in Blood have these SoCal wastrels managed music that sounds so frighteningly out of control and yet wholly, idealistically pure of intent.
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6
In horror-film and fiction circles, stories that drip with viscera and gore are characterized as "wet." Andwet's the word forDivine Intervention, Slayer's first new album since 1990.
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7
For anyone who remains unclear about the relationship between hardcore punk and speed metal, Slayer'shommageto their roots onUndisputed Attitudehammers home the point with relentless fervor.
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8
Diabolus in Musicasounds like no other piece of work from Slayer, which makes for a bit of a queasy and uncomfortable experience at first.
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9
When it comes to death metal, no band is more convincing than Slayer.
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10
Let's not be nostalgic: Today most of this album sounds laughably thin and weedy, save the mighty "Chemical Warfare" and "Black Magic.
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11
Recorded and released as a follow-up to the Haunting the Chapel EP, specifically during the tour for that effort (though apparently actually in a studio with a few hypercharged fans in audible attend
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12
Boasting the awesome "Chemical Warfare," a regular staple of Slayer's live shows, the Haunting the Chapel EP was a more crucial stepping stone in the legendary L.A.
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17
The Devil in Music Twenty years after the emergence of America's great "Big Four" thrash metal bands, Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, and Slayer , it's interesting when you stop and consider how each o
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20
While the double-disc Decade of Aggression couldn't be expected to capture all of the unparalleled aggression of Slayer's live shows, this set comes pretty damn close.
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