Slayer – Reign In Blood

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Label:	Def Jam Recordings – GHS 24131
Format:	Vinyl, LP, Album, Special Cut, Allied Pressing
Country:	US
Released:	Oct 7, 1986
Genre:	Rock
Style:	Thrash

Tracklist

A1	Angel Of Death	4:50
A2	Piece By Piece	2:02
A3	Necrophobic	1:38
A4	Altar Of Sacrifice	2:49
A5	Jesus Saves	2:49
B1	Criminally Insane	2:13
B2	Reborn	2:20
B3	Epidemic	2:12
B4	Postmortem	2:44
B5	Raining Blood	4:23

Companies, etc.

Manufactured By – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Def Jam Recordings Inc.
Copyright © – Def Jam Recordings Inc.
Copyright © – Def Jam Music
Mixed At – New Fresh
Mastered At – Masterdisk
Mastered At – Sheffield Lab Matrix – Δ 14362
Pressed By – Allied Record Company

Credits

Design – Stephen Byram
Drums – Dave Lombardo
Engineer – Andy Wallace
Illustration – Larry W. Carroll*
Lead Guitar – Jeff Hanneman, Kerry King
Lyrics By – Hanneman* (tracks: A1, A3, B1, B4, B5), King* (tracks: A2 to B3, B5)
Mastered By – Howie Weinburg*
Music By – Hanneman* (tracks: A1, A3 to B5), King* (tracks: A2, A3, A5, B1, B3)
Photography By – Charly Rinne
Producer – Rick Rubin, Slayer
Vocals, Bass – Tom Araya

Notes

Geffen Records
Manufactured exclusively by Warner Bros. Records, Inc.
©℗1986 Def Jam Recordings, Inc.
Made in U.S.A.
All songs © 1986 Def Jam Music ASCAP
Recorded in L.A.
Mixed at New Fresh, N.Y.C.

Similar to the Specialty pressing, but with different runouts.
Sheffield Lab Matrix info "SH Δ" taken from the Matrix / Runout area.

Including a white dust sleeve with red print.
Lyrics and credits on one side and the Def Jam Recordings logo on the other.
Some copies have a sticker on shrink that states:
"Contains language which may be unsuitable for some listeners"

Runouts:
Some letters in the matrix are scratched out.

Raining Blood ends in a locked groove

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode (Text): 0 7599-24131-1
Barcode (Scanned): 075992413114
Matrix / Runout (Side A, variant 1): GHS-2 24131-A B SR1 MASTERDISK O B-2541.8-SHI Δ14362 1-1
Matrix / Runout (Side B, variant 1): GHS-2 24131-B. SR1 MASTERDISK O B-25419-SHI Δ14362-X 1-1
Matrix / Runout (Side A, variant 2): GHS-2 24131-A B SR1 MASTERDISK O B-25418-SHI Δ14362 1-1
Matrix / Runout (Side B, variant 2): GHS-2 24131-B SR2 MASTERDISK O B-25419 SH2 Δ14362-X 1-1
Matrix / Runout (Side A, variant 3): GHS-2̶ 2 24131-A SR1 MASTERDISK O B-25418-SH2 Δ14362 1-1
Matrix / Runout (Side B, variant 3): GHS-2̶ 2 24131-B SR1 MASTERDISK O B-25419-SH1 Δ14362-X 1-1
Matrix / Runout (Side A, variant 4): GHS-2̶ 24131- -A SR2 MASTERDISK O B-25418-SH2 Δ14362 1-1
Matrix / Runout (Side B, variant 4): GHS-2̶24131-B SR2 O B-25419-SH2 Δ14362-X 1-1
Rights Society: ASCAP

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	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
Recently Edited	Reign In Blood (LP, Album, Special Cut, Stereo)	Geffen Records, Def Jam Recordings	924 131-1	Europe	1986
Recently Edited	Reign In Blood (LP, Album)	Def Jam Recordings, London Records, Geffen Records	LONLP 34	UK	1986
Recently Edited	Reign In Blood (Cassette, Album, HX PRO B NR)	Def Jam Recordings	M5G 24131	US	1986
	Reign In Blood (LP, Album, Mispress)	Def Jam Recordings	XGHS 24131	Canada	1986
	Reign In Blood (LP, Album, Limited Edition, Picture Disc)	Geffen Records, Def Jam Recordings	100001-X	Germany	1986

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Reviews

elsonidoestuyo Aug 18, 2024
Looking for a cover only. I got the 1986 Canada press, but cover is beat. Will take any pressing if somebody can hook a brother up.
mrnickheath Mar 7, 2023
I bought a copy of this from a musty dusty dark record shop hanging on by the skin of its teeth in Dorking Surrey (Track & Groove) in 1987 and the whole thing was just SO..... verboten. Like even the inner sleeve with Def Jam on - all that us little Surrey white boys knew of Def Jam even then was Run DMC and Beastie Boys. Influential is a seriously over-used word for anything these days, but this, is as influential as it gets. I mean ffs it was ALMOST recorded in 1985. That sound was WAY ahead.
Melted_Wax Oct 18, 2022
Sounds so fuckin killer, a sonic assault of a pressing and album, match made in HELL
tantalustorment Aug 17, 2022
Edited one year ago
Je n'compte plus le nombre de fois ou j'ai écouté ça ..15 ans d'avance sur sont temps , une fracasse complet et une révélation pour l'époque ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 𝟏𝟎/𝟏𝟎
dj_bully Apr 21, 2022
If you like Thrash Metal then this is as good as it gets. Other bands can only aspire to this level of greatness! Fucking brilliant 🤩
more-vinyl Mar 9, 2022
Which CD version is Barry Diament's mastering -- the one with the longer, or shorter, version of "Rain In Blood"?
theCretin Mar 8, 2022
Write up is slightly wrong. Tom Araya said himself in interviews before hand nothing to do with the album cover, and only due to the inclusion of Angel of Death.

Can hear this at 7:20 in this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e0QlzMlO_M&ab_channel=Loudwire
Rob0012 Sep 23, 2021
Does anyone know which one was pressed first out of this and the Specialty pressing? And what are the differences if any?
boulala1406 Feb 26, 2020
Just picked it up from my local record store today!! The fucking rain at the locked groove!!! that’s why you should only get the US pressing. Overall the album sounds nice good lower ends and nice highs also. Worth every cent I paid for. Not really sure if I got this release or the other USA release since the indicators have the same names
folkface Jul 3, 2019
Looking for just the inner sleeve, let me know if anyone has one to sell! Thanks.