Tag Archives: Slayer

Slayer, Gig Review. Birmingham Arena, Birmingham.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

There is still time, an illusionary discourse perhaps as all things must eventually fade from view but as we approach our own deal with our makers and accept that we cannot go on forever, so we begin to see Time as our witness, our star spectator and possible judge. For Time is the harshest critic and the kindest of opponents, Time is the beat between the strings of the truculent guitar, the pulse in the drum pattern and the throb of delight as the lyrics of a career fill a venue, the volume drowning the thought that in the end, everybody says goodbye one final time.

Slayer, Repentless. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It takes guts to continue when a lynch pin has been removed, when a much admired member of the band is no longer sadly part of the world and perhaps a reason for progressing is taken away; it takes magnetism, courage and style to keep the battle raging and strive for what is left still to achieve. In that alone Slayer, after losing the tremendous Jeff Hanneman, deserve credit for coming back with honest intent and grinding pulsating lyrical stance in their latest studio album Repentless.

Metallica, Kill ‘Em All. 30th Anniversary Retrospective.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

For many it was the album that was the beginning of Thrash Metal. The next logical step from Heavy Metal that found its way from America as in an exuberant recognition that British Heavy Metal had stolen a march on the genre. Metallica’s Kill ‘Em All certainly stands out as being part of the genre but it’s overall feel 30 years after its release is more of being the  partially formed conception, the gestation period before the moment of truth with Metallica’s Ride The Lightning coming in 1984 and the genre exploding in its classic era between 1985 and 1992 when bands such as Sacred Reich, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax easily stood head and shoulders above anything coming out of continental Europe and in some respects the U.K.