This'll wake you all up! It's thrash metal gods Slayer with their anti-holocaust anthem "Angel of Death". What you thought this was all dance music did you? Hah!
It just goes to show how different things are these days. In the old days music had no colour and hip hop artists would sample anything, so long as it made you want to move. And there ain't nobody like Slayer to make you move.
“Angel of Death” – Slayer
Taking that brilliant mosh breakdown and slapping it over James Brown's Funky Drummer, Public Enemy's Channel Zero is a song about the crap that women watch on TV. Something which I can certainly testify to - but even the mighty Flava Flav can't stop my girlfriend watching trash.
“Channel Zero” – Public Enemy
Two badass motherfuckers, one badass motherfuckin guitar riff!
Public Enemy would also collaborate with another heavy metal group, Anthrax, for a cover of Bring The Noise on the album "Attack of the Killer B's" (Note the ubiquitous "Funky Drummer" beat in there too)
Terminator X wasn't the only one to sample Slayer either. British electropop duo the Utah Saints proved that yes you can sample Slayer and get into the top forty. Not only that but you can put a Slayer samples and Kate Bush and Annie Lennox samples on the same album and sell shitloads of copies. The song in question was called "I Want You" and the Slayer song sampled was called "War Ensemble".
Slayer themselves would also appear with the Original Gangster and Body Count frontman Ice T on the soundtrack to the movie Judgement Night and with Atari Teenage Riot on the (decent) soundtrack to the (absolute piece of shit) movie Spawn.
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Also it should be mentioned that Kerry King played guitar on "No Sleep Til Brooklyn" by the Beastie Boys.
Also, at one time, Slayer, Public Enemy and the Beastie Boys were all label mates.
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