Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

Seasons In The Abyss album cover
8.9 | 1791 votes |
Band
Slayer
Style
Thrash metal
Release date
9 October 1990
Owners
2526 have it
105 want it
1 trades it
Tracklist
01. War Ensemble
02. Blood Red
03. Spirit In Black
04. Expendable Youth
05. Dead Skin Mask
06. Hallowed Point
07. Skeletons Of Society
08. Temptation
09. Born Of Fire
10. Seasons In The Abyss
Guest review by
Stuart
Rating:
9.7
Rating:
9.7
Although Reign in Blood is generally regarded as Slayer's magnum opus, for me personally Seasons In the Abyss is definitely Slayer at the peak of their musical and lyrical prowess. Building on their two previous albums they delivered an album which had all the speed and brutality of Reign in Blood as well as the much slower mid-tempo groove of South of Heaven.

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published 23.03.2008 | Comments ( 29 )
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09.01.2025 - 17:54
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Written by Metal Fromage on 08.01.2025 at 18:18

except for that frustrating part in Dead Skin Mask where this lady is making noise.

Fun fact: it's not a lady who is making a noise, it was a dude.

Here's what Tom Araya said,

A friend of ours named Matt Polish came in to do that voice in the background on “Dead Skin Mask.” I told him to pretend he was a little kid who didn’t wanna play anymore, who wanted to go home. And then we pitched his voice up to make it sound like a little kid. That was supposed to be the little kid in Ed Gein: “I wanna go now!” It came out really good

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09.01.2025 - 18:08

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I don’t really mind the sample in Dead Skin Mask, it just bugs me because it doesn’t really make sense in context. Ed Gein never targeted or kidnapped children; he killed two grown women and collected body parts. It’s a weird mistake for Slayer to make.
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28.04.2025 - 12:02
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Top 100 album!

The title track is one if not the best Slayer song! Such a good album!

IMHO the fourth best after the debut, Reign in Blood and Divine Intervention.

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06.02.2026 - 23:31
Rating: 6
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After going through Slayer's first five again, I'm shockingly disappointed by this one. It's probably the album of theirs I listened to the most when I was younger and I considered it my favorite for a while, but this time around nothing really stuck apart from the (phenomenal) title track. Really didn't expect this!
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