The producer kicked up the volume on Dave Lombardo’s everything-all-the-time drumming and removed all of the echoey reverb that was popular at the time from Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman’s guitars, making it so the band sounded like a well-oiled killing machine as singer-bassist Tom Araya bellowed lyrics about all manners of horrific atrocities on songs like “Angel of Death,” “Criminally Insane” and “Raining Blood.” After teaming up with hip-hop producer Rick Rubin, the group developed a sound that would revolutionize the genre on their 1986 breakthrough Reign in Blood – number six on Rolling Stone’s list.
Since 1981, Slayer‘s breakneck tempos and jagged riffs have set the bar for thrash and speed metal. Now that we’ve published the list, we’re reaching out to several more to see how musicians define “heavy metal.” When Rolling Stone began compiling the 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time, we reached out to a few artists to see what their favorite albums in the genre were.
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