I was 16 when this came out. Friend of mine got a copy on video and we would watch it wondering how they play so fast. Never seen anything like it before. It was an experience.
I used to rent this full show and it had Exodus and Venom. I was in high school at the time the little video store in town got this one in. People would get pissed because I never took it back and would re rent it over and over until they decided to sell it to me for $10. Give me a break. I was 16. I wore it out, but I remember that because of this tape I actually learned how to pull of alot of Slayer tunes on guitar and never stopped. I'm blessed to have found this here.
That story is so synonymous with the era! Same thing happened to me with Cliff’em all and the movie Amadeus! Rented it so much they finally sold it to me!
absolutely.. people say the big 3 Slayer albums are RIB SOH and SITA, but that is wrong. The 3 album peak of real Slayer is HTC HA and RIB. with HTC being the pinnacle.
on some of the old boots when they are trying to tune and the crowd is loud Tom yells "Have you no mercy?" I think I'm going to put together a "Tom's greatest hits" of his stage banter sometime...
I saw Slayer at Madam Wong's West with Beowulf in 1984. Me and my friend were only 14 so they let us in with the help of Dave Lombardo's mom vouching for us. Everyone there was in the front row. Epic.
I saw this tour at Fort Hesterly Armory Tampa Florida when I was 21. Testament and Anthrax were with them. They 3 bands were rotating as head liner band show to show. I had just seen Megadeath a few weeks before this show. I could tell clearly, even by this early time in the Thrash genre, Slayer was and would continue to be the best and the standard bearer on this beautiful new art!
@@timbuk1126 he's right still. all those bands are good but what slayer did will never again happen. They revolutionized extreme metal more than ANY band. Took the sound of Mercyful Fate and the guitars of NWOBM and made it their own. They laid the foundation of everything.
I was 14... Listening to everything i could find in the village NYC. I bought a vhs with slayer, exodus and Venom...the sound and speed blew me away. Now 51, still listen and gives me the chills every time. dont give a flying f*** what people say.
They played Hammerjaxx shortly after that dressed in chainmail. It was sick. Definitely there was fear in that hall on that particular night. Needless to say, every drink that night was served in a plastic cup - that was Slayer’s reputation!
The fucking best there is, I haven't listened in a month or so. Die by the sword just played, I went through my room like a god damn bulldozer. Nothing like it to bring me those deep pleasure moments hahahahahah. Fucking SLAYER rules
I grew up with this! Love it. When this came out, as a metal head and guitar player, this was the next level for me! Kerry, Jeff, Tom, and Dave were it man.
I wasn’t even born.. and they were this good already. By the time I was ten Undisputed Attitude was one of my first tapes I bought on my own. It showed me punk and metal and they were from near me in Oakland so I thought they were the coolest thing ever. Last time I got to see them as a full original band was 2007 with my buddy Ryan. They played with Marilyn Manson which was fucking stupid.. skinny goths who hadn’t left home in months versus a bunch of bearded dudes drinking beers wanting to break shit. It was badass tho, my friend broke his toe. Slayer Fuckin Slayer!
I was literally just 3 days old when this was recorded and I will pay a handsome reward for anyone who can find the lost footage of babyme jamming the fuck out 😂
The first of the two times I saw them live was three years after this on the South Of Heaven tour with Nuclear Assault supporting. I don't think I have ever seen this, it was only Hell Awaits from the same show so it was good to see this.
The best of times to be a metal head. The shit was still underground and taking off at the same time. After 1988, it all went to shit . My opinion only . Kerry Kings mocking bird with black candlewax melted on it pretty cool. That's old-school metal genius.
I die by the sword 🗡️⚔️ in 2011 for Christ ! And waiting for 2025 ! After season and time of Daniel 7 11/12 is completed woe #2 woe #3 and was able to see Slayer at the country club in Reseda CA. Many times while I was still in high school
True story : I had a french exam like one month ago where we had to write a thesis (disseration pour ceux qui savent parler français) on a quote from Jean Paul Sartres : "Longtemps j'ai considéré ma plume pour mon épée" ("There's a long time i've been taking my pen as my sword") and i was like : "THEY SAY the PEN is mightier than the SWORD ! I say f the pen !! Cause you've been dying by the sword"
'85...let's see...I went to my 1st concert (KISS and W.A.S.P.) as a 12 year old. It wouldn't be for maybe another year that my brother would introduce me to SLAYER. The thrash/speed metal genre has come quite a long ways since then, but if these 4 guys never got together, it would have been a lot different.🤘
Jesus, can you imagine? In 1985? That must have been INTENSE.
I mean really. These people probably thought they were from hell for real.
I was 16 when this came out. Friend of mine got a copy on video and we would watch it wondering how they play so fast. Never seen anything like it before. It was an experience.
If you think this was intense for 1985, imagine the people who heard Sepultura's Bestial Devastation
Big boomboxes, wristbands, real spaghetti o’s
Best times of my life.
Show No Mercy is my favorite Slayer album.
cook
I used to rent this full show and it had Exodus and Venom. I was in high school at the time the little video store in town got this one in. People would get pissed because I never took it back and would re rent it over and over until they decided to sell it to me for $10. Give me a break. I was 16. I wore it out, but I remember that because of this tape I actually learned how to pull of alot of Slayer tunes on guitar and never stopped. I'm blessed to have found this here.
Great story.
Awesome man, mine was Iron Maiden 10 wasted years,I think. They finally just sold it to me 😂
Awesome story man. I miss the days of renting movies and all that
That story is so synonymous with the era! Same thing happened to me with Cliff’em all and the movie Amadeus! Rented it so much they finally sold it to me!
Same with me and New Kids On The Block!!
I've never seen it look this sharp. Probably the best live footage ever shot of them. Of any metal band, for that matter. Young, hungry and intense.
Of any metal band? XD You high, dude?
@@coldvoid show
Remember headbangers ball?
I saw them in 83’ at the El Caribe Inn in Hollywood. It was dark and red definitely not this sharp.
@@darrenprivate4391 oh hell yeah demonic
" Show No Mercy" is one of the best metal albums ever. This is great classic footage.
YES AND ONE OF THE BEST COVERS EVER❤
Kerry is hitting switches on his guitar like it matters lol
lol
Show some respect people.. Hanneman is slim, King got hair and Araya has no beard even at that age!
Dave Lombardo still one of the greatest drummers ever😊
GOAT of the genre
I wish I could have seen a drum off between him and Nick Menza.
Absolutely.
Dave was 19 when they recorded this show 😳
Ive been listening to this on spodify for so long i never knew that there was a video
God damn the 80s was a great time for music!!!
Kerry King's random notes during solos will always makes me laugh... But the song and the video kicks ass !
I agree. Just hitting a bunch of random notes as quickly as he can.
Best Slayer ever. Demonic, satanic, brutal, fast, technical as no one back then. Lombardo is the father of modern metal drumming.
absolutely.. people say the big 3 Slayer albums are RIB SOH and SITA, but that is wrong. The 3 album peak of real Slayer is HTC HA and RIB. with HTC being the pinnacle.
@hrgiger6 dude ,haunting The chapel was only a 3 songs EP.
@@hrgiger6 I respectfully disagree. RIB is the gold standard of thrash and still the all time best. Number 2 is Sepultura Beneath the Remains.
satan is good
Dude, Slayer as a whole is The Godfather of real metal
That intensely dark & super heavy shit
They didn't know they would become so much more than a band to their fans... It's a lifestyle. 🤘
I remember that show, Tom Araya kept telling us “To Scoot back, show some mercy”, we all kept crowding the stage, what a night.
yeah theres a video of my uncle there that night, screaming, and even my dad I think lol
@Richard K yeah, my eyeglasses got knocked off, people moshing, me on all fours on the floor trying to find my glasses. Never found them.
Cringe.
Should have yelled “Show No Mercy”
on some of the old boots when they are trying to tune and the crowd is loud Tom yells "Have you no mercy?" I think I'm going to put together a "Tom's greatest hits" of his stage banter sometime...
geezus i was 22 then....worked studio 54 yrs after this briefly, back in the day with no cellphones, just kids banging heads...great times.
I saw Slayer at Madam Wong's West with Beowulf in 1984. Me and my friend were only 14 so they let us in with the help of Dave Lombardo's mom vouching for us. Everyone there was in the front row. Epic.
Show no mercy.....My favorite album from them
It's Seasons for me.. Wore the hell out of that CD..lol
Just now finding this on April 3rd 2023
Slayer is definitely a live band.
Gold. RIP Slayer & Jeff. They are South of Heaven & still Reigning. .🤘🤘🤘
I saw this show at a club in Long Beach,CA. Late July,early August,1985. Exodus opened.
Tom Araya playing with fingers :0
I saw this tour at Fort Hesterly Armory Tampa Florida when I was 21. Testament and Anthrax were with them. They 3 bands were rotating as head liner band show to show. I had just seen Megadeath a few weeks before this show. I could tell clearly, even by this early time in the Thrash genre, Slayer was and would continue to be the best and the standard bearer on this beautiful new art!
It's Megadeth
Old school metal warriors ☠️💪🤟
One of my favorite metal bands...nice to see Kerry King with his hair still long :)
But already thin on top
@@Tangman4209Yeah...Haha.
I started listening to Slayer in the '90s as a teenager, and seeing this now, after all this time...I know I'm a Slayer fan for life!
I was at this gig. The place was insanely packed.
Studio 54 in New York?
Yeah,where was this show?
@@glampervert Studio 54’s Wikipedia page does say it began hosting “special musical performances” in late 1984…
@@glampervert studio 54
@@Fakename70 yes. Was billed as “the ultimate revenge against disco” lol
The KK boots AND spikes era 🤟
Best sound ever for live..
Jeff Hanneman was very tight ( right on ) in his solo. :) at 3:03
Studio 54 played thrash metal! Wow what. Great video thank you!🤘🏻🤘🏻
Who knew😂 probably the tail end for that joint😂😂😂Slaytanic Wehrmacht!!!!
So brutal. Nothing will ever compare. Nothing.
Oh how pitiful that you think that.
@@punkrock1989 cringe.
@@lotsapasta0858 Nobody said anything even remotely like that, you jumped to your own conclusion with that.
@@lotsapasta0858 Kreator, Dark Angel, Destruction, Possessed, Sodom, Bathory, Celtic Frost and Exodus are just a few.
@@timbuk1126 he's right still. all those bands are good but what slayer did will never again happen. They revolutionized extreme metal more than ANY band. Took the sound of Mercyful Fate and the guitars of NWOBM and made it their own. They laid the foundation of everything.
We were young once...and we were Slayer.
Love this! I was 14. Brings back memories of my innocent youth!!!
I was 14... Listening to everything i could find in the village NYC. I bought a vhs with slayer, exodus and Venom...the sound and speed blew me away. Now 51, still listen and gives me the chills every time. dont give a flying f*** what people say.
There is no Slayer without Tom's voice.
YES!!!! SLAYER🎀
We walked amongst giants. Freaking saw them this tour. And lived to tell the tale.🤘🏾
🙌🍻🤘👹🤘😁✌😎
They played Hammerjaxx shortly after that dressed in chainmail. It was sick. Definitely there was fear in that hall on that particular night. Needless to say, every drink that night was served in a plastic cup - that was Slayer’s reputation!
Talk about an amazing show. Exodus, Slayer and Venom. It must have been amazing to actually be there.
Fooking ayy mates
Probably the highest-quality 480p video there is on UA-cam 🤘
You know it's old when you see Kerry King with a full head of hair 😮
Nunca existira banda igual o slayer .muito perfeito
Slayer é Slayer, véi.
The fucking best there is, I haven't listened in a month or so. Die by the sword just played, I went through my room like a god damn bulldozer. Nothing like it to bring me those deep pleasure moments hahahahahah. Fucking SLAYER rules
I cannot be held liable for any damage to property or whatnot which may result from viewing this fine video.
I was barely alive when this show happened.
In Tom's voice : "BARELY ALIIIIIIVE...!!
holy shit, I didn't even realized this live recording existed on quality video footage like this. Excellent vhs rip!
This album was a turning point in my giving in to the dark side ❤❤❤
I wonder if King ever got his guitar strings caught in those forearm spikes.
Excellent sound quality!!!!
The 300th like is from me because this shit is too good for 2021
METAL!
Whoever gave this a thumbs done should have no thumbs! Metal rules Supreme.......Spirex
LETS CUT THEM OURSELVES IN THE NAME OF SLAYER
I grew up with this! Love it. When this came out, as a metal head and guitar player, this was the next level for me! Kerry, Jeff, Tom, and Dave were it man.
I remember looking thru the new releases at Middle Earth records in Downey, I couldn't find whatever, saw this.
Whoever was there and saw this live is lucky af. Goddamn.
great lead guitar on this song. for early slayer, i believe *this* song had the most solowork i recollect hearing
The hell in which we live . Futuristic .
I wasn’t even born.. and they were this good already. By the time I was ten Undisputed Attitude was one of my first tapes I bought on my own. It showed me punk and metal and they were from near me in Oakland so I thought they were the coolest thing ever.
Last time I got to see them as a full original band was 2007 with my buddy Ryan. They played with Marilyn Manson which was fucking stupid.. skinny goths who hadn’t left home in months versus a bunch of bearded dudes drinking beers wanting to break shit.
It was badass tho, my friend broke his toe. Slayer Fuckin Slayer!
Best Metal Band on Earth 👌🤘🤘🤘
Jeff formed Slayer god rest hi soul.
Absolutely killer performance!!
daves set looks very cute
Sound/picture/band10/10/10
Great upload!
Slayer anno 1985 was truly amazing!
really nice, thank you! =)
Kerry King has awesome and killer guitar solos on this live video.
I was literally just 3 days old when this was recorded and I will pay a handsome reward for anyone who can find the lost footage of babyme jamming the fuck out 😂
New school "thrash" doesn't come close. This was lightning in a bottle, how lucky are the folks who were there
Saw them at Sundance Long Island Bayshore mid or early 80s 120degrees insane 🤪🤯😵
The first of the two times I saw them live was three years after this on the South Of Heaven tour with Nuclear Assault supporting. I don't think I have ever seen this, it was only Hell Awaits from the same show so it was good to see this.
The slayer that I grew up with
So good
The best of times to be a metal head. The shit was still underground and taking off at the same time. After 1988, it all went to shit . My opinion only . Kerry Kings mocking bird with black candlewax melted on it pretty cool. That's old-school metal genius.
So No Mercy and Hell Awaits the only albums to have done.
Someone went back in time with HD cameras. There was no footage this good in 1985. Nkt even Hollywood films looked this good
Slayer is for me a band who never had an emberrasing past. They were badass and brutal from the very beginning ❤
The 90s
@@broontroosers no way dude 😁
@@scrumsie In the 90s they ditched the leather and nail spikes for ski goggles and football jerseys 🤣🤣
@@emedel5772 But they still kicked ass.
@@emedel5772Still better than any band then and now, even with sky goggles or their 2000 quasi-nü metal phase.
R.I.P.Jeff🤘🎸🤘
Ahhh the early club pits of old- Monstrous but a family affair!!
Holy shit I miss those days
This is amazing
Haunting the Chapel/Hell Awaits era. Extreme albums that forged with a few other bands the birthing of death metal.
Awesome footage
PURE BLISS.
I die by the sword 🗡️⚔️ in 2011 for Christ ! And waiting for 2025 ! After season and time of Daniel 7 11/12 is completed woe #2 woe #3 and was able to see Slayer at the country club in Reseda CA. Many times while I was still in high school
Seen SLAYER the day after this show 4-4-1985 in Cleveland, Ohio with Exodus warming up and Venom as the final act.
Vino por alambre y encontré oro puro
🍻 Gracias por ésto sos un crack 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Metal Masterpiece... Those Are The Words Of The LORD 🔥Die By The Sword🔥
Wonderful
🔥🔥🔥
amazing!!!
True story : I had a french exam like one month ago where we had to write a thesis (disseration pour ceux qui savent parler français) on a quote from Jean Paul Sartres : "Longtemps j'ai considéré ma plume pour mon épée" ("There's a long time i've been taking my pen as my sword") and i was like : "THEY SAY the PEN is mightier than the SWORD ! I say f the pen !! Cause you've been dying by the sword"
They were scary back then. \m/
My favorite band scene them in there early days up the street at a small venue
@Richard K I have heard that Jeff was really shy and reserved
Amazing !!
yes
'85...let's see...I went to my 1st concert (KISS and W.A.S.P.) as a 12 year old. It wouldn't be for maybe another year that my brother would introduce me to SLAYER. The thrash/speed metal genre has come quite a long ways since then, but if these 4 guys never got together, it would have been a lot different.🤘
Awesome
The Best!
Bass guitar cuts thru really well, this is awesome
What a masterpiece !!!! 🤩🤩🤩
Epic share, cheers!
Been a long long time since we've seen Kerry King with hair.
Sounds great love the song and album greatest of all
Best metal vocalist ever!