Hey, all. Welcome back to Talkin' Slayer. THIS is the biggest episode yet... AGAIN. Today's topic is Hell Awaits. Supporters get an episode every week. Free listeners — that's you — get an episode every other week. And you'll miss next week's epic chapter about the triumphant Hell Awaits tours. Sign up at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon.com/SlayerBook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Or visit to see what's in it for you if you do. Shownotes and links referenced in the episode: Billoney's “Origins of the Slayer Hell Awaits LP Cover Art!?”, from Bang Your Head Or I’ll Rip It Off electric fanzine. 3 February 2011. http://bangyourheadorillripitoff.blogspot.com/2011/02/origins-of-slayer-hell-awaits-lp-cover.html Dennis Dread's “The Occult Roots Of Metal Iconography,” which shows some of the direct inspiration for the Live Undead cover art. 4 May 2011. http://dennisdread.blogspot.com/2011/05/occult-roots-of-metal-iconography_896.html Backward masking in intro to "Hell Awaits": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffCNk0UwZnM Playlist of music videos the late Albert Cuellar worked on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38173Xi4TZc&list=PLD72DAC893373B9C9 Cuellar's collaboration with Tim Burton on Burton's self-titled Museum of Modern Art exhibit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvFb7e_90Sc&list=PL31509E444506ADF4&index=8 MISSION STATEMENT: 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 60-90 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. Look at Ferris' other books: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.amazon.com/stores/D.-X.-Ferris/author/B001JS65YC⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ The Insta: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram.com/SlayerBooks⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ The Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter.com/SlayerBook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ #Slayer #KerryKing #Thrash #ThrashMetal #Slayer #TomAraya #AlbertCuellar #TimBurton #HellAwaits #Moebius #ApproachingCentauri #MetalBlade