Slayer Discography Rankings

SLAYYYYYYYYYYEEEEERRRR!!

If you’re a fan, you get it.

Slayer are definitely the heaviest and darkest of “The Big 4” of Thrash Metal bands.

If you are a Slayer fan, you mostly know what you are going to get.

They’re like AC/DC in that sense.

They’ve mostly maintained their sound over the years.

Some have called them evil or satanic, but as vocalist/bassist Tom Araya once said in a Slayer documentary “I consider what we do art.  And art can be a reflection of society”.

It took me a little while longer to become a fan of theirs.  I liked a couple of the albums (Diabolus In Musica and God Hates Us All), but when I heard two of their classic albums (Reign In Blood and Seasons In The Abyss) I was hooked.

I’ve seen them in concert several times and there is no such thing as a bad Slayer show.

They always deliver and if anyone says otherwise, they are wrong.

Here is my ranking of their heavy discography.

1. Reign In Blood
2. Seasons In The Abyss
3. God Hates Us All
4. Christ Illusion
5. Repentless
6. Diabolus In Musica
7. World Painted Blood
8. Divine Invervention
9. Show No Mercy
10. South Of Heaven
11. Hell Awaits
12. Live:  Decade of Aggression
13. The Big Four:  Live From Sulfia, Bulgaria (Live album/DVD set with Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax)
14. Haunting The Chapel EP
15. Live Undead EP
16. The Repentless Killogy
17. Soundtrack To The Apocalypse (Box Set)

What a collection.  Slayer is definitely not for everyone.

They are not mainstream at all, but if you are into them, you’re into them for life.  And that’s not a bad thing.