| | Bloody Reign Of Slayer |  | Author: Joel Mciver
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 717307
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 309
ISBN: 0825673615
Dewey Decimal Number: 780
EAN: 9780825673610
ASIN: 0825673615
Publication Date: August 1, 2008
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Product Description
Joel McIver's expert biography traces the band's development, album by album, as well as exploring the headline-grabbing moments over Slayer's long and tumultuous career which have become an inseparable part of the cult which surrounds and defines them.
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Excellent November 23, 2008
I liked this book.It goes through SLAYER history from 1983 to 2008.And the writer knows the subject.
Ive been a SLAYER fan sicne 1985 and even when i knew most of the stuff on this book i learned a few new things after reading it, lots of anecdotes, behind the scenes stories etc.
If you like SLAYER you have to get this book, it will give you several days of entertaintment, i recommend it very much...
If you've ever screamed SLAYER! until your throat was sore, this book is for you. September 8, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Joel McIver is the master of metal biography. I loved his previous bios on Metallica and Black Sabbath, and so it's no surprise that I loved his newest book on Slayer. Whereas lots of ink has been spilled talking about Metallica and Sabbath, McIver's bio is the first book on Slayer. So it really fills a need and sets the standard for Slayer books to come.
I was a huge Slayer fan in the early days--I got into them at the time of Hell Awaits and bought Reign in Blood on vinyl the day it was released. Unfortunately, I found South of Heaven terribly disappointing and gave up on the band after that until Christ Illusion. I'd occasionally hear a new song but nothing that really moved me. So for me one great bonus of reading McIver's book was that I got to go back and discover the Slayer I missed, listening to the CDs as I read. I now have appreciation, if not enthusiasm, for Seasons in the Abyss. And I definitely dig Divine Intervention--a very underrated CD, as McIver persuasively argues.
One thing that clearly emerges from my reading of the book is that Slayer's fans are crazier and more extreme than the guys in the band. None of the guys is as compelling in their life stories and struggles as is, for example, Ozzy or James Hetfield. While I didn't expect to find out that the guys in the band are really Satanists, as a recovering Catholic I was very disappointed to learn that Araya is (and always has been) a practicing Catholic. And Kerry King doesn't come across as particularly intelligent or thoughtful in his politics or anti-religious stance.
McIver rightly absolves Slayer from charges of white supremacy and of Nazism, but at times he goes too lightly on them. They really have flirted with Nazism too much. Just consider that the fan club is still called the Slatanic Wehrmacht!
In all, it's a great book, well worth the read. If you've ever screamed SLAYER! until your throat was sore, this book is for you.
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