My quick rating – 7.5/10. I popped on Slayer: The Repentless Killogy, thinking I had just queued up some nice, gentle background music for chores. You know – fold some laundry, maybe wash dishes, casually melt my ears with metal. Instead, I accidentally pressed play on a revenge-soaked, blood-spraying short film that looks like it was made by someone who asked, “How about a music video…but way more stabbing?”
Turns out this isn’t just a concert video, it’s a full-on violent mini-movie stitched together with Slayer’s music and the three brutal videos from Repentless: “You Against You,” “Repentless,” and “Pride in Prejudice.” Writer/director B.J. McDonnell builds an exploitation-style revenge tale packed with prison brawls, gang retaliation, and enough arterial spray to make a horror effects crew blush. There’s a mix of CGI and practical gore, and thankfully, a lot of the practical stuff looks satisfyingly nasty. If you’re squeamish, this is not your pre-laundry warmup. If you’re not, welcome home.
Jason Trost plays the reformed skinhead on a vengeance tour, and he sells it with cold, determined intensity. No wasted motion, no overacting. Just pure “you picked the wrong guy to mess with” energy. And when Danny Trejo shows up, it’s like the film unlocks a bonus level of credibility. Trejo fits into violent revenge stories the way blast beats fit into Slayer songs – naturally and aggressively.
What surprised me most was how well the music-video segments and narrative scenes blend together. It doesn’t feel like random cutting between story and songs. It actually flows. The tracks become part of the storytelling rhythm rather than just background noise. That first half hour grabbed my attention way more than expected. My laundry sat there, abandoned, judging me.
Around the 38-minute mark, the story portion wraps up, and the film transforms into what I originally thought I was starting in the first place – a full Slayer live performance from the Forum in Inglewood, CA. And it’s a beast of a concert recording, tight, loud, and shot with real polish. The crowd looks like they’re experiencing a shared spiritual event, if that spiritual event involves headbanging and possible neck injuries.
I was lucky enough to see Slayer live once, and this brought that memory roaring back. The sheer volume, the wall of sound, the feeling that your internal organs are being rearranged by guitar riffs. My current ears probably wouldn’t survive round two…but let’s be honest, I’d still go again. With earplugs. And maybe a will prepared.
This is absolutely built for Slayer fans first. If you’re not into their music, the concert half won’t convert you, and the film half will probably just concern you. But if you are a fan, it’s a bloody, thunderous farewell package that delivers exactly what it promises: revenge, murder, bloodshed, retribution. And one heck of a show. I came for background noise. I stayed for the carnage.
Concert tracklisting:
1. Delusions Of Savior 2. Repentless 3. The Antichrist 4. Disciple 5. Postmortem 6. Hate Worldwide 7. War Ensemble 8. When The Stillness Comes 9. You Against You 10. Mandatory Suicide 11. Hallowed Point 12. Dead Skin Mask 13. Born Of Fire 14. Cast The First Stone 15. Bloodline 16. Seasons In The Abyss 17. Hell Awaits 18. South Of Heaven 19. Raining Blood 20. Chemical Warfare 21. Angel Of Death
