Album: Reign In Blood (1986)

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• Ah
  
  Auschwitz, the meaning of pain
  The way that I want you to die
  Slow death, immense decay
  Showers that cleanse you of your life
  
  Forced in
  Like cattle you run
  Stripped of
  Your life's worth
  Human mice, for the Angel of Death
  Four hundred thousand more to die
  
  Angel of Death
  Monarch to the kingdom of the dead
  
  Sadistic, surgeon of demise
  Sadist of the noblest blood
  Destroying, without mercy
  To benefit the Aryan race
  Surgery, with no anesthesia
  Feel the knife pierce you intensely
  Inferior, no use to mankind
  Strapped down screaming out to die
  
  Angel of Death
  Monarch to the kingdom of the dead
  Infamous butcher
  Angel of Death
  
  Pumped with fluid inside your brain
  Pressure in your skull begins pushing through your eyes
  Burning flesh drips away
  Test of heat burns your skin, your mind starts to boil
  Frigid cold, cracks your limbs
  How long can you last
  In this frozen water burial?
  Sewn together, joining heads
  Just a matter of time
  'Til you rip yourselves apart
  Millions laid out in their
  Crowded tombs
  Sickening ways to achieve
  The holocaust
  
  Seas of blood, bury life
  Smell your death as it burns
  Deep inside of you
  Abacinate, eyes that bleed
  Praying for the end of
  Your wide awake nightmare
  Wings of pain, reach out for you
  His face of death staring down
  Your blood's running cold
  Injecting cells, dying eyes
  Feeding on the screams of
  The mutant he's creating
  Pathetic harmless victims
  Left to die
  Rancid Angel of Death
  Flying free
  
  Angel of Death
  Monarch to the kingdom of the dead
  Infamous butcher
  Angel of Death
  
  Angel of Death Writer/s: Jeffery John Hanneman
  Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 22

• AnonymousMost, if not all Metal bands have an origin of history. Iron Maiden ( the ancient Mariner ). Metallica ( the four horsemen) to name a couple. But angel of death has intrigued me from the opening lyrics.
  Some people hear heavy metal and think what s--t.
  The thought process and research that goes into most metal lyrics is commendable.
  If you don't understand Heavy Metal, start by listening to the lyrics. But be aware, this history lesson is quite disturbing.
• Dan Gillespy from Courtenay Canada.A pure brutal thrash metal classic and a influence on the Death Metal scene and very very good and very very cool guitar playing in the song.
• Janeen Skokani from DearbornI at first thought slayer was just rambling about death and blood when I heard this song when I was 14... then I listened again and realized the lyrics were about the holocaust, specifically, Mengale. That's slayer for you.
• Kieran from Brisbane, AustraliaTheir record label boss/manager/close friend Rick Rubin is Jewish FYI.
• Luke from Manchester, EnglandJosef Mengale was an evil evil bastard.
  He'd take prisoners from the cells and experiment on them without anasthesia stopping halfway through without properly stitching the wounds.
  He'd also take two people and conjoin them, creating a vile, obscene set of "siamese twins" who would die due to the organs not matching up properly.
• Eric from ., PanamaI think that we can't hide the real facts of history with a finger. That really happen, Mengele use to do many wrong things ...
• Luke from Manchester, EnglandYoseph, why do you list the pyrics when you can get them on the net... just type your thoughts.
• Al from Cleveland, OhMan's inhumanity towards man has been Slayers bread and butter for 2 decades!Their music isn't racist or pro-violence, they just state the facts.On the Rollins show on ifc.com they tell you if you don't like it, change the channel.You can't please everyone, and this is America, so we have a right to disagree. But some (not so nice persons) want to change that too.
• Dylan from Topeka, KsGoodness gracious frank from philadelphia is so stupid. Why would one member being Chilean make Slayer immune to being racist or nazis?
• Yoseph from Cupertino, CaLol the lyrics are so....slayerish....
  
  Auschwitz, the meaning of pain
  The way that I want you to die
  Slow death, immense decay
  Showers that cleanse you of your life
  
  Thats the first part >.>
• Kodi from Sydney, CanadaYeah I think the song also has something to do with the Nazi's too. Not sure what though
• Brittany from Rainy River, Canadato Brandon from Morristown-Josef Mengele did not favor identical twins, he had a fascination with them-a fascination that led to gruesome experiments. he did not give them better treatment, he just liked experimenting on them moreso than other subjects. and a note on this song-i also learned about the Angel of Death in history class, and as soon as i saw the songs' title, before i even listened to it, i made the connection. its a great song, in my opinion.
• John from Hellsinki, FinlandTomás "Tom" Enrique Araya (6.6.1961 Valparaíso, Chile). Dave Lombardo (born February 16, 1965, Havana, Cuba). Frederick Jay "RicK" Rubin (born March 10, 1963 in Lido Beach, New York) is a multiple Grammy Award-winning American Jewish record producer. Josef "Angel Of Death" Mengele (March 16, 1911 ? February 7, 1979), born in Günzburg, Bavaria, eldest of three sons of Karl Mengele (1881?1959), was a German SS officer and a physician in the German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.
• Nick from Buda, TxThe Drummer is from Cuba
  but the 2 guitarists are white
• Oliver from Hamburg, GermanyThis morbid fascination with evil is fed by the same childish pleasure as watching old films with vincent price. I love vincent price without loving the deeds protagonists that he plays are doing if they were real. I think, thats what Slayer is and metal has to be like
• Joel from Columbia, ScMy Grandfather was in WWII and I have lots of Nazi stuff...Mengle or however it is actually spelled in German was one sick f*ck... Still this is an okay song, not one of my favorties
• J from Nyc, NyThis is definitely one of my favorite Slayer songs of all time! The whole song is just constant attack and has great breaks. I never understood why they got so much flack becuase this song was about Mengle; these events unfortunatley did happen, sadly there is real evil in humanity. Oh, to add to band's ethnic diversity, Lombardo (the durmmer) is Cuban.
• Brandon from Morristown, TnWhoa school taught me some thing,they did a presentation on this dude and I meade the connection metally,wow I was right.The so called 'Angel Of Death' for some reason loved twins and favored them by giving them easy assignments and better living quarters.He also expirimented with club feet,birth defects among other things.What an sadistic b*st*rd.
• Devon from Westerville, Ohthis song is insane. Slayer's two guitarists tear it up on this song.
• Stefanie from Rock Hill, ScI thought his name was Mengle not Mengel, either he was a terrible guy.
• Frank from Philadelphia, MsSlayer's lead singer is from Chile and the rest of the band is white. this clearsd up the accusation that Slayer is racist or nazis...
• John from Glasgow, Scotlandhey! i wrote that! its been changed!
  
  but anyway, jeff hanneman actually has a penchant for nazis and nazi memorabaellia, after his dad gave him some german medals.

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