Im 13 and was at a McDonalds when I saw a 20 year old with a Slayer Tshirt on. I casually walked up to him, asked him if hed seen Slayer live and what his favourite song was. He politely replied and then game me a handshake. He could have been a mass-murderer or pyromaniac but I had the trust to walk up to a stranger becase of our musical tastes. Get along with fellow metalheads!
Wisconsin222 Well, if Satan is an archetype for individuality, and not being a sheep, than most definitely Led Zeppelin. In my opinion, the greatest Rock & Roll band of the 1970's.
This is the best guns and sugar song, dave mustaine really hits the drums hard with his pick. Also Lombardo has such an amazing voice. Nicko Mcbrain and Ozzy with their fast paced solos. i remember when this album "the dark side of the moon" was released which featured this song and i saw it live for the first time in 1998. Exodus really is the best artist in the world.
+DarkAngel182 Back in the days when Kerry King didn't have tattoos on his dick, when Jeff was still alive, when Tom wasn't a god praising santa, and back when Dave wasn't such a whiney little bitch.
Just hit me, only in America. Lombardo's family is from Cuba, Araya's are from Chile. Hanneman's obviously from Scandinavian stock and King English. An American band.
Man, I was 12 years old when this one came out. First Slayer music I ever heard. This is the one that really put the hook in me. I've been a fan ever since. FUCKIN' SSLLLAAYYEEERRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!
+Erik Muniz in st. louis there were three people stabbed at a show over that crap. slayer couldn't find a venue to play there for years because of that.
***** but you have to understand, hardcore started over nothing and nobody gave the genre and the scene the respect that it deserved, you know. And if it wasnt for hardcore there were no thrash.
Erik Muniz Well I do understand. I played music in both hardcore and thrash scenes. In one band I played in the drummer was a skin, the singer was mohawked, I was a long hair degenerate and the bass player was a sci-fi nerd. by then the scene was pretty well integrated.at that show it was a bunch of drunk kids getting wound up over nothing. there's going to be a certain percentage of people intent on being assholes at any show, even if it's at a justin beiber gig. BUt st. louis was a pretty brawling town back then. I guess it still is. LOL.
Erik Muniz I don't know about that. I've lived in Chicago and been up and down both costs. St. Louis has consistently had higher murder and violent crime rates than most cities for the last 20 years. Depends if you've never been there. then of course it's not scary.
Saw Slayer the same year at the Stone in SF. Slayer was one of the few bands truly bring hardcore punk and metal together. Slayer will never be the same without Jeff. RIP Jeff!
This was the first Slayer I ever heard or saw. My friends brothers vhs Slayer, Venom and Exodus show. We weren't allowed to touch his stuff so we'd sneak watching it. My life was changed forever
This whole album was just a fucking masterpiece, Hell Awaits and Crypts of Eternity are my favorite tracks. There’s something so satisfying about the dark lyrics, heavy and fast riffs and raspy vocals that all come together to make such a rad song
The hell awaits album started death metal and inspired lots of metal.To this day I have never heard any thing as evil sounding as this..This guys are metal legends!!
I always like how Tom had some pretty cheesy intros back in the 80's (and the 90's)...and some of them were good....But he never engaged the crowd with "singing along" or "SAY HEY WITH ME". They were always Slayer's songs. You are here to hear it and bang your head. Shut up, carve Slayer into your forearms, and kill the next metro-sexual you see.
Listen to a ton of live Slayer all the time. This IS the BEST version of this song I've come across yet. If someone thinks they have a better one let me know--I'm all in.
yeah. you might live in a different country to me so call it something else. i'm in england. its the sticky black stuff they use when they lay road surfaces down. hope that helps
It was 1986. I was watching Monsters of Rock on tv. You had Iron Maiden. You had Twisted Sister. You had Accept (hate the fuckers). You had Anthrax. And then Slayer came. This track. I was sitting there, wide eyed. Couldn't believe all this sonic violence. But my brain exploded and my ears were melting and I was loving it. 24 years later, last year, I saw them live in Milwaukee. And yes, they are Slayer. Never heard a more fitting name for a band.
hell awaits is definitely my favorite slayer album...it's like when sepultura put out arise...still kind of early but more exploratory and progressive than the stuff before it
"Have you learned the words to our songs?" implying people should sing along and then starts playing Hell Awaits, a song in which Tom spits lyrics faster than any self proclaimed rap god
Yeah, but he fucks up the first line of verse 2. I always thought that was a bit funny. No shade though - it was a new song and he sold the performance anyway.
Jame Jameson agree, I used to like Megadeth and Metallica a lot more, but I've been on a Slayer kick lately, and Hell Awaits might be the best metal album of that era
How can you compare Slayer with Megadeth & Metallica? They are totally different genres even if they're classified as Thrash Metal. Even if Slayer is evil and brutal as fuck, Metallica and especially Megadeth have so much more to offer in term of variety of mood and types of song. (these 3 bands are actually in my 4 favorites metal bands, so yeah I still love Slayer anyway)
Tightest band ever! I've seen them live and it's fucking amazing how they are ALWAYS in perfect time with each other. Considering how blazing fast they can play, it's mindboggling to behold.
First time I heard this break live at 2:53 in 1988 I flew up in amazement and hit the head against the ceiling. 30 years later same thing happening every single time. Coolest break ever!!!!
I was 15 when this was released, then I drove a pv-suzuki (moped) and my long hair waved to the beat of Slayer’s music and today also greetings from northern finland
I watched this video, and then watched the live performance of this same song at the 2010 Rock AM Ring performance, and this is SOOOO much better damnit, I want to go back in time
first time I saw this vid was on uk rock late night programme "the power hour" in 1988. didnt know what to make of it. never heard such an unholy racket before. something compelled me to watch the video again and again. unholy forces lead me to penny lane records in liverpool. there i was with hell awaits on vinyl. on the bus home I read all the lyrics and the thanks list. the blasphemous lyrics spoke to me. got home and put the record on and that was it. never looked back. their best album!!
El señor de la tienda: Maybe you listen to some tracks AFTER Hell Awaits then? Examples: South of Heaven, Expendable Youth, Stain of mind, Disciple, Hate worldwide, etc.
Im 13 and was at a McDonalds when I saw a 20 year old with a Slayer Tshirt on. I casually walked up to him, asked him if hed seen Slayer live and what his favourite song was. He politely replied and then game me a handshake. He could have been a mass-murderer or pyromaniac but I had the trust to walk up to a stranger becase of our musical tastes. Get along with fellow metalheads!
30 years later and still probably the best intro ive ever heard...gets me pumped every time...evil as shit...thanks for the memories guys....Legends.
HELL AWAITS KILLS ANY SONG EVER IMHO EVERY SINGLE PART OF THIS SONG FROM MEMBERS EVEN AFTER 32 YRS NOTHING COMPARES COULD AGREE MORE
*COULDNT AGREE MORE
I agree!!!!, 🤘🤘🤘🤘
I’d have to agree with you. The only intro I can think of that’s anywhere close to evoking a similar sense of doom is Mayhem’s “Necrolust”.
Yep
If this is the devils music than satan has good taste
agree shift u
Satan makes the best music. Slayer, Venom, Bathory, Hellhammer, Black Sabbath, the list goes on and on.
West Is Best He may(the argument is always given) also MAYBE have Led Zeppelin the greatest rock band of all time too
Wisconsin222 Well, if Satan is an archetype for individuality, and not being a sheep, than most definitely Led Zeppelin. In my opinion, the greatest Rock & Roll band of the 1970's.
Dean Winters Everybody has their own kinks.
Thrash Perfection. no one were like Slayer at this time. No One
+D Cavanaugh I remember when this came out, all my other records, except maybe Sabbath sounded so weak.
+Ebenezar Also, Kill em All by Metallica was metal back then.
David Sauer yeah. forgot about Metallica. I started listening to crossover and punk more after Slayer.
+David Sauer metallica kinda eased you into it. slayer was a punch in the gut.
exodus
This is why I love Slayers early work. it just sounds so evil and wicked.
Exactly what hell should sound like.
agreed
Fuck man, i goin to hell then lmao
THIS is the album THAT got me into Slayer in 85!!!!! R.I.P. Jeff!! But then again HELL NO LONGER AWAITS!!!!
Nah man, this is glorious...
i agree
This is the best guns and sugar song, dave mustaine really hits the drums hard with his pick. Also Lombardo has such an amazing voice. Nicko Mcbrain and Ozzy with their fast paced solos. i remember when this album "the dark side of the moon" was released which featured this song and i saw it live for the first time in 1998. Exodus really is the best artist in the world.
+TimpalimpaZS But have you heard the new Album of DJ Jimi Hendrix feat. vocalist John Cena called "Diabolus in Musica"?
you win
you win
+FirstPersonSkater You haven't listened to music until you've heard Zakk Wyldes kazoo solo on the Iron Maiden album "Life of Pablo".
+PureMSmetal Jeff Handlebar, Jerry Queen, Poke YourEyeout, and Dave Lambassador.
SLAYER!!!! Old school headbanging at its finest. R.I.P. Jeff.
One of the most incredible, intense pieces of music in the entire history of the world!
34 years later, Dave Lombardo plays exactly the same (or even better).
Back in the days when Kerry King had long flowing hair!
+i am “longdickstyle” asexual He has to make up for being bald. Lol.
+DarkAngel182 Back in the days when Kerry King didn't have tattoos on his dick, when Jeff was still alive, when Tom wasn't a god praising santa, and back when Dave wasn't such a whiney little bitch.
+Puffthecarrier1 yes, that too!
@dankest memes Hahaha and when probably he wasn't an asshole!
@@than0s948 Fuck you, giving most of your money to managers is something you should complaint about, King is an ahole.
Just hit me, only in America. Lombardo's family is from Cuba, Araya's are from Chile. Hanneman's obviously from Scandinavian stock and King English. An American band.
Not American but United Statian, America is the name of a continent...
Those fuckin drums holy shit
Lombardo is king!!
The whole band holy shit!
Man, I was 12 years old when this one came out. First Slayer music I ever heard. This is the one that really put the hook in me. I've been a fan ever since. FUCKIN' SSLLLAAYYEEERRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!
early 1980s. war of the genres. hardcore vs thrash. hardcore kids vs thrashers. good times.
+Erik Muniz in st. louis there were three people stabbed at a show over that crap. slayer couldn't find a venue to play there for years because of that.
***** but you have to understand, hardcore started over nothing and nobody gave the genre and the scene the respect that it deserved, you know. And if it wasnt for hardcore there were no thrash.
Erik Muniz Well I do understand. I played music in both hardcore and thrash scenes. In one band I played in the drummer was a skin, the singer was mohawked, I was a long hair degenerate and the bass player was a sci-fi nerd. by then the scene was pretty well integrated.at that show it was a bunch of drunk kids getting wound up over nothing. there's going to be a certain percentage of people intent on being assholes at any show, even if it's at a justin beiber gig. BUt st. louis was a pretty brawling town back then. I guess it still is. LOL.
***** but it wasnt that bad compared to NYC, Philadelphia, Boston and LA and Chicago those were pretty scary places to play or to hang around.
Erik Muniz I don't know about that. I've lived in Chicago and been up and down both costs. St. Louis has consistently had higher murder and violent crime rates than most cities for the last 20 years. Depends if you've never been there. then of course it's not scary.
This is (in my opinion) probably the best version of this song that I've come across......unless I count all the times I've seen them play it live.
One of the best performance of this song EVER!!!
Slayer in their purest form the epitome of metal.
What a classic!! Dave Lombardo is wearing a D.R.I. shirt! Kerry has hair!! haha
and Hanneman plays on Gibson Les Paul!
+ACM R+ and Hanneman is still alive....... to soon?
+Matt Elrod Nah.
and Tom fingered the bass instead of pick
I saw them during this time, and they played with DRI, Rigor Mortis and Bloodcum. Fucking amazing!
Seen this a thousand times and still am seriously impressed! Here’s to a thousand more!
after 35 years, feeling home again....
Saw Slayer the same year at the Stone in SF. Slayer was one of the few bands truly bring hardcore punk and metal together. Slayer will never be the same without Jeff. RIP Jeff!
Killer guitar sound.
man, i haven't still realised that jeff is dead...
best metal band ever
dude your profile picture made me laugh hard HAHAH
This is such a KILLER performance of the song! 🤘
If you survived a Slayer show in those days, You deserve a Combat Medal
1:39 I LOVE how Jeff was headbanging there!
Hanneman was so awesome. RIP
This has and always will be my favorite Slayer song.
This is the song that would sound when I fall to the depths of hell.
you can't be slayerer than slayer!
+Mammon Cerberus what about 'moar slayerer'?
Agnostic Rebel not even moarer moar slayerer
No because they are fucking slayer
This was the first Slayer I ever heard or saw. My friends brothers vhs Slayer, Venom and Exodus show. We weren't allowed to touch his stuff so we'd sneak watching it. My life was changed forever
RIP JEFF!! SLAYER WILL NEVER BE THE SAME
Jeff in his leather jacket was about coolest thing I'd ever seen in 1985. And still is.
Dave's DRI shirt
i wish they still made D.R.I shirts like that!
Ben Ishmael hell yeah I picked that up too
Tom, Jeff, Kerry, Dave. We will perhaps never have such a quartet ever again
i still have this " the ultimate revenge " on vhs..
This whole album was just a fucking masterpiece, Hell Awaits and Crypts of Eternity are my favorite tracks. There’s something so satisfying about the dark lyrics, heavy and fast riffs and raspy vocals that all come together to make such a rad song
At dawn they sleep and Necrophiliac are also amazing songs.
That's gotta be pretty awesome to be at a show that was recorded and remembered like this. Props to you man!
That song in particular was so ahead of its time it will never age
Man, these Kerry King licks when the song starts are so awesome.
+Paniak B. yeah. he had a killer sound that night.
Damn! Those were the days. One thing with being old... I grew up in the 80s and early 90s..... The best 20 years for metal and punk \m/
Rip Jeff
DRI t-shirt was awesome and the REAL METAL of mid 80's !!!
I was 15 at the time and still love it
To my surprise I was actually in this concert, it reminds me of the old times and how 80s metal was soo cool
Pure gold. ¡Excellent performance!
For seventy four people, hell no longer awaits. They're already there.
This is the best song slayer have ever composed, greetings from the Dutch!
My favorite SLAYER song ever.
My no 1 favorite slayer song. i miss Jeff!!!
The hell awaits album started death metal and inspired lots of metal.To this day I have never heard any thing as evil sounding as this..This guys are metal legends!!
Metal. The greatest music out there.
I always like how Tom had some pretty cheesy intros back in the 80's (and the 90's)...and some of them were good....But he never engaged the crowd with "singing along" or "SAY HEY WITH ME". They were always Slayer's songs. You are here to hear it and bang your head. Shut up, carve Slayer into your forearms, and kill the next metro-sexual you see.
It is completely impossible to at least start to nod your head in the intro of the song.
This is Slayer, not the shit you see today.
Slayer is STILL bad ass they haven't changed all that much. They're not metallica for Christ's sake!!!
+Jon Yeager disagree slayer has changed tremendously maybe even more radical than metallica over the years
cj james hahahahaha nope EXTREMELY incorrect!!!
+killnickelback Slay nickelback
+killnickelback fucking preach bro! IN SATANS NAME !
Man these were the good ol' KICK ASS days for sure. R.I.P. Jeff :( ROCK ON!!!!
TRUE METAL OF MID 80'S !!!
This song changed my life back in 85 when I blind bought this album. My jaw hit the floor!
Look at Tom, playing with his fingers n' shit.
Listen to a ton of live Slayer all the time. This IS the BEST version of this song I've come across yet. If someone thinks they have a better one let me know--I'm all in.
I have a better one :) : *THE ORIGINAL ALBUM VERSION.*
King's '85 guitar has such badass design. And cool tone.
looks like it had road tar poured over it
eon14873 road tar?
yeah. you might live in a different country to me so call it something else. i'm in england. its the sticky black stuff they use when they lay road surfaces down. hope that helps
eon14873 its a BC Rich mockingbird
Most badass song ever. Even the the Amish love it!
best intro ever...
It was 1986. I was watching Monsters of Rock on tv. You had Iron Maiden. You had Twisted Sister. You had Accept (hate the fuckers). You had Anthrax. And then Slayer came. This track. I was sitting there, wide eyed. Couldn't believe all this sonic violence. But my brain exploded and my ears were melting and I was loving it. 24 years later, last year, I saw them live in Milwaukee. And yes, they are Slayer. Never heard a more fitting name for a band.
We miss you Jeff.
Goodbye Jeff!!! Thank you for your music! Never forget...
Dave's double bass drum play kills !
Ohhh they look so kids... My favorite song and my favorite band!!! there's nothing better!!!!
hell awaits is definitely my favorite slayer album...it's like when sepultura put out arise...still kind of early but more exploratory and progressive than the stuff before it
Gives me chills watching these guys in their prime :D
I need a time machine like yesterday....was only 9 in 1985...no older brother to take me to such shows darn!
Oh crap... I still thinkin that I was born in the wrong timeline
Still kicking ass 25 fucking years later!! I yell SLAYERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR at every single show I've been to.
Jeff was god of black thrash.
I like Slayer but did you listen Celtic Frost, Sodom and other old school black metal bands?
+Gore Elohim not black at all...
+Miłosz Brodziak VENOM!!!
+DAVID VITALIC I love them :)
+Miłosz Brodziak Sodom deserves a place in the Big4
One of the greatest Rock Legends.
"Have you learned the words to our songs?" implying people should sing along and then starts playing Hell Awaits, a song in which Tom spits lyrics faster than any self proclaimed rap god
Yeah, but he fucks up the first line of verse 2. I always thought that was a bit funny. No shade though - it was a new song and he sold the performance anyway.
One of the most awesome bands in Metal history! Rest in peace, Jeff Hanneman! You will live on within the huge load of fantastic songs you wrote.
thank u Huntington Park for Slayer,they inspired Sepultura my favourite death metal band
Abhirup Mandal I thought they were more influenced by venom and Celtic frost?
@@joeyuzwa891 Their first album was inspired by Venom and Celtic Frost but Andreas said that Slayer was a major influence on his songwriting.
After all this years respect from Belgium
honestly they were a far better band than megadeth. Fucking brutal. God metal got good during the 80's
lol. ok mate.
Jame Jameson agree, I used to like Megadeth and Metallica a lot more, but I've been on a Slayer kick lately, and Hell Awaits might be the best metal album of that era
Brandy Wilson get help
+Brandy Wilson What the hell are you talking about?
How can you compare Slayer with Megadeth & Metallica? They are totally different genres even if they're classified as Thrash Metal. Even if Slayer is evil and brutal as fuck, Metallica and especially Megadeth have so much more to offer in term of variety of mood and types of song. (these 3 bands are actually in my 4 favorites metal bands, so yeah I still love Slayer anyway)
Lombardo's double-bass back then was revolutionary.
tom used to fingerpick?
Tightest band ever! I've seen them live and it's fucking amazing how they are ALWAYS in perfect time with each other. Considering how blazing fast they can play, it's mindboggling to behold.
R.I.P.Jeff Hanneman...
Classic Metal!
Kerry king has got road tar spilled all over his guitar
First time I heard this break live at 2:53 in 1988 I flew up in amazement and hit the head against the ceiling. 30 years later same thing happening every single time. Coolest break ever!!!!
Hell awaits for Trap musicians.
Such a delicious classic......... turn it UPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hell yeah! The Best Thrash band!
I was 15 when this was released, then I drove a pv-suzuki (moped) and my long hair waved to the beat of Slayer’s music and today also greetings from northern finland
This tour with Venom and Exodus.
pekka paviaani I bet that tour was a mind- melting experience. When Venom were in their prime and Exodus bonded by blood era. R.I.P Jeff and Paul.
I watched this video, and then watched the live performance of this same song at the 2010 Rock AM Ring performance, and this is SOOOO much better damnit, I want to go back in time
Mi banda favorita de Thrash es Metallica, pero Slayer es mucho mas agresiva y mas rápido, de las mejores bandas de Metal de la historia.
Metallica dejo de ser Thrash cuando lanzaron el álbum negro
first time I saw this vid was on uk rock late night programme "the power hour" in 1988. didnt know what to make of it. never heard such an unholy racket before. something compelled me to watch the video again and again. unholy forces lead me to penny lane records in liverpool. there i was with hell awaits on vinyl. on the bus home I read all the lyrics and the thanks list. the blasphemous lyrics spoke to me. got home and put the record on and that was it. never looked back. their best album!!
How would this sound without bass?
Omari Thompson ...And Justice For All
Osemetal \m/ lmao 😂
El señor de la tienda: Maybe you listen to some tracks AFTER Hell Awaits then? Examples: South of Heaven, Expendable Youth, Stain of mind, Disciple, Hate worldwide, etc.
Empty as fuck
I was 10 years old and my grandfather just got cable tv. Man when this video came on I sold my soul and been serving ever since...
Slayer riffs are tuned to hell. Like none other, at the time.
That's not a tuning you rat fuck
When I was a kid I interviewed Tom Araya on the South Of Heaven tour. Met Kerry and Hanneman, even if they hated it they were nice guy's...CHEERS.