Time to get back on the horse ---
and do a review from a 30something metalhead's point of view

On deck today is a DVD from one of the original four revolutionary bands of the thrash movement in the 80s --- SLAYER!!!

But first, a side note: I have seen the real life Beavis of Beavis and Butthead, if you see this video, you will see which guy I'm talking about --- it's quite hilarious yet tragic — and he is a SLAYER fan

There's something to be said about this DVD. It's concert film from Slayer's 2002 GOD HATES US ALL (GHUA) Tour that is interspersed with fan commentary and short interview clips (of fans and band)

The track selection (or setlist, whichever you prefer) is excellent. It's cool to see the three new tracks from GHUA live. PLUS, they went deep in the playbook for classic SLAYER, including a nice sized swath of Reign in Blood and Haunting the Chapel, with bits and pieces from Show No Mercy and Hell Awaits

One of the things that is very noticeable about Slayer live nowadays is that Tom's voice is pretty cabbaged out after all these years of aggro vox. The music is still very technical, speedy and brutal, but Tom's voice at times sounds unable to CATCH FIRE like he does on the studio recordings (or even in former tours)

The band does a pretty credible job of playing some of their songs, some of which are highly technical and speedy--- The thing I noticed, and I've seen Metallica and Kreator live recently, is that SOLOS are hard to pull off --- same here, some of the solos come off pretty garbled and not too close but heck, some of those solos are so precise and fast that you can't really blame them for trying