Reign In Blood

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Reign in Blood
Студийный альбом Slayer
Дата выпуска	октябрь 1986
Записан	1986
Жанр	Трэш-метал
Длительность	29 мин 03 сек
Лейбл	Def Jam Records
Продюсер	Slayer и Рик Рубин
Страна	{{{Страна}}}
Хронология Slayer
Hell Awaits (1985)	Reign in Blood (1986)	South of Heaven (1988)

Альбом Reign In Blood («Царствие во крови») считается вершиной творчества группы Slayer.

Этот альбом занимал первые строчки в чартах, был признан лучшим альбомом экстремальной музыки в журнале «Metal Hammer». У группы было немало проблем из-за противоречивой песни «Angel of Death», посвящённой немецкому врачу Йозефу Менгеле, проводившем эксперименты над узниками Освенцима.

Содержание 1 Live performances 2 Controversy 2.1 Artwork 2.2 Lyrical themes 3 Appearances in media 4 Track listing 4.1 1998 re-issue bonus tracks 5 Personnel 6 References

[править] Live performances

Песни "Angel of Death" and "Raining Blood" стали постоянно включаться в сет-лист группы, их же исполнение особенно любит Ханнеман.^[1]

Группа сыграла Reign in Blood целиком во время тура "Still Reigning", который проходил в конце 2004 года. В 2004 году под таким же названием также был издан концертный DVD, который включал финальное исполнение "Raining Blood", во время исполнения которой всё оборудование и музыканты поливались алой бутафорной кровью из специально разработанной разбрызгивающей системы.^{[2] [3]} Кинг позже признавался, что в то время как идея сыграть Reign in Blood целиком была предложена их менеджером, она нашла мало поддержки. В конце концов группа решила добавить в концертное исполнение больше неожиданности и, чтобы избежать повторений, изобрела идею льющейся крови.^[4]

На вопрос о использовании бутафорной крови в будущем Кинг ответил: "Время идёт, но никогда не говори "никогда". Я знаю, Япония никогда не видела этого, Южная Америка и Австралия никогда не видели этого. Так что этого никто не знает".^[5]

Although it was omitted from a number of concerts because of short time allotments, Slayer have often said that they enjoy playing the album in its entirety. According to Hanneman: "We still enjoy playing these songs live. We play these songs over and over and over, but they're good songs, intense songs! If it were melodic songs or some kind of boring 'clap your hands' song, you'd be going crazy playing those every night. But our songs are just bam-bam-bam-bam, they're intense".^[6] The band was on stage for 70 minutes, which only allowed seven or eight additional songs to be played following the album's play. King stated this arrangement "alienates too many people".^[7]

[править] Controversy

[править] Artwork

Def Jam's distributor, Columbia Records, refused to release the album due to its controversial lyrical themes and cover art. Reign in Blood was eventually distributed by Geffen Records; however, due to the controversy it did not appear on Geffen's release schedule.^[8]

The artwork was designed by Larry Carroll, who at the time was creating political illustrations for The Progressive, Village Voice, and The New York Times. When the art was finalized, one band member was unhappy with the result. However, when another member showed it to his mother, and was given the description "disgusting", they decided to retain it, and felt they were "onto something".^[8] The cover art was featured in Blender magazine's 2006 "top ten heavy metal album covers of all time".^[9]

[править] Lyrical themes

For the album, Slayer decided to abandon the Satanic themes explored on their previous album Hell Awaits, and write about issues that were more on a social level.^[10] Reign in Blood's lyrics include meditations on death, insanity, and murderers, while the lead track "Angel of Death" details human experiments conducted at the Auschwitz concentration camp by Josef Mengele; who was dubbed "the Angel of death" by inmates.^[11] The song led to accusations of Nazi sympathizing and racism, which have followed the band throughout their career.^[12]

Hanneman was inspired to write "Angel of Death" after he read a number of books on Mengele during a Slayer tour. Hanneman has complained people usually misinterpret the lyrics, and clarified, "Nothing I put in the lyrics that says necessarily he was a bad man, because to me — well, isn't that obvious? I shouldn't have to tell you that".^[1] The band utilized the controversy to attract publicity, incorporating the Reichsadler into their logo (also the S in the band's name resembles the Sig runes used by the SS), and writing a song titled "SS-3", which mentions Reinhard Heydrich, the second in command in the Schutzstaffel.^[13]

[править] Appearances in media

"Raining Blood" was covered by Tori Amos on her 2001 album Strange Little Girls. King has admitted that he thought the cover was odd: "It took me a minute and a half to find a spot in the song where I knew where she was. It's so weird. If she had never told us, we would have never known. You could have played it for us and we'd have been like, 'What's that?' Like a minute and a half through I heard a line and was like, 'I know where she's at!'" The band however liked the cover enough to send Slayer t-shirts to Tori Amos.^[14] The song was also covered by Malevolent Creation, Freaklabel, Chimaira, Vader, Reggie and the Full Effect and Erik Hinds, who covered the entire album on a H'arpeggione.^[15]

In 2005, the Slayer tribute band Dead Skin Mask released an album with eight Slayer tracks, including "Angel of Death".^[16] The death metal band Monstrosity covered the song in 1999,^[17] while the track was featured on the classical band Apocalyptica's 2006 album Amplified / A Decade of Reinventing the Cello.^[18] A Slayer tribute album titled Al Sur Del Abismo (Tributo Argentino A Slayer), compiled by Hurling Metal Records, featured sixteen tracks covered by Argentina metal bands, including Asinesia's version of "Angel of Death".^[19] Raining Blood was also covered by the New Zealand drum and bass band Concord Dawn on their 2003 album Uprising.

"Angel of Death" was featured in the multi–platform video game Tony Hawk's Project 8. Nolan Nelson, who selected the soundtrack for the game asserts; "one of the greatest heavy metal songs ever recorded. Don't know who Slayer is? I feel sorry for you".^[20] "Raining Blood" was included in the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City in–game radio station V-Rock.^[21] The song was featured in the 127th South Park episode Die Hippie, Die aired on March 16, 2005.^[22] The plot centers on the town of South Park, which has been overrun by hippies. Eric Cartman states "Hippies can't stand death metal" and proceeds to drill through a hippie concert onto the main stage to change the audio to "Raining Blood", making the hippies run away. King found the episode humorous and expressed his interest in the show ending the interview with "It was good to see the song being put to good use, if we can horrify some hippies we've done our job."^[5] "Angel of Death" also appears in several movies, including Gremlins 2, at the point when the character Mohawk turns into a spider,^[23] Jackass: The Movie, where it is played during a car stunt scene and in the 2005 Iraq War documentary Soundtrack to War.^[24][25] Raining Blood is also one of the songs featured in Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock, and is considered one of the most difficult songs in the game, if not the hardest of the career song list.^[26] A looped section of guitar riff from "Angel of Death" appears in the song "She Watched Channel Zero" by the rap group, Public Enemy. Similarly, riffs from "Angel of Death" and "Criminally Insane" were also sampled by KMFDM on the track "Godlike" in 1990.

[править] Track listing

1. "Angel of Death" (Jeff Hanneman) – 4:51
2. "Piece by Piece" (Kerry King) – 2:02
3. "Necrophobic" (Hanneman, King) – 1:40
4. "Altar of Sacrifice" (Lyrics: King) (Music: Hanneman) – 2:50
5. "Jesus Saves" (Lyrics: King) (Music: Hanneman, King) – 2:54
6. "Criminally Insane" (Hanneman, King) – 2:23
7. "Reborn" (Lyrics: King) (Music: Hanneman) – 2:11
8. "Epidemic" (Lyrics: King) (Music: Hanneman, King) – 2:23
9. "Postmortem" (Hanneman) – 3:27 (On CD version mistyped (2:45)
10. "Raining Blood" (Lyrics: Hanneman, King) (Music: Hanneman) – 4:17 (On CD version mistyped (4:58)

[править] 1998 re-issue bonus tracks

11. "Aggressive Perfector" (King, Hanneman) – 2:30^[I]
12. "Criminally Insane (Remix)" (Hanneman, King) – 3:17

↑  "Aggressive Perfector" was shorter and had clearer production than the previous version featured on the reissue of the EP Haunting the Chapel. The reissue also fixed a problem with early CD pressings which set the beginning of "Raining Blood" into the blank pause in "Postmortem".^[4]

[править] Personnel

Tom Araya – bass, vocals Jeff Hanneman – guitar Kerry King – guitar Dave Lombardo – drums

Rick Rubin – producer Larry Carroll – artwork Andy Wallace – engineer Howie Weinberg – mastering

[править] References

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