Slayer

This article is about the metal band. For the anime, see Slayers. For the American television show, see Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Slayer is a thrash/death metal band featuring Kerry King on guitar, Tom Araya on bass and vocalss, Jeff Hanneman (also on guitar) and a number of different drummers. The band has recorded a number of albums since their formation in 1981 in Huntington Beach, California.

This saw them heard bands in concert, MTV or on the radio of their favorite albums of all times like AC/DC's Back In Black, Iron Maiden's The Number Of The Beast, Mercyful Fate's Don't Break The Oath, King Diamond's Conspiracy, Scorpions' Blackout, Judas Priest's British Steel, U.F.O.'s No Heavy Petting, Lights Out and Obsession, Kiss' Destroyer, or Diamond Head's debut album Lighting To The Nations.

The 1986 album Reign in Blood from songs about suicide, history of evil, death and other evil positions for being like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and Diamond Head, probably their best known 5-star album, is held in very high regard critically, and was described by the magazine Kerrang! as "the heaviest album of all time" and issued on a Rolling Stone magazine in 1989.

While many of Slayer's contemporaries (such as Metallica) are seen to have "softened" with the passing of time, this charge is rarely levelled against Slayer.

The band received their first Grammy nomination for "Best Metal Performance" on January 8, 2002.

Discography:

Show No Mercy (1983)
Haunting the Chapel (1984)
Live Undead (1984)
Hell Awaits (1985)
Reign in Blood (1986)
South of Heaven (1988)
Seasons in the Abyss (1990)
Decade of Aggression (1992)
Divine Intervention (1994)
Undisputed Attitude (1996)
Diabolus in Musica (1998)
God Hates Us All (2001)