Four Slayer albums have won awards in the U.S. with a gold record. 2007 and 2008 the band won a Grammy in the category "Best Metal Performance ".

Slayer, along with Metallica were often called the founder of the thrash metal genre, they took up by the sound of the typical New Wave of British Heavy-metal bands like Iron Maiden, Venom, and Motorhead, and greatly accelerated. 

Characteristic of the style of the band was also Hanneman's penchant for punk music, which was reflected particularly on the cover CD Undisputed Attitude.

The early works of the band were praised for their "breakneck speed" and "powerful instrumentation. The band mixed the structure of hardcore with the speed of speed metal. The album Reign in Blood is sometimes almost up to 250 beats per minute, the fastest work of the Slayer history. 

On the album South of Heaven, the band takes the tempo back significantly. In slow songs like Spill the Blood and the title track South of Heaven, leaving room for a variety of percussion figures. On the album Diabolus in Musica, and God Hates Us All, Slayer was experimenting with more modern sounds.

By Melanie Bradley

Slayer Sheet Music, and Songbooks