046: Album Dive: Slayer Hell Awaits

Metal Nerdery Podcast

“There’s just something about those first 2 Slayer records…”
1985. This was a time in history where Thrash Metal was quickly taking over the musical landscape and proving that things were about to get a whole lot darker, faster and heavier (and EVILER of course, much to the chagrin of the PMRC!).

Slayer’s 2nd album, ‘Hell Awaits’, had ALL of the necessary ingredients to make the quantum leap forward with their increasingly darker lyrical imagery and apocalyptic sonic palette.

So fix your favorite relaxer, turn off the outside world for an hour or so and JOIN US (or rather, SU NIOJ) as we dive into the album, the tracks, and of course any and all tangentionally related ‘Hell Awaits’ and Slayer factoids; including some which blew our hair back and some that were just fucking hysterious.

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Show Notes
(00:00): Tangentionally Related Metal Nerdery Item/Adam’s still on the Pasta of Souls World Tour with Milley/#pastatacos/Special Guest Co-Host! Mr. Eric Mixon/ Metal Nerdery Album Dive: SLAYER- Hell Awaits (and the Sophomore Jump from ‘Show No Mercy’)

(04:20): Hell Awaits vs God Hates Us All/Ways to make an album sound #eviler/How NOT to record drums/Released March 1985/37:11 in Length (and Width)/The “Secret” Hell Awaits Backwards Message (JOIN US!)/Sdrawkcab Stiawa Lleh/SU NIOJ!!

(08:36): The Slayer “imagery” (lyrically and musically darker and eviler)/#sophomorejump/The Most “Progressive” Slayer album Wait, WHAT!?/ www.thrashmetaliq.com (Hell Awaits factoids)/The “Magic” Albums/”My hair…”/JOIN US/Do you have the new Hell Awaits EIGHT TRACK?

(16:02): Production of Hell Awaits vs God Hates Us All/Matt’s last Slayer show (2016), w/ Death Angel and Anthrax at the Tabernacle/Eric’s last Slayer show (2018)/#dontdenythepowerofslayer

(21:12): The Tracks: Hell Awaits (#readthoselyrics #SlayerImagery #ItAwaitsBro)/The clarity of the lyrics on Reign in Blood vs Hell Awaits #itmakesthehellbetter #damnated

(28:06): Kill Again (and the progression towards “The Slayer Sound”)/At Dawn They Sleep (#EvilerThanTwilight)/*Haunting the Chapel (#BoneUs) *

(35:47): Praise of Death (more and more of that “Slayer Sound”) Now with #evilersolos (shhhhh)

(38:56): Necrophiliac (#norubberneeded)

(42:40): Crypts of Eternity (perhaps the most progressive Slayer song ever) and the evolution of their sound, from the first 2 albums through to the 3 “Magic” albums (and beyond)

(53:25): Hardening of the Arteries/Hell Awaits (Outro) #backshadowing/Metal Nerdery Patreon is ON!!! Patreon.com/MetalNerderyPodcast/ For episode info, go to metalnerdery.com/podcast/