Slayer - Angel of Death (Lyrics on Screen Video 🎤🎶🎸🥁)

Slayer - Angel of Death (Lyrics on Screen Video 🎤🎶🎸🥁)

Finally doing Reign in Blood! Of course the all time thrash classic Angel of Death is one of my favorite Slayer songs haha. The song comes out with a very good lick (in my opinion) with some nice accented cymbal barks and percussion fills. I get pumped up no matter what hearing the intro to this song haha. The scream too is kind of funny is a way lol. Like I said this is a thrash masterpiece in my opinion, so many good licks and checks all the boxes for a thrashterpiece. 1:37 is probably one of my favorite licks and parts of any song ever it never fails to pump me up as well as the part following it fucking jams the fuck out. The rhythm of the lyrics and the lyrics themselves really fit the song, I could go on forever as usual. Enjoy!

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🎤 Lyrics 🎤

[Intro]
Ah

[Verse 1]
Auschwitz, the meaning of pain
The way that I want you to die
Slow death, immense decay
Showers that cleanse you of your life
Forced in, like cattle you run
Stripped of
Your life's worth
Human mice, for the angel of death
Four hundred thousand more to die

[Chorus 1]
Angel of death
Monarch to the kingdom of the dead

[Verse 2]
Sadistic, surgeon of demise
Sadist of the noblest blood
Destroying, without mercy
To benefit the Aryan race
Surgery, with no anesthesia
Feel the knife pierce you intensely
Inferior, no use to mankind
Strapped down, screaming out to die

[Chorus 2]
Angel of death
Monarch to the kingdom of the dead
Infamous butcher
Angel of death

[Verse 3]
Pumped with fluid, inside your brain
Pressure in your skull begins pushing through your eyes
Burning flesh drips away
Test of heat burns your skin, your mind starts to boil
Frigid cold cracks your limbs
How long can you last
In this frozen water burial?
Sewn together, joining heads
Just a matter of time
'Till you rip yourselves apart

[Bridge 1]
Millions laid out in their
Crowded tombs
Sickening ways to achieve
The Holocaust

[Verse 4]
Seas of blood, bury life
Smell your death as it burns
Deep inside of you
Abacinate, eyes that bleed
Praying for the end of
Your wide awake nightmare
Wings of pain, reach out for you
His face of death staring down
Your blood's running cold
Injecting cells, dying eyes
Feeding on the screams of
The mutants he's creating

[Bridge 2]
Pathetic harmless victims
Left to die
Rancid angel of death
Flying free

[Lead - King and Hanneman]

[Chorus 2]
Angel of death
Monarch to the kingdom of the dead
Infamous butcher
Angel of death
Angel of death

**Genius.com Stuff**

In terms of writing, I’d say the Reign In Blood album was pretty close to complete when they came in. I think we just stepped up the recording from what they had done independently before that. It was really more the engineering.

I signed Slayer to Def Jam. Columbia Records was the distributor, but they refused to put it out because of “Angel of Death.” That was how I started my relationship with Geffen records, because Columbia refused.

The lyrics and music were written by Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman and are based on Nazi physician Josef Mengele, known as “Todesengel” or “Angel of Death,” who conducted human experiments at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. “Angel of Death” contributed to the band facing accusations of Nazi… read more »

What has Slayer said about accusations that they are Nazi sympathizers?
According to Decibel, the band members had the following to say about the controversy stemming from songs like “Angel of Death” and Hanneman’s preoccupation with Nazi memorabilia:

Hanneman: I collect medals and other Nazi stuff that my dad got me started on because he gave me all this shit he got off of dead Nazis. I remember stopping some place where I bought two books on [Nazi “surgeon” Josef] Mengele. I thought, “This has gotta be some sick shit.” So when it came time to do the record, that stuff was still in my head—that’s where the lyrics to “Angel of Death” came from. Next thing I know, we’re neo-Nazis.

King: Yeah, “Slayer are Nazis, fascists, communists”—all that fun shit. And of course we got the most flack for it in Germany. I was always like, “Read the lyrics and tell me what’s offensive about it. Can you see it as a documentary, or do you think Slayer’s preaching fucking World War II?” People get this thought in their heads—especially in Europe—and you’ll never talk them out of it.

Lombardo: We got dropped by Columbia because of that. I mean, “Auschwitz—the meaning of pain!” Any sympathizers with the Holocaust aren’t gonna have any part of it. But they didn’t see the deep meaning of it—it’s just documented musical awareness. It’s not necessarily for it—it’s just something that Jeff discovered and wrote a song about.

Source(s): Genius.com

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Slayer - Angel of Death (Lyrics on Screen Video 🎤🎶🎸🥁)