Frownland

I felt the same way until I saw them do the album in its entirety live. Blew my mind to bits then raped those bits to oblivion. It's hard to top that.

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RMR

Frownland, I can certainly believe that. My main two complaints with the studio version of this album is that they don't develop the song structures completely and the Tom's vocals can't keep up with the music. Every YouTube live clip that I've seen from any of the tracks on "RIB" have longer run times; therefore, the songs are better developed, and the tracks are played slightly slower so Tom can keep up on vocals, but that doesn't fix the problems on the studio version.

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Frownland

I can see your point here, but coming back to it after the concert it just helped me relive the experience. The rawness of it all that you described in a sense makes it more real though, like a true ejaculation of the rage and fury that Slayer really needed to release. But to each his own, I suppose.

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