Description Slayer – “South of Heaven” CD Opening with one of the coolest heavy metal horror riffs of all time, the fourth studio album, released in 1988 on Rick Rubin’s label Def Jam Recordings. The much anticipated follow-up to Reign In Blood. Was it as good? No, not as fast or aggressive, but damn, along with 1990’s Seasons In The Abyss Slayer gave us one of the greatest album trilogies in the entire history of metal. And “Behind The Crooked Cross” is one of their finest attempts at song writing.
