we had a tascam 4 track as late as 2004 for our band's self released EPs and home demos. after downloading the tracks to pro tools, and remixiing they didn't sound too bad.
That's cool they used a Tascam 4-track for this. My old punk band used one back in the early 2000s to record. The quality was like this and it had a very '80s crossover sound since we were a little bit heavier.
Don't do it kids!. I listened to Divine Intervention on Acid hoping to have an answer from the Netherworld. Nothing happened, - must have been some dud Acid, huh?
I always love listening to demos, specially from the eighties and early nineties when most bands budget is a tape recorder and thier musical talent. This is a treat, thank you.
I struggled in engineering school, because I was trying to recapture the sound of our garage tapes using hundreds of thousands of dollars of recording gear. The year was 1990, and I ended up dropping out of school literally days before grunge made my ideas popular (the instructor wanted everything slick and reverby, eww). I still prefer the boombox-in-a-garage sound.
@@CashWiley It's easily done. Recording raw retro sounding stuff is more about what you do at the tracking stage rather than anything after. Just use a few mics, only set levels instead of EQ, and then copy it on to a cassette tape for some hiss. Great stuff!
Me too, fella. I'm always looking for demos. Especially like his this. It sounds like a TASCAM 8 track. Have a search here on youtube for metallica's battery demo. Oh baby. It's fantastic.
To be honest this is even for a demo tape pretty shitty. No vocals, and the first three tracks are with a drum computer. Also they already released two albums, a live album and an E.P. at this stage
Met them once at a box set signing back in 2002 or 03. They were sitting at a long table: Kerry, Jeff, Tom, Dave. Kerry was a little cocky, but genuinely friendly. Jeff was very quiet and seemed to hate it, signed everything with his autograph and “done” ( I didn’t fault him for that, given his addictions and just the general tediousness of meeting so many people at once). Tom was cool. Dave was probably my favorite out of the bunch. He just seemed more humble and down to earth. After Kerry signed my guitar and box set I looked way down the table to Dave and said, “I’m so glad you’re back! The band wasn’t the same without you!”. Tom jokingly said, “don’t tell him that!”. Looking back, maybe he wasn’t joking after all.
I love that this randomly showed up in my feed! Reign in Blood is a masterpiece, and to hear some of it in its demo form is a treat. Nice find, and thanks for posting it!
Firstly, from that sentence I take it your English isn't good. Secondly, it doesn't sound raw it sounds very deteriorated. Two different things. Don't get me wrong, I've been a Slayer fan since 1986. In my opinion the true essence of Slayer is captured with the first four albums...maybe include Seasons.
@@alphiedane That is quite obviously a drum machine, the ring of the cymbals is identical every time and the snare and bass drum just sound like an early drum machine. It is most evident on the ride in the beginning, it is just the same hit playing over and over.
You're all wrong, the first three songs use a drum machine and the latter two are rehearsal recordings. You can tell because the drums sound like real drums on the latter two, at the end of Jesus saves is a bunch of background noise including drum sticks hitting eachother, the guitar is no longer closed mic'd - meaning they are probably using a dictaphone in the middle of their rehearsal space.
Jeff is the vision behind slayers best stuff jeff was slayer and without him I can't care about slayer anymore it has ended them for me and I been into this band since I was a kid almost 25 years of slayer for me HAIL HANNEMAN
I never heard this before now. I remember back in 1985 when the first "Slaytanic Wehrmacht" Slay fan club newsletter had the title of their next LP as "Altar of Sacrifice." These songs were probably written already.
Im impressed at how good the demo quality is - he sounds just like he does on slayer full production albums! Jeff was an amazing guitar player and composer of heavy music.
Brings back memories. I was 11 when Slayer first formed in 81. My first concert was their Live Undead Tour...I was hooked ever since...well until Jeff passed. I turned away for awhile after Dave left the band but they kinda grew back on me like a rash. To me real Slayer is before Divine Intervention R.I.P. Jeff, may you reign in heaven 🤘🏻
Actually Kerry sped the songs up. Don’t get me wrong Jeff is the man and I think Kerry is a douche but he had a lot more to do with these songs than people think because of writing credits. Kerry arranged and sped em up
Rick Ruben as producer explained that he pushed them to play the songs faster and faster until they were unable to pull it off, then kept the previous version.
Thanks for sharing bro! Wow! Really Dig this... sounds like old school cassette tape. The best!!! The first time I saw Slayer I crowd surfed was the coolest feeling \m/
During the #3 track for "Reborn" it sounds like there initially was a riff (6:33) planned for the song that must have been taken out & instead later used in "Ghosts Of War" on the next album.
@Daryl Mc No way! Hanneman may have been the best creative force in the band, but could you imagine SLAYER without Tom Araya singing?? No f'in way! This is definitely a drum machine
Jeff was very talented and one of the core components that set Slayer apart from every other band in the genre. There's of course the rest of the setup that nearly perfectly fit him and vice versa. King gets shat uponn a lot in the modern days, but he was Hanneman's perfect "Sturmbannführer"... aggressive, brutal and relentless. In later years, 1987 to 1995 he established himself as one of the most impressive guitarists in the hard, no extravagance, genre... and his look and guitar were beyond awesome. He also wrote one of the fiercest Slayer songs of all time - "In Praise Of Death". KK also was well versed as a metal guitarist but did not have the raw talent. I think this is the key to why they worked so well together - everybody knew his position. On the Divine Intervention album one can see that King had worked his way up and featured some intriguing material which can stand on its own. Nonetheless, if one delves into a Hanneman song, like SS3, it becomes obvious that the musical depth, relative to the style, is unique and his forte. Unfortunately his health began to fade in the 90ies so he was not as good as he could have been. Nonetheless thanks for the memories and the awesome riffs, Jeff!
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God bless those TASCAM 4-tracks. They made everything sound like a chainsaw giving birth to a garbage disposal. And it was just so pure and metal
we had a tascam 4 track as late as 2004 for our band's self released EPs and home demos. after downloading the tracks to pro tools, and remixiing they didn't sound too bad.
I still have mine
That's cool they used a Tascam 4-track for this. My old punk band used one back in the early 2000s to record. The quality was like this and it had a very '80s crossover sound since we were a little bit heavier.
Way dude
Love your comment. I had one and , well, yes.
Brings me back to days of listening to shitty quality metal cassettes while being on acid freaking out
Accurate description.
Now I had fear of LSD JAJAJ my doctor said I need some pills for my brain but fuck it jajaja
Don't do it kids!. I listened to Divine Intervention on Acid hoping to have an answer from the Netherworld. Nothing happened, - must have been some dud Acid, huh?
@@matthewdarby6434 Pink Floyd is for that.
@@matthewdarby6434 no joke i ended carving slayer into my arm while on acid
Black metal quality
almost. its too much muddy. It makes venom- welcome to hell sound like a clean album.
Probably there inspiration. in the tape traid scene
@@dissident_media *their *trade
@@shagstars You must not have heard many underground Black Metal then if you think this is too muddy ;-)
@@JC_Denton_Lives Most underground BM demo's sounds more like high trebble gain and lack of bass.
I always love listening to demos, specially from the eighties and early nineties when most bands budget is a tape recorder and thier musical talent. This is a treat, thank you.
I struggled in engineering school, because I was trying to recapture the sound of our garage tapes using hundreds of thousands of dollars of recording gear. The year was 1990, and I ended up dropping out of school literally days before grunge made my ideas popular (the instructor wanted everything slick and reverby, eww).
I still prefer the boombox-in-a-garage sound.
@@CashWiley It's easily done. Recording raw retro sounding stuff is more about what you do at the tracking stage rather than anything after. Just use a few mics, only set levels instead of EQ, and then copy it on to a cassette tape for some hiss. Great stuff!
Me too, fella. I'm always looking for demos. Especially like his this. It sounds like a TASCAM 8 track. Have a search here on youtube for metallica's battery demo. Oh baby. It's fantastic.
To be honest this is even for a demo tape pretty shitty. No vocals, and the first three tracks are with a drum computer. Also they already released two albums, a live album and an E.P. at this stage
@@AgentLemmon short sighted
Slayer for ever! Araya, hanemann, kerry and lombardo! The real slayer!
Araya, Hanneman, Lombardo, King. SLAAAAAYYYEEERRRRRRRR!
Actually met Slayer at Rock and Roll Heaven run by Jon Zazula from Megaforce Jeff and Tom fantastic. Dave was quiet. Kerry was cocky
Kerry IS a Cock.
Sounds about right....
Met Kerry... he was cool... had a good day
Met them once at a box set signing back in 2002 or 03. They were sitting at a long table: Kerry, Jeff, Tom, Dave. Kerry was a little cocky, but genuinely friendly. Jeff was very quiet and seemed to hate it, signed everything with his autograph and “done” ( I didn’t fault him for that, given his addictions and just the general tediousness of meeting so many people at once). Tom was cool. Dave was probably my favorite out of the bunch. He just seemed more humble and down to earth.
After Kerry signed my guitar and box set I looked way down the table to Dave and said, “I’m so glad you’re back! The band wasn’t the same without you!”. Tom jokingly said, “don’t tell him that!”.
Looking back, maybe he wasn’t joking after all.
Prolly more cokey, than cocky. :D
I love that this randomly showed up in my feed! Reign in Blood is a masterpiece, and to hear some of it in its demo form is a treat. Nice find, and thanks for posting it!
Dude same, this shit is amazing i can't believe I'm just know finding this
Me too
I’ve not searched the tube for Slayer for years and then all of a sudden...’hey, check this...’
UA-cam doesn't do random.
Slayer with that "Transylvanian Hunger" sound quality is something to be appreciated
Love it. Metal doesn't need to be polished.. it's just suppose to sound lethal
BRUTAL!
awesome quote
Exactly!!🤘🤘🤘
Well said
its cool when its an old demo
tired of people doing it as a LARP
This sounds so raw is epic
Firstly, from that sentence I take it your English isn't good. Secondly, it doesn't sound raw it sounds very deteriorated. Two different things.
Don't get me wrong, I've been a Slayer fan since 1986. In my opinion the true essence of Slayer is captured with the first four albums...maybe include Seasons.
Epic my ass
@@Kowinaida Learn to separate objectivity from subjectivity before going on an ego trip.
@@JohnsDough1918 'Homo', learn to decipher comedic elements.
@@Pirustae lol...!
Awesome, classic raw sound.
Got to see Slayer over 30 times live and three times during the last tour.
🤘 Hail SLAYER from Canada.
Even with the simple drum machine backing, Jeff's rhythms are so on point this still has me headbanging.
@@alphiedane That is quite obviously a drum machine, the ring of the cymbals is identical every time and the snare and bass drum just sound like an early drum machine. It is most evident on the ride in the beginning, it is just the same hit playing over and over.
@@DenSvartaStjarnan I thought the same thing
Ah, I thought it was a drum machine. That ride cymbal from Criminally Insane sounded terrible!! hehe
@@DenSvartaStjarnan undrar vad fan herr lombardo pysslade med istället för att spela trummor
You're all wrong, the first three songs use a drum machine and the latter two are rehearsal recordings. You can tell because the drums sound like real drums on the latter two, at the end of Jesus saves is a bunch of background noise including drum sticks hitting eachother, the guitar is no longer closed mic'd - meaning they are probably using a dictaphone in the middle of their rehearsal space.
Jeff is the vision behind slayers best stuff jeff was slayer and without him I can't care about slayer anymore it has ended them for me and I been into this band since I was a kid almost 25 years of slayer for me HAIL HANNEMAN
I've seen them live six times with Hanneman - that's the ultra-classic line-up. No Slayer without Lombardo and Hanneman.
Well said man...same for me.....! still have the SLAYER tattoo on my leg with JEFF's name to remember the best SLAYER years!! Hail King JEFF \m/
yes indeed no Jeff no Slayer i hated the new Relentless never liked King that much
No Robbie no take that.
glad you did not lose it...
Could you imagine being present with Jeff watching him shred this out? Goosebumps
05:55 Reborn sounds so much badass slowed down holy shit.
Yeah man, I didn't recognize it at first. Awesome!
It's a bit different intro tho
No way
YES!
That intro sounds better and catchier on this demo than it does on the album
I never heard this before now. I remember back in 1985 when the first "Slaytanic Wehrmacht" Slay fan club newsletter had the title of their next LP as "Altar of Sacrifice." These songs were probably written already.
Thank you so much for the share!!! Love hearing the raw quality. More real and not cleaned up and polished.
Nice piece of history. I met Dave Lombardo when he was drumming for Testement. Thanks for sharing.
Now he’s drumming for Mr. Bungle....
Im impressed at how good the demo quality is - he sounds just like he does on slayer full production albums! Jeff was an amazing guitar player and composer of heavy music.
This demo was the precursor to one of the greatest thrash metal albums of all time, Reign in Blood.
Broadcrass News what I was going to say
I concur
@Broadcrass News absolutely!
The.
@@Simonachebe He said one of the greatest, not THE greatest. Hell Awaits is among them too.
I love slayer
Brings back memories. I was 11 when Slayer first formed in 81. My first concert was their Live Undead Tour...I was hooked ever since...well until Jeff passed. I turned away for awhile after Dave left the band but they kinda grew back on me like a rash. To me real Slayer is before Divine Intervention R.I.P. Jeff, may you reign in heaven 🤘🏻
That riff at 1:54
HELL YEAH..Criminally INSANE!
Awaiting the hour Destined to die Here on the table of Hell A figure in white Unknown by man Approaching the Alter of DEATH
I love this demo!! Something about just raw takes gets me pumped!!!
Criminally Insane sounds so badass here.
This is such a fucking awesome demo!!! the raw guitar tones are amazing!
This will be blasting regularly thru October 2020. Time to pay in pain.
Epidemic: permanent disease.
I will always love Slayer no matter what RIP Jeff Hanneman.
"Altar of Sacrifice" is particularly good...The breakdown is better than the "Reign in Blood" official release.
Thanks for the upload
This is an excellent find!
JEFF 4LIVE !!! .... old and rare - pure gold!
SLAYER!!!!! RIP Jeff
Esto vendría a ser literalmente la columna vertebral de Slayer.
Bad ass! Jeff's love for hardcore is exactly why RIB was so fast!
Yup and no reverb heavy metal affects either just raw loud fast and chaotic
Huh?!? Huge fan of Jeff's, but I'm not sure how that statement makes any sense at all, lol
@@michaelmaclane5637 Listen to some hardcore and then you'll understand.
Actually Kerry sped the songs up. Don’t get me wrong Jeff is the man and I think Kerry is a douche but he had a lot more to do with these songs than people think because of writing credits. Kerry arranged and sped em up
Rick Ruben as producer explained that he pushed them to play the songs faster and faster until they were unable to pull it off, then kept the previous version.
So badass even out of a garage
The best metal band of all time
Yes sir.
Wow, thanks for sharing this!! Best thrash band!!
... SLAYER 🇺🇲 from the USA, Thrash-Metal institution ... 🤘 🇺🇲
That panther growl sound that Jeff made with the guitar at the beginning of Jesus saves is FUCKIN phenomenal
great vocal of Tom !
WHAT¿¿¿¿¿¿¿?????????
The legendary Jeff Hanneman band...HORNS UP!!! 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
This demo is so rad
Thanks for sharing this totally different flavor of Slayer!!!! I feel like I stepped back in time AND into an alternate universe!!!!
So classic. One of the greatest metal albums ever.
Awaiting the hour of reprisal, your time slips away... RIP Hanneman!!!🤘👹🤘
Killer demo from the heaviest band on earth!!🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
This is amazing. Thank you for sharing.
This is awesome !
Thanks for sharing bro!
Wow! Really Dig this... sounds like old school cassette tape. The best!!!
The first time I saw Slayer I crowd surfed was the coolest feeling \m/
This amazing demo can be some great karaoke party for the slayer lovers
El sonido es de cassette antiguo es tan característico. SLAYER...!!!!!
Y es lo mejor, Aqui en español:
ua-cam.com/video/LEv48N-_MQE/v-deo.html espero que te guste, de un fan a un fan :)
omfg, how vicious and savage this demo is sounding‼️ Jeff is real riff monster‼️ early Slayer at it's best🤟🤟🤟
I own this on their Evil Metal Demos bootleg cd! A very lucky find!
La mejor banda thrash de todos los tiempos. SSSSSLLLLLLAAAAAAYYYYEEEEERRRRR
Claro! aqui en español: ua-cam.com/video/LEv48N-_MQE/v-deo.html espero que te guste, de un fan a un fan
Well Now. When Metal Was Metal. Kerry and Jeff Just Going For It. Sweet.
Damn the tone makes thosd riffs sound so fucking icy haha niceeee. Fucking love music man.
Pure awesomeness!
what a lovely treat for my eardrums 💀
These guys are going to be big one day
Lol
During the #3 track for "Reborn" it sounds like there initially was a riff (6:33) planned for the song that must have been taken out & instead later used in "Ghosts Of War" on the next album.
Got to see slayer on their final show in nj best concert I've been to
man i hope they get signed!
Hanneman WAS Slayer
No, it was a group not a solo project.
@Daryl Mc
No way! Hanneman may have been the best creative force in the band, but could you imagine SLAYER without Tom Araya singing?? No f'in way!
This is definitely a drum machine
Jeff Hanneman is one of the best riff makers in the whole history of rock/metal.
Hanneman was like 75% of slayer.
lombardo is slayer.
Jeffs work will live on 🍻😬🤘🏻
This would be great for the bassists to jam over, just saying! Yeah, I dig the lo-fi vibe.
Rock In Peace Jeff!!!
Jesus saves and Raining Blood sound like band play-through/practice. Awesome
Never heard this demo before!
So raw........... I love it!
The one and only real and true Slayer lineup.
Hanneman and a drum machine?!? We'll have to agree to disagree on that one, lol.
@@michaelmaclane5637 lol!
@@michaelmaclane5637 lol
@@michaelmaclane5637 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
But he has a point.
Slayer rules. These riffs are NASTY! 🔥🤘🏽
Jeff was very talented and one of the core components that set Slayer apart from every other band in the genre.
There's of course the rest of the setup that nearly perfectly fit him and vice versa. King gets shat uponn a lot in the modern days, but he was Hanneman's perfect "Sturmbannführer"... aggressive, brutal and relentless. In later years, 1987 to 1995 he established himself as one of the most impressive guitarists in the hard, no extravagance, genre... and his look and guitar were beyond awesome. He also wrote one of the fiercest Slayer songs of all time - "In Praise Of Death".
KK also was well versed as a metal guitarist but did not have the raw talent. I think this is the key to why they worked so well together - everybody knew his position.
On the Divine Intervention album one can see that King had worked his way up and featured some intriguing material which can stand on its own. Nonetheless, if one delves into a Hanneman song, like SS3, it becomes obvious that the musical depth, relative to the style, is unique and his forte. Unfortunately his health began to fade in the 90ies so he was not as good as he could have been.
Nonetheless thanks for the memories and the awesome riffs, Jeff!
Jeff Hanneman is one of the best riff makers in the whole rock/metal history.
El Black , y el Death metal le deben todos los respetos a Slayer .no les queda otra alternativa que inclinar la cabeza ante los dioses del thrash.
Sin duda compa
totalmente! la mejor banda thrash
Literally thought my speakers were broken when the drums came in.
Reverb is an godly affect on everything...
Fantastic !
Damn, Jeff even envisioned the drum parts. That man was a fucking genius.
Que buena escuchar todos estos PEDAZOS de temas en modo instrumental.
Great demo. Hell awaits...
🤘💀💀☠🤘
SLAYER LIVES ON!!!!
MASTERPIECE.
To think I could of been 12 listening to this instead of Run DMC King of Rock tape! I was given a King Diamond tape 3 years later luckily.
Hahahaha! Me too.
My goodness you look like you would of been 19 not 12
Run DMC was awesome too
@Chris Yep
“ you talk too much “
@@mikej9089 Ruck Rubin has magnificent ears
I miss Dave on this. Respeckanize....... Lombardo mAde this shit!!
This sounds raw yeah, but damn those drum machine skills!
Recorded on a damp sponge.
was that with or without the satanic potato
Everyone is hating on the audio quality. Just listen to it dude
Larga vida a Slayer 🤘🔥
trying to growl along. such classic material
love dr rhythm drum machine !!
Thrash-gaze.
Also, thank the the UA-cam algorithm gods for this recommendation.
Mamalon!🤘🏼
This is what a self taught musical genius does. FUCK!
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
R.I.P.
JEFF HANNEMAN
Awesome Tape 🤘
what a genius jeff hanneman is!!!!!!666
most true sound of thrash metal
\m/ FUCKING SLAYER!!!!!! \m/
This must be woth a small fortune to the right collector!...
Sounds like fkn underground death metal i love it
Yes!