Slayer 66 2/3: The Jeff & Dave Years. A Metal Band Biography. (56 page)

Appendix B: Slayer Songwriting Credits

Show No Mercy
, 1983 (Metal Blade)

“Evil Has No Boundaries.” Lyrics: Hanneman and King. Music: King.

“The Antichrist.” Lyrics: Hanneman. Music: Hanneman and King.

“Die by the Sword.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman.

“Fight Till Death.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman.

(No credit listed for instrumental “Metalstorm”)

“Face the Slayer.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman and King.

“Black Magic.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman and King.

“Tormentor.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman.

“The Final Command.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman and King.

“Crionics.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman and King.

“Show No Mercy.” Lyrics and music: King.

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Haunting the Chapel
, 1984 (Metal Blade)

“Chemical Warfare.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman and King.

“Captor of Sin.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman and King.

“Haunting the Chapel.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman and King

Hell Awaits
, 1985 (Metal Blade)

“Hell Awaits.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman, King.

“Kill Again.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman, King.

“At Dawn They Sleep.” Lyrics: Araya, Hanneman, King. Music: Hanneman.

“Praise of Death.” Lyrics: Hanneman. Music: King.

“Necrophiliac.” Lyrics: Hanneman, King. Music: Hanneman.

“Crypts of Eternity.” Lyrics: Arya, Hanneman, and King. Music: Hanneman, King.

“Hardening of the Arteries.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman.

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Reign in Blood
, 1986 (Def Jam)

“Angel of Death.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman.

“Piece by Piece.” Lyrics and music: King.

“Necrophobic.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman and King.

“Altar of Sacrifice.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman.

“Jesus Saves.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman and King.

“Criminally Insane.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman and King.

“Reborn.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman.

“Epidemic.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman and King.

“Postmortem.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman.

“Raining Blood.” Lyrics: Hanneman and King. Music: Hanneman.

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South of Heaven
, 1988 (Def Jam)

“South of Heaven.” Lyrics: Araya. Music: Hanneman.

“Silent Scream.” Lyrics: Araya. Music: Hanneman and King.

“Live Undead.” Lyrics: Araya, King. Music: Hanneman.

“Behind the Crooked Cross.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman.

“Mandatory Suicide.” Lyrics: Araya. Music: Hanneman and King.

“Ghosts of War.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman and King.

“Read Between the Lies.” Lyrics: Araya and King. Music: Hanneman.

“Cleanse the Soul.” Lyrics: Araya and King. Music: Hanneman.

“Dissident Aggressor.” Judas Priest cover.

“Spill the Blood.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman

In previous releases, lyrics were listed first. With
Seasons
, the band began listing music credits first, followed by lyrics credits. For consistency, this appendix continues to list lyrics first.

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Seasons in the Abyss
, 1990 (Def American)

 “War Ensemble.” Lyrics: Araya and Hanneman. Music: Hanneman.

“Blood Red.” Lyrics: Araya. Music: Hanneman

“Spirit in Black.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman.

“Expendable Youth.” Lyrics: Araya. Music: King.

“Dead Skin Mask.” Lyrics: Araya. Music: Hanneman.

“Hallowed Point.” Lyrics: Araya and Hanneman. Music: Hanneman and King.

“Skeletons of Society.” Lyrics and music: King.

“Temptation.” Lyrics and music: King.

“Born of Fire.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman and King.

“Seasons in the Abyss.” Lyrics: Araya. Music: Hanneman.

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Divine Intervention, 1994 (American)

“Killing Fields.” Lyrics: Araya. Music: King.

“Sex. Murder. Art.” Lyrics: Araya. Music: King.

“Fictional Reality.” Lyrics and music: King.

“Dittohead.” Lyrics and music: King.

“Divine Intervention.” Lyrics: Araya, Bostaph, Hanneman, and King. Music: Hanneman and King.

“Circle of Beliefs.” Lyrics and music: King.

“SS-3.” Lyrics: Hanneman. Music: Hanneman and King.

“Serenity in Murder.” Lyrics: Araya. Music: Hanneman and King.

“213.” Lyrics: Araya. Music: Hanneman.

“Mind Control.” Lyrics: Araya and King. Music: Hanneman and King.

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Undisputed Attitude
, 1996 (American)

Original compositions from the predominantly covers LP:

“Can’t Stand You.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman.

“DDAMM.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman.

“Gemini.” Lyrics: Arya. Music: King.

Diabolus in Musica, 1998 (American)

American release:

“Bitter Peace.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman.

“Death’s Head.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman.

“Stain of Mind.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman.

“Overt Enemy.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman.

“Perversions of Pain.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman.

“Love to Hate.” Lyrics: Hanneman and King. Music: Hanneman.

“Desire.” Lyrics: Araya. Music: Hanneman.

“In the Name of God.” Lyrics and music: King.

“Scrum.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman.

“Screaming From the Sky.” Lyrics: Araya, Hanneman, and King. Music: Hanneman.

“Point.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman.

Bonus tracks from Japanese Edition:

“Unguarded Instinct.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman.

“Wicked.” Lyrics: Araya, Bostaph. Music: Hanneman and King.

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On previous releases, credits were arranged alphabetically by last name. As of
God Hates Us All
, they begin to appear in a different order.

God Hates Us All
, 2001 (American)

“Darkness of Christ.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman.

“Disciple.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman.

“God Send Death.” Lyrics: Hanneman and Araya. Music: Hanneman.

“New Faith.” Lyrics and Music: King.

“Cast Down.” Lyrics and Music: King.

“Threshold.” Lyrics: King. Music: Hanneman.

“Exile.” Lyrics and music: King.

“Seven Faces.” Lyrics and music: King.

“Bloodline.” Lyrics: Araya and Hanneman. Music: Hanneman and King.

“Deviance.” Lyrics: Hanneman and Araya. Music: Hanneman.

“War Zone.” Lyrics and music: King.

“Here Comes the Pain.” Lyrics and music: King.

“Payback.” Lyrics and music: King.

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Christ Illusion
, 2006 (American)

Original release:

“Flesh Storm.” Lyrics and music: King.

“Catalyst.” Lyrics, music, and all leads: King.

“Skeleton Christ.” Lyrics and music: King.

“Eyes of the Insane.” Lyrics: Araya. Music: Hanneman.

“Jihad.” Lyrics: Hanneman and Araya. Music: Hanneman.

“Consfearacy.” Lyrics, music, and all leads: King.

“Catatonic.” Lyrics and music: King.

“Black Serenade.” Lyrics: Hanneman and Araya. Music: Hanneman.

“Cult.” Lyrics and music: King.

“Supremist.” Lyrics and music: King.

Extra original track from expanded edition:

“Final Six.” Lyrics: Araya and Hanneman. Music: Hanneman and Araya.

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World Painted Blood, 2009 (American)

Original edition:

“World Painted Blood.” Lyrics: Hanneman and Araya. Music: Hanneman.

“Unit 731.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman.

“Snuff.” Lyrics and music: King.

“Beauty Through Order.” Lyrics: Hanneman and Araya. Music: Hanneman.

“Hate Worldwide.” Lyrics and music: King.

“Public Display of Dismemberment.” Lyrics and music: King.

“Human Stain.” Lyrics: Hanneman and Araya. Music: Hanneman.

“Americon.” Lyrics and music: King.

“Psychopathy Red.” Lyrics and music: Hanneman.

“Playing With Dolls.” Lyrics: Hanneman, King, and Araya. Music: Hanneman.

“Not of This God.” Music and lyrics: King.

Original bonus track from limited edition:

“Atrocity Vendor.” Lyrics: Araya and King. Music: Hanneman.

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Appendix C: Slayer, a Visual Progression

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Addendum:

“It’s Time to Set the Record Straight”

or

I Fucked Up

“As they say on the streets, that was ‘my bad!’”
^A-1
— Kurt Angle

Some mistakes were made in my previous Slayer book
^A-2
. Some mistakes are made in most books. These things happen.

Page 68:
South of Heaven
was released in 1988, not 1998. I know that. You know that. The “8” and “9” keys are very close to each other, and manuscripts have a lot of moving parts. Getting 99% of things right still leaves you with a few errors. In this economy, real proofreading is dead. We did our best.

Page 68: Emmy nominee David Tobocman was an assistant engineer on
Seasons in the Abyss
, not
South of Heaven
.

Page 82 and elsewhere: During a careless FIND-REPLACE in the editing process, some references to a 28-minute runtime were changed to 29, so some numbers might not add up.

Page 99: The person identified as “Summers” is “Georges Sulmers,” as referenced in the previous paragraph. But it’s
pronounced
“Summers.” So there’s that.

Pages 28, 106: Mike Judge’s brilliant culture pundit is Butt-head, not “Butthead.” I should have known better.

Page 113: Strictly speaking, the Nazis did not have 20,000 “death camps.” More precisely, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, around World War II, the Germans established around 20,000 camps, some of which were prisons, some of which were labor camps, some of which were the sites of massive-scale murder
^A-3
. The SS and police established five — some say six — killing centers, where approximately 2,700,000 people were put to death, some individually, some in gas chambers, at a rate of up to 6,000 a day
^A-4
, creating just under half of the Holocaust’s death toll.