References to Slayer in other media.
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Films — Live-Action
- In Green Room, Slayer is one of the Ain't Rights' desert island bands.
- Two soundtracks made by Charlie Clouser for the Saw franchise, "Pig Juicer Intro"
from Saw III and "Cycle Trap" from Jigsaw, use "Eyes of the Insane" as a source sample. - Diana Hyland from A Simple Favor wears a Slayer T-shirt regularly.
Literature
- In If I Fall, If I Die, Jonah and Will listen to a Slayer tape borrowed from Jonah's older brothers, which Will thinks makes The Rite of Spring sound like a lullaby.
Live-Action TV
- Money Heist: In several flashbacks from the Bank heist storyline at the Italian countryhouse, starting from "48 Meters Underground", Bogota is seen wearing various T-shirts of Slayer, one of which features the album cover of Divine Intervention.
Music
- blink-182's "Dysentery Gary" makes a mention of Slayer in its lyrics:He's a player, diarrhea giver
Tried to grow his hair out, friends were listening to Slayer - An excerpt from the outro of "South of Heaven" is sampled in the intro of Slipknot's song "Only One".
- Tori Amos covered "Raining Blood". Slayer themselves were so unnerved by the cover that they sent her a box of T-shirts.
- Lovebites has called "Set the World on Fire" their Slayer tribute.
Roleplay
- JoJo's OC Tournament: Fortune's Reach: Medea Pierrot's Stand, Dead Skin Mask, is named after the homonymous track from the band's 1990 album Seasons In The Abyss.
Video Games
- Guilty Gear is one big homage to classic rock and heavy metal, and one of the main recurring fighters is literally called Slayer.
Web Original
- During the review of The Making Of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Coming Out of Our Shells Tour by The Nostalgia Critic and The Angry Video Game Nerd, one of the many complaints about the video include how poorly dubbed the music is, with the latter saying how any music could be put in its place, including Slayer. Cue a brief snippet of "Raining Blood" playing.
- In JonTron's video on Sonic R, he imagines and acts out the development of the game involving a Sonic Team employee snorting cocaine, another employee asking "What the FUCK is a Sonic?!", and haphazardly typing randomly on a computer. "Angel of Death" is playing all throughout.