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Slayer - Raining Blood



Reign in Blood is the third studio album and the major label debut by the American thrash metal band Slayer. It was released on 7 October 1986 through Def Jam Recordings.[1] The album was the band's first collaboration with record producer Rick Rubin, whose input helped the band's sound evolve. Reign in Blood was universally well received by both critics and fans, and was responsible for bringing Slayer to the attention of a mainstream metal audience. Kerrang! magazine described the record as "the heaviest album of all". Alongside Anthrax's Among the Living, Megadeth's Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? and Metallica's Master of Puppets, Reign in Blood helped define the sound of the emerging US thrash metal scene in the 1980s, and has remained influential subsequently.
Reign in Blood's release was delayed because of concerns regarding its graphic artwork and lyrical subject matter. The opening track, "Angel of Death", which refers to Josef Mengele and describes acts, such as human experimentation, that Mengele committed at the Auschwitz concentration camp, provoked allegations of Nazism.[2] However, the band stated numerous times they do not condone Nazism, and are merely interested in the subject.[3] The album was Slayer's first to enter the Billboard 200; the release peaked at number 94, and was certified Gold on 20 November 1992.



Lyrics:


Songwriters: KING, KERRY / HANNEMAN, JEFFERY JOHN
Trapped in purgatory 
A lifeless object, alive 
Awaiting reprisal 
Death will be their acquisition 


The sky is turning red 

Return to power draws near 
Fall into me, the skys crimson tears 
Abolish the rules made of stone 


Pierced from below, souls of my treacherous past 

Betrayed by many, now ornaments dripping above 


Awaiting the hour of reprisal 

Your time slips away 


Raining blood 

From a lacerated sky 
Bleeding it's horror 
Creating my structure 
Now I shall reign in blood!

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