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{{Infobox album
| name         = Reign in Blood
| type         = studio
| artist       = [[Slayer]]
| cover        = Reign in blood.jpg
| alt          = An image of the album cover featuring a demonic creature being carried on a chair by two people on each side. These people are carrying it over a sea of blood where several heads of corpses are floating. In the top left corner of the album is Slayer's logo while in the bottom right corner is the album title "Reign in Blood".
| released     = October 20, 1986
| recorded     = January–March 1986 
| studio       = Hit City West, Los Angeles, California
| genre        = [[Thrash metal]] 
| length       = 28:55
| label        =
* [[Def Jam Recordings|Def Jam]]
* [[Geffen Records|Geffen]]
| producer     =
* [[Rick Rubin]]
* Slayer
| prev_title   = [[Hell Awaits]]
| prev_year    = 1985
| next_title   = [[South of Heaven]]
| next_year    = 1988
| misc         = {{Singles
 | name        = Reign in Blood
 | type        = studio
 | single1     = Postmortem
 | single1date = 1986
 | single2     = Criminally Insane (Remix)
 | single2date = 1987
}}

}}

'''''Reign in Blood''''' is the third studio album by American [[thrash metal]] band [[Slayer]], released on October 20, 1986, by [[Def Jam Recordings]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/FMQB-Album/1986/FMQB-1986-10-10.pdf|title=FMQB|page=46}}</ref><ref name=Decibel>"Touring Blood", ''[[Decibel Magazine]]'', April 2008, p. 57.</ref> The album was the band's first collaboration with producer [[Rick Rubin]], whose input helped the band's sound evolve. The release date of the album was delayed because of concerns regarding the lyrical subject matter of the opening track "[[Angel of Death (Slayer song)|Angel of Death]]", which refers to [[Josef Mengele]] and describes acts such as [[human experimentation]] that he committed at the [[Auschwitz concentration camp]].<ref name="Kerry King: Maniac. Guitar Legend. Botanist?">{{cite web |title=Kerry King: Maniac. Guitar Legend. Botanist? |author=Hess, Mike |publisher=Nighttimes.com |date=July 23, 2003 |url=http://www.nighttimes.com/nt_main.asp?aID=388 |access-date=January 5, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711103745/http://www.nighttimes.com/nt_main.asp?aID=388 |archive-date=July 11, 2011  }}</ref> The band's members stated that they did not condone Nazism and were merely interested in the subject.<ref name="Slayer's Tom Araya on Satanism, serial killers and his lovable kids">{{cite web |title=Slayer's Tom Araya on Satanism, serial killers and his lovable kids |author=Cummins, Johnson |publisher=MontrealMirror.com |url=http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2002/012402/music1.html |access-date=December 2, 2006 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020831074030/http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2002/012402/music1.html |archive-date=August 31, 2002  }}</ref>

''Reign in Blood'' was well received by both critics and fans, and was responsible for bringing Slayer to the attention of a mainstream metal audience. It is often mentioned among the greatest heavy metal records ever. Alongside [[Anthrax (American band)|Anthrax]]'s ''[[Among the Living]]'', [[Megadeth]]'s ''[[Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?]]'', and [[Metallica]]'s ''[[Master of Puppets]]'', ''Reign in Blood'' helped define the sound of the emerging US thrash metal scene in the mid-1980s, and has remained influential since. The album was Slayer's first to enter the [[Billboard 200|US ''Billboard'' 200]], peaking at number 94, and was certified Gold in 1992. In 2013, ''[[NME]]'' ranked it at number 287 in its list of [[NME's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]].<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20131124170335/http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/nme_500_greatest_albums_2013.htm Rocklist.net NME: The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time : October 2013<!-- Bot generated title -->]}}</ref> In their 2017 listing of the 100 Greatest Metal albums of all time, ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine ranked ''Reign in Blood'' at number six.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/the-100-greatest-metal-albums-of-all-time-113614/|title=The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time|first1=Christopher R. |last1=Weingarten |first2=Tom |last2=Beaujour |first3=Hank |last3=Shteamer |first4=Kim |last4=Kelly |first5=Steve |last5=Smith |first6=Brittany |last6=Spanos |first7=Suzy |last7=Exposito |first8=Richard |last8=Bienstock |first9=Kory |last9=Grow |first10=Dan |last10=Epstein |first11=J. D. |last11=Considine |first12=Andy |last12=Greene |first13=Rob |last13=Sheffield |first14=Adrien |last14=Begrand |first15=Ian |last15=Christe |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=June 21, 2017}}</ref>