I bought Hell Awaits in August 1986. I remember throwing this into my tape deck and absolutely thinking this was the most evil music I’d ever heard. From title track, Necrophiliac, Kill Again, Praise of Death to At Dawn They Sleep. The whole thing enraptured me. Then Reign In Blood came out a few weeks later and I knew I was in it for life. Good times.
Nothing quite has the twisted vibe of Hell Awaits. It is the most evil metal as far as I'm concerned, none of the death and black metal bands that followed made anything as rotten and grotesque.
I don't remember the exact timing, but damn, within a 3-4 year period you had these Slayer lp's coming out, the MONUMENTAL Kreator first albums coming out, Destruction, and the beyond description Possessed-Seven Gates album coming out. You cannot imagine how full my record player stayed, or at work how the tapes I made of these classics I jammed to at hyper velocity speed.
As a teenager I went to Liverpool penny Lane records to buy the record. I read all the lyrics and looked at all the art on the bus journey home when I then blasted it. Holy hell I couldn't believe how sinister it sounded. That was 32 years ago
I remember being 4 years old and looking at my dad's vinyl collection. Saw this album with the skull bleeding demons and was like fuck this is amazing. Made my dad put it on and ever since...well the rest is history. Btw that was South of heaven haha
Jeff didn't write all of Reign In Blood. Kerry co-wrote 7 songs on the album, and wrote one song entirely on his own. The only classic-era Slayer album where Jeff wrote most of the music was South Of Heaven.
Hell Awaits is one of the sickest, most evil, and wicked albums ever recorded. It stands alone. Along with Seven Churches it made '85 a groundbreaking year for extreme metal. Also Sodom, Bathory, Destruction, Kreator, Venom, Celtic Frost and many more helped take metal into uncharted territory.
What are you retarded? While not as good as the first 3 Possessed is still a very good album. And Venom has released good stuff throughout the years. It's sad that people are so close-minded. Just appreciate the music. We all have our favorites but just be grateful the scene is still strong.
I feel they changed a bit for divine intervention and undisputed attitude but they still played metal unlike Metallica going from thrash to metal to rock
This “Live Intrusion” version here is the best take of this song ever played. So glad they recorded this shit. This absolutely smokes the album version. I wish they’d re-release this as a BluRay/CD set!
Definitely. There’s something about that whole period around Divine Intervention - irrespective of whether you rate the album or not - that had a really good vibe that suited Slayer.
Hell Awaits is an atmospheric masterpiece. Every song is so well written, when they're combined into a whole album it gives you an experience of being in a really good horror film through the listener's ears by horrific riffs and lyrics. In terms of atmosphere, only Seasons In The Abyss would come close to Hell Awaits' perfection.
these guys have defined and continue to re-define what classic and modern metal should be...they have the best live sound and stage presence that can not be copied .... Jeff H riffs are haunting and inspiring......RIP Jeff..
+BulletSpawn3000 the vibe on Hell Awaits was inspiring. It felt like the 9th circle of hell had come up through a crack in the surface. That was definitely Hanneman at work.
BulletSpawn3000 YOU ROCK \m/ was absolutely the MOST brutal and serious shit decades ago... before cell phone cameras could incriminate... a SLAYER show could decimate, assionate, and incinerate thy SOUL \m/
Arayas amazing on one side always smyling and down to earth guy but on the other side when he starts the "kill kill kill" part you know he takes no prisoners
Absolutely everything by Slayer before 1991 - Seasons is simply unforgettable metal superiority. Too bad about Jeff had to go sooo soon. RIP Metal Maniac...
I love the way they rip into the solos after the chorus at about 1:48 ....Apparitions from the pits of Hell Death plagues the streets in which they dwell Demented lust, the secrets they must keep Addicted to your blood At dawn they sleep"... I will never get sick of watching this video.
Помню VHS кассету в Москве купил c этим концертом в 96-м году купил, круто было!!! Эта вещь особенно зацепила! По-моему живое исполнение At dawn they sleep лучше, чем студийное.
Ojalá y lo sientan y entiendan en muchos idiomas......., esta canción de Slayer es y será por siempre lo más cercano a todo lo que represento la escena 80s en cuanto a crudeza, malicia, furia, pesadez, tiene todo lo que como metalero siempre seremos!! Saludos amigos.....
You might assume Tom being the frontman he writes the majority of the lyrics but it's Kerry and Jeff who wrote most of the songs. Tom has written some and so has Dave but mostly it's Kerry and Jeff.
Lo único que tiene malo está canción es que termina. Una canción demoledora, de la mejor banda de metal de todos los tiempos. Viva SLAYER, Tom Araya y Chile 🇨🇱.... CTM
BRUTAL!! My favorite Slayer song by far! Yes, Angel of Death and all their other popular hits destroy, but there's something surreal about this song that gets me every time!
Back in the day when the great Tom Araya could headbang whilst performing, unfortunately due to neck surgery back in 2010, he's unable to do that now. All the best on the final world tour Slayer, see you's in November in England.
The '95 cell phones had only 1 use: TELEPHONE. Imagine a thrashing/moshing/crowdsurfing/stagediving Slayer-fan using a telephone to call....ehm....who exactly?!? :-p "Hey mom....umf....it's....gup....everything fine....splash....over here!" LOL
Mesa Amplitheatre , I remember going to this concert. Mesa , Az. back in the day. Maybe 1995, my guess.This song was so beautiful. There were chics trying to draw blood off of dudes by biting them... Such a trip that night....
@@Headbanger9000 good call! I would almost say HA is their most technical album (prog 🤣🤣…blasphemy, I know!) where RIB was pure hell fire speed, HA is breakneck, but like you said, the time signatures on that album are insane
Who thinks that Slayer should just keep making new music and keep touring until they can't stand up??!! Even then I think they would still do a better job sitting down than most other bands! The CROWD will still frickin move!!!🤘🤘😈
A concert and fan of music story to share: My husband and I have "devirginized" each other to less familiar or wholly unfamiliar artists over the years. Sometimes via recorded material, sometimes going to live shows. While we both dig artists across several if not most genres, he is a funk fan at heart, while I am a metalhead. I had never seen George Clinton live. 10 years ago, I went to my first show. All I can say is DAMN. He and his crew put on some of the best shows I've ever seen. Consistently. Been to 3 more shows since. No, no Mothership landings or grand stage setups anymore, but they continue to kill it onstage. And dude is 77 years old! I unfortunately cannot say the same for Slayer. I originally saw them in 1994. AWESOMENESS! Made me more of a fan and I bought most of their music. Husband and I went to see them in 2017. Mind you, I'm old school with their lineup. To me, no Lombardo OR Hahnemann was a tough sell as it was. But we still went because who knows when waiting until next time results in there BEING no next time. Right? Unfortunately, even Tom's smirking crassness could save things from feeling like they'd become something closer to a parody of themselves. No discredit to the newer members in any way, shape or form mind you. They are fine musicians. But my ear is trained to the original lineup's playing styles. The core sound, while I love Tom, needs power drumming as part of its core sound. Paul is more nuance and finesse, IMHO. Still had a good time, but I did not feel like I walked away having listened to Slayer. Does that make any sense? At the Slayer show, the other bands were Lamb of God and Behemoth. I hadn't really heard much at all from the other bands prior to the show, but we tried to study up! I most surprised and impressed by Behemoth. I surprised myself by buying THEIR tee shirt at the show. And I have appreciated them the more I listen to them. So far, Evangelion is my fave!
Your second to last paragraph made perfect sense. You probably went for the same reason i have. You never know when you'll get to see them live again, and you wanna hear the classics you grew up loving one last time. It doesn't matter who's in the band. They still put on one helluva show. Ii'm going to see them Nov. 11th with my brother.
Glad that I was a teenager/young enough to appreciate/live through most of Slayer's prime years..their early/old school jams are f'n untouchable! Also glad I got to see them live back in the day..and a little more currently.LONG LIVE OLD SCHOOL SLAYER!!!!! \m/
The best line-up. The best times. How I miss Hanneman!! I'm a lucky man 'cos my brother and I met him in that year!! And the Araya's headbanging energy. Bostaph RULES!! He's THE BEST drummer in Slayer, EVER!! ✋🏻🧔🏻🇪🇸
Slayer's most underrated song.
....@ E. Frasday :: totally agreed
Some of Kerry's and jeff's best riffs
+Enrico Frasday so true Enrico....
After Crypts of Eternity.
I agree but I love Gemini off of Undisputed Attitude.....
The way Tom introduces the song is just so amusing. "Preferably... the female kind".
I prefer the 213 "love song" into
Warm is warm...
one of their best songs ... hands-down
in history!!
And in all likelihood, it's best live performance
This version is by far the BEST!!!!
Easily!!!
I agree!
toms voice sounds killer here holy shit
Damn right it sounds killer evil took his soul on this song kill kill!!!!!! There the best metal bad they will never be replaced but missed
I bought Hell Awaits in August 1986. I remember throwing this into my tape deck and absolutely thinking this was the most evil music I’d ever heard. From title track, Necrophiliac, Kill Again, Praise of Death to At Dawn They Sleep. The whole thing enraptured me. Then Reign In Blood came out a few weeks later and I knew I was in it for life.
Good times.
Nothing quite has the twisted vibe of Hell Awaits. It is the most evil metal as far as I'm concerned, none of the death and black metal bands that followed made anything as rotten and grotesque.
I don't remember the exact timing, but damn, within a 3-4 year period you had these Slayer lp's coming out, the MONUMENTAL Kreator first albums coming out, Destruction, and the beyond description Possessed-Seven Gates album coming out. You cannot imagine how full my record player stayed, or at work how the tapes I made of these classics I jammed to at hyper velocity speed.
I think this would be considered their best album if it had the production of Reign in Blood.
As a teenager I went to Liverpool penny Lane records to buy the record. I read all the lyrics and looked at all the art on the bus journey home when I then blasted it. Holy hell I couldn't believe how sinister it sounded. That was 32 years ago
I remember being 4 years old and looking at my dad's vinyl collection. Saw this album with the skull bleeding demons and was like fuck this is amazing. Made my dad put it on and ever since...well the rest is history. Btw that was South of heaven haha
RIP Jeff!! He wrote this kick ass song
sickman1972 all of reign in blood,most south of heaven,hell awaits, seasons and diabolus in musica done by the one and only
Jeff Hannenman best ever.
And king wrote more on South of heaven then Hannaman.
Hannaman best work is divine intervention.
Jeff didn't write all of Reign In Blood. Kerry co-wrote 7 songs on the album, and wrote one song entirely on his own. The only classic-era Slayer album where Jeff wrote most of the music was South Of Heaven.
Hell Awaits is one of the sickest, most evil, and wicked albums ever recorded. It stands alone. Along with Seven Churches it made '85 a groundbreaking year for extreme metal. Also Sodom, Bathory, Destruction, Kreator, Venom, Celtic Frost and many more helped take metal into uncharted territory.
Yes !!!
Venom released trash that year.
They were done after AWWS
What are you retarded? While not as good as the first 3 Possessed is still a very good album. And Venom has released good stuff throughout the years. It's sad that people are so close-minded. Just appreciate the music. We all have our favorites but just be grateful the scene is still strong.
Four years ago today we lost one of the best metal riff inventors ever! This song goes out to you Jeff Hanneman
My co-worker "There is absolutely nothing good about this music". Me, "KIll Kill Kill"!!!! Never looked at me the same way again!
This is definitely the best video of this song.
Stayed heavy to the end. Stayed true to the genre. Stayed pure to themselves. How many metal bands can actually say that? Not. Many. At. All.
🤘🤘🤘
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I feel they changed a bit for divine intervention and undisputed attitude but they still played metal unlike Metallica going from thrash to metal to rock
I dont think they know how to do anything else which is why they’ve always made the same album over and over again
Sodom
My favorite song of Slayer
Like your avatar - Sepultura
This is my 2nd favorite. Angel Of Death, my first. (^_^)
Possibly the best Vampire song ever.
After listening to this song all night long for sure I will be sleeping at dawn
This “Live Intrusion” version here is the best take of this song ever played. So glad they recorded this shit. This absolutely smokes the album version. I wish they’d re-release this as a BluRay/CD set!
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100% agree
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Definitely. There’s something about that whole period around Divine Intervention - irrespective of whether you rate the album or not - that had a really good vibe that suited Slayer.
No, it doesn't. The original version has more gloom and darkness feeling that this version lacks. Same feeling on the whole album.
Love the bass on this one. Tom killed it
Hell Awaits was the best Slayer album
All slayer abums are the best fo me
Show No Mercy & Hell Awaits Fucking Rules!
Hell Awaits is an atmospheric masterpiece. Every song is so well written, when they're combined into a whole album it gives you an experience of being in a really good horror film through the listener's ears by horrific riffs and lyrics. In terms of atmosphere, only Seasons In The Abyss would come close to Hell Awaits' perfection.
@@erhansolhan9564 yea dude. I how hell awaits album ends on the intro to the song
Hell Awaits and Seasons are a close tie for me.
these guys have defined and continue to re-define what classic and modern metal should be...they have the best live sound and stage presence that can not be copied .... Jeff H riffs are haunting and inspiring......RIP Jeff..
👍👍👍
+BulletSpawn3000 the vibe on Hell Awaits was inspiring. It felt like the 9th circle of hell had come up through a crack in the surface. That was definitely Hanneman at work.
BulletSpawn3000 IRON MAIDEN ALSO GIVE A GREAT STAGE SHOW!!!
i would love to see them live
BulletSpawn3000
YOU ROCK \m/
was absolutely the MOST brutal and serious shit decades ago...
before cell phone cameras could incriminate... a SLAYER show could decimate, assionate, and incinerate thy SOUL \m/
THe lyrics are amazing in this song.
"Darkness is my slave"!
As well as He'll Awaits. Show No Mercy is a very,very profound album!!!
My favourite Slayer album.
Isn't it crazy how perfect Toms vocals always were? Don't know any real metalband that does the same job
Except Pantera :)
@@derdenserr Not nearly as bad ass
@@golsamen9428 cant compare em tho but slayer did open for pantera.
@@Ruffnek310you mean Pantera opened for Slayer.
@@DayInTheLifeOfAl nope, extreme steel tour it was more of a co-headline tour but pantera played last.
The most killing track of the world!
I was 15 on this tour. saw them. got my ribs cracked. left the aid station and saw the rest of the show. I'm Jesus.
Man fuck yeah, I cracked a rib the first time I saw slayer too. Knew something was wrong but didn't leave the pit once \m/
Jesus saves
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say this is the greatest Thrash Metal song ever recorded.
RIP JH
This is by far one of the best structured and scary metal tracks you'll hear. Especially this version with Paul Bostaph playing the drums.
Rojtel K Paul is very underated but what a great drummer
One of their very best songs! But there's nothing scary about it.
Paul is great Lombardo the king
Damn straight. I wish the bass was more audible in the mix, though. It really adds to the oppressive atmosphere of the song on the album.
Rojtel K Jon Dette is way better than Bostoph . I saw slayer a couple months ago on their last leg of their last tour.....Bostoph was aweful
Tom's interpretation is just.... wow!
Slayer for ever🤘🏻
Goosebumps... 4:30
I love the part where Tom chants repeatedly "KILL! KILL! KILL!". 3:47
I thought he messed up the lyrics but it sounded even more badass
Arayas amazing on one side always smyling and down to earth guy but on the other side when he starts the "kill kill kill" part you know he takes no prisoners
What an awesome performance! That guitar sound...
Absolutely everything by Slayer before 1991 - Seasons is simply unforgettable metal superiority. Too bad about Jeff had to go sooo soon. RIP Metal Maniac...
R I P JEFF,,,,ONE OF THE BEST,,,,
FUCK!! THIS SONG STILL DESTROYS ALL TODAY!! 2018-2020!! .."SLAYER FOREVER"!!!
Best band EVER....Tom, Jeff, Kerry and Dave those years just made us MOSH our heads off.........😂👍❤️🇿🇦
Thrash at it's absolute finest.
absolutely. yes---
Slayer has dibs on background music for WW3....!!!
I love the way they rip into the solos after the chorus at about 1:48
....Apparitions from the pits of Hell
Death plagues the streets in which they dwell
Demented lust, the secrets they must keep
Addicted to your blood
At dawn they sleep"...
I will never get sick of watching this video.
Very catchy, a bit groovy and has a unique snap to it... really well made.
Помню VHS кассету в Москве купил c этим концертом в 96-м году купил, круто было!!! Эта вещь особенно зацепила! По-моему живое исполнение At dawn they sleep лучше, чем студийное.
Ojalá y lo sientan y entiendan en muchos idiomas......., esta canción de Slayer es y será por siempre lo más cercano a todo lo que represento la escena 80s en cuanto a crudeza, malicia, furia, pesadez, tiene todo lo que como metalero siempre seremos!! Saludos amigos.....
SLAYER !!! the whole Album is pure gold!!! Evil to the core!!!
Paul Bostaph is an amazing drummer to play Dave's stuff like that
But didn't have Dave's power
@@arvindshastry1178 in this era he definitely did.
The way Tom puts lyrics together very raw and powerful.
You might assume Tom being the frontman he writes the majority of the lyrics but it's Kerry and Jeff who wrote most of the songs. Tom has written some and so has Dave but mostly it's Kerry and Jeff.
Great music, great video, great Art. Thanks for sharing this.
Lo único que tiene malo está canción es que termina. Una canción demoledora, de la mejor banda de metal de todos los tiempos. Viva SLAYER, Tom Araya y Chile 🇨🇱.... CTM
I just realized something...Slayers probably the best band ever
Love Jeff's Jackson guitar in this video, great song!!!
BRUTAL!! My favorite Slayer song by far! Yes, Angel of Death and all their other popular hits destroy, but there's something surreal about this song that gets me every time!
Still Slaying after all these years.
Back in the day when the great Tom Araya could headbang whilst performing, unfortunately due to neck surgery back in 2010, he's unable to do that now. All the best on the final world tour Slayer, see you's in November in England.
Still one of the best metal songs ever.
...not a single cell phone in the crowd :)
The '95 cell phones had only 1 use: TELEPHONE.
Imagine a thrashing/moshing/crowdsurfing/stagediving Slayer-fan using a telephone to call....ehm....who exactly?!? :-p
"Hey mom....umf....it's....gup....everything fine....splash....over here!" LOL
if u were lucky enough to have a cell.. back then it was like carrying a brick..a deadly weapon..
Can't stand that poser shit
Same here, lots of concerts and live clips on vhs tapes.
Miss those days!
something about hell awaits' composition just the best
Brilliant song.
Thanks. My VCR doesn't work anymore. Glad I can still have this gem.
Everything of slayer resumed in one song....
The best band of all time!!!!
Mesa Amplitheatre , I remember going to this concert. Mesa , Az. back in the day. Maybe 1995, my guess.This song was so beautiful. There were chics trying to draw blood off of dudes by biting them... Such a trip that night....
if you can't remember the year, then you don't remember and may be just a typical "i was there" braggart.
The real slayer
NFL FILMS did a amazing job of filming this bad ass concert 🤘
RIP Jeff
Gonna miss u bud! I've listened to u. For many many years man! Always awesome! Love u my brother
Tom’s bass playing on this album is criminally underrated
This albums has crazy bass lines for a slayer album
And time signatures. The opening riff is 10/8
@@Headbanger9000 good call! I would almost say HA is their most technical album (prog 🤣🤣…blasphemy, I know!) where RIB was pure hell fire speed, HA is breakneck, but like you said, the time signatures on that album are insane
One of their best songs lyrically and musically, my favorite by them
The true masters of thrash 🤘
Best tune ever!
Who thinks that Slayer should just keep making new music and keep touring until they can't stand up??!! Even then I think they would still do a better job sitting down than most other bands! The CROWD will still frickin move!!!🤘🤘😈
2:01 that pinch harmonic was sweet!! Best live version of this song!! Miss slayer! My fav it’s divine intervention
Damn this song gets me in the feels all the time
Jeff was awesome
tom's eyes scream metal. absolutely fucking scream it
A concert and fan of music story to share:
My husband and I have "devirginized" each other to less familiar or wholly unfamiliar artists over the years. Sometimes via recorded material, sometimes going to live shows. While we both dig artists across several if not most genres, he is a funk fan at heart, while I am a metalhead.
I had never seen George Clinton live. 10 years ago, I went to my first show. All I can say is DAMN. He and his crew put on some of the best shows I've ever seen. Consistently. Been to 3 more shows since. No, no Mothership landings or grand stage setups anymore, but they continue to kill it onstage. And dude is 77 years old!
I unfortunately cannot say the same for Slayer. I originally saw them in 1994. AWESOMENESS! Made me more of a fan and I bought most of their music.
Husband and I went to see them in 2017. Mind you, I'm old school with their lineup. To me, no Lombardo OR Hahnemann was a tough sell as it was. But we still went because who knows when waiting until next time results in there BEING no next time. Right? Unfortunately, even Tom's smirking crassness could save things from feeling like they'd become something closer to a parody of themselves. No discredit to the newer members in any way, shape or form mind you. They are fine musicians. But my ear is trained to the original lineup's playing styles. The core sound, while I love Tom, needs power drumming as part of its core sound. Paul is more nuance and finesse, IMHO. Still had a good time, but I did not feel like I walked away having listened to Slayer. Does that make any sense?
At the Slayer show, the other bands were Lamb of God and Behemoth. I hadn't really heard much at all from the other bands prior to the show, but we tried to study up! I most surprised and impressed by Behemoth. I surprised myself by buying THEIR tee shirt at the show. And I have appreciated them the more I listen to them. So far, Evangelion is my fave!
Your second to last paragraph made perfect sense. You probably went for the same reason i have. You never know when you'll get to see them live again, and you wanna hear the classics you grew up loving one last time. It doesn't matter who's in the band. They still put on one helluva show. Ii'm going to see them Nov. 11th with my brother.
Glad that I was a teenager/young enough to appreciate/live through most of Slayer's prime years..their early/old school jams are f'n untouchable! Also glad I got to see them live back in the day..and a little more currently.LONG LIVE OLD SCHOOL SLAYER!!!!! \m/
there will never b another band like slayer 4ever rock on
Sodom
Sodom
Slayer Nation!!
i still have the vhs of this "live intrusion"
Dimebags favorite slayer song.
Show No Mercy, Enough Said!!!
🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
best track from hell! wicked sick!
One of my favorite Slayer songs about vampires;
Slayer IS the greatest Human experiment ever conducted.
This song is still a barn burner.
I wish they played this Live more...its one of my favorite slayer songs. ive seen them twice and they never played it.
Better than the studio version for me!
Saw them many times!!! Always a killer show.
annnnd at 2:57 i broke my neck..
Wartox13 ifkr !!
3:57 for me
But 257 when my thrashing began but @ age 36 only had a min to kill my neck feel dizzy
4:39 for me :D
A very fine live Slayer video. It's probably one that I'd try to show and explain who they are to someone who's dumb.
They not always play songs from the Hell Awaits album. This one is great. Btw I think all from that album.
Corozal De los Ochenta yup!! 👊
I have yelled for this song & gotten a few times, great jam to see live
Favorite.
The best line-up. The best times.
How I miss Hanneman!!
I'm a lucky man 'cos my brother and I met him in that year!!
And the Araya's headbanging energy.
Bostaph RULES!! He's THE BEST drummer in Slayer, EVER!!
✋🏻🧔🏻🇪🇸
80's Othes played Kiss I listend to Slayer and still does.
🤘🤨👍
My bed time song like every day on repeat over and over.
🤘🏼🤘🏼
Oh how I love this song .
Slayer goes progressive... Great song and great album
Opening riff is 10/8
I think this may be the best metal song of all time.
I have listened to Slayer about 28 years. R.I.P. Jeff
SLAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYEEEEEEEEEERRRR!!!!!! 🤘🤘
One of Slayers best song