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nightflameauto wrote:
JiveTurkey wrote:B) God yes. I wonder how short dude is.
D) For whatever reason; I never usually hit the pit. Our seats were juuuuuuuuuuuust right.

One thing I thought about over the weekend, especially after reading post after post after post about the show. No Slayer=no extreme metal. That's a fact, Jack.

I'm usually either a barricade guy or a swinging through the pit guy, so being separated from the action, calm as it seemed to be Friday night, was really weird.

As to your last point, I wonder how many subgenres of metal shot off of Slayer. Without them I doubt death metal or hardcore would have climbed to any recognizable form we have today. Right there is a huge number of subgenres branching off in every direction.

Spot on. Obviously, others were important too. But without Slayer, man. Metal would suck. Even if you don't like Slayer, themselves; the ripple effect of their existence is vast. :bow:
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JiveTurkey wrote:Spot on. Obviously, others were important too. But without Slayer, man. Metal would suck. Even if you don't like Slayer, themselves; the ripple effect of their existence is vast. :bow:

Now the funny thing: One of the gals I work with was asking about the show and how it was then asked, "So, Slayer? What would they have sung that I would know."

And I had to say, "Absolutely nothing. If you don't seek them out, you'll never hear them."

Amazing to be able to say that about a band that's been so huge for so long, but it's absolutely the truth. It's not like they ever gave a fuck about making the top forty. They just busted faces and kicked ass for almost forty years.
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Super impressive. When they went into the Show No Mercy years in the set; I forgot just how primitive they were (and how long ago it was) when they started.
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