🔗 Three Album Run: How 20th Century Metal Never Bettered Slayer’s Unholy Trilogy | The Quietus:

With Reign In Blood (1986), South Of Heaven (1988) and Seasons, Slayer created a shadow world – a dark mirror to reflect the most horrifying elements of humanity. This three-album run – which functions as a diabolic trilogy though it wasn’t designed as one – ripped heavy metal out of its moorings and threw it into the fire. They transformed the genre with a musical radicalism and lyrical perspective from which there was no going back. The brutal innovations that followed – at the fringes of heavy metal and at its centre – were built upon the foundations of these albums. They constitute a revolution in twentieth-century metal, itself a revolutionary form, that makes them the most important sequence in the genre.

Yup, I completely agree.

As much as I love a lot of other metal bands, I’m not sure you could top these three albums in terms of what a consistently excellent artistic run they were or their impact on everything that came after in the metal genre.