The Seed of the Spawn: Slayer in Mexico Review

June 21st 2011 was one of the most incredible, extreme, noisy and spectacular nights of all my life, maybe someone else got the same feeling.

17:00: My friends and I were waiting to get into Palacio de los Deportes for a hell of a night.

17:30: One of our waits ended, they checked our tickets, register that we get no drugs, arms, drinks or cameras (but we had one and none noticed it).

19:00: Many of the people in there were singing with the Metallica record they put to "entertain us" while they were conecting wires, testing the guitars, the bass

20:30: Another wait ended, that was the time when the mexican band Avatar opened the concert. In my opinion they were not a good band, the singer do not have a good pronounce, the guitar player was a little awkward with the picking and the wah pedal, but they only played like 4 or 5 songs.

21:10 (More or less): The lights went down and all of us knew that was the beginning for a long wait, the intro for World Painted Blood told us the great moment was about to start, after a few moments the record stopped and we saw Dave Lombardo on drums, Kerry King at the right side, Gary Holt (who has been replacing Jeff Hanneman since he got bit by a spider and got necrotizinf fascitis) at the right, and at the center, there was Tom Araya with his bass guitar, and he began "Disease spreading death..." and the audience were screaming, singing and making slams and mosh pits.

After concluding this song, they played Hate Worldwide, War Ensamble, Postmortem, Temptation and Dittohead. Then Tom Araya stoped for a moment just to tell us that the next song was from Diabolus in Musica, and asked us if we are some diablos. After that all of us hearded the main riff from Stain of Mind, it was followed by Disciple and Bloodline.

Then Tom told us that the next would be a love song, then he said "Dance with the dead in my dreams..."

"Listen to their hallowed screams..."
"The dead have taken my soul..."
"Temptation's lost all control..."
And we all shouted with him "Dead Skin Mask!"

Then came the famous and always remebered song Hallowed Point, The Antichrist, Americon and Payback.

After that, Tom asked us if we really feel free, that was his way to introduced Mandatory Suicide, then came Chemical Warfare and Ghosts of War.

The lights went out again, we were tired and then the powerful guitars, the bass and those amazing drums announced the next song Seasons in the Abyss that was followed by the shred guitar solo for the introduction from Snuff.

The lights went down another time for a longer moment and then all of we were on the South of Heaven, and at the end of the song those guitars were still making the place stream, but what shaked all the people and the place when Dave Lombardo hit the drums three consecuive times... and a red light appeared and then... the amazing and unforgetable riff of Raining Blood, that was followed by nothing but Black Magic.

And for the most incredible ending of a night, the gave us everything they had when played Angel of Death, the tremedous voice of Tomo Araya, the demolishing drums of Dave Lombardo and the powerful, piercing and brutal solos of Kerry King and Gary Holt ended a glorious night.

They threw picks for us and Kerry King drank a round for all of us and in memory of his late friend Dimebag Darrell Abbott.

I have some videos if someone wants to see them

War Ensamble