Slayer

Slayer was founded in 1981, when guitarist Kerry King met Jeff Hanneman while auditioning for a band. They recruited bassist and vocalist Tom Araya, who had played with King before in the band Quits (previously know as Tradewinds). Drummer Dave Lombardo was recruited when he met King while delivering a pizza. The band played cover version of Iron Maiden and Judas Priest songs at clubs and parties in Southern California. Early shows relied on a Satanic image, which featured pentagrams, make up, spikes, and inverted crosses. Rumors that the band was originaly known as Dragon slayer, after the 1981 movie on the same name, were denied by King, as he stated, “ We never were”, it’s a myth to this day. The band was invited to open for bitch at the Woodstock Club in Los Angeles, performing eight songs six being covers. While Iron Maiden’s “Phantom of the Opera” the band was spotted by Brian Slagel, a former music journalist who had, at the time, recently founded the label Metal Blade Records. Impressed with Slayer’s performance, Slagel met the band backstage and asked them to record an original song “Aggressive Perfector”, for his up coming Metal compilation. The band agreed and the song created underground “buzz”, which led to Slagel offering the band a recording contract with Metal Blade.

WORLD PAINTED BLOOD 2009

TRACK lIST

World Painted Blood

Unit 731

Snuff

Beauty Through Order

Hate Worldwide

Public Display of Dismemberment

Human Strain

Americon

Psychopathy Red

Playing With Dolls

Not of This God

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DIVINE INTERVENTION 1994

Track List

Killing Field
Sex. Murder. Art
Fictional Reality
Dittohead
Divine Intervention
Circle of Beliefs
SS-3
Serenity in Murder
213
Mind Control
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