Slayer - Still Reigning

I gotta admit I’m not a huge slayer fan. Not that I dislike them, but it’s almost as if I never knew them. Thus my perfection was laid claim in a throne of inequity when I became enquothed to adjourn on whether or not you should subject yourself to said episode. Just like the throne that the goat sits on, lifted high by, goblin popes? on the cover of this live DVD.

I can only, after having viewed the spectacte, give an emphatic, if not orgasmic, yes. I only don’t say orgasmic because people are looking & I don’t want it to be weird.

I always like this kind of music, well, I shouldn’t even say that, Slayer is somewhat unique, at least that’s what those people screaming say. Well, I tend to agree, if only because I am ignorant on if there are any out there like them. They rock very hard, very rhythmic, pounding beats, nonstop, like a jackhammer just going and going, and at the same time you can hear that punk vibe in the background, yah, that’s the ticket, the one I can’t adequately describe.

Anyway, this DVD is of a concert they did in Maine fairly recently. For the first time ever they utilize a strange effect. I won’t give it away, ok I will, well, only if you want me too. I don’t want to ruin it. But just look at the title of the DVD, think of a red liquid, and you might ensconce your circuit board on a small if not large smidgen of to what I’m trying to allude.

In any event, they play a lot of songs, there’s the concert movie, which is slamming and threatening and dangerous and yelling and heavy heavy guitars pounding, and the drummer is pretty nuts, not as in insane, but as in crazy skills, apparently he had been on hiatus for the band for 10 years, and this is his first tour back in that time. The drums are nonstop and energetic and uplifting and thrashing your head for the full duration as are all other parts.

There’s a nice behind the scenes extra with “Slayer in their own Words” which has interviews about the band’s history, the current tour, how they came to be, the fact, which I didn’t know, they’ve got 10 (ten!) gold records, yet, as they bemoan, and it’s true, you just don’t hear that much about Slayer, even back in their “glory days.” Well, they’re still around, and they’re still banging.

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