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Slayer

American thrash metal band. The collective was founded in 1981. Slayer led the musical movement of American thrash metal after the release of their album "Reign in Blood" (1986), which is considered the band's best achievement and a "thrash metal classic". Along with the bands Metallica, Megadeth, and Anthrax, Slayer is included in the "Big Four of Thrash Metal". Characteristic features of Slayer's music are fast tempo, high-speed guitar solos and tremolo, and screaming vocals. Themes of album art and the band's song lyrics are connected with death, hell, Satanism, violence, war, serial killers, and genocide, and often have an anti-religious character, for which the band was very harshly criticized by religious figures and ordinary listeners. For the same reasons, the release of Slayer's albums was delayed, and their sale was banned in many countries of the world. The band was nominated for a Grammy award four times, receiving the prize in 2007 (for the song "Eyes of the Insane") and in 2008 ("Final Six").