For my money Slayer are one of the greatest heavy metal bands of all time. When I was young I thought they were the most extreme music I’d ever heard but as I grew up I came to appreciate the craft of their aggression and pick up on the melodies hidden beneath the chugging, and boy do Slayer chug! My favourite chugging being in the build up to “Raining blood… from the lacerated skys”. Awesome for a spot of headbanging.
I was super stoked to find this clip firstly as it’s got Slayer as the fresh young pups they were, amazing to think this is from SEVENTEEN years ago. And secondly the footage was recorded for a BBC documentary about metal and I vividly remember videoing the programme when I was 14 and flipping out to all the metal on it. Highlights of the programme were Black Sabbath touring their hometown and scenes from a metal disco of people moshing to Ace Of Spades at Nottingham’s Rock City. A metal disco!?!?!?! Being fourteen this was something of a revelation to me. Perhaps one day I’d be old enough and cool enough to find this “Rock City”. As it turns out I did but that’s another story…
