gauze wrote:Slayer-Reign in Blood is ...
Over-fucking-rated.
Not a bad album by any means, but holy shit, do I get tired of reading bullshit rants about how this album is the epitome of Thrash Metal. It's funny how many of these people that claim to worship Slayer and this album in general don't even know most of the Thrash classics that I mention in comparison. Tools jumping on the Metal bandwagon... Anyways, I'm starting to stray into "15 Year Old Masters Of Metal" territory here, so I'll move on.
I think that "Show No Mercy" is the greatest Slayer album and "Reign In Blood" just fails in comparison. This album was also Slayers first (in my opinion) full Thrash album. I consider "Show No Mercy" and "Hell Awaits" to be Speed Metal or "Proto-Thrash" if you will and have been in many arguments regarding that as well.
I also don't really see a poll option that suites my opinion, so I didn't vote.
Either way, to sum things up, great album, not Slayers best and highly over rated.
I guess this subject was bound to be brought up sooner or later on the Corroseum...