I love SoH, I get why they slowed it down... couldnt top the speed of RIB.

But "Spill the Blood" may be my favorite song they have ever recorded. And also Dave Lombardo gave his best drumming performance on this album.

But, like, "Seasons in the Abyss" did everything that "Spill the Blood" did but did even eviler. And I ****ing love "Spill the Blood". And those lyrics.

SO ****ING COOL!!! Sorry, but "Seasons in the Abyss" is the highpoint of Slayer's "mature" sound.

I like both, but I find myself going back to South more. Seasons.. the title track is of course a landmark, and the album is great... but something about South just brings me back more.

South just feels too lightweight, both in sound and in production, for me to ascribe it anything but legendary status to albums that aren't by Slayer. It's still great for any other band, but I just can't care about it in nearly the same way as I do all the albums that came first. Honestly I think I could, cause it's great, and maybe I've just been kind of avoiding it, but there's still something... squeaky clean about it that makes less than impactful. I mean Slayer is supposed to HIT right? And South of Heaven just doesn't HIT. Seasons in the Abyss has a bit too much polish for its own good, but it still ****ing HITS!

I think it is just the drumming on South, has a certain charm to it. It for sure is a slow album in comparison to Reign, which they couldnt replicate.

South and Seasons to me are about equal actually, just don't know why i go back to South more. Though it does have some duds.

I Think even Divine Intervention has some moments, just they produced it badly, and had a few songs that seem too dated now, like "Dittohead"

I'm def not putting South of Heaven in the same category as Divine Intervention. South of Heaven still rules, but just as much as you people seem to say it does, but Divine Intervention is just straight mediocre even as far as non-Slayer bands go. I'm willing to jack off to any album up to and including Seasons in the Abyss, but after that, only Christ Illusion can even get me hard.

I have a nostalgic love for Divine, as it was first Metal album I ever remember buying and getting into, my knowledge of Slayer at that time was not vast, so I didn't have the comparison to other albums to know at the time.

"Killing Fields" and "213" are still in my top 10 Slayer songs though.

"Serenity In Murder" was okay, they tried being Alice in Chains though.

I despise Seasons In the Abyss. I can't get past the production. One of the worst produced albums ever; it sounds about as pummeling as a pillow to the face. The songwriting is super generic as well. They basically combined their previous three albums while using the least interesting aspects from each.

Ill add that to the index of opinions you'll inevitably reverse.

That's basically mentally retarded. I've had my issues with both albums and still do, but Seasons in the Abyss is just the more accomplished form of South of Heaven with the addition of a career retrospectice. If you want to like one over the other then whatever, but if you're going to have some kind of apocalyptic problem with one and not the other then you're probably just a moron. The biggest problem with both is simply that Slayer had fulfilled their potential and was now simply making slower songs people didn't know they'd been capable of. The fact that they succeeded was I'm sure as big a surprise to them as anybody.