🎼😈7 October 1986. Talking about wars and battles today⚔️... 35 years ago darkness descended on music thanks to a studio album of unprecedented violence 😱. Slayer released their third work Reign in Blood, just 29 minutes of pure Heavy⚡️Metal armageddon which along with #Metallica 's Master of Puppets (March 1986) and #Megadeth 's Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? (September 1986) contributed to define the Thrash Metal sound, which evolved in its many subgenres in following years.
The desperate scream of #vocalist Tom Araya introducing the first album's track Angel of Death stays as one of the most iconic moments in Heavy Metal history.
Reign in Blood is still regarded today as one of the most important and influential albums of all time 🤟
I cannot but post the entire album here👇
#Slayer #ReigninBlood #AngelofDeath #MusicHistory #7October

https://youtu.be/FK_B9rwYwh8

🎼15 November 1986. 35 years ago American Rap Rock group Beastie Boys released their debut studio album Licensed to Ill. It was an immediate revolution for the entire contemporary #MusicHistory! 😱🤟
The album soon hit the USA charts, thus bringing Hip Hop & Rap genres out of their niche and to general attention. Hip Hop acts like #RunDMC, #PublicEnemy, #LLCoolJ (all of which contributed to define the genre and were later labeled as Old School Rap) were already around; #NWA, the band of #IceCube and #DrDre, would come 2 years later bringing Rap to a different level, from the initial fun and party music to the violence of racial conflicts, police hatred and street gangster (later called in fact Gansta Rap), but it was thanks to this trio of white irriverent guys that Rap music became popular worldwide!
And this was also due to Russell Simmons flair 👍: he was the manager of Def Jam recordings, legendary New York City record label that in 1980s specialized in urban rebel music. #DefJam at the time signed both Beastie Boys and popular Heavy⚡️Metal band #Slayer, who were the masters of the recently born Thrash Metal scene: Simmons called their #guitarist 🎸#KerryKing, to perform the solo 🎶 in Beastie Boys' single and rock video parody "No Sleep Till Brooklin"👇
The song became a standard along with "Fight For Your Right" (see today's #TheMondayRecharger☝️) and still today both are so popular and acclaimed among rockers all over the world, since they are often played as last background tracks just before a Heavy Metal concert begins🤟😈🔥
"Licensed to Ill" became the fastest selling record to date, it sold nearly 10 millions in few months 😳 and #BeastieBoys became equally appreciated by both new born Rap scene followers and Rock fans ! #15November

https://youtu.be/07Y0cy-nvAg

🎼16 February 1965. Happy Birthday 🥳🍾 to Dave Lombardo, born in Havana, Cuba, widely known as "The Godfather of Double Bass", one of the most influential drummers🥁 in the Heavy⚡️Metal scene.
#DaveLombardo has been the original #drummer of #Slayer in 1980s and he's currently a member of Suicidal Tendencies, plus numerous side projects along with his friend #MikePatton (Fantômas, Dead Cross, Mr. Bungle). #16February

Here's Lombardo with Slayer 👉 Raining Blood.

🌧😈 Rainy day in Venice... and today is 10 years without #JeffHanneman, lead #guitarist, main songwriter and founder of #Slayer, one of my favorite bands ever and probably the ones I saw live more than any other 🎸❤️‍🔥

#RainingBlood #2May

https://youtu.be/cbyswHABG3Q

📀 Album of the Week
     @Venice_Rocks

📌5 July 1988

Slayer
📀 South Of Heaven
#ThrashMetal

35 years ago Slayer from Huntington Park, Los Angeles, #USA released their 4th studio album.

In South Of Heaven #Slayer deliberately slowed down tempos and vocals as compared to their previous albums, thus surprising and disappointing some of their fans.
This is a killer album anyway and one of my favorite from them, my original cassette still hits hard in #VeniceRocksRoom 🔥☝️

This album contains a #JudasPriest cover, "Dissident Aggressor".

In this album:
#TomAraya – bass, vocals
#KerryKing – guitars
#JeffHanneman – guitars
#DaveLombardo – drums
#5July

🎧Listen to South Of Heaven 👉 here

🎸 They are building a stage down there in the arena... having been to hundreds concerts all over Europe I can say #SanGiuliano Park is actually the best place for live music!!!
The biggest city park in Europe, with Venice and the #Lagoon in the background.

In the years I saw here #Police #SexPistols Iggy and the #Stooges #IronMaiden #Slayer #Aerosmith #LinkinPark #AlanisMorrissette #PearlJam...

😈 Memories... when Venice truely rocked🤘

#Slayer
https://youtu.be/6vYii025l6c?si=KUJbB8kjePnia3No

📀 Album of the Week
     @Venice_Rocks

📌27 September 1994

Slayer
📀 Divine Intervention
#ThrashMetal

30 years ago Slayer from Huntington Park, Los Angeles, #USA released their 6th studio album.

Divine Intervention (my original LP in #VeniceRocksRoom☝️) is the band's first album to feature Paul Bostaph, replacing original drummer Dave Lombardo who left in 1992.

In a period where many Thrash/Death Metal bands moved their sound towards Groove and Grunge, Slayer just sounded like... #Slayer🤘

In this album:
#TomAraya – bass, vocals
#KerryKing – guitars
#JeffHanneman – guitars
#PaulBostaph – drums
#27September

🎧Listen to Divine Intervention 👉 here

⚡️#TheMondayRecharger
👇#Slayer 40 years ago

🥁#HellyDrummer from #Noale, #Venice, has her go on this🤘

#Slayer