In this week’s edition of Throwback Thursday, we revisit Slayer’s ‘Show No Mercy’ 1984 North American tour, which was in support of the band’s ’83 debut album of the same name, as well as the August ’84 ‘Haunting The Chapel’ EP. These were Slayer’s formative years and their ground-breaking stint with Metal Blade Records, still heralded as one of the most influential period of Slayer’s discography, spawning multiple generations of speed, thrash and extreme metal in subsequent decades. Photographer extraordinaire Wayne William Archibald saw the show at the now extinct Le Spectrum in Montreal QC on October 29 1984, and captured these amazing pictures to document the occasion. Check them out below (click to enlarge and enter gallery mode), along with the jaw-dropping set list from the show:
Set List:
01. Hell Awaits
02. Aggressive Perfector
03. Metal Storm/Face The Slayer
04. Necrophiliac
05. Crionics
06. The Final Command
07. Captor Of Sin
08. Chemical Warfare
09. Fight Till Death
10. The Antichrist
11. Black Magic
12. Die By The Sword
Encore:
13. Evil Has No Boundaries
14. Haunting The Chapel
15. Show No Mercy