Metallica Iron Maiden Black sabbath etc here

Nothing he said has anything to do with being influenced or anything slayer innovated, he said they have sound like them and others LOL.

If slayer never existed all those bands would be here and metal would be the same today...they are a walking metal cliche, and everything that people sterotype metal to be. Bands liek Maiden, Metallica, megadeth did a lot more for metal in 1 album then slayer has in an entire career.

Meh I don't like the new Fear Factory as much. Demanufacture and Obsolete are it for me

Yeah, you go and ignore all those bands that cite Slayer as an influence. Say how you can see into parallel realities and with godly powers substract Slayer and still see Metal yielding the same results. You are just one of those people that think that just by not liking a band that makes them discardable. You can't see beyond two inches in front of your own reflection.

Jon Schaffer compared Iced Earth's sound to Slayer, that makes Slayer an original sound to be identified with. Yet you call them generic.

Keep on hating on Slayer, you don't make a single dent on their legacy that is backed by several bands that are part of Metal's history, in spite of your dismissing of Slayer, a dismissing from a simple guy in the Internet.

Yeah, they have gone downhill. But if you listen to their previous new song, that one I posted doesn't sound that bad.

Do you like their first album? I thought that one (and the demo version) was pretty good too.

It's pretty good too; I'd probably place it third out of their albums; tbh haven't listened to much of the new stuff though, just Mechanize, which is in a battle with Soul for 3rd place

I'm surprised that there was someone else here that listened to Protest the Hero.

I've listened to PTH since I was in Grade 7 man XD one of my favorites. Always used to blast Fortress in the computer lab when I played Bloons Tower Defense hahaha

I grew up with metal in the 80s...well most everybody here did. There were two types of people: those that listen to metal and those that listen to punk as a primary choice, but we all listened to both.

We all still remember trading cassettes with brand new albums, sometimes you could barely hear the music because it was a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy, and sometimes you could hear several layers of music when the cassette got copied over too many times.
Dual deck cassette recorders were a must.

Needless to say, we listened to everything...start off with Motorhead, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and the rest of melodic British metal, than move to German thrash/speed (Sodom, Kreator, Destruction...) and the rest of Europe (Celtic Frost, Merciful Fate/King Diamond, Bathory...)
Of course, American thrash was important (Slayer, Megadeth, Metallica, Exodus, Overkill, Anthrax, Exciter, Testament, Venom, Voivod...)
Later came some great bands like Sepultura, Ratos de Porao, Pantera, Machinehead, C.O.C.

I never really got into Death, I did like Morbid Angel, and of course Napalm Death was a must with their grindcore 30 second a piece blurbs, but once Deicide and Cannibal Corpse rolled in I couldn't do that...

Metal is still my primary choice, but I don't listen to any new stuff, I prefer to revisit my youth, so just yesterday I downloaded best of Megadeth and Iron Maiden to listen to in my car.

And I still have a huge collection of LPs that just sit there in the attic. All Iron Maidens up to 1990, all Judas Priests also, Sepultura, Celtic Frost, Helloween, and hundreds more.

Well, I see that you are very similar to me... In calling those four bands newer stuff :))

To me, everything after 1988 is newer, I am just that old...