Slayer haunting the chapel Continue Much better sound - not being fabulous either, that is the instrumental quality that caused us, all of us, shape to enjoy at the bottom! - that previous founding album is a myth, this E.P. four track will consolidate the legend already in motion after just this famous first stone in the purring building in the sweet title Show Without Mercy, released a year earlier ... which we can call a historical album, by the way! For most fans of us, know that a re-release dating back to 2004 (and still in effect today) will allow you to accumulate on the same album the mythical Live Undead and Ghosts of the Chapel mentioned in this column. In the same vein as the Show is not mercy for the first two titles and a significant evolution for the following that discover, relative I agree, slower and at the same time more worked or complex, while continuing his dark dark studies. Ghosts Chapel tends to be more resolute in the mad rush of sound and quality aggression in order to establish undeniable fame in the genre. Indeed, every SLAYER enthusiast should know how we feel listening to the damningly excellent cult song that is Chimicale - which is becoming now, the emblem of the slayerian paw without any references to different bands. SLAYER has just found its personal niche always copied and never matched today! What is then his brother's blood that is the impetuous Sin Thief, if not the fascinating melodic line that sends us valdinguer to the wall if we don't care about him so much his effectiveness is enormous. Should I add more? Only in between, SLAYER confirms his style and re-cook penetrates into his repertoire, which has become a classic for our common good. His two-part anthology is reborn in each of his performances around the world. SLAYER never forgets to play them again and again on the verge of exhaustion, which will probably never happen again... Or musicians must die once and for all! The guitars sound damp and give this recording an unhealthy and calculated atmosphere to the ready riffs. No overflow; quality (surgical will not say any). In any case, the know-how is ten times and the machine is on its way to its visual and auditory intransigence, which can no longer be used as an excuse for maldonne. SLAYER does SLAYER and nothing else! The name of the same name is more meandering than the two bombers mentioned above. The result is a sulphurous I-don't know-what that leads me to believe that SLAYER more than powerful: he also knows how to transport us to an unknown country. Underground and obscure, the composition seems perverse to the point of being anxious at first listening. This know-how, SLAYER will cultivate it to no longer know where, mastering the speed of rhythms and unhealthy texts and general moods suitable for the mentally ill and other satanic psychopaths (or even religious, it is not incompatible!), who seem to want to revive our little land of pure appearance. Where we block more, it will be on a more ambiguous, intended and perceived vision of the group, on a sensitive topic than the topic of the Holocaust and from a certain point of view, addressed to wars and other forms of terrorism... As for the younger, madame, the intro looks furiously like Hit The Light on you-know-who, but which is immediately different from a style more flamboyant and hateful than their little comrades Frisco. Aggressive Perfector is actually the first track recorded by SLAYER on the compilation album Metal Blade III and which presented them to the metal world. The famous critic Brian Slagel was so captivated that he did his best to get his label (Metal Blade Records, therefore) to collaborate with the Californian band in order to offer SLAYER the opportunity to afford the luxury of giving birth to his first album! 1984 EP from SlayerHaunting the ChapelEP from SlayerleasedReJune 1984 North Hollywood, CaliforniaGenreThrash MetalLength13:27LabelMetal BladeProducerBrian SlagelSlayer Chronology Show No Mercy (1983) Ghosts Chapel (1984) Live Undead (1984) Ghosts Chapel is an extended play (EP) released by American thrash metal band Slayer in 1984 through Metal And Blade Records. Slayer Show's debut album No Mercy became Metal Blade's best-selling album, leading to producer Brian Slagel's desire to release a EP. Recorded in Hollywood, the recording process proved difficult when recording drums in a studio without a carpet, although this led to a meeting between drummer Dave Lombardo and Gene Hoglane, which was to become an influence in his style and drum speed. It was during the recording of this session that Lombardo first added a bass guitar to his kit. Hoglan, working at Slayer at the time, sat in the kit and played bass for the first time. Lombardo was impressed, and although Hoglane never gave him lessons, he gave him advice on using a double drum. Although there were three songs originally on the record, the recording shows a marked evolution from the style of their previous album Show No Mercy, and is considered the first demonstration of the band's classic style displayed on later albums, and is often described as a step stone. Songs Captor of Sin and Chemical Warfare regularly appears live on the group's set list. Chemical Warfare appears in Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock. Recording Slayer's previous album, Show No Mercy, sold more than 40,000 copies worldwide, and the band performed Chemical Warfare and Captor of Sin live, prompting producer Brian Slagel to miss out on a EP. Slagel was an executive producer. Metoyer is a Christian, and the lyrics from Show No Mercy did not bother him. However, the first words Araya sang when recording The Ghosts of the Chapel were Holy Cross, a symbol of lies that intimidates the life of a born Christian and other anti-ligious texts; Metoyer thought he would go to hell for his part in writing the text. These lyrical themes were inspired by the band Venom, which influenced King and was also in the Satanic image. Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo put his drum kit on concrete, and the kit went all over the place during the game. Lombardo asked Gene Hoglane to keep his kit together, recording Chemical Warfare, with Hoglane thinking, I hope he does it in one or two actions, because it's rude. Hoglane trained Lombardo on how to use two bass drums to improve his drum abilities and speed; Lombardo claims that Hoglane was an amazing double bass player back then, although this was the first time Hoglane played bass. Eddie Schreier provided audio repair and digital remastering, with a cover design created by Vince Gutierrez. The ghosts of the Chapel were darker and more thrash-oriented than Show No Mercy, and laid the groundwork for the band's future direction. Touring Hoglan worked as a roadie for the band after their lighting guy didn't show up one night and performed Lombardo Soundchecks. Slayer and Hoglan played Dark Angel songs during the soundchecks, so Hoglan eventually joined Dark Angel. Hoglane approached Dark Angel guitarist Jim Durkin: One day he came up to me and started criticizing the band. He said we should be more angry. And then he says, By the way, I'm a better drummer than the guy you have in the Dark Angel right now. Hoglane was fired because he thought the roadman was only lighting, while the brother of vocalist Tom Araya Johnny Araya would perform all roadie duties such as moving technique, working with sound and lights, and creating a scene. The band performed the show in Seattle in front of a crowd of 1,500, the largest show they performed at the time, supporting Metal Church, and in Texas played with a band called Slayer in San Antonio. However, it was a farewell show by San Antonio Slayer. Receiving Professional RatingsRevue RatingsSource:RatingAllMusic Despite the fact that the EP did not enter any charts, Eduardo Rivadavia of AllMusic awarded EP three out of five stars. Rivadavia said Ghosts Chapel was a stepping stone that offers important clues about this transition period, which saw Slayer rock-structure songs give way to a non-linear, genre-defining style after then seen as thrash metal's signature sound. Tracks Chemical Warfare and Captor of Sin are regularly played on live shows Slayer. Vocalist Carl Willetts of death metal band Bolt Thrower claims that the recording was the inspiration for the band: When Slayer's Haunting the Chapel came out, I had never heard anything like this before with this style of guitar playing. We were punks, and heavy metal was alien to our upbringing. And other bands that we have heard like Venom, Slaughterhouse and Metallica. So we took elements of musicality out of metal and punk aggression and poured it all together. Chuck Schuldiner of Death said the recording was life-changing at the time, claiming, These were some of the first things that gave me that push. Black metal band Perverseraph covered Chemical Warfare on a slayer tribute drive called Gateway to Hell, Vol. 2: A Tribute to Slayer. Thrash metal band Equinox also appeared on an album called Haunting the Chapel. Melodic death metal band At the Gates released Captor of Sin in 2002 on the release of their 1995 album Slaughter of the Soul. Track listing Side oneNo.TitleWriter (s)Length1. Chemical WarfareJeff HannemanKerry King6:02 Side twoNo.TitleWriter (s)Length1.