{"id":3920,"date":"1983-10-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1983-10-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=3920"},"modified":"2013-06-01T12:55:07","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T12:55:07","slug":"album-review-sa-slayer-prepare-to-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-sa-slayer-prepare-to-die\/","title":{"rendered":"S.A. Slayer – Prepare To Die (1983) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

S.A. SLAYER
Prepare To Die<\/strong><\/span>
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\nRainforest (1983)<\/span>
Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Lone State, that\u2019s Texas to you lot, has offered us many things like cowboys, oil and a soap opera. Now add S.A. Slayer to the list. This five-piece from San Antonio has produced a steaming slice of vinyl.<\/p>\n

Side one opens up with \u2018The Door\u2019, 52 seconds of thunder and lightning and ghoulish noises, then straight into the title track. This reminds me of Riot and the track \u2018Warrior\u2019. Singer Steve Cooper has a great vocal range; he can go from a whisper to a very high pitched scream. \u2018Final Holocaust\u2019 closes side one, and includes some fine lead work from Art Villareal who lets rip with some tasty lead breaks.<\/p>\n

Side two opens with \u2018Unholy Book\u2019, which is my favourite track. If your speakers haven\u2019t blown already then they will do with the next song, \u2018To Ride The Demon Out\u2019, which is something you imagine Exciter or Wild Dogs doing; it\u2019s that fast.<\/p>\n

Overall I found this five-track mini-LP very enjoyable. I have only one criticism \u2013 drop the Satanic image.<\/p>\n

Dave Shaw<\/strong><\/p>\n

Review taken from Metal Forces, Issue 2 (1983)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

S.A. SLAYERPrepare To Die Rainforest (1983)Rating: 7\/10 The Lone State, that\u2019s Texas to you lot, has offered us many things like cowboys, oil and a soap opera. Now add S.A. Slayer to the list. This five-piece from San Antonio has produced a steaming slice of vinyl. Side one opens up with \u2018The Door\u2019, 52 seconds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-s-a-slayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920","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=3920"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11883,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions\/11883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}