what happened to slaughter ?

I saw Slaughter in 1991. They dedicated "Fly to the Angels" to the men and women who defended our country in the Persian Gulf.

They also did that thing of substituting "Saddam Hussein" for "Chairman Mao" in their cover of "Revolution".

what did they rhyme it with?

But when you go carryin' pictures of Saddam Hussein/
Don't you know that you're gonna look insane?

A lyrical construction that flowed off of Mark Slaughters lips like honey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVIjdgd1ncs

Go to 2:22 for another version of that line.

Also note huge American flag held up in back of the room while hair band sings "Revolution".

Perfect! It doesn't get better than that.

it was a real missed opportunity that this thread was not titled "does anybody remember slaughter?"

that's like when i saw Hairball, a tribute 80s metal band

http://www.moondancejam.com/images/bandspage/regional09/hairball.jpg

and they did "Nothin' But a Good Time" by Poison and in the middle part they said "I make a toast to all of us/that's breakin' our backs every day/If you wear a towel on your head/THEN GET OUT OF THE USA"

on Sat night in my town Warrant & Firehouse are playing a corn festival; def nuthin but a good time

who's singing for warrant now?

oh shit, I didn't know that Jani Lane had died! no idea

The dude from Lynch Mob is the singer.

Would have loved to have seen them in the Jaimie St. James years.

I've decided this is the death/thrash metal Slaughter thread now.

Strappado is a fuckin weird album, like, I can tell they liked Celtic Frost a lot! not like the other earlier proto-death albums at all. I got a copy on CD yesterday finally.

LOVE Nocturnal Hell and Surrender or Die. So brutal.

i love the way Mark Slaughter says THATS RIGHT on “Up All Night”

it makes me laugh … also i like that whole album, its v enjoyable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukmobha2krY

Can this thread continue along parallel discussion lines with two completely different acts of the same name? I look forward to the Nirvana thread following suit.

The ICP thread did that too.

There has NOT been two Insane Clown Possees!

They and the Instant Composers Pool orchestra.

sorry i didnt know there was another slaughter

forget it, VG, it's Truemetaltown...

tbh I don't care if both Slaughters get love itt

Slaughtii?

I saw Slaughter in 1991. They dedicated "Fly to the Angels" to the men and women who defended our country in the Persian Gulf.

They also did that thing of substituting "Saddam Hussein" for "Chairman Mao" in their cover of "Revolution".

― pplains

that was such an amazing era for the overlap of pop-metal/hard rock with displays of patriotism that would embarrass lee greenwood.

*Robert Plant voice* “Does anybody remember SLAUGHTERRRR?”

thought this was gonna be a Kissinger revive

lmao

THAT’S RIIIIGHT

'that's right' sounds like a castrated mouse, or a mouse whose balls are being tightened in a vice

I enjoy listening to “stick it to ya” and imagining it’s the new return to form, kick ass darkness album

for a few seconds at the beginning 'up all night' sounds like it's going in an Orb direction. then of course, "when evening comes, i am aaa-LIVE'

it’s such a dumb song but he makes it perfect in its dumbness, in the true hairmetal way

very interesting band to me (I'm pretty into this kinda music) - the lead track on The Wild Life is really a good encapsulation of how they're a band with some interesting ideas and impulses but there's also no way in hell they're even thinking about trying to anything other than Crue played straight. feel like Sunset Strip aesthetic politics are a whole thing worth talking about -- like Crue took MASSIVE shit for their makeup early on, lots of homophobic mistrust on the scene, people lumping them in with the sleaze trend that was big there then (Mau Maus, Joneses, all bands Axl was absolutely taking notes about) but their sound was hard to deny, I think a guy like Slaughter is hearing this and thinking "I want a normal version of this." and they're real capable musicians, the songs aren't good and the vocal approach, it's exactly what you think, laughable then and now, but listen past that at all the weird shit on The Wild Life. So many bizarre tiny moments across the first two tracks it makes me dizzy, I'll catalog them:

1. sure ok we open on a church bell and some sfx but then there's this guitar through a phase pedal with some high feedback behind it, fuzz & interference and the guitar's playing a disciplined repetitive figure, this could easily be a Helden track but then the hair metal kicks in HARD and it's like somebody spliced two tapes together wrong
2. it does its mid tempo Crue thing for a while, the vocal harmonies on the chorus are sweet as hell, this was probably really powerful live, the bassist is ACTIVE, very nice touch
3. and then the bottom drops out! more sfx, chimes, a Roland harpsichord, some lyric about opening your mind - like, it's just a weird bridge, bands do weird bridges, but hair metal band kinda don't and this is super odd. bizarre. and then!!
4. two guitar solos and the first one is WILD, long EVH "here I come" note but then this lurching scale that -- like, this is what alternative rock bands do with their solos. it's artsy shit! the second solo is more proper Sunset but the first one (or was that just the intro to the solo?) has left its mark, and then it collapses into the squelch synth sound that has marked transitions in the mid section of the song
5. on the repeat chorus they really lock into the groove, by this point hopefully you've figured out a way to ignore the vocals, it's hard, they're a lot but the band is practically CHOOGLING -- really in a pocket, or what counts as a pocket in this kind of music. bassist LOCKING into his busy figure in the fadeout.

then we hear tires squealing and motors roaring and we have what sounds pretty hair metal until this bassist persuades the band this is a new wave tune. popping quarter notes snapped to the grid, more woozy guitar chiming in, very poppy chorus, these are people who have misunderstood whitesnake for the greater good. the guitar solo is also pretty bonkers on this track.

anyhow that's the first two tracks of their second album. having to learn to be ok with the vox/lyrics isn't really the best use of one's listening time but shit, I listened to thrash before this and death metal after, I can get there when it's worth it. good band.

yeah I think they are a really good band and bear up to close scrutiny. i for sure enjoy them!!

I think that being a “second wave” band they unfairly get lumped in with the dearth of idiotic & straight up DUMB bands from that 88-91 time period who have multiple hairdryers and zero chops.

(warrant is another great band in the same kind of boat imo)

Listening to this now and yeah, it's kind of fascinatingly weird. I'm also getting hung up on just how blatantly the singer's imitating Dio on the line "you reach for the sky".

I like it when hair metal bands get arty and weird. Remember when BulletBoys covered Tom Waits's "Hang On St. Christopher"? And released it as a single from their second album?