GMD Poll: Slayer's Discography Ranked

[crimsonfloyd]

Directions: Rank Slayer’s 11 studio albums. Order and number each album 1-11. Ties are OK. Your first place album earns 11 points, your second place album earns 10 points, etc.

You may rank as few as 6 albums. Lists with less than 6 albums will not be counted. If you list less than 11 albums, the first placed album will still get 11 points, the last placed album will still get 1 point, and the albums in between will have points distributed proportionately. The average points earned for albums that are not listed will not be impacted positively or negatively, so if you don't rank an album, you neither help it or hurt it.

At the end, the albums will be ranked based on their average number of points per vote.

You have until October 14th to finalize your list, re-familiarize yourself albums you haven’t heard in awhile, familiarize yourself with albums you haven’t heard at all, lobby for any albums you think are underrated, and lobby against any albums you think are overrated.

And please, no pseudo-Machiavelli shit. Just rank them as you see them.

Show No Mercy (1983)
Hell Awaits (1985)
Reign in Blood (1986)
South of Heaven (1988)
Seasons in the Abyss (1990)
Divine Intervention (1994)
Diabolus in Musica (1998)
God Hates Us All (2001)
Christ Illusion (2006)
World Painted Blood (2009)
Repentless (2015)

 

[CiG]

Nice.

I was literally about to ask you who the next band is.

Slayer are one of those bands whose body of work after like 1990 I've basically avoided.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

1. Hell Awaits
2. Reign in Blood
3. Show No Mercy
4. South of Heaven
5. Seasons in the Abyss
6. Divine Intervention
7. Christ Illusion
8. Repentless
9. World Painted Blood
10. Diabolus in Musica
11. God Hates Us All

Something like that.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Nice.

I was literally about to ask you who the next band is.

Slayer are one of those bands whose body of work after like 1990 I've basically avoided.

Same. Got some homework to do for this one.

 

[The Ozzman]

Oohhh can't wait to start this one today. Seasons will be #1 for me.

 

[Krow]

@HamburgerBoy

Christ Illusion dead last? I remember it being pretty decent. Will probably be way higher on my list.

 

[The Ozzman]

The thing with Slayer is that all their album openers are at least decent. Same with Megadeth.

 

[alex76]

1. Reign in Blood (1986)
2. Show No Mercy (1983)
3. Hell Awaits (1985)
4. Seasons in the Abyss (1990)
5. South of Heaven (1988)

------------The end of their excellent run------------

6. God Hates Us All (2001)
7. Divine Intervention (1994)
8. Diabolus in Musica (1998)
9. Undisputed Attitude (1996)
10. Christ Illusion (2006)
11. World Painted Blood (2009)
12. Repentless (2015)

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

@HamburgerBoy

Christ Illusion dead last? I remember it being pretty decent. Will probably be way higher on my list.

Yeah, Christ Illusion is the best album they've released in the last 25 or so years. Must be special kind of idiot to rank that one last here.

 

[Krow]

1. Show No Mercy
2. Hell Awaits
3. Reign in Blood
4. South of Heaven
5. Seasons in the Abyss
6. Christ Illusion
7. Divine Intervention
8. Diabolus in Musica
9. World Painted Blood
10. Repentless
11. God Hates Us All

Preliminary but top five are basically locked.

God Hates Us All gets the razzy because it was slayer releasing WWE entrance music. Didnt rate Undisputed Attitude because it doesnt feel like a real album, just the Slayer guys fucking around.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

... Diabolus in Musica makes GHUA look like a masterpiece.

 

[Talos of Atmora]

1. Hell Awaits
2. Reign in Blood (I would have put this third but it's been coming around for me recently)
3. Show No Mercy
4. Seasons of the Abyss
5. South of Heaven
6. Christ Illusion
7. Divine Intervention
8. God Hates Us All
9. World Painted Blood
10. Repentless
11. Diabolus in Musica

Everything from number 8 to 11 is utterly irredeemable.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

nah, WPB isnt a bad album. Good looking list though.

 

[Phylactery]

1. Hell Awaits
2. Show No Mercy
3. Reign in Blood


4. South of Heaven
5. Seasons in the Abyss

6. Christ Illusion
7. Repentless
8. God Hates us All

I either haven't listened to the rest or remember even less about them than 6-8. I doubt I'll bother too either. A huge drop in quality after the first 3. And then another massive drop after number 5. I don't particularly care for South or Seasons. Definitely not bad albums, but I haven't listened to either in years.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

@HamburgerBoy

Christ Illusion dead last? I remember it being pretty decent. Will probably be way higher on my list.

I'll relisten to all of their post-Divine stuff (other than the cover album), but at the time at least I thought the performance seemed really weak and the songwriting too try-hard retrospective, in contrast to GHUA which is crap but a little different, or WPB/Relentless which are kind of more typical thrash but also relatively inoffensive.

None of them are better than 3-4/10 albums so it doesn't really matter to me.

 

[RadicalThrasher]

1. Reign in Blood
2. South of Heaven
3. Seasons in the Abyss
4. Show No Mercy
5. Hell Awaits
6. Divine Intervention
7. Christ Illusion
8. God Hates Us All

?????? ( Haunting the Chapel EP would be up at the top. Probably #2)

 

[The Ozzman]

DI is crap and GHUA is a Top 5 Slayer album

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Killing Fields tho

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

GHUA is a Top 5 Slayer album

 

[HamburgerBoy]

GHUA is probably the most heterosexual bro-metal album in their discography. That's also why it's one of their worst, of course, but it's certainly not gay.