- thrash metal, metal
- 37 min
- 7 tracks
- Roadrunner Records
Hell Awaits is the second studio album by American thrash metal band Slayer, released on April 8, 1985, by Metal Blade Records. After the band's 1983 debut Show No Mercy became the label's highest-selling release, producer Brian Slagel decided to record and release a second Slayer album.
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Character
Grave, bleak, earnest and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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- AllMusic4/5 ★
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide4/5 ★
- Rock Hard9/10
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Tracks
- A1Hell Awaits6:16
- A2Kill Again4:56
- A3At Dawn They Sleep6:17
- B1Praise of Death5:21
- B2Necrophiliac3:46
- B3Crypts of Eternity6:40
- B4Hardening of the Arteries3:55
7 tracks, 37 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Slayer
- Label
- Roadrunner Records
- Released
- 1985
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Cassette
- Country
- XE
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