Name: Seasons In The Abyss - Slayer
Brand: Slayer
SKU: 5051011603822
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Artist

Thrash Metal (Heavy Metal) band from Huntington Park, California (USA).

Formed in 1981 by Kerry King (guitar), Jeff Hanneman (guitar), Dave Lombardo (drums) and Tom Araya (vocals and bass) at Huntington Park, California U.S.A., Slayer influenced Thrash and cosidered by many the best Thrash band.

In 2013 ihe world mourned the loss of guitarist Jeff Hanneman who died from complications following a two-year illness. Losing Jeff was very difficult for the band. During Jeff’s illness, friend of the band, guitarist Gary Holt of Exodus stepped in to help out on tour with Jeff’s blessing and stayed on. Around that time, drummer Dave Lombardo exited the band for the third time and Paul Bostaph, (who played with the band from 1992-2001), returned to take over the throne. Slayer never skipped a beat and since Holt and Bostaph both played in Exodus, it was all-in-the-thrash-family.

But it didn’t come easily.
As guitarist and Slayer co-founder Kerry King puts it, “I remember the day that Jeff died. It was the day of the Revolver Golden Gods Awards. We knew he’d been sick but nobody expected it to be so quick. I assumed I’d be able to go out there and see him after I got done with whatever business I had to do and that day never came.
“We went out and toured afterwards to see how we felt about it. That’s what you do as a musician: you either go out and tour or you stop working. Even though we’d been touring for two years without Jeff, thinking he was going to come back, now there was finality to it. And the thing with Gary was that we were all friends. Exodus was the first band we’d ever met that became our friends immediately and we stayed friends throughout the years. Gary is just a guitar dynamo and he was the guy.”

Tom Araya agrees. “Jeff would want us to continue. I’d think that if something were to happen to someone else in the band, whoever it was would feel the same way. Just get on with it. Gary’s a friend, a friend of Jeff’s, he knew what was going on and he wanted to help in any way he could, so Gary made Slayer a comfortable place to be. Having Paul back was also a comforting feeling. He’s a former member and that’s the best thing about it. It wasn’t some other guy. Having Paul and Gary made everything a little easier to handle. It’s about the band. Slayer was a big thing for Jeff, and so I’m looking at it in that sense. It was his baby, too. And we hope we’ve done Slayer and him justice.”

King said that Slayer still had to test the water. “Now we were out to see if it made sense to continue, to see if we liked it, to see if the band still enjoyed it. And the way I looked at it was: if it wasn’t this, it was going to be something that sounded exactly like this, so why not continue doing this? It’s super-potent. We’re really tight right now and we’re stoked that we’re still doing it. Once we had that under our belts we started thinking about a record and never looked back.”

After two decades with American Recordings, Slayer found a new home with Nuclear Blast, the German independent label known for its metal roster. King is enthusiastic about the move, “I like it,” he declares, stressing the work like. “Having been with American for so long we wanted to give them first right of refusal because that’s how we are. I think continuity is far stronger than switching all the time. But at the end of the day, Nuclear Blast made us a great offer and so it was time to move on. At Nuclear Blast, people go to work, they do their job, get paid and they fuckin’ like it. All hands. So it was the right choice.”

2018 After a 34-year career that helped establish the genre, in January 2018 the band announced the end of Slayer after a final tour which ended in November 2019.

Tracks

1 War Ensemble 04:53

2 Blood Red 02:48

3 Spirit In Black 04:07

4 Expendable Youth 04:10

5 Dead Skin Mask 05:20

6 Hallowed Point 03:24

7 Skeletons Of Society 04:41

8 Temptation 03:26

9 Born Of Fire 03:08

10 Seasons In The Abyss 06:36

Releases

Formats

Cassette, Vinyl, CD, CDr, File

Labels

Takt Music, MG Records , Universal, Monsters Of Rock, Euro Star, Megaton , Audio Max, Tango Music, Mercury, Elbo, Спюрк, Not On Label, ALF, MC , PolyGram, Фирма Грамзаписи Никитин, ГОБЛИН Records, Baron Music, Pegaz, DECK, Sony Music Russia, Popron, Angel's Of Hell Records, Tact, Starling, Thames Original, Digi Music, Lazarov Records, ASTA, American Recordings, Def American Recordings, Triada , CP Digital, Zarraza, American Recordings , Phonogram , Walton, Mojo Records, Badger , Музыкальный Город, Not On Label (Slayer), Boogie , Acoustica , Def American Recordings , Aries , Video Dragor VD, American Recordings, LLC

Countries

Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Republic of, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Russian Federation, Spain, United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America, Europe, Australasia, Czechoslovakia

years

1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

Members

Kerry King,Tom Araya,~~Jeff Hanneman~~,~~Dave Lombardo~~,Paul Bostaph,Gary Holt,~~Jon Dette~~