“Seasons in the Abyss” by Slayer

"Seasons in the Abyss" is the title track of Slayer's fifth studio album, released on Def American on October 9, 1990, with music by Jeff Hanneman and words by Tom Araya. Rick Rubin produced, with Andy Wallace and the band sharing co-producer credit; Wallace also engineered and mixed. The sessions started in March 1990 at Hit City West and Hollywood Sound and wrapped in June at the Record Plant in Los Angeles.

Critics set the album's grim, grinding style beside South of Heaven and Reign in Blood, the two records before it, and it closed a chapter: it was the last Slayer album with drummer Dave Lombardo and the full original lineup until he came back for Christ Illusion in 2006.

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