Slayer - Reign in Blood (w/ guest DX Ferris)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2017

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

Publisher and author DX Ferris (6623press.com) joins Bill and Brian to discuss Slayer's entry into the metal class of '86 Reign in Blood (1986, Def Jam). Ferris talks about taking his fandom to the extreme, from discovering the band as a teenager in Pittsburgh in the 80s, to having the opportunity to write two books on the band - one being the entry for this album in the acclaimed 33 1/3 series. Bill, Brian, and Ferris then discuss the influence of Rick Ruben and Andy Wallace on the record, Dave Lombardo's genre defining double bass drum, Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King's unique and sick guitar style, Tom Araya's unique vocals and spirituality, and more as we make our way through the album track by track!

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill. And I'm Brian. What are we talking about today, Brian?
0:05.2	Rain in Blood by Slayer. What we do here every week on the podcast is take a album of music and talk about what makes it great.
0:39.0	We talk about how we got into the music.
0:41.2	We talk about what makes it cool in general, and then we follow it all up with a
0:45.5	track-by-track review.
0:47.5	Ooh, that sounds delicious.
0:50.7	And we're not going to do it alone, Brian.
0:52.6	No, no, we've got somebody Skyping in this week.
0:56.1	The guy who wrote the books on Slayer.
0:59.8	Yeah, we've had a few of those recently.
1:02.1	Yeah, so this is DX Ferris, Ferris to his friends, as he told us to call him.
1:07.5	And he has written two separate books on Slayer, one for the acclaimed 33 and a third series.
1:16.1	Which we reference often on the podcast.
1:18.6	And we had Dan Leroy from the 33 and a third series on our Beastie Boys episode.
1:22.8	And they're actually friends.
1:24.7	Yeah.
1:25.2	Because Dan Leroy's follow-up book
1:28.4	for whom the cowbell tolls
1:30.2	was published by Ferris's
1:33.8	66 and two-third publishing company.
1:37.8	Yeah, yeah.
1:38.5	Brian and I were just looking at each other
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