Hell Awaits
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| Studio album by Slayer | ||
| Released | August 1985 | |
| Recorded | 1985 Eldorado Studios, Hollywood, USA |
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| Genre | Thrash metal | |
| Length | 37:54 | |
| Label | Metal Blade Records | |
| Producer(s) | Slayer Brian Slagel |
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| Slayer chronology | ||
| Live Undead (1984) |
Hell Awaits (1985) |
Reign in Blood (1986) |
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Hell Awaits (1985) was the second full-length album by Slayer, released through Metal Blade Records. This album, along with its successor, Reign in Blood, is cited as an influence by many death metal bands, and many fans of heavy metal music regard this album as a proto-death metal album. It also features some of the band's most progressive and diverse work to date, having fast, thrashy songs (Necrophiliac, Kill Again) alongside much longer and slower ones (At Dawn They Sleep, Crypts of Eternity).
The album has seen various re-issues often including bonus tracks taken from the Haunting the Chapel EP.
[edit] Track listing
- "Hell Awaits" (Hanneman/King) – 6:12
- "Kill Again" (Hanneman/King) – 4:53
- "At Dawn They Sleep" (Araya/Hanneman/King) – 6:16
- "Praise of Death" (Hanneman/King) – 5:17
- "Necrophiliac" (Hanneman/King) – 3:43
- "Crypts of Eternity" (Araya/Hanneman/King) – 6:37
- "Hardening of the Arteries" (Hanneman) – 3:57
[edit] Credits
- Recorded at Eldorado Studios, Hollywood, USA
- Produced by Brian Slagel and Slayer
- Engineered by Ron Fair
- Assistant engineered by Carolyn Collins
- Cover art by Albert Cuellar
| Slayer |
| Tom Araya | Jeff Hanneman | Kerry King | Dave Lombardo |
| Discography |
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| Albums and extended plays: Show No Mercy | Haunting the Chapel | Hell Awaits | Reign in Blood | South of Heaven | Seasons in the Abyss | Divine Intervention | Undisputed Attitude | Diabolus in Musica | God Hates Us All | Eternal Pyre | Christ Illusion |
| Live albums: Live Undead | Decade of Aggression |
| Compilations: Soundtrack to the Apocalypse |
| Videos and DVDs |
| Live Intrusion | War at the Warfield | Still Reigning |
| Songs |
| Angel of Death | Jesus Saves | Raining Blood | Behind the Crooked Cross | Blood Red | Dead Skin Mask | Seasons in the Abyss | Eyes of the Insane | Jihad |
