Slayer is by far the epitome of heavymetal. agreed the later stuff has mixxed reactions but they have been the cornerstone of heavymetal. guitars, bass, drumming, vocals, heavymetal's demonic stature, visceral vision of their music, a dangerous image (now reverent), a brutal almst scary consistency (despite Diabolus In Musica's varying degrees of success but try playing that to a lesser metalhead, even one into megadeth's 90's stuff and you'll scare him with that and Diabolus is considered a lame Slayer record). so what do you think?