ironmaidenfan09
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You seem to be endearingly oblivious to the fact Slayer's "evil, don't give a fuck" attitude is just as calculated a marketing ploy as anything the rest of the Big 4 ever did.
At least when Quorthon realised writing Satanic lyrics was silly (from his own personal philosophical standpoint) he started writing about things that really did mean something to him.
Slayer still churn out the "evil" "satanic" "anti-christian" shit even though we all know Tom Araya doesn't buy into it at all. Now tell me being dark and satanic to sell records isn't being commercial.
If you're going to sing about satanic themes, at least believe in them.
Slayer doesn't sing much about satan. Sure back on the first few albums there were some songs dealing with that. Their evil is society and things dealing with social issues in the world. They don't claim to be satanists they just write about the evils of the world.
Take the lyrics away. Their music and attitude is what extreme metal is all about. They really don't give a fuck about anything other than being as extreme as possible and taking thrash metal to another level. They do that with one of the best drummers in the world. They back up every thing they do because their music does the talking. If you are going to try and use an angle for marketing purposes I'd say that singing about atrocities of war, corruption, and religion isn't going to get you on the radio, mtv or any mainstream tv show anytime soon.
Slayer has never let up. A lot of people don't listen to the newer records. I personally do and find a lot of quality material on the newer albums. They just keep churning out brutal thrash metal albums ones after another and that is more that you can say about any of the other big 4 bands. Anthrax hasn't done a Thrash album since POT and even that wasn't pure thrash. Megadeth just put a few decent ones out. Metallica well if you call Death Magnetic Thrash then fine. But other than that it's been since 1988 with AJFA.
So Slayer is the only band that really has always been doing thrash metal and destroys all of the other 3 bands live.