With the tragic early death of Slayer’s Jeff Hanneman earlier this year, it was inevitable that artifacts would unearth themselves, as has happened with the Seeds of Horror release. This album contains both demos for an unreleased concept album by Slayer and a demo from Hanneman’s side hardcore project Papsmear.
The Slayer demos involve material that mostly made it on to later albums but also contain some unreleased and unrealized material. Generally recorded with Hanneman on guitar and vocals and a drum machine for percussion, the demos include some conceptual material like the title track from which this CD/LP takes its name.
Seeds of Horror also contains extensive liner notes introducing each track as it was mentioned by the band in interviews and tracking the lineage of each song, many of which appeared in fragmentary form elsewhere (riffs and other concepts were recycled). Two of the Papsmear tracks will be familiar to any who have Slayer’s Undisputed Attitude. The full demo features Dave Lombardo as well as Rocky George from Suicidal Tendencies fleshing out the mix.
For more information, check out the Seeds of Horror page on Hell’s Headbangers.
Tracklist:
- Angel of Death
- Seeds of Horror
- Raining Blood
- South of Heaven
- Spill the Blood
- Untitled (213)
- Untitled
- Untitled
- Living Just To Die
- DDAMM
- Abretions Asshole
- Can’t Stand You
Tags: death metal, papsmear, slayer, suicidal tendencies
I bought a lot of bootlegs and sold them a few years later. How often, really, will you listen to this CD? Once a year on Christmas day? On the day of every Presidential election? Or maybe like once a decade when you’re drunk and need background noise?