NADJA Cover SLAYER's 'Dead Skin Mask'; Free Download Available
March 16, 2009, 15 years ago
Toronto-based experimental doom/drone band NADJA have covered 'Dead Skin Mask' from SLAYER’s 1990 legendary album Seasons In The Abyss. Click here to download the song.
'Dead Skin Mask' will be featured on the new Nadja covers record When I See The Sun Always Shines on TV, which comes out April 28 on The End Records.
“Seasons In The Abyss was the first Slayer album I picked up (on cassette, to date myself), frontman Aiden Baker tells Headbanger's Blog . “I don’t really remember why, actually, since I listened to more punk than metal - but Slayer’s always been a bit more punk-sounding than most metal bands. I’ve always been into Seasons more than Reign In Blood, even if the latter is the more punk record, and ‘Dead Skin Mask’ was always a favorite. We had also thought about covering ‘Necrophobic’ from Reign. We actually did record a version, but our take of ‘Dead Skin Mask’ sounded better - probably because it’s a slower song and is a bit more about atmosphere than about speed, which is more fitting to the Nadja sound.”
