South Of Heaven LP

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Ten studio albums of original material, thousands of live shows and over three decades into a career that's made them one of the biggest and most important metal bands in the world - the music of thrash metal legends Slayer is as brutal as it is beautiful, as punishing as it is precise, and as uncompromising as it is influential. The Chicago Tribune's Greg Kot hailed Slayer as "one of the great American rock bands of the last 30 years, forget about genre." Indeed, few bands come close to matching the intensity that Slayer - past and present - brings to its album releases and live shows. The band has received numerous nominations and awards, including four Grammy nods and two wins. Now, the single most distinctive and radical thrash metal band of all-time, will see its ten American Recordings albums reissued on vinyl courtesy of Universal Music Group including Reign In Blood (1986), South of Heaven (1988), Seasons In The Abyss (1990), Live: Decade of Aggression (1991), Divine Intervention (1994), Undisputed Attitude (1996), Diabolus in Musica (1998), God Hates Us All (2001), Christ Illusion (2006), and World Painted Blood (2009). 1998's South of Heaven is Slayer's fourth full-length offering and follow-up to their 1986 masterpiece Reign in Blood. The group's second collaboration with producer Rick Rubin found the band experimenting with slower tempos, undistorted guitars and alternative vocal styles while managing to retain their trademark heavy handed fire as displayed on powerful cuts like "South of Heaven," "Mandatory Suicide," "Ghosts of War" and "Spill the Blood."