Slayer Album: “Still Reigning [DVD]”

The show is pulverizing with great atmos and it's well filmed but for the fact very little camera time is spent on the fretboards; I didn't even get to see what bass guitar Tom was using, although I guess it's the same ESP he's been using for the last decade, and it's even audible in the mix at times, and that's a first !!!

Yes it's only 62' long and the DVD authoring is quite poor; the bonus songs are indeed performed after the ¨Reign In Blood¨ lp performance when they were actually played BEFORE and yes some 30' of the show were not included which is a bummer but the original intention was to showcase RIBlod live so I felt lucky for the inclusion of the other 6 songs.

The pic bitrate hovers around a meagre 6 Mbps (maybe they went for a DVD 5 pressing, although I've not wheighed it) and it's plagued with both purposely B&W and grainy shots and there are 2 AC3 soundstreams, one of them 5.1 but both have King's axe ten times louder on the right channel which kindda ruined it for me. Tom's vox is OTT all over the mix (hate that) but the bottom end is SHATTERING !! When Lombardo actuates both kickdrum pedals an earthquake occurs, and I'm not one for exaggerating my sub's volume !!

There is a cool interview with the guys which is in 4:3 aspect with a higher pic bitrate (why ?! It's a friggin' extra FFS !!) which could have been saved for the gig.

BUT, this DVD kicks so much butt I couldn't take more than one star off what could have been a perfect 5.

This DVD would be SOOOOOOO awesome if the didn't forget to mic up Hennamen's guitar. WTF, dual soloing guitarists of the HIGHEST caliber and they overlook mic one of them!!! If you can get past that, then this is a DVD for all true Slayer fans to own!!!!

I SAW SLAYER AT THE SEASONS IN THE ABYSS TOUR IN THE CAMIO THEATRE IN MIAMI FLORIDA. MY POINT IS I WOULD HAVE LOVED TO BEEN AT THE REIGNING BLOOD CONCERT. THIS DVD KICK'S ASS. I'VE ALWAYS SAID SLAYER IS THE BLACK SABBATH OF BLACK METAL AND THEY ARE. IF YOUR A SLAYER FAN THIS IS THE DVD TO OWN!!!!!!