Slayer - Hell Awaits (OFFICIAL)

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Slayer "Hell Awaits" from the album "Hell Awaits".

[@RageOfTheMetalAge]

There is no volume loud enough for this song!

[@pinky3764]

RageOfTheMetalAge Mein ich doch auch mal

[@solid072]

Exactly

[@thisisnotmyrealname6990]

There is when you blow out the speakers

[@moweewesty279]

Just go to the a concert when they play this. Even then it won't be as loud.

[@davidtarvin2777]

Just be in my neighborhood everytime I listen to slayer my neighborhood hears it too

[@lorenzocabrini]

This song changed my life forever. I normally never listened through an entire album from beginning to end, but after the first riffs of Hell Awaits I just couldn't stop. So even if there is a possibility that Reign in Blood is an even better album, for me Hell Awaits was something special. I was socially awkward, addicted to horror movies, role playing and my Commodore 64 (or maybe I even still had my VIC 20). School sucked, parents sucked, girls were hard to get, alcohol and the occasional herb soothed the pain. And Slayer, of course. Man, how could such a dark time in my life bring back such happy memories?

[@nelsoncheng4638]

Lorenzo Cabrini. I'm sorry life was hard for you. But if you come to a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, you can have true joy and fulfillment in life.

[@sergiomtz609]

@@nelsoncheng4638 seriously talking bout Jesus in a slayer song video?? hahah insane man gtfo

[@chickinagg9141]

Slayer is my favourite band along the lines of Samhain and Danzig. Every time I asked my mum for a slayer or Danzig CD she’d say “no I don’t support satanism and satanists.” And it annoyed me because I didn’t really like any other bands so I only had reign in blood and my dad gave me his god hates us all CD. And she would never buy me a slayer shirt because of the pentagram but she’d always get me a Metallica shirt and I’d never wear it cause I wasn’t really a Metallica fan

[@opethium647]

I guess theres nostalgia in both good and bad..

[@sconescone6848]

@@sergiomtz609 Tom Araya is a pretty serious Catholic I think. @Lorenzo Cabrini this is a really special album, I feel like "Hardening of the Arteries" is like soul music for the end of the 20th century / transition to the hell we're currently living in / hoping not to get nuked. die by the sword

[@duncemc2241]

This is my theme song when I wake up for work

[@beargrills3508]

Some One this is the coffee for real men. Or women.

[@deanovak3540]

A clikkie that is also a metalhead. Fuck yes dude. Fuck. Yes. 🤘🤘 ||-//

[@seflw9666]

@@deanovak3540 yes i love some 21p songs and metal too

[@raven_g6667]

You know it

[@lemmy1945]

This is my theme song when I wake up from work.

[@KenobiStark1]

For those of us who grew up with this music, lived life, changed, and are now listening to this again, Welcome Back and for those who never left, I wish you good fortune in the wars to come.

[@babalonworking6]

My first slayer album; FUCKING KIIIIIIIIILLER!!!!

[@IloveChrome846]

You're right. Always come back to Slayer.🤟

[@andrianaintplaya8705]

i am only 15 and my dad got me to this music from when i was 5, i am proud to be a long term metalhead!!

[@JohnWilliams-ds1ue]

Born 68 slayer 84.took my son to slayer ASAP.

[@JohnWilliams-ds1ue]

We saw the original line up too.met dave

[@cleforlife420]

I remember when this album came out in 1984 smokin tree in my friends basement blowing our hits out the window hoping her parents didn't smell it. Listening to this album on a loop. Good times. We were 14 just starting our freshman yr in high school.

[@petargerstman1423]

best intro riff ever.

[@FernandoCallet]

Awesome riff

[@gxzaerox8467]

Best intro ever*

[@GretzkySanders]

I have said that all my life...i grew up in the 80's have been a metal fan all my life...still believe it's the best "intro" ever...the intro itself has 3 riffs in it...all great thrash riffs...making this intro absolutely awesome!

[@angelmolina3406]

GXZaeroX Best song ever

[@lanecore75]

@@GretzkySanders I grew up mainly on Metallica, Megadeth then Pantera and the Seattle four. Now as my audio palet grew I found this to be one of the baddest intros I've ever heard it's a three in one deal like you said. still makes the hair on the back of neck stand at attention.

[@MataNui1231]

This is a terrific funeral song

[@MephistoOrb]

As you slip into hell, screaming for God to forgive you...😈

[@user-pf7qg9lc6p]

FUCKING SLAYER! this is not doom metal

[@marksturge7536]

FUCKING SLAYER! playing at mine FUCK CHRIST HAIL SATAN

[@ericbomberger1128]

FUCKING SLAYER! it sucks though you won't be able to hear it then \m/

[@jakelejoin4552]

I dont know about you but Ill hear it at my funeral

[@seyitalp7644]

a good morning song

[@BlackAdam2784]

Hahaha !! Sets the mood for the day.

[@MephistoOrb]

A song that's good at any time of the day.

[@joemomma5919]

Or night

[@jubs2496]

Good for doing physics and math exercises

[@destan1759]

gittiğim biryerde de türk görmiyim bıktırdınız aq

[@CarlosRamirez-oz7lh]

The demons at the beginning sends chills down your spine

[@montech5647]

What are they s4ying?

[@randalthevandal3835]

@@montech5647 su nioj.

[@Phantom4368]

@@montech5647 join us backwards

[@wallaceshawn-zk8iw]

Join Us Join Us... Jesus soul cannot be saved...

[@sandwichsteen]

"satan's a horse" @@montech5647

[@jayceboy]

First Slayer track I heard that got me into Thrash metal when I was a teenager

[@GunsnRosesfan2012]

For me it was raining blood and enter sandman. Those were my 1st two thrash songs.

[@adrianarmendariz880]

+GunsnRosesfan2012 posser

[@xsquidd8042]

That moment when you call Enter Sandman thrash

[@GunsnRosesfan2012]

+david savage I do know what I'm talking about. My mistake for calling sandman thrash.

[@Kylev2]

This is the song that got me into Slayer, that intro just fucking destroys.

[@reyalsdibrom]

Same story here, bro

[@LinusFeynstein]

You joined them

[@wallaceshawn-zk8iw]

Great build up. Other songs with great build ups Blind, Iron Man, Stairway & Freebird among others...

[@raincrow9673]

First heard this in the spring of 86. I was sitting in my best friends chevelle before high school in the parking lot. He bought it the day before along with a few other used tapes at our local record store. We couldn't believe what we were hearing. I talked him into skipping school and we drove around all morning getting stoned and cranking this as loud as it would go. Good times! FUCKING SLAYER!!!!

[@stiffk666]

I love hearing stories like yours. Knowing others had the same joy as me. I was 13 when I heard it and it was instant love totally blew my mind. I made my Dad buy me South of Heaven on cassette for Xmas the year it came out and my dad and the guy in the shop kept looking at it asking are you sure? Do you know what that is? Are you sure? Tiny little Goth girl jumping up and down going yes yes YES! I still love this song just as much. Bless my awesome Dad. Every time I put it on I smile and remember good times. Also seeing Slayer in the UK in the early 90s and being the only girl in the mosh pit, heck often the whole gig! And singing my heart out. Saw them so many times. Clash of the Titans and once lying on an embankment at Monsters of Rock totally out of it but hearing the intro and tearing to the front like lightning. So so many times Slayer made me happy and I'll forever love them for it.

[@Beefy3240]

To this day, STILL the BEST Slayer album. Pure evilness

[@nalesnikizeszpinakiem9877]

Yes. You are right, I love this record so fuckin' much.

[@LMAODOODZ]

One of the top 5 greatest songs by Slayer.

[@nocturnal1667]

They’re playing so tight on this record

[@gustavogalvan2201]

what an intro! masterpiece!

[@MephistoOrb]

It sure is!

[@stianthijsen4784]

This Song is inspired big time by Venom's AT WAR WITH SATAN.

[@jaredporter4136]

We will meet again in Hell and celebrate Slayer

[@nickmyers139]

this is my favorite slayer album.

[@mrconfusion87]

Indeed! They showed their fullest range of musicianship here in my opinion!

[@paulrosette3098]

Nick Myers I like it, but I think Reign in Blood is just a little better

[@isaiahmeraz9808]

Show no mercy is by far my favorite album

[@babalonworking6]

SLAYER PLAAAAAYING LOOOOONG SOOOOONGS!!!

[@babalonworking6]

Verse 1] Existing on damnation's edge The priest had never known To witness such a violent show Of power overthrown Angels fighting aimlessly Still dying by the sword Our legions killing all in sight To get the one called Lord [Chorus] The gates of Hell lie waiting, as you see There's no price to pay, just follow me I can take your lost soul from the grave Jesus knows your soul cannot be saved [Post-Chorus] Crucify your so-called Lord He soon shall fall to me Your souls are damned, your God has fell To slave for me eternally Hell awaits... [Verse 2] The reaper guards the darkened gates That Satan calls his home The demons feed the furnace where The dead are free to roam Lonely children of the night There's seven ways to go Each leading to the burning hole That Lucifer controls [Chorus] Priests of Hades seek the sacred star Satan sees the answer lies not far Zombies, screaming souls, cry out to you Satanic law prevails, your life is through [Bridge] Pray to the moon... when it is round Death with you shall then abound For what you seek for can't be found In sea or sky or underground [Guitar Solo: Jeff Hanneman] [Verse 3] Now I have you deep inside My everlasting grasp The seven bloody gates of Hell Is where you'll live your last Warriors from Hell's domain Will bring you to your death The flames of Hades burning strong Your soul shall never rest [Chorus] The gates of Hell lie waiting, as you see There's no price to pay, just follow me I can take your lost soul from the grave Jesus knows your soul cannot be saved [Post-Chorus] Sacrifice the lives of all I know they soon shall die Their souls are damned to rot in Hell And keep the fires growing deep inside Hell awaits... [Guitar Solo: Kerry King]

[@LinusFeynstein]

Hell is real

[@156alfaro]

In 1985 I was 15, my sister was 9 and she started crying when she heard Tom Araya's voice.

[@christianj.zamora8318]

I first heard this track when i was 8. Scared the shit out of me. I couldnt get past the first track until i was 12. Then it was on repeat.

[@GretzkySanders]

I grew up in the 80's, have been a metal fan all my life... and I still believe this is the best "intro" ever to any metal song...the intro itself has 3 amazing riffs in it...absolutely awesome!

[@skullz01]

Intresting fact: The intro of the song is join us, join us, join us then Satan Laughs but you have to reverse the song. \m/

[@hkr11128]

+xXx_DankMemeMaster420_xX isn't Satan's laughs actually "Welcome Back"?

[@skullz01]

Fala Galera! Yeah I made a mistake.

[@nolantis2372]

Backwards it says: it's the nutshack, it's the nutshack

[@josef2861]

Tom Ayara is a Cristian! How???????

[@MephistoOrb]

The intro sounds like a creepy British man saying "son, you're hot" lol

[@lucasa.4029]

ChangeName CancelDone hahahahah

[@ConsideratelyKillingMe]

It's JOIN USSSS backwards, and at the end it says WELCOME BACK...

[@jihaadal-noori8908]

It sounds like he's saying 'sign your heart'

[@dance9164]

Join us ! Backwards....?

[@dance9164]

Welcome back ? Fuck that Nooooooo!

[@reggiebrousseau5283]

Slayer to me is the best thrash band ever. We all know Tallica is King and well deserved. Slayer owns thrash

[@shinymetagross1818]

2:16 Still arguably the most badass riff of all time in my opinion.

[@amarillohendrix4207]

What about the one from the chorus and pre verse?

[@manifestgtr]

This will always be my favorite Slayer album…for the same reason that Justice will probably always be my favorite Metallica album. When a band stretches their legs a bit and explores some new territory (while still in their creative prime), it occasionally ends up being totally next-level. Hendrix, Zeppelin, Stone Temple Pilots, Run DMC, Alice In Chains, Metallica, Slayer…all groups who took risks early in their careers with god-level results.

[@AcolyteOfNone]

Welcome back

[@PALongknife]

I could listen to just the double bass drums and "chugga-chugga" guitar (the sections that come in at 1:35 and 2:27) for hours on end! This stuff was MADE for head-banging! \\m//

[@KZ3fps]

When the bass hits at 2:08. So fucking good.

[@xmw-rat4558]

Its one of the greatest early usage of breakdowns.

[@lanecore75]

Yyyyyesssss

[@IloveChrome846]

Backward vocals are: "Join us, join us..". And then a more straightforward "Welcome Baaaack". Slayer fkn rules. Always has, always will.

[@randyg1594]

My favorite since 87

[@RonaldDScum]

Play this song at exactly 3 minutes and 12 seconds before the New Year. Most Metal New Year’s Eve song ever!

[@ronaldblackburn2483]

Trip back high school 1980s fine memories . And blistering metal .

[@duanecarr6712]

Thank you Metal Blade I remember you

[@user-tg8cr2ug1l]

Best slayer's song ever.So heavy,so dark.

[@andyventures6574]

Dave's double kick drumming.....off the charts back in 85

[@rustykuntz94]

Rick Rubin NEVER produced a Slayer record as great as this. I love all the 80s Slayer albums, don't get me wrong but this one was the best IMO.

[@Rokkoola]

Rick Rubin did not produce this album actually, Brian Slagel did. They signed with Metal Blade Records in the beginning of their career and released their first two albums via them. They signed with Rubins Def Jam label after that, released Reign in Blood and the rest is history :)

[@GasmaskAvenger]

@@Rokkoola i think what he was saying that despite Rick Rubin producing some of Slayer's most well known albums, they never came as close as reaching the heights of an album made before he entered the picture.

[@matthewmartinez3596]

I totally agree. Reign in Blood is good, in fact it still sounds incredibly well, sonically, despite its age. But Hell Awaits captured the 1980s, there’s something about it that no other record has. I always thought that Haunting the Chapel and Hell Awaits should’ve been one record.

[@pwb5150]

​@matthewmartinez3596 You're absolutely right. Everyone thinks of the 80's as this fun party decade, but there was a dark side to that era as well. There's a reason why those early Slayer songs were used in River's Edge. That movie was trying, and fully succeeded, in capturing the bleak nihilistic quality of the 1980's, which very early Slayer captured so well as you say.

[@christofferkavantsaari6811]

From the start until the end this song is epic😎

[@lordberly]

I WANT THIS TO BE PLAYED AT MY FUNERAL !!!

[@blakeman135]

OMG SAME!!! \m/

[@MephistoOrb]

Just as you enter hell, you hear this song playing...😈

[@ericbomberger1128]

Berly Tannyono Putra you won't be able to hear it

[@agustinchemello7258]

And I want my funeral to be in a norwegian forest

[@gaspar1978]

@LITTLE ALIEEEN ahhahahahahahahahaha i agreee

[@ninoo5897]

I am catholic and I go to church always but I love this song and other Slayer songs

[@PAPITOFLOW6969]

bullshit you're a satanist

[@mylerwilson4879]

PAPITOFLOW78 what about tom araya?

[@mh5259]

Just once, I would have loved to have gone to mass and heard this as the opener for the sermon... I might have found Jesus...At which point I'd have asked...well, never-mind that.

[@alispeihie5447]

"Join us" (backwards) and then "Welcome back" never fails to give me goosebumps. Fucking epic.

[@zonic26]

I only just found out that was the intro after thinking it was saying "Send your heart"

[@societydwellingifd8080]

*_When the song kicks in at the beginning of always reminded me of a freight train haulin ass down the tracks!_* *_when I was a teenager I used to walk the tracks in day or night and I always had my boom box with me. One time I on acid and was Jammin this on cassette and realized it was like a train when all of a sudden one was coming down the tracks!!_* *_Its a miracle I was never killed on those tracks in Newark, Delaware back in the mid 80's!_*

[@dierotewand3297]

one of my all time favorites. one of the earlier records i've listened but after all these years i just keep coming back to this. truly a classic.

[@babalonworking6]

FUUUUUUUUCK YAAAAAAA!!!

[@xyz9610]

this intro scared me when it came out, I was 13 and I was impressionable... too much.

[@cloudylex1752]

I was listening to this song on full blast walking into my first day of high school. Fitting lmao

[@branlopgar]

Still on time. Let's listen all the album in the memory of Jeff by 1 fucking year without Jeff.

[@billjannusch]

One of the best metal songs ever recorded in history period, Slayer's theme song..

[@rickyt.9482]

one of the heaviest and best riffs in all of metal!!this song bleeds riffs!!

[@madiejack2440]

Welcome Back

[@Htrainmaster]

The most Metal of all! Hard drum lines backed by solid bass and guitar riffs!! This album still hits it hard and fast!!! Jam on this album in your basement or garage!!! Pure metal flowing trough your veins!!! Learn these chords and you have a good foundation for the future of metal!!!

[@spasticlabrat]

Hard to think of an intro with more power, dread, and heaviness, all without being overly fast. Damn!

[@michaellewis2948]

Hell yea

[@user-iw5qt5md7t]

Death is forever

[@mattgiguere5638]

Thee best Album Ever🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@matthewsawyer4073]

Happy Slayer Day

[@jeffreygraham7049]

My son Jake's first concert?Slayer I'm doing parenting well.

[@jakeman4293]

Hell yeah you are

[@leplel866]

Cps? Not doing there job since??????

[@jacoblyman5359]

I agree..

[@Terminate1101]

Lep Lel :/

[@aaronsnideman6326]

Volume 11 is not loud enough. SLAYER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!¡¡👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊

[@melindawest893]

best way to wake the fuck up!

[@Bartolomeo9000]

Melinda West Wake the fuck up!

[@melindawest893]

Bart Mx yes

[@danielmelo7146]

"Magnificent".

[@facepalmjesus1608]

if you dont like Slayer.... HELL AWAITS FOR YOU

[@ElSacacacas300]

Hold up... Jesus likes Slayer?!

[@stantorren4400]

If Jesus doesn’t, I prefer Satan’s music

[@lorenzocabrini]

Not fair! We do the haters get all the fun?

[@nelsoncheng4638]

Facepalm. Your username is blasphemous. Don't you understand who Jesus Christ is? He is the Creator of the universe, Jehovah God, the King of kings, the Lord of lords. You need to repent and believe in the Gospel.

[@Gurul3_666]

@@nelsoncheng4638 Not everyone believes in your sky daddy

[@raskullsshako]

“existingondamnationsedgethepriesthadneverknown... towitnesssuchaviolentshowofpoweroverthrown”

[@jaredporter4136]

SLAYER!!!

[@marcusrios8517]

Dave's rhythm and drums sound is f ing awesome

[@blackdahlia1234]

Slayer!!🤘🤘

[@johnalig6343]

I'm drooling.

[@chriscordova702]

They play this song b4 you're born

[@wallaceshawn-zk8iw]

Such an epic song! The build up & the riffs! Jeff was awesome!

[@Tutankamion196]

I remember attending one of the their final tour dates over the summer in 2019 - 'Hell Awaits' starts and everyone is ready to mosh and when it came time for the devastating mosh pit, no one disappointed. It was crazy!

[@eduardofrancisco8166]

Slayer is the best.

[@Amadeus-ms9lt]

Slayer - keeping it authentic since their inception. I thank them for all the wonderful times, especially when getting over a break-up.

[@deathronerone]

Black thrash metal

[@dansweet2499]

I am a Christian but SLAYER has to be my favorite thrash metal band saw their last Tour

[@Skye_Laniakea-chan]

I want this song in my funeral

[@fabiandoritos3589]

Love This Album...Discazo Papá 💪🔥🔥

[@leonelcastanarez8324]

If Rob Halford is the "Metal God" we could say Araya's the "Metal Devil"?

[@AlextheMLAATRfan]

This is a perfect song for when you’re extremely angry.

[@elite-delta-1177]

Left hand path by Entombed too

[@giovanitejeira2308]

100 % confirmed.

[@TessaTestarossa]

Over their career, Slayer have blessed us with many amazing songs. But this is hands down their greatest party banger! ♥

[@antoniogoncalves8288]

Greatest metal song ever..

[@donculotta1551]

The first Slayer album I heard was their first, Show No Mercy, way back in 83 when I was 10. Fast forward 2 years. Hell Awaits. Beautiful✊🏻 You really feel like you are being transported to the Nine Circles of Hell in Dante's Inferno.

[@frankgrimaldo9127]

I'm an Hispanic Native American, most people would think of me as 😈 listening to music like this, but since I was younger, I liked dark music like this, there can't be good without a dark side.

[@Caucasiancookingadventures]

The preferred band of Aztec warriors.

[@bgray625]

Hell Awaits, sinners. Such a straight up diabolical record. Crank it up and you can smell the sulfur. I imagine Old Scratch, Lucifer Morningstar, at the mixing board, wisps of smoke coming off his fingers, smiling at the band. "Yes, this is acceptable to me. You've done well. Now, gentlemen, if you will just sign here."

[@johneiden7208]

These guys were pioneers.

[@hammerheartdan6311]

Oh man this brings me back to the high school years.

[@Viciousbreedmetal]

Way ahead of its time, people still catching up!!!

[@normanwalczak1510]

My first slayer album. Literally an album

[@michaelmaddox6646]

one of the hardest intro's ever!! Slaaaaayer

[@westcoastpighunting]

Long live Slayer. This song is awesome as HELL.

[@c.g.tahoebear6268]

Christian or not , the beauty of art is in the eye of the beholder!. Slayer in my opinion is 4 young men who have made their mark in the known universe just trying to make it in life! Since 1981 out of Huntington Park, CA. I have been blessed to have known them for their music for they stand out on their own. I believe that for the Band they're a league all by their own. I feel that their is no category for what they created and shared with the World! I am Forever Grateful and Indebted and A Loyal SLAYTANIC Admirer til the day I DIE! THANK YOU FOR ALL THE FUCKING AWESOME YEARS AND THE TIME AHEAD

[@jasondashney]

The intro guitar makes me want to run through walls. I remember listening to this in my headphones full blast right before leaving the dressing room for hockey games when I was a kid playing in a really rough league. By the time I hit the ice I felt invincible.

[@andrewsexton6179]

This is the best song to brush your teeth to

[@gerhardjasongeick4229]

What an intro! Clocking in at over three minutes, and every second counts. I love it.

[@samirzadar1741]

2024 Still Hell Awaits.R.I.P. Jeff.

[@ezylyric]

Still love this music today, ill always come back for more of his music

[@physicus372]

That's my favourite slayer song

[@thyxreaper]

I picture richard ramirez the night stalker listens to this before going killing spree during the 80s. Still my favortie slayer album in 2023🤘🏻

[@V.Vaughan]

HELL AWAITS AT LOUDER THAN LIFE FEST IN LOUISVILLE THIS YEAR IM GOING TO BE THERE FOR F***IN' SLLLAAAYYYEEERRR!! 😈👹☠️🎸🤘❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[@fredericklockard3854]

See you there!

[@suikogarden]

Hell Awaits, my first Slayer album.

[@garycox9341]

Aaaaah. An awesome tune from the humble beginnings of thrash/death metal!!

[@seanwechsler6783]

I always forget about this Slayer album. It's not bad by any means....underrated for sure.

[@skullproductions3549]

Sean Wechsler their best album

[@awolf4827]

My grandma bakes cookies while she jams this on high volume i love you grandma