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Slayer
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For a band that began its death-obsessed life in Huntington Park (inland from Surf City, Huntington Beach) playing Judas Priest and Iron Maiden covers, Slayer has blossomed beyond all imagining. Although "blossomed" is, perhaps, not the right word — in Slayer songs, you'll find blood "raining from a lacerated sky," "desecrated" rhymed with "eviscerated," chaos invariably "rampant" . . . and those are some of the few printable snippets from the band's hardcore poetry of the apocalypse. In fact, due to the explicit nature of 1986 masterwork [i]Reign In Blood[/i], CBS/Columbia pulled out of distribution (Geffen stepped in), creating a fetid pool of notoriety into which a new slew of devoted fans were more than happy to plunge. For many, Slayer remains the strongest among the four horsemen of the thrash-pocalypse, alongside Metallica, Anthrax, and Megadeth. Proceed with caution.