Every Slayer Album Ranked From Worst to best

We rank the 11 studio albums in Slayer’s unimaginable discography, which, regardless of the band’s occasional tinkering over time, stays the dwelling definition of thrash steel.

Of course, it was Slayer, together with fellow Big Four friends Metallica, Anthrax and Megadeth, who just about codified the type that took heavy steel by storm within the Eighties, spawning a number of worthy secondary bands and numerous hopeless imitators, to say nothing of nearly each subsequent department of maximum steel: demise, black, grind, you title it.

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And then, when thrash steel’s preliminary inexorable onslaught gave means to these ensuing musical improvements, starting within the Nineteen Nineties, it was the boys of Slayer who remained steadfastly loyal to the trigger, refusing to pervert their sound in order to slot in with the occasions (we gained’t title names – trace, trace) and, thus, incomes the nearly unassailable respect their recorded legacy nonetheless instructions in the present day.

See how the albums stack up instantly under.