Captors Of Sin
Tracks 1-6 - "Live Undead" recordings
Tracks 7-9 - Heavy Sound Festival
Poperinge, Belgium, May 26, 1985
Track 10 - live 1985 (?)
Track 11 - Normal studio version
CDM G-53 257
45:08
1. Evil Has No Boundaries
2. Show No Mercy
3. Aggressive Perfector
4. Black Magic - Die By The Sword
5. Captor Of Sin
6. The Antichrist
7. Hell Awaits
8. Final Command
9. Necrophile [sic]
10. Crypts Of Eternity
11. Chemical Warfare

There are several bootlegs with this title; more on that later. No information is given about the tracks other than the helpful notice "contains originally live recording." I guess someone thought track 11 was the Dead Kennedys song by the same name, as it's given a "Yello Biafra" writing credit.

This particular version is somewhat of a disappointment if you're expecting much unreleased live material. Tracks 1-6 are straight from the "Live Undead" album with a slightly rearranged track order and some editing. Track 11 is the normal studio version of "Chemical Warfare." That leaves 4 live tracks, all of which have gaps/breaks between them. None have any stage banter.

After a close comparison with video footage, I believe tracks 7-9 are all from the Heavy Sound Festival, which was Slayer's very first live show outside of North America. With all the stage banter edited out, it's hard to find distinctive things to use as points of reference, but screams, Araya's enunciations, and vocal echos seemed to match up in each case.

Track 10 is probably from another '85 European gig, but I haven't been able to find a match for it--it does not match with any other '85 bootleg I have. Araya sounds a bit hoarse in the beginning, and then the "remaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaains" scream is particularly high with some echo on it. It's definitely not from the Poperinge show as they didn't even play "Crypts of Eternity" there. I will fill in information for this track if I get any further information on it or find a match for it.

There is another bootleg silver-CD titled "Captors of Sin" with 14 tracks from 2 gigs--the Poperinge show and another one in Germany. There are 2 label variants of this bootleg, one on "Golden Stars" and another on the "Iron Cock" label. They use the same graveyard cover as this bootleg, just cropped differently and with different coloring for the band name and title. In addition to the CDs, there is also an LP version of the 14-track version with the same cover picture, but it uses the classic Slayer swords logo. Since the content is so different from the other versions I'm assuming this bootleg was made by someone else using the same title and motif.

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