Hell Awaits

Occupation

Hell Awaits is the second album of the Californian thrash metal band Slayer and was released in 1985 on Metal Blade Records.

Formation

Slayers debut album Show No Mercy was Metal Blade Records ' best-selling publication, which the producer Brian Slagel prompting to record another album with the band. Since the band had evolved since their debut, the EP Haunting the Chapel could be seen as a stylistic preview, although none of the tracks would appear on Hell Awaits. After Show No Mercy by Slayer itself was funded, it did for Hell Awaits Slagel and also undertook a number of experienced staff to help out in the studio. The album was recorded professional than the previous one, and Dave Lombardo's pool did not have to be revised with overdub.

In At Dawn They Sleep vocalist Tom Araya involved in the songwriting and headed for the first time in a part that was also part of the song. In the album intro that sounds as if the band name voices say, Gene Hoglan was involved, who visited the band in the studio. It had been " grunting into the microphone the strangest noises ". It was then played backwards, " because it was our second album ", a " Welcome back ". Araya said in an interview that it was " all a big coincidence ." In fact, however, "Join us! " Included as a backward message; Play the song backwards from, you can hear the message over about one minute and getting quieter.

Style & Content

Musically, the album between fast and mid-tempo thrash metal. The title track Hell Awaits about begins with a slow intro that slowly builds up to a fast song, and Necrophiliac for example, has many tempo changes. The production is highlighted rather poor and highly reverberant. The songs on Hell Awaits are longer, " masticating " and faster than on previous recordings. The lyrics deal with occult and blasphemous topics.

Title list

  • Bonus tracks on the original release of Metal Blade Records ( taken from the ' Haunting the Chapel' -EP from 1984 ).

Reception

The page took TheLeftHandPath.com Hell Awaits on in his list of important thrash metal albums. Todd DePalma describes the album as " the soundtrack to vampires, spiritual disintegration and leichenfickenden insane ". Complaints about the production and excessive reverberation are irrelevant, nothing is as sick as this album. Götz Kühnemund spoke in the former Rock Hard by the " deadliest vinyl of this globe ." There chase " a Mörderriff the other flying bass drums, and the songs explode ". He forgave nine out of ten.

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