Slayer, after whose song this skull is named, once said: "hoowarrrr ahhhhh grrr errrrgh."
I'm not entirely sure I agree with that. But I do know that RAINING BLOOD was the only name that made sense for this one.
Slayer released Reign in Blood in 1986 and it basically broke heavy metal. 29 minutes, 10 songs, produced by Rick Rubin, a hip hop producer who'd never touched metal before and somehow made the heaviest record anyone had heard.
"Raining Blood" closes the album. It starts with 33 seconds of rain, builds into one of the most recognisable riffs in metal history, and it's been in Slayer's live set ever since.
Jeff Hanneman wrote it. It outlived him. Even Tori Amos covered it.
Anyway. The skull.
This is part of my DRENCHD collection, which are always the hardest ones to make.
It's a blue and red marble mix over a crystal clear body and what I love about it is that the colour sits on the outside of the skull — so because the body is clear you can actually look straight through it and see the back of the marbling.
It's one of those things that photographs can't really do justice to. You need to see the light come through it.
It's my favourite skull, and honestly, I really don't want to sell it.
