Hell Awaits

by Slayer

Hell Awaits cover art

Slayer significantly heightened their compositional complexity and sinister atmosphere on 'Hell Awaits', crafting sprawling, multi-part thrash metal epics. The album features terrifyingly fast, deeply dissonant guitar work and Tom Araya's relentless, demonic vocals, focused heavily on Satanism and infernal imagery. It is a highly aggressive, deeply evil transitional record that paved the bloody path toward early death metal.

Genres

  • Thrash Metal

Tracklist

  1. Hell Awaits
  2. Kill Again
  3. At Dawn They Sleep
  4. Praise of Death
  5. Necrophiliac
  6. Crypts of Eternity
  7. Hardening of the Arteries