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National Day of Slayer
More news for tomorrow’s feast day of 6/6/06 - get ready for the National Day of Slayer! Now this is a shameless marketing initiative that I don’t mind throwing my weight behind. On tomorrow, June 6, 2006:
Official Statement on Participation
- Listen to Slayer at full blast in your car.
- Listen to Slayer at full blast in your home.
- Listen to Slayer at full blast at your place of employment.
- Listen to Slayer at full blast in any public place you prefer.
DO NOT use headphones! The objective of this day is for everyone within earshot to understand that it is the National Day of Slayer. National holidays in America aren’t just about celebrating; they’re about forcing it upon non-participants.
Taking that participation to a problematic level
- Stage a “Slay-out.” Don’t go to work. Listen to Slayer.
- Have a huge block party that clogs up a street in your neighborhood. Blast Slayer albums all evening. Get police cruisers and helicopters on the scene. Finish with a full-scale riot.
- Spray paint Slayer logos on churches, synagogues, or cemeteries.
- Play Slayer covers with your own band (since 99% of your riffs are stolen from Slayer anyway).
- Kill the neighbor’s dog and blame it on Slayer.
I recently downloaded their awesome album Reign In Blood in preparation of tomorrow’s celebration. I think we can all agree that this is probably a lot more worthwhile than today, which is the National Day of Prayer and a lot less namby-pamby than the so-called National Day of Reason, slated for May 3, 2007.
Here’s a fun conversation starter for the next time you’re in polite company: who’s more satanic, Slayer or Christians who worship missiles on their altars?
(On that note, see also BattleCry, but not without doing some more in-depth research on them)
June 5th, 2006 at 7:57 pm
Hell Awaits!!
June 5th, 2006 at 8:19 pm
Actually, the real and only National Day of Prayer, the one that was signed into force by former president Reagan, is the first Thursday of May each year. The National Day of Prayer Task Force is a Christian organization that’s trying to take over the day, including convincing many cities that they are a government agency given the task of organizing “official” NDP events, and make it an entirely Christian event, and not the unifying event it was meant to be for Americans of all religions and beliefs (or none). Any day that the NDPTF declares a National Day of Prayer that isn’t the first Thursday of May is an imitation of the real thing.
In reality, the real National Day of Prayer is as autonomous in celebration and purpose as Thanksgiving Day, except far fewer people celebrate it, and it’s not an official Federal holiday.
June 5th, 2006 at 10:48 pm
ah man, 5 minutes 15 seconds
June 5th, 2006 at 10:49 pm
dude, your clock is off.
June 6th, 2006 at 4:52 am
Download? Bah. I’ve actually got Reign of Blood on CD! (I know, I’m an old-fashoned 1990s kind of guy that way.) The expanded edition, no less, that still only runs less than 35 minutes. It’s bracing stuff. I’m actually listening to it now for the first time in a while.
The “Hessian” references on the NDoS website bother me, though.
National Day of Reason can fuck off. “Namby-pamby” doesn’t begin to describe how wet that idea is.
June 6th, 2006 at 5:16 am
Download? Bah. I’ve actually got Reign of Blood on CD!
Fuck that. Did you have it on tape? Was that tape confiscated by your parents when you were in the 5th grade? Where is that tape now? Do you have the ability to play a tape anymore were you to find it? This is what I want to know! (oh yeah, that’s what happened to my Slayer tapes along with shit like Guns N’ Roses etc. . .)
Raining Blood? (link to WorldNutDaily)
What with the glorious Christian crusade going on around the world, more particularly Iraq, it’s lyrics like these that cause me to wonder whether Slayer all along was actually a Christian band incognito:
Angel Of Death
Auschwitz, the meaning of pain
The why 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
Angel of Death
Monarch to the kingdom of the dead
Sadistic, surgeon of demise
Sadist of the noblest blood
Destroying, without mercy
To benefit the Aryan race
Surgery, with no anesthesia
Fell the knife pierce you intensely
Inferior, no use to mankind
Strapped down screaming out to die
Angel of Death
Monarch to the kingdom of the dead
Infamous butcher,
Angel of Death
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
‘Til you rip yourselves apart
Millions laid out in their
Crowded tombs
Sickening ways to achieve
The holocaust
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 running cold
Injecting cells, dying eyes
Feeding on the screams of
The mutants he’s creating
Pathetic harmless victims
Left to die
Rancid Angel of Death
Flying free
Judging by things, Slayer is the best thing the BattleCry generation of AmeriChrist has going for it.
June 6th, 2006 at 1:59 pm
Slayer singer Tom Araya has always mentioned that he has strong catholic roots and that they were never promoting the devil, but simply accepting evil in our everyday lives as exposed in Howard K Bloom’s book the Lucifer Principle.
Just like Black Sabbath, in the documentary “Metal” Tony Iommi notes that they had tons of crosses on their set and to this day you will still see Ozzy and the lot wear them on them for “protection”. Their managing company saw that their motif was picking up so they asked the band to vire towards a more satanic avenue.