
We’re so used to seeing atrocities on TV and the internet nowadays that we like to think we're unshockable. It wasn’t always that way, though, and in 1986 a vinyl LP appeared that had the establishment filling its collective drawers in fear. The album in question, Reign In Blood, was the third release by the Los Angeles thrash metal band Slayer and it remains their definitive statement to this day.
There was nothing to do in the car except read, so when I saw a couple of books about Mengele I bought them and thought he would be an evil subject to write about
Jeff Hanneman