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Season 4, Episode 14 (no. 144): Live Undead... the Shows, the Album, and the Art

from Talkin' Slayer: A Metal Podcast and Half-@ssed Audiobook · host D.X. Ferris

Today's topic is Live Undead... the shows around it, the album, and the cover art.After episode 9, only Patreon supporters get every weekly episode and bonus shows & content. Free listeners will only get an episode every OTHER week, and they'll miss half the story. Learn more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon.com/SlayerBook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Packages start around $1 an episode. You can do that, right?DEEZ NOTES: Things referenced in this episode...The official mini-documentary Fans Rule: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5pn8m5csXA&t=7s Slayer live at the Rio Theater, Halloween 1984: https://youtu.be/IclFZZach0c?si=GMbRFsSVPXrm_bUzDennis Dread's “The Occult Roots Of Metal Iconography,” which shows some of the direct inspiration for the Live Undead cover art (4 May 2011). http://dennisdread.blogspot.com/2011/05/occult-roots-of-metal-iconography_896.htmlTALKIN' SLAYER & Ferris on the Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram.com/Slayerbooks⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Ferris' TWO books about Slayer here... the other one is about Reign in Blood: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SlayerBooks.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠For the next year or so, every week, TALKIN' SLAYER subscribers will get a chapter or two of "Slayer 66 2/3: A Metal Band Biography... Or, How F*kin' Slayer Kicked Fkin' @ss," REBORN: The Updated, Revised& Massively Expanded 4th EditionTalkin' Slayer Season IV presents the chronological history of Slayer, as seen / heard in the book.The previous edition of the book ran around 350 pages. The new REBORN Edition runs 639. We added a lot. And you can hear it all here, one week at a time, piece by piece.You've never heard it like this before... unless you have the audiobook. The run time is 1.4 DAYS. That's a lot. It's available CHEAP at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SlayerBook.Bandcamp.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.Mostly, in Season 4, what you will get every week or so is a chapter from the book... plus some cool bonus stuff, like original interviews with people you WILL want to hear from.The book was updated after the reunion, massively expanded, thoroughly overhauled, and rewritten so it's easier to read — both in format and writing style. Check it out at...⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SlayerBooks.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠and / or⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Ajna Offensive⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠MASSIVE GRATITUDE for listening.

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