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The Heavy-Metal Thrash-Metal outfit Slayer was established by the lead guitarist Kerry King in Huntington Beach, California USA, in 1982; originally dubbed Dragonslaye, the band's line-up also included vocalist+bassist Tom Araya, guitarist Jeff Hanneman and drummer Dave Lombardo.

Slayer's first album, "Show No Mercy", came out in late 1983 on Metal Blade Records; at the time of its release, the band received first major exposure by appearing on the covers of several Metal magazines and earned great respect in the underground Metal community.
After their first tour across the United States the band recorded three songs for their "Haunting The Chapel" EP.
The band's second full-length release, 1985's "Hell Awaits", expanded on the darkness of the previous EP, as hell and Satan were common song subjects; it contained only seven tracks, three of which clocked in at over six minutes.
After being offered a recording deal by Rick Rubin's Def Jam Records, Slayer signed and quickly began working on its third LP with Rubin as co-producer; the result, "Reign In Blood", still largely considered the greatest Thrash-Metal album ever recorded and even credited with almost single-handedly inspiring the entire Death-Metal genre, at least in North America. The record hit #94 on The Billboard Top 200 chart and went on to sell over 500,000 copies, however, some problems came along after its release; because of the song "Angel Of Death", that deals with Auschwitz doctor Joseph Mengele and the experiments he did on his patents during the Holocaust, Slayer were accused of being Neo-Nazis, also Jeff Hanneman was really interested in war medals at that time so he wore some Nazi cross and eagle symbols on his jacket.
"South Of Heaven", released in July 1988, marked a significant musical departure; to contrast the aggressive assault put forth on their previous album, Slayer consciously slowed down the tempo of the record as a whole; the band's fourth full-length disc, the last for Def Jam, reached #57 on The Billboard 200 list but the new sounds disappointed some of the band's fans who were more accustomed to the style of earlier releases.
The follow-up album, 1990's "Seasons In The Abyss", was more of a return to the sound of "Reign In Blood" and was greeted warmly by fans; a video clip for the title-track had the band playing in the Middle-East, shortly before the start of the Gulf War; the record peaked at #40 in U.S. and climbed into the U.K. Top 20 Albums chart.
A double live album, "Decade Of Aggression", was released in October 1991, and aside from a brief tour the next year, including an appearance at the 1992 Monsters of Rock festival at Castle Donington, nothing new would be heard from Slayer until 1994's "Divine Intervention", this album marked drummer Paul Bostaph's studio debut with the band and became another success going gold in no time; Slayer also achieved the career highest chart debut on the Billboard Top 200 at #8 and hit #15 in Britain.

In the summer of 2006, Slayer released their first studio album in six years and its first studio effort with the original line-up, including drummer Dave Lombardo, since 1990's "Seasons In The Abyss".

 

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Show No Mercy

(1983)

1. Evil Has No Boundaries
2. The Antichrist
3. Die By The Sword
4. Fight Till Death
5. Metal Storm/Face The Slayer
6. Black Magic
7. Tormentor
8. The Final Command
9. Crionics
10. Show No Mercy

 

Hell Awaits

(1985)

1. Hell Awaits
2. Kill Again
3. At Dawn They Sleep
4. Praise Of Death
5. Necrophiliac
6. Crypts Of Eternity
7. Hardening Of The Arteries

 

Reign In Blood

(1986)

1. Angel Of Death
2. Piece By Piece
3. Necrophobic
4. Altar Of Sacrifice
5. Jesus Saves
6. Criminally Insane
7. Reborn
8. Epidemic
9. Postmortem
10. Raining Blood

 

South Of Heaven

(1988)

1. South Of Heaven
2. Silent Scream
3. Live Undead
4. Behind The Crooked Cross
5. Mandatory Suicide
6. Ghosts Of War
7. Read Between The Lies
8. Cleanse The Soul
9. Dissident Aggressor
10. Spill The Blood

 

Seasons In The Abyss

(1990)

1. War Ensemble
2. Blood Red
3. Spirit In Black
4. Expendable Youth
5. Dead Skin Mask
6. Hallowed Point
7. Skeletons Of Society
8. Temptation
9. Born Of Fire
10. Seasons In The Abyss

 

Divine Intervention

(1994)

1. Killing Fields
2. Sex. Murder. Art.
3. Fictional Reality
4. Dittohead
5. Divine Intervention
6. Circle Of Beliefs
7. SS-3
8. Serenity In Murder
9. 213
10. Mind Control

 

Undisputed Attitude

(1996)

1. Disintegration/Free Money
2. Verbal Abuse/Leeches
3. Abolish Government/Superficial Love
4. Can't Stand You
5. Ddamm
6. Guilty Of Being White
7. I Hate You
8. Filler/I Don't Want To Hear It
9. Spiritual Law
10. Mr. Freeze
11. Violent Pacification
12. Richard Hung Himself
13. I'm Gonna Be Your God
14. Gemini

 

Diabolus In Musica

(1998)

1. Bitter Peace
2. Death's Head
3. Stain Of Mind
4. Overt Enemy
5. Perversions Of Pain
6. Love To Hate
7. Desire
8. In The Name Of God
9. Scrum
10. Screaming From The Sky
11. Point

 

God Hates Us All

(2001)

1. Darkness Of Christ
2. Disciple
3. God Send Death
4. New Faith
5. Cast Down
6. Threshold
7. Exile
8. Seven Faces
9. Bloodline
10. Deviance
11. War Zone
12. Here Comes The Pain
13. Payback

 

Christ Illusion

(2006)

1. Flesh Storm
2. Catalyst
3. Eyes Of The Insane
4. Jihad
5. Skeleton Christ
6. Consfearacy
7. Catatonic
8. Black Serenade
9. Cult
10. Supremist

 

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