Podcast Episode
Season 4, Episode 19 (no. 149): Reign in Blood, Part 1: Prelude, Enter Into the Realm of... Def Jam?!, and Rick Rubin Enters the Chat
About this episode
Today's topic is Reign in Blood, Part 1 of many: Prelude to the album, plus Enter Into the Realm of Def Jam... Recently inducted Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Rick Rubin enters the chat!
Last week, Patreon supporters got two versions of reviews & analysis of the "Expanded" edition of From Hell I Rise, the debut release by the Kerry King band.
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DEEZ NOTES: Things referenced in this episode...
Audio: Slayer live at "Lamorz," November 1985. This setchanged everything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aHdu-RU_B0
Slayer, Reign in Blood demo tape, round 1. JeffHanneman's bedroom tapes. Made with a drum machine. Back in the day, Chris Bade mailed me a TAPE of this. Youtube had NOT been fully stocked yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWVCJ47DMo0
Slayer, Reign in Blood demo tape, round 2. With the full band and Tom vox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmncxIvHhRE&t=587s
J. Bennett on Reign in Blood, short version: https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2004/11/02/slayer-reign-in-blood/
Look for the magazine's Metal Hall of Fame book collections here: https://store.decibelmagazine.com/collections/db-books
Plus...TALKIN' SLAYER & Ferris on the Instagram: Instagram.com/Slayerbooks
Ferris' TWO books about Slayer here... the other one is about Reign in Blood:SlayerBooks.com
For the next year or so, every week, TALKIN' SLAYER subscribers will get a chapter or two of "Slayer 66 2/3: A Metal Band Biography... Or, How F*kin' Slayer Kicked Fkin' @ss," REBORN: The Updated, Revised& Massively Expanded 4th Edition
Talkin' Slayer Season IV presents the chronological history of Slayer, as seen / heard in the book.
The previous edition of the book ran around 350 pages. The new REBORN Edition runs 639. We added a lot. And you can hear it all here, one week at a time, piece by piece.
You've never heard it like this before... unless you have the audiobook. The run time is 1.4 DAYS. That's a lot. It's available CHEAP atSlayerBook.Bandcamp.com.
Mostly, in Season 4, what you will get every week or so is a chapter from the book... plus some cool bonus stuff, like original interviews with people you WILL want to hear from.
The book was updated after the reunion, massively expanded, thoroughly overhauled, and rewritten so it's easier to read — both in format and writing style. Check it out at...SlayerBooks.com
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MASSIVE GRATITUDE for listening.