Fashioned in 1981, SLAYER assaulted the world with a brand new hybrid of steel and punk — heavier, quicker and darker than the remainder — and set a brand new commonplace, defining not solely a style, however an perspective. All through SLAYER‘s historical past, the band by no means faltered in unleashing their excessive and targeted aural assault, and repudiating temptations, SLAYER all the time selected to stay crushing and brutal, steadfastly refusing to cater to the mainstream.
Now celebrating its fortieth anniversary, “Present No Mercy” is the debut studio album by the American thrash steel masters. The LP was initially launched on December 3, 1983, by Steel Blade Data, who, in honor of “Present No Mercy”‘s fortieth anniversary, will likely be unleashing two distinctive items of vinyl for followers: a limited-edition “blood”-filled liquid vinyl — restricted to 250 worldwide — and the “Present No Mercy (fortieth Anniversary Version)” vinyl set that features a gold black mud LP mastered for vinyl from the unique grasp tapes by Patrick W. Engel at Temple Of Disharmony, a slipmat, poster, present flyers, signing card, and an LP booklet that includes the story of “Present No Mercy”, written by J. Bennett.
“Present No Mercy (fortieth Anniversary Version)”
* Slipcase with gold hot-foil embossing
* Gold Black Mud LP mastered for vinyl from the unique grasp tapes by Patrick W. Engel at Temple Of Disharmony in Could 2023
* 12″ LP booklet
* Slipmat
* Poster
* Present flyers
* Signing card
“Present No Mercy” “blood”-filled liquid vinyl:
* Blood-filled liquid vinyl mastered for vinyl from the unique grasp tapes by Patrick W. Engel at Temple Of Disharmony in Could 2023
* Restricted to 250 copies worldwide!
Facet A
01. Evil Has No Boundaries
02. The Antichrist
03. Die By The Sword
04. Combat Until Loss of life
05. Steel Storm / Face The Slayer
Facet B
06. Black Magic
07. Tormentor
08. The Closing Command
09. Crionics
10. Present No Mercy
Album lineup:
Tom Araya: vocals, bass
Kerry King: guitars
Jeff Hanneman: guitars
Dave Lomabardo: drums’
SLAYER performed its closing live performance on November 30, 2019 on the Discussion board in Los Angeles. Sooner or later later, Ayesha King, spouse of SLAYER guitarist Kerry King, stated that there’s “not an opportunity in hell” that the thrash steel icons will reunite for extra reveals following the completion of their farewell tour.
Again in April 2018, Tom Araya‘s spouse stated that he had not questioned his determination to embark on one closing SLAYER tour earlier than the band known as it quits.
Sandra Araya, who has been married to the SLAYER frontman for greater than 20 years, informed the Steel Pulp And Paper website online that the announcement that the band was pulling the plug on its practically four-decade-long profession did not come as a shock to her. “To not me,” she stated. “I can not comfortably go into an excessive amount of element. I will simply go away it with a no.”
Requested if the choice to finish SLAYER was a tough one for Tom and Kerry to make, Sandra stated: “Tom by no means second-guesses any determination he makes. I do not know about Kerry.”
When SLAYER first introduced that it was embarking on its closing tour again in January 2018, Ayesha assured followers that they might “all the time get music” from her husband.
King has stated in earlier interviews that his post-SLAYER musical efforts wouldn’t be a lot totally different from the sound followers have grown accustomed to listening to from him.
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