Etrigan

Greetings!
Just heard about this a little while ago! (gettin' old)
Anyone have this yet? Thoughts/Opinions?
Off to best buy,right after work!

Still Reigning DVD

Vocals/Bass Guitar Guitar Drums
Tom Araya Jeff Hanneman Kerry King Dave Lombardo
Date City Venue Country
July 11th 2004 Augusta The Civic Center USA
Released Copies Sold Record Company Highest Chart Entry
US: October 26th 2004
Europe: November 1st 2004 N/A american visuals US: N/A - UK: N/A
Tracklist
Facts about this DVD: The disc features, for the first time ever, the original Slayer lineup - Tom Araya (vocals, bass), guitarists Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman, and drummer Dave Lombardo, who permanently rejoined the band in 2003 - performing an entire concert live. The cornerstone of the DVD will be the 1986, 28-minute classic album "Reign In Blood", performed in its entirety. During the final 45-seconds of the song "Raining Blood", "blood rains from the heavens," completely drenching the band, their instruments, and the stage. Hanneman unintentionally avoided the initial bloodbath as he stepped offstage for just a moment to handle a problem with his guitar, and missed the cue; but was deluged as he stepped back onstage.
The DVD wil have a running time of about 75 minutes and will retail for 14.98$.

01. Angel Of Death
02. Piece By Piece
03. Necrophobic
04. Altar Of Sacrifice
05. Jesus Saves
06. Criminally Insane
07. Reborn
08. Epidemic
09. Postmortem
10. Raining Blood

11. War Ensemble
12. Hallowed Point
13. Necrophiliac
14. Mandatory Suicide
15. Spill The Blood
16. South Of Heaven

extras include:


Backstage footage & interviews


Thanx Slayerized!
CHEERS! jefff

nodeerforamonth

Not to mention the fact that even though all of the officially live Slayer product has great, raw, loud production, THIS is the best sounding live Slayer yet!!!

woofman

Awesome DVD! Great picture and sound. Reigning Blood is classic!


Here's a link to the earlier thread on this.

http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...hreadid=373734

Ergyu

I picked it up last week. I love it, though I haven't watched all of the extra songs yet.

Giantrobo

SLAYER!!!!

demonio

watched this last night, they really did a good job with it....every true metal head should see it at least once....maybe twice really loud.

tonyc3742

It's next on my Netflix list. Just returned Curious Buddies [which definitely caters to a different demographic.]
The one thing that I found interesting is that it's only in DD 2.0? Is that correct? That seems somewhat odd/lacking, especially if it's a new master/recent concert.
Regardless, RIB is probably one of my top 3 quintessential hardcore/metal albums, so I'm looking forward to this. And yes, it will be loud.

nodeerforamonth

No, it's in 5.1. I never listen to those 5.1 mixes for music. Don't like how they do the separation. I like the louder, better, 2.0 mixes.

cultshock

Crap, I forgot this came out. I gotta buy this.

Giantrobo

Thank you! I thought I was the only one who felt this way. When I'm watching concert dvds I always switch to 2.0 because it sounds tons better.

Johnny Zhivago

This slipped under my radar... Der...

Question though, transfer... Full frame or letterboxed? I read one review at Amazon that says this one (unlike War at The Warfield) is NON-anamorphic letterboxed. If so, I'm getting a little tired of bands releasing letterboxed concert footage with no 16X9 enhancement.

What's the skinny on the transfer kids? Much obliged.

Johnny Zhivago

Pretty please?

tonyc3742

I actually have not watched many concert dvd's, so I have no educated opinion on the 5.1 vs 2.0 debate. And of course it depends on the mix, but you're right, if the separation sounds artificial, 5.1 is no benefit.

I should be getting this today or tomorrow from netflix, so if no one else answers, I'll come back and let you know what I found out.

The Black

I like it alot more that the warfield dvd.
As long as the quality is reasonable on a concert dvd I find it's worth it.

Ergyu

It's non anamorphic.

Johnny Zhivago

Thanks!

You too dtcarson...

tonyc3742

Someone beat me to it
Oh well, you're welcome.
Not even is it just letterboxed, the letterboxing is not symmetrical [that is, the top black bar appears to be bigger than the bottom one]. Slightly distracting. I cheated, however. Since it's non-anamorphic, I just turned the tv on non-480p input, and set my TV to 'Auto', which expands the image in all directions to fill the screen, without messing with the proportions.
I've tried it on both 5.1 and 2.0 sound, the 5.1 mix isn't bad, the 2.0 seems to sound a little bass-ier.

Ergyu

I always do the same thing with my non anamorphic dvds that are 1.85 or 1.78:1.

emhello

Araya screwed up the lyrics on Altar Of Sacrifice! He actually missed nearly half an entire verse!