Slayer followers can now get an unprecedented look into the band’s historical past with the launch of the Slaytanic Verses digital museum.
The digital museum opens the band members’ private archives to disclose beforehand unseen photographs, uncommon memorabilia, music devices, art work, and tales from Slayer’s 40-plus-year profession.
The primary “exhibit” out there upon the launch of the museum, “Stay Assaults: 1981 Via Immediately,” focuses on the band’s dwell performances through the years and “will evoke recollections of previous live shows and supply a brand new perspective, by taking them backstage with objects relationship to the band’s 1981 inception in Huntington Park, CA,” per a press launch.
Organized in an archival gallery format, the preliminary choices are certain to thrill hardcore followers. Among the many highlights at a look:
- A flyer for Slayer’s first present at a Battle of the Bands in 1981
- A really unbelievable set of photographs from a 1982 Slayer gig that see the band in full glam-like garb, earlier than the Satanic aesthetic after they had been nonetheless emulating the NWOBHM model
- Pictures from an encounter with Mercyful Destiny from 1984, full with an un-painted King Diamond
- The Reign in Blood tour press equipment (now we have a selected fondness for this one!)
- Movies and photographs from the band’s farewell tour in 2019
That hardly cracks the floor, and the band’s press launch states that the archive “shall be continuously up to date” with new content material. The museum is necessary viewing for any Slayer fan — and a terrific primer for anybody planning to catch their reunion set at Aftershock on Thursday (October tenth). Get last-minute tickets right here.
Take a look at a couple of highlights from the museum gallery beneath.
