can slayer really solo?

[metalhead_666]

all of slayers solos dont seem to be very different its basically the same ever since their first album with a few exceptions like the antichrist and seasons of the abyss are they really talented or is it just all their capable of

 

[Mxgonzo]

I never found Jeff or Kerry to be great soloist, just a blur of notes and noise. However it fits their songs. I never heard them play outside of Slayer so they might have more talent than the "Slayer" sound allows them.

 

[metalhead_666]

true ^^^ their solos do fit the music but i wonder if they will ever do somthing different

 

[SavaRon]

I never found Jeff or Kerry to be great soloist, just a blur of notes and noise. However it fits their songs. I never heard them play outside of Slayer so they might have more talent than the "Slayer" sound allows them.

Exactly... It just fits them perfectly. The solo in Seasons is pretty sweet though!

 

[Break Zero]

The only album where that solos that fit the song and don't sound like a cat in a blender is Show No Mercy, which the entire album is Priest worship anyway.

 

[Wyvern]

all of slayers solos dont seem to be very different its basically the same ever since their first album with a few exceptions like the antichrist and seasons of the abyss are they really talented or is it just all their capable of

The main reason because I don't like Slayer, the guitars suck!

Go ahead and flame me

 

[sixxswine]

Their solos tend to sound the same, way too fast and as already stated just a blur like a Indy car roaring past you...
I think they should get just as much shit as Yngwie does for the
guitar "wanking."

 

[Nemesis_lxix]

I haven’t noticed that before but now that is mentioned…
Perhaps this has to do mainly with their style.

 

[ElectricWiz]

There's a Guitar Player magazine issue that came out around, maybe South of Heaven or Seasons in the Abyss. In it, they both mention (in all seriousness) that they had taken lessons since the last album, and that previously neither of them had any clue what key they were in.....
I think Rick Rubin suggested it to them. They weren't emberrased by this (and shouldn't have been), but that explains at least some of what is talked about in this thread.

I'm not making this up.

 

[SoundMaster]

There's a Guitar Player magazine issue that came out around, maybe South of Heaven or Seasons in the Abyss. In it, they both mention (in all seriousness) that they had taken lessons since the last album, and that previously neither of them had any clue what key they were in.....
I think Rick Rubin suggested it to them. They weren't emberrased by this (and shouldn't have been), but that explains at least some of what is talked about in this thread.

I'm not making this up.

I clearly remember reading this. The lessons were prior to the Seasons album. And, accordingly, the solos on the Seasons album blow away all of their other records, IMO.

In my view, Slayer would actually benefit from NO solos at all. Their rthyms are so strong and powerful that their songs can stand without solos.

 

[Thoth-Amon]

all of slayers solos dont seem to be very different its basically the same ever since their first album with a few exceptions like the antichrist and seasons of the abyss are they really talented or is it just all their capable of

The solos work well in the music. Some of them are entirely memorable. Who cares if that's the only type of soloing they are capable of. It works.

 

[Bryant]

King plays a disharmonic style. He purposely doesn't play in key quite often and it is actually rather diificult to try and achieve purposely. I don't like his style very much at all, but despite sounding rather random, it's tougher to try and learn his stuff than most guitarists due to his awkward style. His style certainly does work with Slayer and what they want to accomplish musically though.
Hannerman more or less makes a bunch of tremola noises and stuff and really doesn't impress me much at all. Still, he also works well within the Slayer style.


Bryant

 

[sumairetsu]

I never heard them play outside of Slayer so they might have more talent than the "Slayer" sound allows them.

Beastie Boys "No Sleep 'Til Brooklyn" has Kerry soloing on it, as does one of the Pantera tunes from their final album...same with a Sum 41 song.

 

[Thoth-Amon]

King plays a disharmonic style. He purposely doesn't play in key quite often and it is actually rather diificult to try and achieve purposely. I don't like his style very much at all, but despite sounding rather random, it's tougher to try and learn his stuff than most guitarists due to his awkward style. His style certainly does work with Slayer and what they want to accomplish musically though.
Hannerman more or less makes a bunch of tremola noises and stuff and really doesn't impress me much at all. Still, he also works well within the Slayer style.


Bryant

Dat cool dat cool.

 

[carnut]

Well, Malmsteen wouldn't fit Slayer for sure !!
King's solo's aren't supposed to be state of the art stuff but fit the Slayer music perfect. On some of the songs of the upcoming album Kings solo's are (a bit) different though, some longer and more melodic, withouth loosing the "Slayer Power"..

 

[CF87]

Slayers guitarists are not the greatest guitarist but could probably write some better solos. Both guitarists should be a lot better for the ammount of time playing. Slayer has had some cool solos(spirits in black, a few others). I'm guessing when you release and album then tour you only have a certain ammount of time to write music, and also record a cd. Every slayer solo in every song could not be all great or worked with more in depth. Maybe the band just feels the solos they do 95% of the time fit the songs. It sounds like Slayer improvice a solo in a song then memorizing after it rather than preperaring the leads. I guess you can't always have moments of brilliance. You just get it once in awile as a musician.

 

[Blissful_Kunt]

Ive never really been a big Slayer fan, sure they rock.. i just cannot get into them perhaps the guitar is why.

 

[Travis]

can slayer really solo?

Nope.

 

[Thoth-Amon]

Nope.

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