![]() This is some of the most devastating guitar work in history. Try it one time, if you think it's that simple. Maybe not when you copy them off a tab, but to come up with these riffs, perfectly match them to the theme, follow them up with the next highly coherent riff that serves the same purpose as the previous one but sounds different. Jeff Hanneman's and Kerry King's riffs are just mindblowing, and contrarily to popular belief, they are extremely difficult. They managed to put those things in the form of music. Slayer is so dear for a lot of metalheads because no band has been more successful at describing the suffering of souls, and demonstrating what it's like to mentally suffer in great pain. It is very hard to describe the music on this record. As you progress through the record, the deeper you get into hell. The songs get faster, and faster, and even faster than the last one, and more chaotic, and harsher. The opener "Angel of Death" already rips your head off with its cutting riffs and brutal tempo, but the album just gets more and more insane and brutal. Simply, there are no breaks from the unrelenting demolition. The record is simply unable to ease up from suffocating the listener as powerfully as possible and throwing the listener into a whirlwind after whirlwind. It is simply the most devastating, most explosive, most hateful, gory dose of lethal thrash metal that ever saw the face of this Earth. Go even deeper, go faster, go harder, go in more detail. Since the evil and hellish Hell Awaits, Slayer decided to take yet another dive deep down into hell, but go even more extreme. However, if I was to only give one single 100%, in the entire genre of thrash metal, this would be it right here. I give 100% to a lot of different thrash albums, because for me, the ones that get a perfect score all took me to an alternate reality, and show me heights of metal music I have never experienced before. Another meaning of the title is an abbreviation for "The Greatest of All Time", and I am not just joking. For one, the genuinely horrifying and blood-freezing album cover of this record is crowned with the goat-like devil on a throne, that's being carried by some evil forces. The title of this can be understood in several ways.
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