I first got into Slayer at the tender age of 16. I was into bands like Cinderella, and Enuff Z’ Nuff, so the wuss factor of my listening taste was pretty high. My friend Dan hooked me up with a video tape of Slayer performing their blasphemous “Chemical Warfare”, and I was forever a changed man. I think my chest hair grew for the first time from listening to that song. I seriously thought that Kerry King was gonna jump out from the television screen and choke me out. The man still has that intimidating presence 25 years later. I wouldn’t want to bump into him, when the cashier gets his order wrong at McDonald’s.

I once drove my dad to the grocery store a few months ago, and “Hardening Of The Arteries” was coming out of the car speakers. My dad just looked at me the same way like he did when I was younger, when I told him I wanted to be a ventriloquist.

Anyways, here is the video that made me take my Europe’s Final Countdown cassette out of the boombox, and put in Hell Awaits.