Repentless

[Cleveland Metal]

No Hanneman, No Lombardo.. No Slayer. It's Kerry King with Special Guest Tom Arraya... The new one bores me. And I LOVE Slayer...

Now Blood In, Blood Out, good stuff. Shame Holt didn't have more input.

[horns666]

^ and the Judas Priest version is much better too. lol

Man that was one HEAVY killer song for 70's...Rob's voice, double bass and all..wow!!!

They wrote it, without a point of reference! Any monkey can cover a song.

Slayer was like a Judas Preist cover band without a good singer..so the bass player sang. These are facts.

[MartinBarre]

I prefer the Slayer version, although I love that early era Priest stuff, MUCH better than the commercial, simplistic stuff they started putting out in the 80's IMO.

[Jackson8090s]

No, that was written by Judas Priest in 1977.

I knew that, my bad for not pointing it out though. I like both versions.

[toejam]

It is! Though, I do like the Slayer version a lot.

[xenophobe]

^ and the Judas Priest version is much better too. lol

[toejam]

Here ya go Horns, Jeff wrote all these


Dissident Aggressor 1988 South of Heaven

No, that was written by Judas Priest in 1977.

[artonsafari]

Picked Repentless up shortly after it came out. Enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would. Could have been a follow up to Seasons IMO.

[Jackson8090s]

I was Big on Slayer all the way to Seasons in the Abyss. After that it has been hit and miss, like a few songs here, couple there, one on that album, to nothing on Repentless. Maybe the next album will having something for my liking, KK is blabbing how he already has half of the next album written, songs that weren't good enough for this album.

He recently also made a comment about Metallica living off their first 5 albums and how he doesn't think they need another one at this point.

Really? He couldn't be further from the truth, fact is even Metallica's WORST albums (according to core fans) St. Anger, Load, Re-load are all multi-platinum. Slayer doesn't even have 1 album with platinum status, which is because I thought for sure Reign in Blood, one of the most highly praised metal records of all time would have achieved that status.

[Force]

Picked up both Slayer & Annihiltor on the w/end. I've never been big on Slayer but this is a solid album.

Annihiltor on the other hand left me less satisfied. I always been a huge fan but this time round Slayer wins out.

[xenophobe]

Annihilator always suffered from never having a really great singer, or at least a consistent singer. Jeff writes great songs, and is a fantastic guitar player, but the singer situation always hurt them in my opinion.

A band who really doesn't get the recognition they deserve is Sacrifice. They were as good or better than many of the American thrash bands, but never seemed to develop a following outside of Canada. Their reunion CD from 2009 showed that they've still got it too.

Sacrifice was kinda in the same position as Annihilator... both good bands that never really made huge success.

[metalhobo]

Sacrifice's best stuff was from the '80s. Pure HELL AWAITS guitar worship!

[Jackson8090s]

for crying out loud he's using a Gibson SG ... couldn't he get a more "metal" guitar? I mean, if you're the Beatles a Gibson SG works with your image, if you're a THRASH band not so much.

[zeegler]

From 1990

[zeegler]

I will never get why you guys in the USA never took to Annihilator and Jeff Waters the way they deserved. I've tried listening to Exodus and I just don't get it. Generic thrash with nothing to separate it from Sacred Reich, Kreator or any other B or even C rated thrash band. Then you have a guy like Jeff Waters who is one of the best guitarists ever and hardly anyone buys his stuff while wanking over Exodus and going on about how Holt's so amazing.

Annihilator always suffered from never having a really great singer, or at least a consistent singer. Jeff writes great songs, and is a fantastic guitar player, but the singer situation always hurt them in my opinion.

A band who really doesn't get the recognition they deserve is Sacrifice. They were as good or better than many of the American thrash bands, but never seemed to develop a following outside of Canada. Their reunion CD from 2009 showed that they've still got it too.

From 2009