Reign in Blood is the third studio album by American thrash metal band Slayer. It was released on October 7, 1986 by Def Jam Recordings. The album was Slayer’s first to enter the US Billboard 200, peaking at number 94. It helped define the sound of the emerging US thrashMetal scene in the mid-1980s. Today, it is often mentioned among the greatest heavy metal records ever.
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Reign in Blood is the third studio album by American thrash metal band Slayer. It was released on October 7, 1986 by Def Jam Recordings. The album was Slayer’s first to enter the US Billboard 200, peaking at number 94, and was certified Gold on November 20, 1992. In 2013, NME ranked it at number 287 in its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Today, it is often mentioned among the greatest heavy metal records ever. In their 2017 listing of the 100 Greatest Metal albums of all time, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Reign in Blood at #6. Alongside Anthrax’s Among the Living, Megadeth’s Peace Sells… but Who’s Buying?, and Metallica’s Master of Puppets, it helped define the sound of the emerging US thrashMetal scene in the mid-1980s, and has remained influential since. The release date of the album was delayed because of concerns regarding the lyrical subject matter of the opening track \”Angel of Death\”, which refers to Josef Mengele and describes acts such as human experimentation that he committed at the Auschwitz concentration camp. The band’s members stated that they did not condone Nazism and were merely interested in the subject. The cover artwork was designed by Larry Carroll, who at the time was creating political illustrations for The Progressive, Village Voice, and The New York Times. It has been featured in Blender Magazine’s 2006 \”top ten heavy metal album covers of alltime.
\”Reign In Blood was recorded and produced at Hit City West in Los Angeles with Rubin producing and Andy Wallace engineering. Steve Huey of AllMusic believed Rubin drew tighter and faster songs from the band, and delivered a clean produced sound that contrasted with their previous recordings. This resulted in drastic changes to Slayer’s sound and the band has since stated their previous releases were not up to par with the band’s current sound. The record was the label boss’ first professional experience with heavy metal, and his fresh perspective led to a drastic makeover of Slayer’sSound. The group has since said that they were finding the repetition of guitar riffs tiring, so they were trying to make the songs shorter, which resulted in the album’s short duration. It is one of the most influential albums of the 1980s, along with Slayer’s Hell Awaits and Suicidal Tendencies’s self-titled debut album, in which Slayer vocalist Tom Araya made a guest appearance in the music video for the single \”Institutionalized\”, pushing Suicidal Tendencies’s vocalist Mike Muir to the front of the pack. In the U.S., it was the first album to be released on the Def Jam label, which was primarily primarily a hip hop label. The label boss, Brian Slagel, said that Rubin was the most passionate of all the label representatives the band were in negotiations with. He persuaded the band to sign with Def Jam.
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