Crossword clues for slayer
slayer
- Buffy, for one
- Vampire's assassin
- Thrash metal band with the songs "Spill the Blood" and "Kill Again"
- Theseus, vis-à-vis the Minotaur
- Saint George, for one
- Relays (anag)
- One doing in a dragon, e.g
- Dragon's assassin
- Cain or David
- Cain or Bluebeard
- Buffy's job
- Buffy, notably
- Buffy vis-à-vis vampires
- Buffy Summers, to vampires
- Agatha Christie character
- "World Painted Blood" band
- "South of Heaven" band
- "Seasons in the Abyss" thrash band
- "Reign in Blood" band
- "Raining Blood" band
- "Angel of Death" metallers
- ''Buffy the Vampire ___''
- Assassin
- St. George, for one
- Beowulf, to Grendel
- Beowulf, notably
- Buffy is one
- Offer?
- Heavy-metal band with a killer sound?
- Buffy, to vampires
- Someone who causes the death of a person or animal
- Idas, to Castor
- Macbeth, for one
- St. George, to the dragon
- David, to Goliath
- Violent killer
- Killer of small bird
- Hit man
- Cain, e.g
- Achilles, to Hector
- One of thrash metal's Big Four
- Influential thrash metal band
- Cain, for one
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slayer \Slay"er\, n. One who slays; a killer; a murderer; a destroyer of life.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., agent noun from slay (v.). The Old English agent noun was slaga "slayer, killer."
Wiktionary
n. One who slays; a killer; a murderer; a destroyer of life.
WordNet
n. someone who causes the death of a person or animal [syn: killer]
Wikipedia
Slayer is an American thrash metal band from Huntington Park, California, formed in 1981 by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King. Slayer rose to fame with its 1986 release Reign in Blood, and is credited as one of the "big four" thrash metal bands, along with Metallica, Megadeth, and Anthrax. Since its debut album in 1983, the band has released twelve studio albums, two live albums, a box set, six music videos, two extended plays and a cover album. Four of the band's studio albums have received gold certification in the United States. The band has received five Grammy nominations, winning one in 2007 for the song " Eyes of the Insane", and one in 2008 for the song "Final Six" (both from 2006's Christ Illusion). Slayer has also played at several music festivals worldwide, including Unholy Alliance, Download and Ozzfest.
Slayer's musical style involves fast tremolo picking, double bass drumming, riffs in irregular scales and shouted vocals. In the original line-up, King, Hanneman, and lead vocalist/bassist Tom Araya contributed to the band's lyrics, and all of the band's music was written by King and Hanneman. The band's lyrics and album art, which cover topics such as murder, serial killers, necrophilia, torture, genocide, human experimentation, Satanism, hate crimes, terrorism, religion, antireligion, Nazism, and warfare, have generated album bans, delays, lawsuits, and criticism from religious groups and the public. However, its music has been highly influential, often being cited by many bands as an influence musically, visually, and lyrically. Between 1991 and 2013, the band sold 4.9 million albums in the United States.
A Slayer, in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel (both created by Joss Whedon), is a young female bestowed with mystical powers that originate from the essence of a pure- demon, which gives her superhuman senses, strength, agility, resilience and speed in the fight against forces of darkness. She occasionally receives prophetic dreams in the few hours that she sleeps.
The opening narration in the Buffy series states "Into every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their number. She is the Slayer."
While, in the series, they are commonly referred to as "Vampire Slayers", even by Watchers and vampires themselves, the Slayer may operate as a defender against any and all supernatural threats.
The reputation of the Slayer is well-known and revered, even throughout other dimensions. The notion of The Slayer has been compared to the equivalent of a Demonic "Boogey-Man," incredibly feared and considered by most to be essentially unconquerable.
Slayer is a horizontally scrolling shooter game developed by Imperial Software in 1988 for the Amiga, Atari ST and Commodore 64. Hewson Consultants published the game.
Slayer is an American thrash metal band. It may also refer to:
Slayer, also known as Mexferatu Mexico, is a 2006 vampire themed television movie by Sci Fi Channel, directed and written by Kevin VanHook, starring Casper Van Dien and Kevin Grevioux, about an elite commando squad in South American rain forest, dealing against a deadly and bloodthirsty vampire clan living in the forest.
Usage examples of "slayer".
First, to the will of those who slew Him: and in this respect He was not a victim: for the slayers of Christ are not accounted as offering a sacrifice to God, but as guilty of a great crime: a similitude of which was borne by the wicked sacrifices of the Gentiles, in which they offered up men to idols.
Gawain, the ghost of a dragon slayer who was killed by an allosaur, who needed an heir.
Preserved in balladry, too, though not illustrating the same point, is the hideous tale of Lady Mary de la Poer, who shortly after her marriage to the Earl of Shrewsfield was killed by him and his mother, both of the slayers being absolved and blessed by the priest to whom they confessed what they dared not repeat to the world.
How dare they, he thought, fight their trivial buttles over which musicians would play at whose ball when four miles away men and women were struggling for their lives against an invisible slayer and the air dripped with the stink of corpses smoke, and death?
Other war heroes, Banbeck and Carter and Kinnison, Vidar the Silent and Valdemar the Slayer, are recompiled out of archives, or constructed, or born.
And among professional slayers and those who hire them, disagreements have a regrettable habit of ending in sudden deaths.
Being alive and untortured was sort of balanced by the fact that her childhood friend and mortal enemy Lyman Peressini had found her and her cyberlover was a slayer.
Fourthly, He willed to suffer in Jerusalem, where the chief priests dwelt, to show that the wickedness of His slayers arose from the chiefs of the Jewish people.
Though the process might be delayed, eventually the dragnet would close in an effort to ensnare the missing slayer: Shakes Niefan.
But I, Mopo, who was now the first man in the land after the kings, ceasing to be a doctor and becoming a general, went up against Engwade with the regiment of the Bees and the regiment of the Slayers and smote him in his kraals.
Day, and Svanetians worship the dragon slayer almost on an equal footing with Christ.
I took a solemn oath to heaven of vengeance against their slayers, and resolved that on my return to England I would buy out my partners in the Good Venture, and with her join the beggars of the sea and wage war to the death against the Spaniards.
Disheartened by the grisly spectacle of the dying fiends and by the apparent desertion of their leader, Slayer, the last warriors did not put up much of a fight.
He more than anyone understood the hardships and pressures that had, apparently, driven a few other Slayers mad.
He hurled a handful of gems into the air with his last breath and died in the wild hail of lightning bolts that followed, sending his slayers tumbling away in all directions.