Why Slayer Started Using Satanic Imagery
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Tom Araya explains why Slayer started using satanic imagery.
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I’m pretty sure Hollywood is 100x more satanic than Slayer.
@gabrieldzwonowski3363
2 ай бұрын
True but not in the public eye. The best ppl look bad on the outside sometimes
@chriscole2454
2 ай бұрын
Was thinking the exact same thing 😅 💯
@robr2303
2 ай бұрын
@@gabrieldzwonowski3363 hollywood has been making occult movies way before slayer.
@Message1inthesame
2 ай бұрын
1000%
@Message1inthesame
2 ай бұрын
@@gabrieldzwonowski3363you’re not paying enough attention then.
I watch any Slayer interview video just to hear Tom laugh. It's infectious.
@michaelmathews8409
6 күн бұрын
Yeah you can tell by his laugh that he's evil and definitely satanic or I guess I should say Slaytanic 😂
Hell Awaits opening will continue to scare me ever since i first heard it in 86.
@fatboydashredder9877
4 ай бұрын
That intro is hype. It's a great rhythm exercise for beginners too. On the fly tempo and riff changes are always a good skill to have
@RickJames-wf2rm
4 ай бұрын
The beak down in At dawn they sleep is still chilling to me
@dezmilad
4 ай бұрын
SAYE'AAT, SAYE'AAT, SAYE'AAT, SAYE'AAT, SAYE'AAT...
@danzemacabre8899
4 ай бұрын
Thats my number 1 slayer album of all time, according to KK, they were listening to alot of Mercyful fate at the time and took the satanic theme up a notch from the first album
@user-lj2cb2pj8j
3 ай бұрын
They wore makeup on that album 😂
Tom has one of the best smiles.
@brandocalrissian3294
4 ай бұрын
Seriously. It's infectious.
@Gnom-mediatorokrad
7 күн бұрын
And the best voice
@Manic575
6 күн бұрын
Hails Satan
The reason I love bands like Slayer is because they're not afraid to let you know that they don't give a fuck.
@natural9747
Ай бұрын
Right….
Black Sabbath used the same concept. And it worked.
@jeremybaker195
4 ай бұрын
So did Mötley Crüe🤘 😆 They did 👹 and make-up 😁
@char.ger-3321
4 ай бұрын
It always works lol that’s why all metal bands use satanic imagery
@skulldon
4 ай бұрын
Do just 10 minutes of reading on that topic and you find out that most of the time, if it smells satanic, it is. Geezer Butler and Ozzy Osbourne were heavily into Alistair Crowley and the occult. The title track from Black Sabbath is based on a demonic encounter Butler had after painting his whole flat black and hanging pictures of satan everywhere. Surely „just a gimmick“ right?
@cmbells7736
4 ай бұрын
@@char.ger-3321that's cap.
@GolgothaViruss
3 ай бұрын
Only for the first album
What's funny is glam rock started as a way to freak out parents 😅
@patrickbertlein4626
2 ай бұрын
Understandably when you think about it. I'm a parent and if you think back than, girls that were 16 were going to shows having parties and getting with the band members. People in general freak out about the same thing today we just have a different set of morality than we had back than.
Tom's the coolest,and Jeff is missed. RIP.
@Soldier7.0
3 ай бұрын
Spiders, another way to unravel humanity so spiders can take control
Tom Araya is such a great guy! I wish I’ve had the honor to meet this guy in person. It must be awesome to have his as your close friend, he has such a great mood!
I wanna be different from the Hollywood community I’m gonna make satanic music… oh wait..
@ESPLTD322
5 ай бұрын
Yeah these days if you wanted to be controversial playing around there, you’d be making Christian themed songs lol “North of Hell, Angel of Life, Silent Prayer, Reborn Again, Heaven Awaits, Show Mercy, etc.” hahahaha
@therpgerer
5 ай бұрын
@@ESPLTD322Even going the Christian route makes you an Owl city, Twenty One Pilots, NF, etc. There's just enough Christain entertainment in the mainstream that it isn't rebellious either, lol.
@Artem-hp6gy
5 ай бұрын
Comon everybody knows that right now racism, anti wokeism and to not give a single f about political correctness is the most controversial. To the point that people even scared to admit it.
@JesusisLord2000
5 ай бұрын
😆no kidding. I didn’t listen to it then and I definitely won’t listen to it now. Garbage in, garbage out.
@thegiron8730
4 ай бұрын
@@ESPLTD322 tbh dude, those sound like sick ass metal songs not gonna lie, dont start giving me ideas 🤣
🔥🤘 SLAYER 🤘🔥
@dcmastermindfirst9418
3 күн бұрын
Meh Megadeth were and still are better
The problem is that it's 40 years later and Kerry never got the memo that it doesn't shock anyone anymore
@JesusChristSaves.
11 күн бұрын
Kerry is an actual Satanist
@dcmastermindfirst9418
3 күн бұрын
Kerry is a try hard douchebag
Tom seems the coolest guy on the planet (certainly within Slayer 🤣) and a total pro...
Tom is one of the most wholesome bass player ever
I lived across the street from a concrete bus bench that had Slayer's Christ illusion advertisment on it, within 2 days someone took a sledgehammer and destroyed the concrete bus bench.
Tom is a treasure. 🍺⚡🍺
Tom is such a chill laid back guy!!!
@bazookajoe6133
4 ай бұрын
There's a picture with a slayer fans all tattooed up painted and dressed in black in one half of the pic. Tom Araya was in the other half with his family wearing a spongebob shirt, lol.
@user-ty2xv6xw8j
3 ай бұрын
He was such a hottie back in the day 😍.
@IrishChola7
5 күн бұрын
@@user-ty2xv6xw8j Tom is still adorable! Like a big Teddy Bear. I just want to hug him!
@user-ty2xv6xw8j
5 күн бұрын
@@IrishChola7 I know, he's always smiling!! 😊
Of course the Devils gonna lie!! 😈 👿 🤘
@theunholinesswithin70
2 ай бұрын
Or maybe god is, if the being is real.
@HitLeftistsWithHammers
Ай бұрын
@@theunholinesswithin70 to be God is to be omnipotent. He would have no need, reason or desire to lie when he could simply think change into existence. 😂
This dude is proof that you can be Catholic and still cool as fuck
@captainshiner42
5 ай бұрын
Nope. Fuck religion.
@richevans609
4 ай бұрын
I don't think he is Catholic...
@daBEAGLE1017
4 ай бұрын
@@richevans609 he is
@EllissDee4you4me
4 ай бұрын
@@richevans609 he is famously Roman Catholic and always has been. Look it up yourself.
@13Drumsticks
4 ай бұрын
@@richevans609 He actually is, look it up!
Tommy Araya is fucking hilarious 😂😂😂
Slayer will always be the most badass of the big 4, Mustaine a close second
@chrisbond6406
4 ай бұрын
Metallica could be first or second, anthrax third and Megadeth fourth
@richarddean1453
3 ай бұрын
@@chrisbond6406 you've no idea what you're talking about. Sorry.
@user-lj2cb2pj8j
3 ай бұрын
I could hang with slayer, Dave seems impossible to be around for more than 5 minutes
@MetalGodMasino
3 ай бұрын
@@chrisbond6406 you need to grow out your Metallica phase lil bro.
@jcass1970
3 ай бұрын
Mustaine has done nothing but cried and bitched about being kicked out of Metallica for 40 fckn years, and you think he's a badass? I love Megadeth's music (esp. the early stuff), but Dave has been a douchebag since day one. He cries more than anyone in the big 4, treats his friends and others like shit, thinks he's better than all the rest, etc. so, basically, he's a huge diva. He's more like the Brittney Spears of thrash.
As usual, Tom's both intellectual and eloquent mind works to his advantage once again! 🖤
Tom Araya is the biggest troll of the metal community, he is just enjoying the show :))
Satanic to be DIFFERENT from Hollywood. That’s rich
Just say Shock Value, Tom
@Mic420m
3 ай бұрын
Just say player hater bwoodson
Satanic panic seems to never go away but at least they didn't take it too far as Mayhem did
@HunterVex.
5 ай бұрын
Kerry: shut up about $ Lombardo or I will unalive you!
@BonShula
5 ай бұрын
It is still around today. The trans panic
@pjket4229
5 ай бұрын
@@BonShulacompletely different
@BonShula
5 ай бұрын
@@pjket4229 How? Trans represent 0.3% of the population but rep have been hard focusing on that issue for years now
@pjket4229
5 ай бұрын
@@BonShula because satanists weren’t avtually committing guman sacrifices en mass, trans people actively push genitao mutilation on children. let’s wait until a brain is fully formed before ruining lives aye
Fuckkkkinnggggg Slaaayyyerrrr 🤘🤘🤘🤘🍻🍻
Thank God Slayer exists
@aaronbennack714
2 ай бұрын
I see what you did there
Satan = the original deceiver..
@carletonrutherford1799
4 ай бұрын
Religious followers = the original suckers.
@cmbells7736
4 ай бұрын
Maybe it was a God that told you not to trust Satan as the original deceiver.
Tom has the best smile in metal or any genre of music.
One of the best voices of all time.
Eh, they took it too far, though. It started as fucking with people and became their identity. That does mean something spiritually, whether you believe it or not. And this is coming from a long time fan who was all in since Haunting the Chapel!
@hugolafhugolaf
3 ай бұрын
If anyone believed in all that hype, it could've been Kerry King and maybe Jeff, but Tom couldn't care less.
@AddMoreQuarters
Ай бұрын
Oh stfu, looking too deep for things that aren't even there.
I still remember hearing Dead Skin Mask one night going to sleep as a kid. I had to sleep with the light on that night. Dance with the dead in my dreams.......listen to their hallowed scream....nope not in the dark by myself!
@jamescon55
24 күн бұрын
Me TOO! Back when it hit, I got it within a week or 2 of being released, I was a junior in HS, HAD my HS sweetheart and me listening to the NEW SLAYER in my bedroom, as I had a couch and my drum kit in the basement man cave of the house. Heard that whole child "talking /screams" coming through my Pioneer home stereo stack (STILL HAVE part of 😎) COME IN, along with the KILLER hypnotic like guitar riffing WITH LOMBARDO JUST SLAMMING AWAY 1/4 time on the kick drums! I thought 🤔😬 THAT IS , some EVIL SOUNDING CHYT!...Some SLAYER fans are burnt on the track, OR simply don't care for it but yeah... NOT me 😊..I STILL enjoy it from time to time.. Plus? It WAS, one of the 1st SLAYER SONGS that I learned to play on the drums as well 🥁, lol. 😎🤘🔥🤘
the hollywood bit didnt age well
Satanic themes are never innocent
@cmbells7736
4 ай бұрын
Are Goddly themes innocent?
@soundzznetwork
3 ай бұрын
@@cmbells7736What's a godly theme???
@theobell2002
2 ай бұрын
Imagine believing in religion in 2024.
Motley was using Satanic imagery in Hollywood before Slayer.
@jamescon55
24 күн бұрын
Cuz Blackie Lawless GAVE IT TO NIKKI (Tha SWITCH) SIXX TO USE! Pre WASP and EARLY WASP actually WERE using the pentagram way before the Crue got REAL WELL known for it (as you said)..... SHOUT WAS definitely, SHOCK ROCK, BUT? It HAD a sound to kinda "go with it"...Then Theater of Pain hit, and THAT WAS IT, (unfortunately for the Crue IMO 🫤SMH 😞 WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT!)......
Those guys don't have a mean bone in their body when it comes to their fans, they signed autographs in the parking lot for 4 hours after the '02 show in Atlanta at the Tabernacle. Kerry started greeting and signing first before the show, and again after. It was the original lineup with Dave that night, to everyone's surprise. I had the pleasure of shaking hands and fist bumping with Jeff, and I've never forgotten it. It took a long time for Tom to come out near the end of it because he was on a call on the tour bus for several hours. When he stepped off the bus around 4am he said, "You guys are still here?" 😅
Love ya Tom. From Salinas in 85 to Oakland coliseum in 2019 🤘
So, in short, we wanted to be the protagonist among our respective group, like WASP and Motley Crüe, but didn't want to be perceived as bitches. 😅
@noth1ng5id
4 ай бұрын
My first thought was actually Dee Snyder lol
SLAYER 4 EVER. . SLAYER ALWAYS DELIVERS. . CRANK IT UP LOUD. . HORNS UP. 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
I can hear Tom speaking for hours.
I love Slayer ! 🤘🤘🤘👹☠️
@Davebro38
Ай бұрын
Me too since hell awaits came out I've been all in
Tom's laugh is the best😅
Tom has such a great laugh! totally at odds with their image
Little did they know just how much hollywierd loves that stuff…
@branlopgar
2 ай бұрын
But they have embraced it only until these past few years. Back in the 80s, Tom was right, and the few "occult" stuff they did was considered highly transgressive (The Exorcist, The Omen, Poltergeist, you get it) and it had the same effect on the film industry as Slayer and Sabbath had in the music industry. Nowadays a film called "Summoning Satan" would be just another horror film, like it would be just another black metal album.
'We didn't want to be part of one scene so we became a part of another scene instead' 👌
Motley crue used the pentagram before them
@sigmaramen
Ай бұрын
Yeah, by a couple of months. Big whoop. Shout at the Devil - September 1983 Show No Mercy - December 1983
@jamescon55
24 күн бұрын
Cuz Blackie from WASP, GAVE the Pentagram to Nikki Sixx ta USE for Crue...EARLY WASP and (a COUPLE of) Blackie' earlier bands HAD ALREADY been using the pentagram in the tale end of the latter 70s early 80s era, and so.... Yeah, OTHER than a few supposed "occult based bands" in the earlier 70s? AND BLACK SABBATH of course! 😊.... THAT is really WHERE the pentagram WAS being used.
Interview done at the rainbow bar and grill
The great man Tom.
Slayer is the best catholic band ever!
@jlobiafra
2 ай бұрын
The irony is the catholic church has done more evil than any band ever could
James Hetfield on the microphone after he plays a Slayer lick during Metallicas concert. " Oh, you guys like , Sailor?"
Now the Hollywood crowd embraces it
This is a great great band
RIP Slayer love you guys 🤘🤘
Gotta appreciate the honesty though !!
Same reason Black Sabbath used inverted crosses, it was controversial and got people wound up. It was a cheeky thing to do, and that's why it worked.
Now that I am in my mid 40's these guys make so much more sense & makes it Easy to love every album ..
First I thought his shirt said his wife's a T-Rex
Jesus Saves (from Reign in Blood). That really confused my grandmother.
Thats pretty metal🤘🏽
When i was a teenager,my older brother used to not allowed me to listen to his favourite metal bands including Slayer, because he said they are the most violent music that you will experience.He is the one who trying to scare me,but im not scared of metal bands at all,Slayer is still the band i ever love!😎🤘⚡🔥🖤😊😊
@soundzznetwork
3 ай бұрын
But to be fair, your brother was right.
They’re back bro! That was fast.
@shredman87.57
5 ай бұрын
Cash grab
@LetsGoMetsGo33
5 ай бұрын
@@shredman87.57after all, most people get paid for their work. and if your particular abilities to work makes you worth big $$$ for doing a job, you should say no?
@shredman87.57
5 ай бұрын
@@LetsGoMetsGo33 yeah
@LetsGoMetsGo33
5 ай бұрын
@@shredman87.57 why?
@shredman87.57
5 ай бұрын
@@LetsGoMetsGo33 .
Crazy how Papa Tom and Het describe the early days of their bands almost identically! Would be crazy if they toured together!!
Tom has that nice and happy dad laugh
Tom Araya = Metal Love for planet Earth.
Slayer wore eyeliner? Lmmfao 😂
Infant Annihilator enters the chat
To be different from Hollywood now you just have to not diddle kids 🙈
That’s why they’re Slayer. That’s why we listen to them. 😘😘🤘🤘💯🔥
Tom was always a Christian. Not sure about the others. clash of the titans 91-92ish all i know is, when they came on there was a true feeling that evil had entered the room. jumped over the railing and headed up front to jump into the most brutal pit i was ever in good times man 🤘🏻
Mötley Crüe instantly came to mind when they said makeup! 😂😂
I love tomms laugh 😂
Careful. Playing with fire, hellfire...
Awesome!!!
Today, Slayer uses Satanic symbols to differentiate themselves from Uncle Jesse on Dukes of Hazzard with that crazy ass beard Araya has.
What i love about tom is how humble he is. In interviews, he admits that metallica was doing alot of the stuff they are attributed with before them. To me the big 4 goes. Metallica Slayer Metallica Slayer
Slayer will always be my favorite band of all time.
0:45 i wonder if Robert Smith and The Cure had some influence on Slayer?
@whamsie4022
4 ай бұрын
Alice Cooper
And then he died and stood before Christ.
@twomorningsbackfromyesterd1240
2 ай бұрын
🔝 Powerful statement.
Saw them live in 88, such a good show...🤘🤘
They got lots of talent, it's too late to complain. Never saw them in concert, I've always wanted to see them.
Love his t-shirt.
“We wanted to be the ugly guys” that’ll be my mantra
Angel Of Death is their scariest song if you ask me, because it's 100% true.
@thatkidfromsmartsville2012
2 күн бұрын
And the best history lesson in song form
What really really cool dude
Tom was always the laid back cool guy non rockstar
Wish the wiki videos of slayer were deleted and Kerry king
Is there any link to the full interview?
So the answer was yes. They just said "to gain notice among the metal community" with different words.
"We didn't do makeup." "There was some makeup.." "That's my point!" lol Also, even Motley Crue used pentagrams..
Bullshit! They came out way before glam metal was popular. I never understood the hate for hair metal. Best music ever was 80s hair metal 🤘🤘
Así lo fuera, súper..me. gusta y ya!👍💪💪
That is the most metal motivation ever.
They have more truth in their satanic lyrics than anybody could ever really truly imagine though I know because i'm psychic and I love slayer ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
This might get people to notice but it’s definitely not a good thing. These guys, in any type of entertainment business, who do this are actually hurting some people who are weak minded and easy to manipulate. They are definitely not heroes. They don’t impress me. They have nothing of substance to say, that’s why they go this route.
@toxicrobott
Ай бұрын
If people are weak, that's not Slayer's fault
Why do they all claim the same thing when asked the question......"oh its just for fun".......yeah sure.....okay
@-meat-
4 ай бұрын
Because it pretty much is for fun
@none11ification
4 ай бұрын
@-meat- yeah, that's what Satan promotes, fun in exchange for your soul. The jokes on you and them
@cmbells7736
4 ай бұрын
Research, "the satanic temple"
Saw 'em in the early 90's in Newport, Wales, er? Machine Head support if I remember right. I do remember they were fkn bangin' Tom threw a couple of plectrums at me 1 went 1 way another went the other way, the 3rd flew straight at me and stuck on my sweaty cheek lol (face) 😅
The most infectious laugh in metal 😂
As a Cristian I trust Slayer more than Hollywood.
Sunset Blvd was scared! 😂