Today's topic is Still Reigning. The year is 2003. Original drummer Dave Lombardo has returned to the band. Slayer play Reign in Blood, live, in its entirety. They make a tour out it. Then then they add blood. Then they film it. Then they do it more.

Next week: Patreon supporters get the Slaytanic skinnee about 6/6/06 and Christ Illusion.

In two weeks, all y'all hear about the tour with [giant turd] Marilyn Manson and Slayer's first Grammy win.

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From the Still Reigning DVD, "Slayer in Their Own Words," part 1 of 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvWIjMaM3QU

"Angel of Death. Unholy geez, I'd forgotten how massive this live recording is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y5uXogBPqs&list=PL1B5EEF8A98CC69FA

The song they never played before this tour cycle, "Piece by Piece," live at last: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go8M0DbygQQ&list=PL1B5EEF8A98CC69FA&index=3

"Raining Blood," live, with mucho sangre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE5FgxSWQOM&list=PL1B5EEF8A98CC69FA&index=11

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.

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.

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