I've been using this blog as an excuse to hear myself talk, which is perfectly fine when I'm reviewing something which is not that great, but here I'm going to lay off a bit and focus on the facts. If I used the occasion of a Slayer review to say something lame, I'd be pretty ashamed of myself. If you perform music in front of people, you should be familiar with what I'm going to be talking about here- the greatness of Slayer. I don't care what genre of music you are trying to make a name for yourself with: a live Slayer show is worthy of your respect. If you don't think so, send me a link to whatever it is that you think is so great and then I will laugh at your stupidity.
There are two currently available dvds of official Slayer product. Buy them.
Slayer - Reign In Blood: Still Reigning July 11, 2004
Slayer: Unholy Alliance Live 2006
this officially released dvd featuring Slayer is out of print.
Slayer - War at the Warfield (december 2001)
this box set features miscellaneous raw early days footage
Slayer - Soundtrack to the Apocalypse Boxset
these two VHS releases have, regrettably, never been released on DVD
Slayer- Live Intrusion 1995
Slayer- Ultimate Revenge April 3rd, 1985 you can view that HERE
Now that this is out of the way. Let's try to survey video of the early years of Slayer. First, here's a gigography, not the most interactive web 2.0 thing that I have ever seen, but some solid effort has gone into this and it feels pretty complete.
The next thing you can do is head over to dime a dozen and pick up:Slayer - 1991-06-28 Madison Square Garden
If you are a fucking retard, stay away from dime a dozen. There is an etiquette to live show torrent sites and you need to hang back and get an idea about how it all works before you jump in and start annoying people...I keep my own mouth shut there, because I lack the technical savvy to hold forth on video compression, ripping and burning tools, checksums, encoding methods, etc. etc.
o.k. so now, here goes: five "reviews"...in my hands there are DVDRs of four slayer shows and then, of course, I've just got the show mentioned above:
dynamo festival /// eindhoven, holland 05/28/85
the stone /// san francisco 11/03/86
the ritz /// new york 12/06/86
felt forum /// new york 08/31/88
madison square garden///new york 06/28/91
For each show, I'm going to give you two screenshots, the setlist, a youtube link (which I have NOT uploaded, so the quality could be better or worse than what I possess), and then a couple sentences describing the quality of the footage on the DVDrs. Upgrades are the name of the game with Slayer boots and, frankly, I'm going to have to rewrite this whole post after I've done a little bit more research. I expect that everything that I have so far has been subsequently made available in much better quality. I guess that this review would be most helpful if I learned how to generate MD5s for my discs, that way I could establish my bearings as far as inferior versus superior versions goes.
dynamo festival /// eindhoven, holland 05/28/85
1.Hell Awaits
2.Aggressive Perfector
3.Captor Of Sin
4.Praise Of Death
5.Haunting The Chapel
6.Final Command
7.Crypts Of Eternity
8.Necrophiliac
9.Black Magic/Die By The Sword
10.Hardening Of The Arteries
11.Fight 'Till Death
12.The Antichrist
13.At Dawn They Sleep
14.Drum solo/Show No Mercy
15.Evil Has No Boundaries
16.Chemical Warfare
17.Kill Again
My copy is mastered on a standalone. It'
s multicamera and the image is fair...The close ups are decent, but when the camera pulls back to show the whole band, there's not a lot of detail. The sound is only a very narrow range of frequencies: all you hear are the toms and snares and washed out guitars. Evilaggression, the youtube uploader, has married this footage to a soundboard recording. This is the only way you should consider watching this.the stone /// san francisco 11/03/86
1 Raining blood
2 Angel of death
3 Die by the sword
4 Praise of death
5 Criminally insane
6 Necrophiliac
7 Captor of sin
8 Reborn
9 Post mortem
10 Black magic
11 Epidemic
12 Hell awaits
13 Chemical warfare
14 At dawn they sleep
15 Altar of sacrifice
16 Jesus saves
I've got a standalone mastered copy of this which sha
res the same disc with an 89 Death angel show. It's a single audience shot. The colors and resolution are a tiny bit better than the dynamo footage. Likewise, there is a little more range to the audio, although, I think there might have been more intermittent noise on this.once again, the few years since I've gotten this disc have seen some upgrades go by. As above, evilagression has posted bits from a much superior version of this to youtube.
the ritz /// new york 12/06/86
1. Raining Blood
2. Reborn
3. At Dawn They Sleep
4. Praise Of Death
5. Criminally Insane
6. Necrophiliac
7. Necrophobic
8. Die By The Sword
9. Black Magic
10. Altar Of Sacrifice
11. Jesus Saves
12. Postmortem
13. Epidemic
14. Chemical Warfare
15. Hardening Of The Arteries
16. Hell Awaits/
17. Angel Of Death/
18. Evil Has No Boundaries
Stand alone authored, single audience camera show; sharpness is lacking but the color range is impressive...often the fog and the lights make the stage look like the thrown open gates of hell. In front of which you can see the silhouettes of Satan's minions flying upside down through the air and caught up within complete thrash hysteria. Sound is very good on this boot- it could use a little more bass perhaps, but for an 1986 bootleg it has plenty.
if this youtube upload is an upgrade from what I have the improvements are not as extreme as those above:
felt forum /// new york 08/31/88
1. South Of Heaven
2. Raining Blood
3. Silent Scream
4. At Dawn They Sleep
5. Read Between The Lies
6. Fight Till Death
7. Mandatory Suicide
8. Kill Again
9. Behind The Crooked Cross
10. Postmortem
11. Reborn
12. Die By The Sword
13. Alter Of Sacrifice
14. Jesus Saves
15. Chemical Warfare
16. Ghosts Of War
17. Angel Of Death
My version of this has a menu and a bonus track of "chemical warfare" in 85...video is an AUD recording, shot from center rear. Taper is at a pretty large distance from the stage and his zoom can get terribly jerky at times. Graphic of Slayer logo shows up on the screen every once in a while. Sound is above average. Beginning of South of Heaven is missing, also a chunk out of Altar Of Sacrifice. This show is notorious for the finale, in which the crowd tears apart the seats and sends them flying across the concert hall.
In this case, watching my dvdr is marginally better than the youtube footage- probably only because youtube compression has softened the contrasts and sharpness somewhat. sound's a bit more muddy as well
madison square garden///new york 06/28/91
Source/Lineage: Audience Cam > NTSC VHS (master?) > SA@XP (unknown transfer) > DVDR > TMPGEnc3 > DVDR
Attributes:
Video: 704 x 480, 9586 kb/s
Audio: AC3 48000 Hz, Stereo, 256 kb/s
Fully authored w/track selection etc.
Setlist::
1 Hell Awaits (cuts in)
2 The Antichrist
3 War Ensemble
4 South of Heaven
5 Raining Blood
6 Altar of Sacrifice
7 Jesus Saves
8 Dead Skin Mask
9 Seasons in the Abyss
10 Mandatory Suicide
11 Angel of Death
Just gave this a quick once over, but I can tell you that it's fairly good sounding, some reverb, of course, given the room size. There is a little bit of shakyness and fists in the way which occurs from time to time, but overall, it's shot quite well. The top image is full zoom out and the bottom is full zoom in. The visuals cut out for two minutes during angel of death, but other than that, most all of the show was caught. There are audience shots of the unruly NY crowd but mostly the shooter keeps his attention front and center
So there you have it, just the facts. I hope that this is of some assistance to the Wehrmacht massive...
I found some guy who loves Slayer more than me, if you yourself are a completest...this should keep you busy for a while
SLAYER 3/28/83 Live at The Roxy, Los Angeles, CA 44 Aud B+
SLAYER 7/1/83 Live at Woodstock Theater, Cypress, CA 27 Aud B+
SLAYER 8/27/83 Live at Woodstock Theater, Cypress, CA 29 Aud B
SLAYER 12/28/83 Live at The Concert Factory, Costa Mesa, CA 37 Aud B
SLAYER 1/21/84 Live at The Roxy, Los Angeles, CA 29 Aud B+
SLAYER 3/17/84 Live at Ruthie's Inn, Berkeley, CA 43 Club A-
SLAYER 11/19/84 Live at Blondie's, Detroit, MI (filmed on stage) 35 Aud A
SLAYER 11/20/84 Live at Ukranian Hall, Flint, MI 48 Aud B+
SLAYER 4/3/85 Live at Studio 54, NYC (4 live plus interviews) 21 Pro A+
SLAYER 5/26/85 Live at Heavy Sounds, Poperinge, Belgium (sndboard audio) 64 Aud A
SLAYER 5/28/85 Live at Dynamo, Eindhoven, Holland 94 Aud A
SLAYER 9/6/85 Live at The Country Club, Reseda, CA 72 Club B+
SLAYER 9/7/85 Live at The Country Club, Reseda, CA 90 Aud B+
SLAYER 11/3/86 Live at The Stone, San Francisco, CA 78 Aud A-
SLAYER 12/6/86 Live at The Ritz, New York City 68 Club A-
SLAYER 1/27/87 Live at Massey Hall, Toronto, Canada 27 Aud A
SLAYER 2/9/87 Live at Music Hall, Cleveland, OH 31 Aud A-
SLAYER 8/24/88 Live at The Agora Ballroom, Cleveland, OH 92 Aud A-
SLAYER 8/31/88 Live at The Felt Forum, NYC 75 Aud A
SLAYER 9/20/88 Live at The Hammersmith Odeon, London, England 17 Pro A-
SLAYER 9/22/88 Live at Volkshaus, Zurich, Switzerland 84 Aud B+
SLAYER 1/20/89 Live at Sporthalle, Boblingen, Germany 79 Aud B
SLAYER 12/13/90 Live at Moda Hall, Osaka, Japan 105 Aud B+
SLAYER 2/11/91 Live at RPI Fieldhouse, Troy, NY 84 Aud A
So yeah just some brief comments on some early Slayer shows. Did you want me to provide an in depth, overall review of Slayer for you? O.K. Here goes: SLAYER RULES!!!!!
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