As dyed-in-the-wool metalheads we all love Slayer and appreciate everything they’ve done for heavy music. That much is a given. But what do all those normal people think of them? Y’know, the sort who think we’re all mad for loving this music? That was the admittedly slim premise that prompted us to ask our very funny comedian pal Sarah Sumeray if she’d give their 1986 classic Reign In Blood a listen for the first time and let us know what she reckoned. Because it’s nice to get some perspective on these things. Imagine hearing those songs afresh again. Lucky, Sarah, right? Or maybe not… As someone who spent a large chunk of my childhood bopping around to inoffensive pop tunes released by sickeningly wholesome bands, the heaviest sound I ever came across was probably...
