Welcome to Talkin' Slayer: A Podcast and Half-@ssed Audiobook. Today's topic is Slayer's debut album and their record deal. Slayer sign to Metal Blade, the eternal metal foundry that first brought Metallica to the world, and more recently melted your mind with Midnight. And they record their full-length debut, Show No Mercy — with help from polarizing Metal Blade CEO / Headbanger in Charge Brian Slagel, crossover production king Bill Metoyer, and burgeoning drum god Gene Hoglan. Other witnesses include the band and KNAC's DJ Will. It's a hot one. It's a long one. SHOW NOTES, as referenced on this week's episode... Slayer's full set at the Woodstock in Anaheim, August 12 1983: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIS0CZOhdmo Lyric video by Chupacabra, the UK blackened thrash badasses who play all the music you hear on the show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cwV6sfVgXs Chupacabra on Bandcamp: https://chupacabrametal.bandcamp.com/album/fortified-with-ashes After some introductory episodes, Talkin' Slayer tells the story of the Los Angeles heavy metal institution, in chronological order: how the band happened, when things fell apart, how they put them back together, and what it all meant — no, MEANS. After Episode Nine, Patreon supporters receive every weekly episode. Free listeners get every other episode, every other week. Learn more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon.com/SlayerBook⁠⁠⁠⁠. Every week, host D.X. Ferris presents another chapter — sometimes two or three — in the history of Slayer, from the groundbreaking group's pre-history in Chile to their hazy, fractured, mysterious end in 2019. Slayer was the first Big Four band to break up. Why? Well, it's a long story... The Talkin' Slayer podcast program show is written, deeply researched, lightly edited, and mostly rehearsed, with some production value. This is an all-killer-no-filler podcast: The episode proper begins after roughly 60 seconds of introduction, tops. No need to skip the first 15 minutes. The music changes every week. Ferris is an award-winning writer. He has worked for Rolling Stone, Alternative Press, The AV Club, and Decibel magazine. He is a fan. He has opinions. He is the author of something like nine books, depending how you count them. Two are about Slayer. The first one is an entire book about the classic thrash album Reign in Blood, which is part of the fairly prestigious 33 1/3 book series. His bigger Slayer book, though, is the 2023 update of the full-on band biography "Slayer 66 & 2/3: A Metal Band Biography, POSTMORTEM Edition." (This is the third edition; it was previously known as "Slayer 66 & 2/3: The Jeff and Dave Years...."). And that book is mostly what he'll be talking about when we're talkin' Slayer. Most episodes are audio adaptations of chapters from that book. Some have original and/or bonus material. Thank you for checking it out. Learn more at... Visit the Patreon page to get every weekly episode: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon.com/SlayerBook⁠⁠⁠⁠ See Ferris' Slayer books: ⁠⁠⁠⁠SlayerBio.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ Look at Ferris' other books at Amazon: ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.amazon.com/stores/D.-X.-Ferris/author/B001JS65YC⁠⁠⁠⁠ Get fresh content on the Insta: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram.com/SlayerBooks⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check the shibby at the Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter.com/SlayerBook⁠⁠⁠⁠ Take a look at the Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook.com/SlayerBook⁠⁠⁠⁠ Read the Slayer Book Blog... extra Slayer stuff, archived podcast appearances, random articles, etc.: ⁠⁠⁠⁠slayerbook.tumblr.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ RSS feed: ⁠https://anchor.fm/s/de2bebf0/podcast/rss⁠ #JeffHanneman #KerryKing #Slayer #Thrash #ThrashMetal #DaveLombardo #TomAraya #ReignInBlood #MetalBlade #HeavyMetal #ReignInBlood #SouthOfHeaven #SeasonsInTheAbyss #TheBigFour #BigFour #Repentless #Slayer #KerryKing #Thrash #ThrashMetal #Slayer #TomAraya #DaveLombardo #JeffHanneman #MetalBlade #AggressivePerfector #MetalMassacre #StevenCraig #ShowNoMercy