Show No Mercy
| Slayer
Show No Mercy
Show No Mercy is the debut studio album by American thrash metal band Slayer, released on December 3, 1983, by Metal Blade Records. Brian Slagel signed the band to the label after watching them perform the song "Phantom of the Opera" by Iron Maiden. The band self-financed their full-length debut, combining the savings of vocalist Tom Araya, who was employed as a respiratory therapist, and money borrowed from guitarist Kerry King's father. Touring extensively promoting the album, the band brought close friends and family members along the trip, who helped backstage with lighting and sound. -Wikipedia
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Indy Metal Vault
Everything that thrash metal is and was is encompassed here, and it was an album that needed to happen.
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All Music
Everything about this album, from the production to the musicianship, is amateurish compared to later releases.
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Metal Storm
Show No Mercy is without doubt my favourite Slayer album, why? Probably because of the 80s feel it has, which to some may make the record seem slightly outdated. However, the digitally remastered version, released in 2004, brings the sound slightly more up to date, and helps to fully appreciate the talent and effort put into the music.
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Sputnik Music
This is a truly enjoyable effort, and an introduction to a band that would later be renowned for their "breakneck speed and instrumental prowess". It's a listening experience drenched in brutality that delivers exactly what it promises, no mercy.
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Metal Forces Magazine
One of the heaviest, fastest, most awesome albums of all time!
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The Mighty Decibel
Speed metal personified, Show No Mercy raced, sliced and diced like no other at the time ... and still stands as one of the premier speed metal albums of all time. Enjoy and let its wrath unfold!
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Head of Metal
Never gets old. The first in a long line of essentials. Slayer!
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The Vinyl District
I particularly dig Slayer’s 1983 debut Show No Mercy because it sounds like it was recorded in the pits of Hell (or one of the guys’ moms’ basements) and paid for with Green Stamps, then got accidentally dropped in the La Brea tarpits or something.
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Spirit of Metal
it is absolutely as worthy of the Slayer name as their other 80's records.
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Death Metal Underground
Like simple vectors of this transcendent vision, each song is a nihilistic gestalt formed of structural similarity to nature that bypasses the human perspective for the freedom of a chaotic, resonant, living system of metaphor emerging unfettered to evoke our imaginations.
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Invisible Oranges
I wish I had heard Show No Mercy when it came out 25 years ago today. It must have blown minds at the time. Even now, it’s electric.
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Amino
If you haven't already please do yourself a favor and listen to it as much as you can.
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Pitchfork
Almost a year into "Show No Mercy", it's no secret I enjoy the noisy, doomy, eccentric, and extended.
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