Christ tour cycle: approx. 140
2008: 40, most between June and November
2009: 40, most between June and October
2010: 85, most between May and October
World tour cycle: approx. 85
2011: 60, most between February and August
2012: 60, most between May and November
2013: 60, mostly festivals, followed by a fall US tour
Appendix B: Slayer Songwriting Credits
Show No Mercy, 1983 (Metal Blade)
“Evil Has No Boundaries.” Lyrics: Hanneman and King. Music: King.
“The Antichrist.” Lyrics: Hanneman. Music: Hanneman and King.
“Die by the Sword.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman.
“Fight Till Death.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman.
(No credit listed for instrumental “Metalstorm”)
“Face the Slayer.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman and King.
“Black Magic.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman and King.
“Tormentor.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman.
“The Final Command.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman and King.
“Crionics.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman and King.
“Show No Mercy.” Lyrics and music: King.
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Haunting the Chapel, 1984 (Metal Blade)
“Chemical Warfare.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman and King.
“Captor of Sin.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman and King.
“Haunting the Chapel.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman and King
Hell Awaits, 1985 (Metal Blade)
“Hell Awaits.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman, King.
“Kill Again.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman, King.
“At Dawn They Sleep.” Lyrics: Araya, Hanneman, King. Music: Hanneman.
“Praise of Death.” Lyrics: Hanneman. Music: King.
“Necrophiliac.” Lyrics: Hanneman, King. Music: Hanneman.
“Crypts of Eternity.” Lyrics: Arya, Hanneman, and King. Music: Hanneman, King.
“Hardening of the Arteries.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman.
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Reign in Blood, 1986 (Def Jam)
“Angel of Death.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman.
“Piece by Piece.” Lyrics and music: King.
“Necrophobic.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman and King.
“Altar of Sacrifice.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman.
“Jesus Saves.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman and King.
“Criminally Insane.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman and King.
“Reborn.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman.
“Epidemic.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman and King.
“Postmortem.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman.
“Raining Blood.” Lyrics: Hanneman and King. Music: Hanneman.
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South of Heaven, 1988 (Def Jam)
“South of Heaven.” Lyrics: Araya. Music: Hanneman.
“Silent Scream.” Lyrics: Araya. Music: Hanneman and King.
“Live Undead.” Lyrics: Araya, King. Music: Hanneman.
“Behind the Crooked Cross.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman.
“Mandatory Suicide.” Lyrics: Araya. Music: Hanneman and King.
“Ghosts of War.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman and King.
“Read Between the Lies.” Lyrics: Araya and King. Music: Hanneman.
“Cleanse the Soul.” Lyrics: Araya and King. Music: Hanneman.
“Dissident Aggressor.” Judas Priest cover.
“Spill the Blood.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman
In previous releases, lyrics were listed first. With Seasons, the band began listing music credits first, followed by lyrics credits. For consistency, this appendix continues to list lyrics first.
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Seasons in the Abyss, 1990 (Def American)
“War Ensemble.” Lyrics: Araya and Hanneman. Music: Hanneman.
“Blood Red.” Lyrics: Araya. Music: Hanneman
“Spirit in Black.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman.
“Expendable Youth.” Lyrics: Araya. Music: King.
“Dead Skin Mask.” Lyrics: Araya. Music: Hanneman.
“Hallowed Point.” Lyrics: Araya and Hanneman. Music: Hanneman and King.
“Skeletons of Society.” Lyrics and music: King.
“Temptation.” Lyrics and music: King.
“Born of Fire.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman and King.
“Seasons in the Abyss.” Lyrics: Araya. Music: Hanneman.
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Divine Intervention, 1994 (American)
“Killing Fields.” Lyrics: Araya. Music: King.
“Sex. Murder. Art.” Lyrics: Araya. Music: King.
“Fictional Reality.” Lyrics and music: King.
“Dittohead.” Lyrics and music: King.
“Divine Intervention.” Lyrics: Araya, Bostaph, Hanneman, and King. Music: Hanneman and King.
“Circle of Beliefs.” Lyrics and music: King.
“SS-3.” Lyrics: Hanneman. Music: Hanneman and King.
“Serenity in Murder.” Lyrics: Araya. Music: Hanneman and King.
“213.” Lyrics: Araya. Music: Hanneman.
“Mind Control.” Lyrics: Araya and King. Music: Hanneman and King.
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Undisputed Attitude, 1996 (American)
Original compositions from the predominantly covers LP:
“Can’t Stand You.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman.
“DDAMM.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman.
“Gemini.” Lyrics: Arya. Music: King.
Diabolus in Musica, 1998 (American)
American release:
“Bitter Peace.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman.
“Death’s Head.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman.
“Stain of Mind.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman.
“Overt Enemy.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman.
“Perversions of Pain.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman.
“Love to Hate.” Lyrics: Hanneman and King. Music: Hanneman.
“Desire.” Lyrics: Araya. Music: Hanneman.
“In the Name of God.” Lyrics and music: King.
“Scrum.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman.
“Screaming From the Sky.” Lyrics: Araya, Hanneman, and King. Music: Hanneman.
“Point.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman.
Bonus tracks from Japanese Edition:
“Unguarded Instinct.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman.
“Wicked.” Lyrics: Araya, Bostaph. Music: Hanneman and King.
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On previous releases, credits were arranged alphabetically by last name. As of God Hates Us All, they begin to appear in a different order.
God Hates Us All, 2001 (American)
“Darkness of Christ.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman.
“Disciple.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman.
“God Send Death.” Lyrics: Hanneman and Araya. Music: Hanneman.
“New Faith.” Lyrics and Music: King.
“Cast Down.” Lyrics and Music: King.
“Threshold.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman.
“Exile.” Lyrics and music: King.
“Seven Faces.” Lyrics and music: King.
“Bloodline.” Lyrics: Araya and Hanneman. Music: Hanneman and King.
“Deviance.” Lyrics: Hanneman and Araya. Music: Hanneman.
“War Zone.” Lyrics and music: King.
“Here Comes the Pain.” Lyrics and music: King.
“Payback.” Lyrics and music: King.
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Christ Illusion, 2006 (American)
Original release:
“Flesh Storm.” Lyrics and music: King.
“Catalyst.” Lyrics, music, and all leads: King.
“Skeleton C
hrist.” Lyrics and music: King.
“Eyes of the Insane.” Lyrics: Araya. Music: Hanneman.
“Jihad.” Lyrics: Hanneman and Araya. Music: Hanneman.
“Consfearacy.” Lyrics, music, and all leads: King.
“Catatonic.” Lyrics and music: King.
“Black Serenade.” Lyrics: Hanneman and Araya. Music: Hanneman.
“Cult.” Lyrics and music: King.
“Supremist.” Lyrics and music: King.
Extra original track from expanded edition:
“Final Six.” Lyrics: Araya and Hanneman. Music: Hanneman and Araya.
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World Painted Blood, 2009 (American)
Original edition:
“World Painted Blood.” Lyrics: Hanneman and Araya. Music: Hanneman.
“Unit 731.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman.
“Snuff.” Lyrics and music: King.
“Beauty Through Order.” Lyrics: Hanneman and Araya. Music: Hanneman.
“Hate Worldwide.” Lyrics and music: King.
“Public Display of Dismemberment.” Lyrics and music: King.
“Human Stain.” Lyrics: Hanneman and Araya. Music: Hanneman.
“Americon.” Lyrics and music: King.
“Psychopathy Red.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman.
“Playing With Dolls.” Lyrics: Hanneman, King, and Araya. Music: Hanneman.
“Not of This God.” Music and lyrics: King.
Original bonus track from limited edition:
“Atrocity Vendor.” Lyrics: Araya and King. Music: Hanneman.
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Appendix C: Slayer, a Visual Progression
The internet hosts many photographs of Slayer. Click here to find some, then follow through to view them in their native sites.
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Addendum:
“It’s Time to Set the Record Straight”
or
I Fucked Up
“As they say on the streets, that was ‘my bad!’”A-1 — Kurt Angle
Some mistakes were made in my previous Slayer bookA-2. Some mistakes are made in most books. These things happen.
Page 68: South of Heaven was released in 1988, not 1998. I know that. You know that. The “8” and “9” keys are very close to each other, and manuscripts have a lot of moving parts. Getting 99% of things right still leaves you with a few errors. In this economy, real proofreading is dead. We did our best.
Page 68: Emmy nominee David Tobocman was an assistant engineer on Seasons in the Abyss, not South of Heaven.
Page 82 and elsewhere: During a careless FIND-REPLACE in the editing process, some references to a 28-minute runtime were changed to 29, so some numbers might not add up.
Page 99: The person identified as “Summers” is “Georges Sulmers,” as referenced in the previous paragraph. But it’s pronounced “Summers.” So there’s that.
Pages 28, 106: Mike Judge’s brilliant culture pundit is Butt-head, not “Butthead.” I should have known better.
Page 113: Strictly speaking, the Nazis did not have 20,000 “death camps.” More precisely, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, around World War II, the Germans established around 20,000 camps, some of which were prisons, some of which were labor camps, some of which were the sites of massive-scale murderA-3. The SS and police established five — some say six — killing centers, where approximately 2,700,000 people were put to death, some individually, some in gas chambers, at a rate of up to 6,000 a dayA-4, creating just under half of the Holocaust’s death toll.
ANNOTATED WORKS CITED
All online sources cited were viewed by the author between 2007 and November 2013, with web addresses verified in August 2013, unless otherwise noted.
Unless otherwise noted, all setlists are amalgams from the crowd-sourced archive Setlist.fm. Show reports are notoriously unreliable, even from people who were there. So I have presented representative amalgamations from the periods, rather than presenting individual dates’ reported sets.
Blabbermouth is not only the heavy metal CNN, but an archive of everything that has happened in metal and hard rock since 2001. Proprietor-editor Borivoj Krgin makes it happen.
Some articles cited are from collectors’ personal archives, and were only preserved in partial form, without full publishing date, number, title, or author. All retrievable information follows.
Methodology:
M-1. Setlist.fm Slayer home page. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
http://www.setlist.fm/search?query=slayer
M-2. Billboard Slayer album chart stats. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
http://www.billboard.com/artist/279575/slayer/chart?sort=timeon&f=305
M-3. Archived Billboard Slayer album chart stats. Retrieved 20 August 2013. http://web.archive.org/web/20130416200709/http://www.billboard.com/artist/279575/slayer/chart
M-4. Bennett, J. “Who’ll Stop the Reign?” Decibel no. 4, November 2004, p. 67, p.46-51. Available in the magazine’s Hall of Fame compilation Precious Metal: Decibel Presents the Stories Behind 25 Extreme Metal Masterpieces, pp. 48-55. Ed. Albert Mudrian, features by J. Bennett, Chris Dick, Kory Grow, Scott Koerber, Albert Mudrian, Kevin Stewart-Panko, Adem Tepedelen and Matthew Widener. Da Capo Press, Cambridge, MA, 2009, 384 pp.
M-5. Bennett, J. “Seasons in the Abyss: An Exclusive Oral History of Slayer.” Decibel no. 22, August 2006, p. 67 (pp. 64-86).
M-6. McIver, Joel. The Bloody Reign of Slayer (revised edition). London/NY: Omnibus Press. 2010. 432 pp.
M-7. Dick, Chris. “The Decibel Hall of Fame: Chaos Rampant: The Making of Slayer’s South of Heaven.” Decibel no. 101, March 2013, p. 48-59.
M-8. Kitts, Jeff. “Reign Maker.” Guitar World, August 2013, p. 47 (pp. 44-54, 158-160). A total must-read for any Slayer fan. Detailed and compelling.
Read it here:
http://www.guitarworld.com/tribute-complete-untold-story-slayers-jeff-hanneman
Purchase the full issue:
http://store.guit
arworld.com/collections/guitar-world/products/guitar-world-august-13-jeff-hanneman/?&utm_source=gw_homepage&utm_medium=daily_scroller&utm_campaign=GWAUG13
M-9. Jarek Szubrycht’s Slayer book, 2006. Original Polish edition: Bez litosci. Prawdziwa historia zespolu Slayer. German translation: Slayer - Show No Mercy, ISBN-10: 3898808637; ISBN-13: 978-3898808637. Available via Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Jarek+Szubrycht
Chapter 2:
Intro: The Story So Far…, or, What We’re Looking at Here
1-1. Neil Gaiman’s short story “Raining Blood” available in his 2006 collection Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders. Mass market paperback 2010, by Harper Perennial.
1-2. From Rick Rubin’s statement read by Rob Trujillo at Hanneman’s public memorial at the Hollywood Palladium, 23 May 2013.
1-3. Garman, Ralph and Smith, Kevin. Fat Man on Batman no. 40, “Man of Steel Super Special: Fat Man and Garman on Superman.” 16 June 2013. Podcast.
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