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Jun 6, 2016 · Slayer aren’t just known for their extreme music, their artwork will go down in history as some of the most controversial and bloodcurdling in heavy metal history. Here we look back at each studio album cover and how the thrash titan’s visual aesthetic changed over the past 32 years.
- Chris Chantler
Regarded as one of the finest thrash metal albums of all time, Reign In Blood broke new ground for Slayer, giving them a cooler, suddenly streetwise overhaul.
Sep 2, 2015 · Carroll worked big: the original artwork was three feet by three feet, triple the size of an album cover. He worked in a blend of oils, acrylics, and collage, using a photocopier to resize...
Dec 3, 2010 · The hirsute music guru had just signed budding SoCal thrash stars Slayer and was overseeing the production of Reign in Blood. Rubin was drawn to the dark, creepy quality of Carroll's work, and he asked the artist if he'd be interested in creating a cover for Slayer's soon-to-be classic.
- Carnifex – Angel of Death
- Malevolent Creation – Piece by Piece
- Most Precious Blood – Necrophobic
- Invocator – Altar of Sacrifice
- Enslaved – Jesus Saves
- Edge of Sanity – Criminally Insane
- Crowd Deterrent – Reborn
- From The Depths – Epidemic
- Body Count – Postmortem
- Tori Amos – Raining Blood
On their third album Hell Chose Me, Californian deathcore pioneers Carnifex paid tribute to the iconic opening song from Reign In Blood. You almost have to admire their sheer gall for picking such a perfect song and trying to better it. To be fair to them, they certainly put their stamp on it, adding some cool triggered drums, a more guttural vocal...
Reign In Blood is an album that hugely influenced the formation of death metal, so you won’t be too shocked to see one of the genres earliest bands have a go at a Slayer song. Malevolent Creation covered the brutal Piece By Piece as a bonus track for their Best Of compilation released in 2003, and add a big dollop of sickening Floridan DM to an alr...
Another scene that greatly benefitted from Slayer upping the intensity levels on Reign In Blood was hardcore. New York’s Most Precious Blood are one of many bands that took the formula of punk rock spirit melded with thrash riffs and ran with it. To say thank you they covered Necrophobic on 2002’s Covered In Bloodalbum, a hardcore tribute album to ...
Altar Of Sacrificepossesses one of the best openings to any metal song ever. Danish thrash band Invocator get it started right on this cover, before going on to pretty faithfully recreate Slayer’s original. Although, with all respect, it never really hits the same heights of eye-popping fury that we got first time around. Good effort all the same t...
Enslaved have come a long, long way since their pure black metal days in the early 90’s. But, as great as the more melodic and progressive minded version we know and love today is, it’s great to go back and listen to the band as furious, Norwegian teenage metalheads, their cover of Jesus Saves from the 1995 Satanic Slaughtertribute album is played ...
The Swedish death metal band Edge Of Sanity have been pretty much forgotten by most people these days, which is a shame because they were a band that mixed their fellow countrymen Entombed’s chainsaw guitar tone with Opeth’s more progressive leanings. They’ve split up now, but if you want a little taster of how great they were then this maniac vers...
Quite an easy one this, as, as far as we can see, no one has ever attempted to cover Reborn other than Ohio hardcore band Crowd Deterrent. It’s once again from the 2002 hardcore tribute album Covered In Blood, and it’s probably not quite as successful as the Most Precious Blood version. But it’s a rattling, clattering punk rock take on the song all...
Another long-lost death metal band, this time from the US, From The Depths clearly took a great deal of influence from the likes of At The Gates, who in turn wouldn’t have sounded the way they did without Slayer. This is a super-fast and savage cover, with some excellently throat ripping vocals that more than lives up to the original.
We might be jumping the gun a little here, as Ice-T's metal band Body Count actually cover the song we’re about to talk about next before they head into an expert run through Reign In Blood’s penultimate track. It’s a weird way to put the songs together, but there’s no doubt that it’s a hell of a cover, so much so that we dropped out the likes of H...
We've saved the weirdest for last. US singer and pianist Tori Amos is one of the most unique and individualistic musical artists in popular culture. On her 2001 covers album Strange Little Girlsshe took on the likes of Eminem, Depeche Mode and The Velvet Underground, as well as this genuine landmark metal song, turning it into a primal, thrash mael...
Undisputed Attitude is the seventh studio album by American thrash metal band Slayer, released on May 28, 1996, by American Recordings. The album consists almost entirely of covers of punk rock and hardcore punk songs, and also includes two tracks written by guitarist Jeff Hanneman in 1984 and 1985 for a side project called Pap Smear; [ 2 ] its ...
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Feb 4, 2024 · Not one to avoid controversy, Slayer have been known throughout the years for their explicit album artwork, subject matter and lyrics which often centred around themes of occultism, terrorism, war, genocide, murder and religious/anti-religious imagery. We take a look at all 12 studio albums and rank them from worst to best. 12: Undisputed Attitude.
