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"…WE WOULD PLAY THEM PRETTY FUCKIN' FAST. THEN, IT JUST KEPT GETTING FASTER"

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a life shot of American thrash metal band SLAYER, c. 1985. The photo appears as back cover art to their second full-length LP "Hell Awaits," and was taken by Harald Oimoen.

""There was no real thinking behind [the album] being evil. All I knew was that the songs were longer, and everybody else had albums with long songs. They just ended up that way. The rest of the guys came up with their ideas and put them together."

From a vocal perspective, some of "Hell Awaits" tracks put new demands on Araya’s speed of delivery, and at times it seemed like he could hardly fit the words into the songs. "It was all new. "Show No Mercy" was more of a rock & roll tempo. It was upbeat, but not like we are. But when we played those songs live, we would play them pretty fuckin’ fast. Then, it just kept getting faster, and I mean now, I could sing "Hell Awaits" and the songs come out clearly, and I can say them as fast as I need to. You develop a technique, and you just get better at it.""

-- TOM ARAYA to The Quietus (interview conducted by Mark Eglington), a retrospective on their "Hell Awaits" full-length

Source: blog.bazillionpoints.com/2020/11/15/roots-of-slayers-evil-1985-masterpiece-hell-awaits-on-siriusxm-2.

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