Editing Live Undead (section)

==Conception==
The seven-track live record was recorded in front of a room full of people in [[New York City]] in the [[autumn]] of 1984. It has been rumored that the crowd noise was added in a studio rather than recorded on stage. [[Joel McIver]], author of ''The Bloody Reign of Slayer'', asked ''Live Undead''{{'s}} [[record producer|producer]]/[[Audio engineer|engineer]] Bill Metoyer, who had worked on the album in [[Los Angeles]].<ref name="McIver 2010, p. 46"/><ref>McIver 2010, p. 45</ref> Metoyer responded: "I don't know if I should tell you [if the crowd noises were faked]! Isn't that one of those great industry secrets? Let's just say that when you're doing a live record, you want live sound — even if perhaps the microphones didn't pick up the audience properly."<ref name="McIver 2010, p. 46"/>

''Live Undead'' marked the beginning of a short association between Slayer and artist Albert Cueller. Cueller would design the sleeve image, which depicts the four band members as grinning, partially decayed zombies walking through a [[graveyard]].<ref name="McIver 2010, p. 47"/>