FIRST TIME listening to SLAYER - "Raining Blood" REACTION

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Komentáře • 539

  • @_rafael_b
    @_rafael_b Před rokem +183

    Fun fact; Tori Amos did a version of this song, of course with her own musical twist. The members of Slayer actually loved it and sent her a box full of merch after they heard it.
    Also, this track was used in an episode of South Park. Eric Cartman invaded a hippy festival playing this song. He said, "hippies hate death metal".

    • @rofyle
      @rofyle Před rokem +11

      That SP episode was great.

    • @shanebrown4146
      @shanebrown4146 Před rokem +6

      I LOVE TORI! Her version stunned all of us

    • @philpennington826
      @philpennington826 Před rokem +10

      LOL I remember when that episode aired. You could actually hear Slayer fans in houses down the street yelling at the top of their lungs, "F**KING SLAYER IS NOT DEATH METAL!!!!" 🤣

    • @adamrodgers2377
      @adamrodgers2377 Před rokem +6

      God DAMNED HIPPIES!!!!!!!!!

    • @gwaptiva
      @gwaptiva Před rokem

      And JBO crossbred it with the Weather Girls

  • @tomtomthebear
    @tomtomthebear Před rokem +61

    Ghosts of war is literally everything I love about slayer in one track..!!! A hidden gem in their catalogue

    • @shealanger
      @shealanger Před rokem +6

      i agree! ghosts of war and live undead are my 2 favorite tracks on south of heaven, both are hidden gems.

    • @JewKyle666
      @JewKyle666 Před rokem +3

      ​@@shealangerFuck Yeah! Live Undead is number 1 for me. It has every element of Slayer from the debut to their end in my opinion.

    • @user-il5pb9ks9s
      @user-il5pb9ks9s Před 6 měsíci +1

      One of my personal favorites.

    • @INSTRUMENTALILLNESS
      @INSTRUMENTALILLNESS Před 6 měsíci

      🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

    • @alemmingsdeath
      @alemmingsdeath Před měsícem

      Fuck yes!

  • @chairmanofthebored6860
    @chairmanofthebored6860 Před rokem +114

    Yes please. More Slayer.

    • @mloftus8618
      @mloftus8618 Před rokem +3

      Yes! More Slayer. React to Ghosts of War, not enough people react to it, and it’s one of their best songs.

    • @kampfer3146
      @kampfer3146 Před rokem

      Yes please, War Ensemble 👍

    • @ZERXERZANZIGER
      @ZERXERZANZIGER Před rokem

      🤫

    • @INSTRUMENTALILLNESS
      @INSTRUMENTALILLNESS Před 6 měsíci

      Even cave people a million years ago always said..... Yes please, more Slayer!🤘😁🤘

  • @Seven50ml
    @Seven50ml Před rokem +12

    I got to see them play this live at an outdoor venue while it was pouring down rain. One of my best concert experiences \,,/

  • @justindevoe9556
    @justindevoe9556 Před rokem +21

    This whole album is pure aggression in audio form, now that you’ve listened to the opener and closer you gotta do the whole album. Postmortem is my personal favorite from the album

  • @hexeautoexport2704
    @hexeautoexport2704 Před rokem +38

    Slayer is my favorite band of all time. Silent scream or South of Heaven are other great lyrics. If you like guitar try suicidal Tendencies “ How will I laugh tomorrow if I can’t smile today(video version is the best not a big fan of extended one), can’t bring me down or also Insitutionalized

    • @p1g5m0k3
      @p1g5m0k3 Před rokem +2

      Huge fan of How Will I Laugh Tomorrow (When I Can’t Even Smile Today)? That’s my favorite Suicidal Tendencies track, followed by Trip At The Brain and You Can’t Bring Me Down.

    • @hexeautoexport2704
      @hexeautoexport2704 Před rokem +1

      @@p1g5m0k3 Trip at the brain…I agree great song

    • @p1g5m0k3
      @p1g5m0k3 Před rokem

      @@hexeautoexport2704 💯

  • @kellerzor7270
    @kellerzor7270 Před rokem +14

    Amazing reaction. Reign in blood is considered the best Thrash Metal album ever. This song proves why :)

  • @LouisGiliberto
    @LouisGiliberto Před rokem +30

    Slayer has a song they always introduce as a "love song" (seriously!) - it's called "Dead Skin Mask"

    • @MEDVE1978
      @MEDVE1978 Před rokem +3

      This is a song about a man named Ed who used to sleep and dance with the dead...

    • @richardnewbold6155
      @richardnewbold6155 Před rokem

      @@MEDVE1978 DEAD SKIN MASK Yeeeeeaaaaaahhhhhhhhh🤘🤘🤘

    • @GianlucaSoccio
      @GianlucaSoccio Před rokem +1

      Necrophiliac too 😂

    • @igaelvahgelt9890
      @igaelvahgelt9890 Před rokem +1

      17 year old when I saw slayer. Tom introduced this exactly as stated and it completely freaked me out. Loved it.

    • @pc574
      @pc574 Před rokem

      @@GianlucaSoccio That is the love story of El Duce

  • @metalmark1214
    @metalmark1214 Před rokem +19

    Enjoy your take on the song Lilly. I like to describe many of Slayer's guitar solos as sounding like a couple of cats fighting in a canvas bag.😆

    • @motleydude73
      @motleydude73 Před rokem

      Kerry likens them to souls screaming and shrieking in hell.

    • @markstrickland438
      @markstrickland438 Před rokem +1

      Indeed. They are meant to convey chaos.

  • @timw8398
    @timw8398 Před rokem +5

    Young lady! Watching you react takes me down memory lane!! Reminds me of the girls I went to shows with throughout my 20s in the 80s. Full of life, insightful and ready for all that life brings!!!! Thank you! Keep rockin on! 🎸🎸🎸

  • @gabrielstratton1775
    @gabrielstratton1775 Před rokem +6

    Interesting fact, Slayer was known to have tuned their 2 guitars slightly differently from each other so they could play a synchronized riff and have extra harmonies and a fuller sound... as evidence here in the first 30 seconds after the guitars come in

  • @MEDVE1978
    @MEDVE1978 Před rokem +4

    Raining Blood, the album is I think a genre defining piece. My introduction to Slayer was the Raining Blood / Black Magic live video. I watched that at the ago of 15 or 16 and I said "This is simply brutal, it hits you in the face and makes you go through walls". After that I got deeper into Slayer and I still love it. I attented 5-6 concerts and I can still remember Tom smiling while the first tempo speed up and us moshing like hell and everybody scraming.... It will always be one of my favourite moments.

  • @DavidRodriguez-yo7zw
    @DavidRodriguez-yo7zw Před rokem +2

    Been enjoying your reactions. Your very thorough on your comments and pay attention to detail of instruments and meaning of lyrics. ❤

  • @shmick6079
    @shmick6079 Před rokem +5

    I mean, that final solo is really intended to be chaotic af

  • @scottmccarthy1531
    @scottmccarthy1531 Před rokem +2

    Nothing like seeing that song live. Hearing the drums in the beginning and knowing what's about to come. Pure chaos!!! The Slayer pit..... man I miss that.

  • @chrisduff503
    @chrisduff503 Před rokem +1

    I just turned 18 when I saw Slayer perform this live in the Ulster Hall, Belfast Northern Ireland back in September 1988. And yeah, that guitar solo scrambled my brain back then too. 🤘

  • @anthonysuski9248
    @anthonysuski9248 Před rokem +19

    I remember buying this tape and DEATH/ Spirtual Healing at the same time!! I was 10 or 11!! Was life changing!!! 😎 👍

    • @nachoxm
      @nachoxm Před rokem

      I saw Death at The Oak Theater in Chicago when I was a high school kid. Best mosh pit ever!!

  • @ronnywilson2112
    @ronnywilson2112 Před rokem +14

    Slayer never disappoint, especially their 1980's albums those are pure brutality back in the day. Love the Reign In Blood (1986) album it's a must for any Metalhead. Later those albums inspired the birth of Death Metal in the 80's, other extreme Metal genre with bands like Possessed, Poison (the German band), Death, Necrophagia, Autopsy, Morbid Angel, Slaughter (the Canadian band), Morbid Angel, Obituary, Deicide, Cannibal Corpse, Bolt Thrower, Suffocation, Macabre, Carnage, Entombed, Dismember, Grave, Unleashed, etc.

    • @jingtroc23
      @jingtroc23 Před rokem

      They disappointed me, being into metal growing up i didn't understand the hype over Slayer. All their lyrics seemed like they were penned by either a 9 year old or an angsty teen. The guy can't sing. All other metal bands during Slayers era were bigger than Slayer (says a lot), a lot of their songs have the same boring repetition drum pattern. I think because they played fast and has demonic t shirts they got more cult status rather than it being down to actually writing great songs. If I'm wrong please point out why every metal band was bigger than them even though Slayer were hyped as being the biggest .. make it make sense.

  • @michaelclements5793
    @michaelclements5793 Před rokem +7

    You need to hear the whole Reign in Blood album (starting with the much better studio version of Angel of Death). The whole thing is less than 30 minutes long, but it's thrash perfection.
    Also War Ensemble is a great next individual song to get to.

  • @DrSkeff
    @DrSkeff Před rokem +2

    I literally did laugh out loud at the last section when the outro “solos” take over! Great reaction Lilly, enjoyed watching your brain melt in real time.

  • @GrayNeko
    @GrayNeko Před rokem +5

    Give "War Ensemble" from Seasons in the Abyss a shot. Fun song! ^_^

  • @frankromero5782
    @frankromero5782 Před rokem +8

    I remember this album being referred to as “the soundtrack to Hell”…sounds about right.

  • @hollowbodymusic5673
    @hollowbodymusic5673 Před rokem +5

    Not the most lyrical but Chemical Warfare is a hella good time 🤘 6:59

  • @randallfranklin7910
    @randallfranklin7910 Před rokem +8

    Disciple would be another great song to review, Great lyrics!

  • @MikeWerner24
    @MikeWerner24 Před rokem +2

    YES!!!!! 🤘🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @Shiljamannn
    @Shiljamannn Před rokem +1

    1986 was the best year for metalheads.... All the albums that came out that year... MOP, Peace Sells, Reign in Blood, Somewhere In Time...

  • @cesarvidelac
    @cesarvidelac Před 9 dny

    I'm 52 years old, I discovered Slayer when I was younger than you. Watching young people like you appreciating this music without talking shit is priceless. Subscribed🖤

  • @Greg-om2hb
    @Greg-om2hb Před rokem +9

    Raining Blood is the climax of the Reign in Blood album, a seminal work the redefined Death Metal, with the assistance of producer Rick Rubin. To fully appreciate the song’s magnificence, you need to listen to it in the context of the full album (it’s only 30 minutes long).
    Slayer has no ballads, but they followed up Reign in Blood with an uncharacteristically slow album, South of Heaven. For something lyrical, try the title track or the closer, Behind the Crooked Cross.

    • @steelrob7917
      @steelrob7917 Před rokem +1

      It’s not death metal

    • @LibertySpam
      @LibertySpam Před rokem

      South of Heaven is a groove metal album IMO, still love it....

  • @paulporter5853
    @paulporter5853 Před rokem +1

    That reaction was precious! :'D

  • @karlbecker8775
    @karlbecker8775 Před rokem +16

    Seasons In The Abyss should be on the list. The intro is haunting.

  • @Jason-bi2hx
    @Jason-bi2hx Před rokem

    Another follower, love your vids, and passion :)

  • @thegorn68
    @thegorn68 Před rokem +24

    Imagine what we all thought hearing this for the first time in 1986. NO ONE was playing that damn fast.

    • @Aethyrs
      @Aethyrs Před rokem

      yeah, it was the shit :)

    • @fredlaroche6969
      @fredlaroche6969 Před rokem

      Seriously, to this very day, if you divide the heavyness by the year it was released on, nothing even comes remotely close to Reign in Blood's ratio.

    • @DeadlyRivfader
      @DeadlyRivfader Před rokem

      Well... Bathory did back in 1984

    • @bms9144
      @bms9144 Před rokem

      I remember buying it when it first came out - I was absolutely blown away. In all the years since that time it is still defines the genre.

    • @crookedvultrendall5581
      @crookedvultrendall5581 Před rokem +1

      Even today's heavy metal doesn't feel has heavy as slayer!! Everything today in metal kindcof sounds the same. The Big 4 from the 80s definitely had their own sound!!

  • @chriswatts9610
    @chriswatts9610 Před rokem +2

    I remember playing this song on guitar hero in like middle school 😂 goes hard af

  • @slayer7682
    @slayer7682 Před 10 měsíci

    I have gone down the rabbit hole of watching your Slayer REACTIONS

  • @dizawnofwizar
    @dizawnofwizar Před 8 měsíci

    There's a documentary called "still reigning" and it covers the entire album, etc.. this song they perform under a rain machine pouring red fluid on them as they play. It's pretty epic

  • @evilme1752
    @evilme1752 Před rokem

    instant thumbs up for my fav slayer song :D

  • @SuperSlymee
    @SuperSlymee Před rokem +1

    I really like your take on the lyrical content of these songs.

  • @DominusLuna
    @DominusLuna Před rokem +1

    I just couldn't go by without watching this. \m/

  • @adamrodgers2377
    @adamrodgers2377 Před rokem

    Good morning! I and I would like to say three things. First you're awesome, glad to see the younger generation getting into Slayer and Metal in general 🤘🏼💀🤘🏼
    Second my Daughter showed me this, she is 15 and is a Metal Head just like all of us, makes me proud 🥲🤣 and now I have subscribed to your channel because checking out your reaction and take on hearing this for the first time took me back 33 years to when I was 13 and heard Slayers Second Album Hell Awaits for the time. That was the first Slayer Album I heard and the first one I bought. My brother (RIP) was much older than me but new I liked Metallica handed me Hell Awaits and said listen to this, I think you might like it, well he was right. Scared the shit outta me but I loved it!!!!! & now hear I am 46 years old and still a HUGE Metal Head. 🤘🏼💀🤘🏼
    Third, check out War Ensmble, 213, or Killing Fields those are awesome and my Daughter and myself think you will like those.
    Have a great day! 🤘🏼💀🤘🏼

  • @alanstarr4373
    @alanstarr4373 Před rokem +2

    Wait until you hear, War Ensemble, or Hell Awaits or Criminally Insane

  • @nebnep
    @nebnep Před 3 měsíci

    Really love how much she enjoys this masterpiece!

  • @fightinggamefanatic
    @fightinggamefanatic Před 5 měsíci

    I saw Slayer 10 times live and Raining Blood is my favorite song!! Listen to Divine Intervention or Fictional Reality. Also, where’s the Death Metal love?Try Obituary - Final Thoughts , Insane / Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague, A Skull Full of Maggots / Deicide - Trifixion, When Satan Rules His World / Sepultura - Territory, Desperate Cry, Dead Embryonic Cells, Orgasmatron / Torture Killer - A Violent Scene of Death, Written in Blood / Six Feet Under - Still Alive, Lycanthropy / Morbid Angel - Eyes to See, Ears to Hear, Fall From Grace / Death - Pull the Plug, Suicide Machine / Country songs - Reba McEntire - Fancy (Bobbie Gentry Cover) / Charlie Daniels - Long Haired Country Boy / Jeannie C. Riley - Harper Valley P.T.A. / Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe / Won’t hurt my feelings if you don’t like some of these, but try some!!

  • @trias418
    @trias418 Před rokem

    love the interpretation of that part being a march right before the lacerated sky. Awesome.

  • @tywatts7834
    @tywatts7834 Před 8 měsíci

    Listen to them all over and over and over and over again and again to and again

  • @ntnt6557
    @ntnt6557 Před rokem +2

    Funny that this song has no any hidden sense, in one interview Jeff Hanneman was asked what about this song, and he said "this is a song about a dude who got kicked out of heaven, and now takes his revenge on everyone"

  • @TheRenoReviews
    @TheRenoReviews Před rokem +1

    The album Christ Illusion is awesome, the song Jihad has an awesome riff, Skeleton Christ is another great one from that record

  • @marcodepalma7635
    @marcodepalma7635 Před 3 měsíci

    I love her comments.. She is smart.. Probably the most meaningful reaction videos you will find on youtube..

  • @jaymzgaetz2006
    @jaymzgaetz2006 Před 3 měsíci

    Now imagine it live with red raining down on the crowd. Thanks for the memories, slayer.

  • @user-nr2ow9qd6l
    @user-nr2ow9qd6l Před 3 měsíci

    Slayer was ahead of it's time. Now it is Immortalized in music & song.

  • @MetalNCarnet
    @MetalNCarnet Před rokem +2

    A classic that never goes out of style. You can pop this on anywhere and a mosh pit will break out, and at least one person yelling out SLAYEEEEEERRRRR!!!

  • @LouisGiliberto
    @LouisGiliberto Před rokem

    Was waiting for this one! Raining Blood is their best song IMO \m/

  • @nigeldepledge3790
    @nigeldepledge3790 Před 9 měsíci

    FWIW, what Tom Araya had in mind when he wrote these lyrics was a cavern with stalactites all over the ceiling; and, impaled on those stalactites were dozens of corpses. The blood dripped from the stalactites and, as they landed, they formed the structure of S'tan's new body.
    Dead Skin Mask is one of the most uplifting and beautiful songs in Slayer's oeuvre, so if that's what you mean by lyrical, that's what I recommend.

  • @noahzepeda4622
    @noahzepeda4622 Před 4 měsíci

    Criminally insane is also a great flawless song

  • @mudflapsmoviereviews
    @mudflapsmoviereviews Před 9 měsíci

    Slayer!! 🤘🤘 this song is pure energy

  • @fthomason93
    @fthomason93 Před 8 měsíci

    I feel honored to say I’ve shed blood in the pit to this song lol one of my favorite concert moments

  • @mikkolappalainen9916
    @mikkolappalainen9916 Před rokem +1

    Fucking Slayer!! The most bad-ass band in this planet!

  • @squashedeyeball
    @squashedeyeball Před rokem +1

    6:16 and here my hopes for building up to bands such as Cryptopsy :) One band and genre at a time.
    Bless you Lilly! A great first, as always. Personally, I think that all other songs on Reign in Blood are in fact better than this closer. But there is no doubt that it's one of the two most popular Slayer songs.
    Slayer wrote about a lot of serious matters. "Silent Scream"'s lyrics are very grave, for any era. "Mandatory Suicide", "Expendable Youth", and also "Jihad" and "Unit 731".

  • @Robert-li4cr
    @Robert-li4cr Před rokem

    Lily Jane would be so much fun to hang out and have her listen to music with. I love this channel. It's so much fun to see her enjoy great music

  • @dontreadonme5331
    @dontreadonme5331 Před rokem

    YES!!! IM ABOUT TO WATCH!!

  • @renegonzalez6755
    @renegonzalez6755 Před rokem

    Such a great way to end an amazing album. Perhaps the pinnacle point for Slayer.

  • @its1ofthosedays562
    @its1ofthosedays562 Před rokem +1

    Hallowed point for sure has amazing lyrics

    • @TheBsparks72
      @TheBsparks72 Před rokem +1

      I like em all, but this one is definitely overlooked.

  • @jpeg7352
    @jpeg7352 Před rokem

    I do like that you get right into the music

  • @chaospoet
    @chaospoet Před rokem +1

    Lyrically I'd have to go with "World Painted Blood".
    Last time I saw Slayer was on their farewell tour. When they played this that "Marching" part, as you called it, it was me and about 7 or 8 other guys, none of us knew each other from Adam, stood in a line and just put our arms around each other and in unison headbanged to that. I'll never forget that for as long as I live.

  • @hellcorpses
    @hellcorpses Před rokem

    Hahaha love your reaction girl

  • @crookedvultrendall5581

    Awesome reaction

  • @jamescoleman8954
    @jamescoleman8954 Před rokem

    Last time I seen slayer was on the big four tour. I wanted to see them on their retirement tour, but I didn’t have the money at the time so I missed out on that but I’ll be seeing metallic and Pantera this summer in New Jersey.

  • @SFforlife
    @SFforlife Před rokem +2

    Dead Skin Mask and 213 are both really cool. Listen to the lyrics and you’ll quickly understand what they’re about. 🤘🏻

  • @ronvanmullekom1993
    @ronvanmullekom1993 Před 6 měsíci

    I'm a metal guitarist from Michigan and I think you are badass!

  • @trias418
    @trias418 Před rokem

    "random but yet made sense notes" yep thats the power of kerry king and slayer lol, awesome reaction

  • @battle66674
    @battle66674 Před rokem +1

    Slayer are the OG kings of the breakdown and change ups!!

  • @dontreadonme5331
    @dontreadonme5331 Před rokem

    HAHAHA I loved it!!! I lol'd 😃

  • @ResubidorSerial
    @ResubidorSerial Před rokem

    NOW I SHALL REING IN BLOOD!

  • @kenrichards4838
    @kenrichards4838 Před rokem

    Dead skin mask is about Ed Gein. He danced with the corpses he unburied from local cemeteries. Cmon! He had a nipple doorbell. That alone should make the story worthwhile

  • @michaelcriger6359
    @michaelcriger6359 Před 9 měsíci

    "Abolish the Rules Made of Stone." What a fucking brilliant, poetic lyric! Dang!

  • @godropkicks3219
    @godropkicks3219 Před rokem +1

    For Slayer, that was their version of a ballad.

    • @JG31392
      @JG31392 Před rokem +2

      Slayer never went soft, unlike other bands. They stayed true to form and you always knew their songs were going to be terrifying.

    • @godropkicks3219
      @godropkicks3219 Před rokem

      @@JG31392
      I could not agree more.

  • @Metaltorium
    @Metaltorium Před 9 měsíci

    Yes please more SLAYER!! \M/

  • @Nicholas_Burmeister
    @Nicholas_Burmeister Před rokem +2

    This song is worth watching a live version of if for nothing more than seeing the mosh pit in action.

  • @alexojeda9048
    @alexojeda9048 Před rokem +2

    You want some spicy lyrics, check out South of Heaven.

  • @shawnfate2656
    @shawnfate2656 Před rokem

    btw they do a live version where blood is actually pouring unto them from the top of the stage

  • @raaab1212
    @raaab1212 Před rokem +1

    This makes you want to get a 100 mph speeding ticket

  • @marceloindiodobrasilsantan4386

    MORE SLAYER PLEASE ❤

  • @thelatentobserver121
    @thelatentobserver121 Před rokem +2

    Slayer just sounds evil. The chord progressions, solos… they went all in. Have seen them a few times live….. so many cool stories from those shows. So awesome.

  • @arthy27
    @arthy27 Před rokem +1

    I love your "faces" while you listen to the music :)

  • @jackhay4478
    @jackhay4478 Před rokem

    Intelligent and incisive insight into this great song!😎

  • @stevensorrell1625
    @stevensorrell1625 Před rokem

    NOW you have entered Slayer!

  • @brian95240
    @brian95240 Před rokem

    In that solo, it always sou da like a goat screaming towards the end LOL. Angel of Death uses that sound in its solo too. It literally sounds like the final battle of the Apocalypse.

  • @Vitericus1
    @Vitericus1 Před rokem

    What's funny is that in the album's lyric/song notes, for those "solos" it doesn't say guitar solo, it just says, noise: King, Hanneman. It was just complete chaos for the sake of complete chaos.

  • @LouisWinthorpe622
    @LouisWinthorpe622 Před rokem

    I saw Tom Araya being interviewed on a BBC documentary and asked about this. He broke into the shyest, most endearing big smile, like you would never have expected, and he said "Raining Blood, is basically, a horror story".
    He also wasn't a metal fan, when they recruited him into Slayer. He was basically some kind classic rock hippy. He claims never to have heard metal until he was introduced to it by the other guys. I think he picked up the general gist of Metal, pretty well.
    Most lyrical song: maybe War Ensemble. They were just writing it about what the horrors of war are, in an unironic way, with a few metaphors thrown in about it being treated by, maybe, the higher-up generals, etc, as a sport, but one where the score is measured in human life. Then, just like presidential candidates adopt songs like Born In The USA for their election campaigns, army officers, reputedly, adopted War Ensemble and blasted it out of massive speaker at Iraqui soldiers during the gulf war to frighten them into a state of semi-submission, even before any shots had been fired.
    If you listen to it with that in mind, you can imagine how somebody from a different culture, who isn't used to hearing something like that, might actually quiver in fear at the thought of what is about to ensue.

  • @Gibbetoo
    @Gibbetoo Před rokem

    grabbed my guitar and joined in.

  • @jonathangraves2704
    @jonathangraves2704 Před rokem +1

    Definitely the title track for seasons in the abyss.

  • @larrycooper5328
    @larrycooper5328 Před rokem

    And this song was recorded in 1986…… imagine how much of a mind fuck it was back then!!!

  • @Aymungoos
    @Aymungoos Před rokem +1

    Please react to some early slayer from their first album it has a whole different vibe and is personally my favorite slayer. I'd recommend the antichrist or metal storm/face the slayer

  • @shmick6079
    @shmick6079 Před rokem +1

    Slayer lyrical songs… hmmm depends on what you’re after. I love Angel of Death, but maybe Dead Skin Mask or South of Heaven would be worth checking out. Or War Ensemble.

  • @chrisbanks6659
    @chrisbanks6659 Před rokem

    Here's what Jeff had to say -
    (Jeff) Hanneman explained that "it's about a guy who's in Purgatory 'cause he was cast out of Heaven. He's waiting for revenge and wants to fuck that place up." (Kerry) King later said that "the rest of the song explains what happens when he starts fucking people up. The lyrics 'Return to power draws near' is because he's waiting to get strong enough again to overthrow Heaven. And then 'Fall into me, the sky's crimson tears' is everybody's blood flowing into him. So basically, 'Raining Blood' is all the angels' blood falling on him.
    You're a smart cookie, lady 🤗

  • @julianortiz4151
    @julianortiz4151 Před rokem

    Have to come in here to correct something because I didn’t see anyone else mention it. This song is not written from the perspective of Satan… it’s about a serial killer and what could be possibly going through their mind when they commit the act. Even though there are some religious undertones, it’s more about the darker side of humanity and not necessarily Satan. When they say “abolish the rules made of stone” you’re correct it is a reference to the 10 Commandments but, they mean breaking the rule of committing murder out of a compulsion to do it. The devil is a scapegoat and not every evil thing done is due to him. Some people are just intrinsically evil. When you really think about it, it’s a bit more scary and disturbing. This is what Slayer are/were masters at. Painting a picture and letting your own imagination run wild with the suggestions. They’re not advocating or condemning anything just reflecting a side to human nature many would rather ignore.

  • @derkabronen
    @derkabronen Před rokem

    you can check the live version where actually rains blood... Jeff missed the spot, so it didn't rain on him... Tom and Kerry complained that they couldnt play well all wet, that they should have wait till the end of the song :D

  • @michaelwalters2669
    @michaelwalters2669 Před 9 měsíci

    To be honest there is not any bad Slayer songs they truly are one of the Greatest Bands Ever. Just saying glad you are enjoying them Lilly 🤘

  • @fewhavestrength
    @fewhavestrength Před rokem

    SLAYER RULES! 🤘🏻🤘🏻

  • @ratflail215
    @ratflail215 Před rokem

    Oh hell yeah \,,/

  • @Arthur-ke9vz
    @Arthur-ke9vz Před 3 měsíci

    By far my favorite band!!!!❤❤❤❤