The Big 4: top 4 albums....

[Trev]

Disagree with Divine too, lyrically speaking some of the stuff is amongst  Arayas best, many of the lyrics moving away from satanic themes and dealing with real life horrors. 213, Sex Murder and Killing fields all exemplify the approach.

Vocally I'd concede and agree that there's some one dimensional approaches to a lot of the songs but the material is so ferocious I don't see scope for anything else, it'd be like saying there's too much growling on a death metal album. In Serenity and murder where there's a tad more space you find he's more creative.

Yiz know Hanneman and King wrote almost all the lyrics?

South of Heaven, Seasons and Divine Intervention all had about half each album with Araya doing lyrics, either credited on his own or with King/Hanneman. Seemed to do less after that but the ones he did were usually the best stuff on the later albums