Hell Awaits
by Slayer
- Type: Album
- Released: 19 April 1985
- Label: Metal Blade
- Country: United States
- Length: 37:12
- Community rating: 3.72/5 from 11 ratings
Artists on this release: Jeff Hanneman, Tom Araya, Kerry King, Dave Lombardo
Album Notes & Community Reviews
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
Descriptors: death, satanism, violence, uncompromising, ferocious
Tracklist
- Hell Awaits (6:16)
- Kill Again (4:56)
- At Dawn They Sleep (6:17)
- Praise of Death (5:21)
- Necrophiliac (3:46)
- Crypts of Eternity (6:40)
- Hardening of the Arteries (3:55)
Credits
- Slayer - primary artist, producer
- Albert Cuellar - artwork
- Tom Araya - bass, vocals, lyrics by
- Dave Lombardo - drums
- Carolyn Collins - engineer [assistant at eldorado], additional engineer
- Ron Fair - engineer [eldorado], engineer [track record], mixed by, recorded by [eldorado], engineer, mix
- Bill Metoyer - engineer [track record], mixed by, recorded by [track record], engineer, mix
- Jeff Hanneman - lead guitar, lyrics by, music by
- Kerry King - lead guitar, lyrics by, music by
- Stage Dive - management [by]
- Bernie Grundman - mastered by, mastering
- Lowell Katz - photography by
- Brian Slagel - producer