I thought that I had read that they pushed the release date of this crown jewel back until next week. But I am reading over at the Pantera board that some of my esteemed colleagues have this piece in their greasy little palms.
Slayer box out today??
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Yeah. I saw it advertised in the Best Buy catalogue. I hope Anthrax gets this kind of attention. By the way, I'm seriously thinking of calling my radio station and paying them 20 bucks to play One Man Stands. But I dont know, maybe I should just go with Safe Home. Earlier today, they played some off the wall Spinal Tap song that blew. I just couldn't even stand listening to it. Safe Home would be much more radio friendly.
SLAYER85
Old School Youngin
man, its a goddamn shame. the mainstream, that is. i wish people would start listening to metal and that radio would just be a heavy metal heaven.
GASOLINEDREAM
Time to Play
SLAYER box set reeleased yesterday. Confirmed. I pre-ordered mine. It should arrive in the mail on Friday or Saturday.
thunderhead
S.D.M.F.
I got mine...the big one. $64.99 (on sale...regularly $89.99)at Best Buy. It's pretty good. It does have some songs on there that I've been looking for (Ina-gadda-da-vida). The DVD is bootleg footage and the sound is kinda shit. Other than that, it's pretty cool. I don't know too many Slayer fans who could afford it, though.
jdelpi
Imported Killer
How is the rarities disk? Any good? Is the sound good on the Lombardo concert? I want this but I don't know if I want to fork over the $$$. I'm not happy about the existence of the first disk and most of the second one. Like I'm going to buy a box set before owning every studio album :Smug:thunderhead said:
poorchoiceofwords
Packaged Rebel
The first 2 discs are a waste, of course. I don't see the point in putting a little greatest hits compilation inside your boxset, especially not one that takes up 2 discs of space, when the fans buying your set most likely own all the fucking albums to begin with.
The rest of the shit is gold. Hannemans early version 4 track recordings of South of Heaven and Raining Blood are my favorite on there.
The rest of the shit is gold. Hannemans early version 4 track recordings of South of Heaven and Raining Blood are my favorite on there.
First off, quite whining. Every good boxed set has a comprehensive hits set. I'm glad you guys don't work for a record company. Secondly, the boxed set rules. It is right up there with KISS, Alice Cooper, and the Misfits in terms of a great package. In fact, it may be the best ever. My sole complaint is that they didn't include anything from the Metal Blade years. That leaves a gaping hole.
jdelpi
Imported Killer
Just because "every" good boxed set has a comprehensive hits set doesn't mean Slayer, the band that does many things contrary to the mainstream, needs to do it too. I doubt Anthrax will have one.TD said:
I paid $65 for the box so I have a right to express my opinion. There's enough whining going on on this board anyway. I want to whine too.
Metallica's Live Shit, I thought, was an excellent box set and it didn't include a greatest hits set. Just 3 full concerts.
I didn't really care about the lack of stuff from the Metal Blade years. I already have those albums. It had songs from those years, live and rehearsals.
I also thought the boxed set was missing some things. Where were "Born to be Wild" and "Hand of Doom"?
I've seen bootleg footage better than some of the stuff they included in the DVD. And I'm not talking about the early, early stuff (of which I have some full shows). I've only had a cursory glance so far, but the pro-shot footage for the last two songs was pretty poor quality. (Not as bad as Killer A's, but that's not saying anything.) Not saying the DVD's BAD, it's just not all that great. It's like Cliff 'em All, only no one's dead.
Disk three is awesome but those sound quality on those last 2 songs was terrible. "Ice Titan" could have been on the DVD though. It's in the show they took "Die By The Sword." (Not a big deal, really)
Also, the live disk with Lombardo: there are only 3 real songs (the intro not being a real song) that are on that disk that were not already on Decade of Aggression. Those three are Disciple (which totally kicks ass), Stain of Mind, and At Dawn They Sleep. The only song on there not on War at the Warfield is At Dawn They Sleep. Am I too picky? oh well.
Do I regret buying the box? no. Why? because as krazyanthraxchick said "coz it's fucking Slayer."
jdelpi said:
I've never bought a box set that didn't contain the bands best material. That is usually the whole point. A boxed set would have no appeal to most people without representing the groups best material. When you mix in great rarities, you have a great box. If you just one or the other, you gotta piece of junk that no one will buy.
jdelpi
Imported Killer
Best-of was mostly covered in the live CD. Throw in another concert of some sort, and that would cover all the best-of. Like Metallica did.TD said:
thunderhead
S.D.M.F.
jdelpi said:
The rarities disk is OK. The old stuff from 1983 is kinda lame, and the other stuff is just live tracks and out-take shit. poorchoiceofwords is correct about the first 2 discs (except for the 2nd disc which also has "Disorder" with Ice-T - a GREAT cover of 2 songs made into one, and Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida). The Lombardo concert disc kills. The booklet is cool and the phony backstage pass is cool too. Maybe they'll do something for those of us who shelled out the extra $$$ to get the deluxe edition. Some of the shit on the DVD is cool, but all the older live stuff is garbage. It's just cool to see what Slayer looked like live back in '83-84. The more recent footage is better, but it has almost the same vibe as "War From the Warfield". I'd say the set is for Die-Hard fans. If you're a casual listener of Slayer, stick with your CD catalogue.
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