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Reviews 6

Reissue Of The Week: Slayer’s Show No Mercy

Columnus Metallicus: Bleak November’s Best Metal, By Louise Brown

Lead Review: Noel Gardner On Nails’ You Will Never Be One Of Us

Haunting The Palace: ATP’s I’ll Be Your Mirror Slayer Day Reviewed

Slayer
World Painted Blood

Slayer’s World Painted Blood Track By Track Review

Articles 21

Low Culture Essay

Low Culture 2: Master Of Puppets Versus Reign In Blood

Low Culture is a new series where tQ writers use lockdown time to pull some of their favourite music, films, games and books off the shelves in order to tackle an idea that's been bugging them for a long time. In the second instalment Joel McIver grasps the mother of all nettles: who wrote the greatest thrash metal album - which essentially means who wrote the greatest heavy metal album - Metallica or Slayer?

Beyond The Hits

The Best Of The Blasphemous Worst: Slayer, Beyond The Hits

There’s more to thrash metal than hi-tops and skinny jeans, and there's more to Slayer than songs about the Holocaust and Satan, says Joel McIver

Anniversary

Judas Priest, Sad Wings Of Destiny & The Birth Of Modern Metal

Four decades ago - between the release of Sad Wings Of Destiny and Sin After Sin - Judas Priest were engaged in a revolution of image and sound... one that would cement the heavy metal aesthetic for good

Anniversary

Last Thrash: Metallica’s Master of Puppets Turns 35

John Ridpath re-assesses Metallica's finest fifty-four minutes and thirty-five seconds

A Quietus Interview

Raining Mud: Tom Araya Of Slayer Interviewed

Harry Sword talks to Tom Araya of Slayer about a life of trains, planes, automobiles and extreme aggression

Black Sky Thinking

Satan’s Scapegoat: The Daily Mail & Blaming Metal For Murder

The Daily Mail has once more blamed listening to heavy metal as in some way contributory to the tragic murder of Ann Maguire, and a recent teenage suicide. Joel McIver explains why this argument needs to be challenged

Black Sky Thinking

We Are All Religious Now: Holy Music In A Secular World

Ahead of the Quietus writers' list of favourite religious and spiritual records, published later this week, Rev. Rachel Mann explores the many roles that holy music continues to play in an increasingly secular society, and explains why it remains an important and affecting force

A Quietus Interview

A Folk Devil Talking: Slayer’s Tom Araya Interviewed

Jenn Selby talks to Slayer front man Tom Araya about American folk music, Reign In Blood and the band that came before the big four... Anvil

A Quietus Interview

“Fuck This Interview!” Mike Patton Speaks His Mind

Gaddafi, Jean-Claude Vannier, Metallica and Lou Reed. Mike Patton will talk about anything. Just don't ask him to pimp his latest project, says Jeremy Allen

Anniversary

Slayer’s Reign In Blood Revisited

Hibernian fisherman extraordinaire and gentleman Alpinist Mark Eglinton celebrates the anniversary of Reign In Blood, with some help from Phil Anselmo

A Quietus Interview

News Of The World: Kate Adie Interviewed On Music And War

Kate Adie is one of the most iconic British journalists of the last thirty years. Wyndham Wallace talks to her about war, peace, changes in the media and her role in the 1960s folk scene

A Quietus Interview

The Rockin’ Vicar: Rev Mann Speaks About Stryper, Slayer And Satan

Son of metal Joel McIver meets Lady Of The Cloth Rachel Mann who has decreed: listen to metal! Amen, say we... Photographs of Rev. Mann by KatyBPhotography.co.uk

Anniversary

The Crypts Of 35 Years: Tom Araya On The Anniversary Of Slayer’s Hell Awaits

More influential than _Reign In Blood_? Mark Eglinton talks to Slayer's Tom Araya about the legacy of their brutal and nasty second album _Hell Awaits_. All live photos courtesy of Shot2Bits.net

A Quietus Interview

She’s A Model: Katie ‘Jordan’ Price On Kraftwerk & Slayer

Joel McIver takes his trusty crate of vinyl to an interview with model, author, TV star and now chanteuse Katie Price, AKA Jordan

Black Sky Thinking

The Greatest Guitar Riffs In The World (Better Than Sweet Child O’Mine)

Profoundly depressed by a new poll which supposedly “reveals” the nation’s taste in rock riffs, Joel McIver – who is such a guitar geek that he wrote a book last year called The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists – provides 20 far more interesting alternatives

Black Sky Thinking

Mr Agreeable: Your Liquidised Detoxing Liver Is His Pick-Me-Up

Mr Agreeable has his repast disturbed by Florence, Vampire Weekend, Slayer and Lil Wayne. HEAR THE QUAIL EGG SPUTTER!

A Quietus Interview

Forging Black Metal: Cronos Of Venom Talks About The Genesis Of A Genre

Helping create extreme metal as we know it today as well as naming Black Metal, Venom have always been the antidote to musical boredom, says John Doran after talking to frontman Cronos

Black Sky Thinking

Doctor Samuel JOHNSON’S Dictionary of the new Musick: A

Wherein popular Minstrels & divers Forms of Song are subjeckt to withering Definition & justly lampoon'd for the common LISTENER

A Quietus Interview

Slayer Interview: Tom Araya Unplugged? Not Just Yet

Le Homme Du Hibernia Mark Eglinton finally meets up with Tom Araya to apologise for pretending to like Dokken over Slayer. Sacre bleu!

A Quietus Interview

Slayer: We Could Thrash Out Two More Albums If We’re Fast Enough . . .

Recent reports that Slayer are preparing to hang up the spiked arm band, may have been a little premature, says Kerry King to John Doran backstage at the Hammersmith Apollo. All pictures Philip Mount.

A Quietus Interview

Mastodon On New Album And Supporting Metallica and Slayer

Brann Dailor and Troy Sanders hang out with John Doran back stage at their recent show with Slayer and talk velvet paintings, miniature percussion and putting house guests off hand to gland combat.

Baker’s Dozen Appearances 2

Baker's Dozen

Taking Out The Thrash: Scott Ian Of Anthrax’s Top Albums From 1986

To mark 30 years since 1986, a pivotal moment for metal, Anthrax main man Scott Ian talks JR Moores through his 13 top albums from that year, moving from thrash classics through to landmark hip-hop and pop releases

Baker's Dozen

The Essence And The Purity: Rob Halford Of Judas Priest’s Favourite LPs

With their Redeemer Of Souls tour bound for Scandinavia after wrapping up the UK leg at Brixton Academy last night, the heavy metal veterans' singer takes Alex Macrow through his top 13 "game changers" of rock & roll

News 22

Slayer Announce Repentless Box Set

Slayer's final album will be reissued in a new 6.66″ vinyl box set this June

Things Learned At: Primavera Sound 2017

With performances from Slayer, Mogwai, and Grace Jones – and lessons learned on the burden of choice and the joy of sleep (and Sleep) – Brian Coney takes to Barcelona for this year's edition of the inimitable Primavera Sound. Photographs by Jan Rijk at Dutchpix.com