June 6, 2006

All Hail

I’ve always liked “violent” music (no more so than when I was a drug addict and anaesthetizing my emotions at every opportunity). In the late 1980s, I went to the Felt Forum at Madison Square Garden to see Slayer. I think Rob Straker went, too. The opening act was Danzig. The auditorium had stiff, removable seat cushions that were soon flying through the air in a massive pillow fight. The front rows had degenerated into gang warfare, with impromptu pits devolving into bloody slugfests. Scary chaos. Stadium punk and metal shows in NYC always had an atmosphere of “some random shlub is gonna get fucked up.” Judging from the battle wounds I saw, there was more than one such casualty. When Slayer hit the stage, they rocked like head-banging hair puppets with maniacal stage moves that could only have been inspired by the Devil himself. The dirtbag audience was almost tamed by their sheer demonic force. Escaping with my life in a taxicab afterward felt really exhilarating. My only regret was that I didn’t buy the garish Slatanic Wehrmacht t-shirt.

Years before my formal interest in Satanism, I enjoyed the likes of Slayer, especially their first LP Show No Mercy (which, unlike most people, I prefer to Reign in Blood) from the vinyl version of which this most excellent track is taken. Rege Satanas!

Slayer – “Black Magic”

Usually, Toe Stubber doesn’t review bands that are this popular – but it’s been three weeks of mental reclusion, today’s date is 6-6-6, and I thought you folks needed a treat. Here’s to not getting sued. I love you all.

Rick at 10:05 am

Comments (3)

3 CommentsÈ

hail oh hairless one! greetings and salutations on all points of the trapezoid!

Comment by wi11iam13 Ñ June 6, 2006 @ 2:10 pm
Ya know what? I still think I have my Slaytanic Wehrmacht T-shirt laying around the house somewhere…Last time I saw it, it was damn near transparent…I wouldn’t be surprised if the missus hasn’t used it as a rag of some sort…or if I flung it out the window in a fit of rage…BTW, I really like Slayer’s “Seasons in the Abyss”—I think they were trying to channel Voivod…

Comment by Ivan Ñ June 7, 2006 @ 5:09 pm
Fuck-off, Satan, ya filthy whore.

Comment by Kold Ñ June 27, 2006 @ 7:42 pm