# Season 4, Episode 8: Metal Blade... Sign on the Axe and Show No Mercy [no. 138]

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Podcast: [Talkin' Slayer: A Metal Podcast and Half-@ssed Audiobook](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talkin-slayer-a-metal-podcast-and-half-ssed-audiobook-6422518)
Published: 2026-06-13T06:59:00+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/slayerbook/episodes/Season-4--Episode-8-Metal-Blade----Sign-on-the-Axe-and-Show-No-Mercy-no--138-e3kfbdf
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Duration seconds: 1843

## Resource

Today's topic is Slayer's first record deal and album: Show No Mercy, released on the hall of fame metal foundry that is Metal Blade. VIDEO: Slayer, live, 1983 . Next week is the final episode that is free for all. After episode 9, only Patreon supporters get every weekly episode. Free listeners will only get an episode every OTHER week, and they'll miss more than half the story. Learn more at ⁠⁠⁠Patreon.com/SlayerBook⁠⁠⁠ . Packages start around $1 an episode. You can do that, right? Unless otherwise noted, all sick-arsed riffage and/or music is by in-house rifflord Nige Savage, of UK metal band ⁠⁠⁠⁠Chupacabra⁠⁠⁠⁠ . For the next year or so, every week, TALKIN' SLAYER subscribers will get a chapter or two of "Slayer 66 2/3: A Metal Band Biography... Or, How F*kin' Slayer Kicked Fkin' @ss," REBORN: The Updated, Revised& Massively Expanded 4th Edition Talkin' Slayer Season IV presents the chronological history of Slayer, as seen / heard in the book. The previous edition of the book ran around 350 pages. The new REBORN Edition runs 639. We added a lot. And you can hear it all here, one week at a time, piece by piece. You've never heard it like this before... unless you have the audiobook. The run time is 1.4 DAYS. That's a lot. It's available CHEAP at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SlayerBook.Bandcamp.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Mostly, in Season 4, what you will get every week or so is a chapter from the book... plus some cool bonus stuff, like original interviews with people you WILL want to hear from. The book was updated after the reunion, massively expanded, thoroughly overhauled, and rewritten so it's easier to read — both in format and writing style. Check it out at... ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SlayerBooks.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ and / or ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Ajna Offensive⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ TALKIN' SLAYER & Ferris on…

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