To be fair megacunt could save the world, he would still be ginger and a cunt.

He loves himself enough so no one else needs to.

Oh, did you mean the actual Lulu, and not Dave Mustaine? It's just if a sentence has "ginger" and "cunt" in it I just assume it's about him.

1. Reign In Blood
2. Kill 'Em All
3. Master Of Puppets
4. South Of Heaven
5. Ride The Lightning
6. Show No Mercy
7. Hell Awaits
8. ...And Justice For All

40 fists.

1. Show No Mercy
2. Ride the Lightning
3. Reign in Blood
4. Kill 'Em All
5. Master of Puppets
6. Hell Awaits
7. ...and Justice for All
8. South of Heaven

Show over Reign? Controversial! It's definitely underrated, that's for sure.

Possibly due to overlistening RiB on my part, though. But despite having listened to SNM at least as much as I have RiB (possibly more by now), it still has yet to lose its charm. It's one of my favourite speed/thrash/black metal albums from the 80's.

I probably overplayed SNM. It was my favorite of theirs. Now its between Hell Awaits, Reign in Blood, and South of Heaven. I guess it depends on which one I'm actually listening to at the time. If I absolutely had to choose one it would probably be RiB, but their first five are 40/40.
1. Reign in Blood
2. Hell Awaits (was my first intro to them back in the 80s. It literally creeped me out. Evil sounding shit. Fate's Melissa also did that to me back then)
3. South of Heaven
4. Show No Mercy
5. Seasons

Show No Mercy > Kill Em' All
Hell Awaits > Ride The Lightning
Reign In Blood > Master Of Puppets
South Of Heaven > ...And Justice For All
Seasons In They Abyss > The Black Album

Divine Intervention > Load
Undisputed Attitude > Reload
Diabolus In Musica > St. Anger

World Painted Blood > Christ Illusion > God Hates Us All > Death Magnetic
Repentless > Hardwired... To Self-Destruct

No. They're close but KEA has a clear and distinct difference in song quality, variety and sound.

On a par. It's a coin toss between them really. Ride probably has better highlights but worse weakness.

Definitely. There are very few albums in existence that would turn that arrow round the other way.

Agree. It's a tiny margin. South is more succinct and its classics are better.

By a mile.

By a mile.

Yes, but neither matters.

Again yes, but who cares.

Yes. GHUA and DM could probably be switched if someone cared - both terrible albums.

There is no such Slayer album as "Repentless".

I agree with the smaller margins.

Repentless came out last year.

Yeah, but Robit is going to claim it's not a real album, and it's not real Slayer.

Theyre still neck & neck. That explains it really!

I get it, no Hanneman and no Lombardo.

Of course. Both heavily NWOBHM-influenced, but Show No Mercy walks all over Kill 'Em All in terms of aggression and intent.


Utter bollocks. Slayer's second worst release compared to Metallica's (and the rest of the Big Four's) finest album. There's no comparison, Ride The Lightning farts in Hell Awaits' general direction.


Again, wrong. Master Of Puppets and Ride The Lightning are both superior to anything Slayer released, though the gap is a lot smaller here.


Back on track here. Slayer's finest hour and the least of Metallica's first four albums. No contest.


Yep. Slayer's last truly great album and Metallica's cash grab. Metallica (to give it its actual title) is a great pop/metal album but it's weak and diluted, and has Nothing Else matters, which can eternally fuck off.


Indeed. Divine Intervention is a decent album, but it offered absolutely nothing new whatsoever and was the first of their many 'going through the motions' albums to come. Load had a few decent tracks but is absolutely bloated and deserved to be an EP, really.


Cover albums don't count, especially when they're this shit but if they did, this would be Slayer's worst album. Even the one original song is decidedly average. ReLoad, like Load, had a handful of decent tracks but didn't need to be a full-length, at all. Combine the best tracks on this and Load and you'd have an alright album. Bin the rest.


Well, obviously. St. Anger's the worst release here, the only confirmed 0/5 album listed. Utterly worthless and irredeemable. Diabolus In Musica might be Slayer's worst overall but it pisses all over St. Anger.


God Hates Us All is the only decent Slayer album here, but it's only just that. Again, no new ground but it's the only thing post-Divine Intervention worth listening to. Utterly inessential, obviously. The rest are just wallpaper.

Hardwired..., poor as it is, is certainly better than Death Magnetic, which was just a half-hearted attempt to appease the old fans who'd been alienated by their previous 15 years' worth of releases, it never hit the target. Hardwired... is slowly growing on me - it's not fit to lick the first four albums' boots (of course) but it's a step in the right direction. Shit lyrics, really shit lyrics, though. And waaay too long.

The only insignificant difference is you're a bigger fan of MOP and RTL than you're of HA and RIB and I tend to lean slightly towards the Slayer two.

Yeah. You're wrong, but that's personal taste for you...

I'm so fussy with records, no matter what kind of Metal I'm listening to I tend to be particular. For instance when I play Thrash I tend to listen to the more aggressive, darker records.

Just broke the deadlock by voting for Metallica. It's very close for me.

Kill 'Em All > Show No Mercy
Ride the Lightning > Hell Awaits
Master of Puppets < Reign in Blood
...And Justice for All < South of Heaven
Metallica < Seasons in the Abyss
Load < Divine Intervention
ReLoad > Diabolus in Musica
Garage Inc. > Undisputed Attitude
St. Anger < God Hates Us All

I would have to listen to their live ones and the most recent ones again to choose winners there.