{"id":3209,"date":"1983-10-01T00:00:41","date_gmt":"1983-10-01T00:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=3209"},"modified":"2018-02-05T03:08:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T03:08:02","slug":"demo-review-slayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/demo-review-slayer\/","title":{"rendered":"SLAYER &#8211; Demo (1983) | Demo Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title\"><span style=\"font-family: arial; color: #c80000;\"><strong>SLAYER<\/strong><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"smalltitle\"><span style=\"font-family: arial; color: #c80000;\"><strong>Slayer (1983)<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image floatedright\">\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/slayer1983promophoto.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<div align=\"left\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"right\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Not to be confused with the San Antonio,Texas-based band of the same name, this <a href=\"\/site\/slayer-articles\/\" target=\"_blank\">Slayer<\/a> hail from Southern California and are acclaimed as being the United States\u2019 heaviest metal band, and after hearing their three-track demo I\u2019m not going to doubt that for one moment!<\/p>\n<p>A four-piece band, Slayer have been in existence for just over 18 months and consist of Tom Araya (vocals \/ bass), Kerry King (guitar), Jeff Hanneman (guitar) and Dave Lombardo (drums). The band first came to light when they appeared on the <em>Metal Massacre III<\/em> compilation album.<\/p>\n<p>Slayer combine the speed and enthusiasm of Metallica with the Satanism of Venom to produce a barrage of black metallic death, most evident on the track \u2018Fight Till Death\u2019; a truly frenzied attack of mayhem from beginning to end. This track together with the demo\u2019s other two cuts, \u2018Black Magic\u2019 and \u2018The Antichrist\u2019, will be included on the band\u2019s forthcoming debut album, <a href=\"\/site\/album-review-slayer-show-no-mercy\/\"><em>Show No Mercy<\/em><\/a>, which is soon to be released on Metal Blade Records; an album I\u2019m certainly looking forward to.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bernard Doe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Review taken from Metal Forces, Issue 2 (1983)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SLAYER Slayer (1983) Not to be confused with the San Antonio,Texas-based band of the same name, this Slayer hail from Southern California and are acclaimed as being the United States\u2019 heaviest metal band, and after hearing their three-track demo I\u2019m not going to doubt that for one moment! A four-piece band, Slayer have been in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3209"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65794,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions\/65794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}