SLAYER 'HELL AWAITS' LP Leeched with riffs that are doomier

with riffs that are doomier than they are fuzzy and suffocating

There’s also one or two songs which sound pretty different to our usual style

With an inherently heavy nature

iconic photographers and hangers-on of the time

It was the band’s biggest selling album at the time

SLAYER 'HELL AWAITS' LP Leeched with riffs that are doomierLABEL: Metal Blade VINYL RELEASE DATE: 2021 ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: 1985 VARIANT: Black Vinyl LP In March 1985, Slayer dropped their second album, Hell Awaits, onto an unsuspecting world. The bands debut, 1983s Show No Mercy, had shown promise, but its heavily NWOBHM influenced sound was a far cry from the sinister depths that Tom Araya, Jeff Hanneman, Kerry King and Dave Lombardo would plumb on its follow up. From the title track to At Dawn They Sleep