r/Slayer

I might be stating the obvious here to most of you, but some think Jeff was better at physically playing guitar. This isn’t true. Jeff was better at song writing. I think Jeff was also better at soloing. Even though Slayer solos are just random noodling with whammy bar thrown in. Jeff’s leads always sounded smoother to me.

However, Kerry was the better rhythm player. Listen to any professional live recording, they always turned Kerry’s amp up louder because he was the tighter & more aggressive live player on rhythm guitar. I listened to a live recording of Postmortem for instance, Jeff wrote that song, but when they play it live, it sounds like he is barely palm muting the notes, I had to strain myself to hear him because Kerry’s guitar is louder. I think they admitted themselves that Kerry was better at playing the riffs. I think it’s obvious that Jeff was better at writing them.

That’s it. Just an opinion post and something I observed.

Thinking of going from northern VA. Anyone from area want to join?

Have you guys heard this? I found an old episode of This American Life—episode 666, so naturally the whole thing is Satan-themed.

The first act is about a preacher who got swept up in the Satanic Panic of the ’80s, became obsessed with Satanism and heavy metal, and somehow ended up touring with Slayer for a week because he thought they might actually need him to perform an exorcism. 😂

I’m falling asleep to a podcast, as I do every night, and from the twilight of the half-heard voices as I drift, Slayer punches through! I’m like, WTF is Altar of Sacrice doing on public radio? Lol. It’s a great story. It starts around the 8:50 mark, although it takes a couple minutes to get to the Slayer part.