Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1896293)

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.

Originally Posted by Wpnfire (Post 1896340)

It certainly isn't clean. Reign In Blood and South of Heaven are the most well-produced of their albums. Season's production makes it sound like a weak-ass I.N.R.I.



I don’t know why you keep comparing seasons with south of heaven. Seasons is hell awaits and Reign In Blood revisited more than any of their other albums, just with the pussification (as you put it) that South of heaven had carried over. I guess it uses the mid-tempo feel of South of Heaven, but the other albums had that too. Anyway Seasons lacks the subdued, gross, doomy sound that South of Heaven had, which is the sole reason I love that album so much. They dropped the doom-y riffs that South Of Heaven had. Araya in particular is at his most generic on seasons. It’s just business as usual, like all their following albums. The title track on Seasons is the only thing on that album that is remotely interesting.

Originally Posted by Maajo (Post 1896344)

There's no doubt that Seasons isn't for the 80s thrash Slayer purists.

Originally Posted by Wpnfire (Post 1896340)

It certainly isn't clean. Reign In Blood and South of Heaven are the most well-produced of their albums. Season's production makes it sound like a weak-ass I.N.R.I.



I don’t know why you keep comparing seasons with south of heaven. Seasons is hell awaits and Reign In Blood revisited more than any of their other albums, just with the pussification (as you put it) that South of heaven had carried over. I guess it uses the mid-tempo feel of South of Heaven, but the other albums had that too. Anyway Seasons lacks the subdued, gross, doomy sound that South of Heaven had, which is the sole reason I love that album so much. They dropped the doom-y riffs that South Of Heaven had. Araya in particular is at his most generic on seasons. It’s just business as usual, like all their following albums. The title track on Seasons is the only thing on that album that is remotely interesting.

Originally Posted by Wpnfire (Post 1896404)

I think my biggest problem with Seasons is that it's too edgy for its own good. Some of the riffs have a bouncy groove but played with a hardcore intensity. I can hear the distant sounds of nu metal coming through on parts of that album, and I can't overlook that.