To Hell And Back: Slayer
Simon Witter, NME, 21 March 1987
Not all the old Heavy Metal cancers have been cured. SLAYER - erstwhile thashers, now adopted by the speed-metalists - have been forced to deal with the fact that their old mate Satan may not actually be very, erm, groovy... Monsigneur SIMON WITTER looks for signs of repentance.
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