Reign in Blood

Reign in Blood
Reign in Blood
Studio album by Slayer
Released	October 7, 1986
Recorded	January–March 1986
Studio	Hit City West, Los Angeles, California
Genre	Thrash metal
Length	28:55
Label	Def Jam; Geffen;
Producer	Rick Rubin; Slayer;
Slayer chronology
Singles from Reign in Blood
	"Postmortem"; Released: 1986; "Criminally Insane (Remix)"; Released: 1987;

Reign in Blood is the third studio album by American thrash metal band Slayer, released on October 7, 1986, by Def Jam Recordings.^[1] The album was the band's first collaboration with producer Rick Rubin, whose input helped the band's sound evolve. The release date of the album was delayed because of concerns regarding the lyrical subject matter of the opening track "Angel of Death", which refers to Josef Mengele and describes acts such as human experimentation that he committed at the Auschwitz concentration camp.^[2] The band's members stated that they did not condone Nazism and were merely interested in the subject.^[3]

Reign in Blood was well received by both critics and fans, and was responsible for bringing Slayer to the attention of a mainstream metal audience. Today, it is often mentioned among the greatest heavy metal records ever. In their 2017 listing of the 100 Greatest Metal albums of all time, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Reign in Blood at #6.^[4] 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 mid-1980s, and has remained influential since. The album was Slayer's first to enter the US Billboard 200, peaking at number 94, and was certified Gold on November 20, 1992. In 2013, NME ranked it at number 287 in its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.^[5]

^ "Touring Blood", Decibel Magazine, April 2008, p. 57.
^ Hess, Mike (July 23, 2003). "Kerry King: Maniac. Guitar Legend. Botanist?". Nighttimes.com. Archived from the original on July 11, 2011. Retrieved January 5, 2007.
^ Cummins, Johnson. "Slayer's Tom Araya on Satanism, serial killers and his lovable kids". MontrealMirror.com. Archived from the original on August 31, 2002. Retrieved December 2, 2006.
^ Weingarten, Christopher R.; Beaujour, Tom; Shteamer, Hank; Kelly, Kim; Smith, Steve; Spanos, Brittany; Exposito, Suzy; Bienstock, Richard; Grow, Kory; Epstein, Dan; Considine, J. D.; Greene, Andy; Sheffield, Rob; Begrand, Adrien; Christe, Ian (June 21, 2017). "The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone.
^ Rocklist.net NME: The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time : October 2013

[Decibel-1] "Touring Blood", Decibel Magazine, April 2008, p. 57.

[Kerry_King:_Maniac._Guitar_Legend._Botanist?-2] Hess, Mike (July 23, 2003). "Kerry King: Maniac. Guitar Legend. Botanist?". Nighttimes.com. Archived from the original on July 11, 2011. Retrieved January 5, 2007.

[Slayer's_Tom_Araya_on_Satanism,_serial_killers_and_his_lovable_kids-3] Cummins, Johnson. "Slayer's Tom Araya on Satanism, serial killers and his lovable kids". MontrealMirror.com. Archived from the original on August 31, 2002. Retrieved December 2, 2006.

[4] Weingarten, Christopher R.; Beaujour, Tom; Shteamer, Hank; Kelly, Kim; Smith, Steve; Spanos, Brittany; Exposito, Suzy; Bienstock, Richard; Grow, Kory; Epstein, Dan; Considine, J. D.; Greene, Andy; Sheffield, Rob; Begrand, Adrien; Christe, Ian (June 21, 2017). "The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone.

[5] Rocklist.net NME: The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time : October 2013

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