Editing Reign in Blood (section)

==Song covers==
"Raining Blood" was covered by [[Tori Amos]] on her 2001 album ''[[Strange Little Girls]]''. King has admitted that he thought the cover was odd: "It took me a minute and a half to find a spot in the song where I knew where she was. It's so weird. If she had never told us, we would have never known. You could have played it for us and we'd have been like, 'What's that?' Like a minute and a half through I heard a line and was like, 'I know where she's at!'". The band, however, liked the cover enough to send Slayer T-shirts to her.<ref name="A Conversation With Kerry King">{{cite web
 |title       = A Conversation with Kerry King
 |author      = Barker, Samuel
 |publisher   = Rockzone.com
 |date        = February 9, 2002
|url         = http://www.rockzone.com/interviews/slayer.shtml
 |access-date  = February 9, 2007
|url-status     = live
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20110715195928/http://www.rockzone.com/interviews/slayer.shtml
 |archive-date = July 15, 2011
|df          = dmy-all
}}</ref> The song was also covered by [[Malevolent Creation]], [[Chimaira]], [[Vader (band)|Vader]], [[Dokaka]], [[Reggie and the Full Effect]] and [[Killick Erik Hinds]], who covered the entire album on a [[H'arpeggione]].<ref name="RIB - Erik Hinds">{{cite web
|title=RIB – Erik Hinds
|author=Couture, François
|website=Allmusic
|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=reign-in-blood-mw0000490316|pure_url=yes}}
|access-date=April 7, 2007}}</ref> "Raining Blood" was also covered by the New Zealand drum and bass band [[Concord Dawn]] on their 2003 album ''[[Uprising (Concord Dawn album)|Uprising]]'', and by Nashville, Tennessee band Asschapel on their 7" "Satanation". A medley of "Raining Blood" and "Postmortem" appears on [[Body Count (band)|Body Count]]'s 2016 album ''[[Bloodlust (Body Count album)|Bloodlust]]'', preceded by a short monologue by lead singer [[Ice-T]] where he names Slayer as both a major influence on Body Count and as one of his favorite bands of all time "and always will be"; a video for Body Count's version was released in August 2017.

In 2005, the Slayer tribute band Dead Skin Mask released an album with eight Slayer tracks, including "Angel of Death".<ref name="SLAYER Tribute Band DEAD SKIN MASK To Release CD">{{cite news|title=Slayer Tribute Band Dead Skin Mask to Release CD|work=Blabbermouth.net|date=December 23, 2004 |url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=30716
|access-date=March 11, 2007}}</ref> Death metal band [[Monstrosity (band)|Monstrosity]] covered the song in 1999,<ref name="Interview With Monstrosity's Lee Harrison">{{cite web|title=Interview with Monstrosity's Lee Harrison|author=Lehtinen, Arto|publisher=Metal-Rules.com|url=http://metal-rules.com/interviews/Monstrosity-2003.htm|access-date=March 14, 2007|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130517162551/http://metal-rules.com/interviews/Monstrosity-2003.htm|archive-date=May 17, 2013}}</ref> while the track was featured on the classical band [[Apocalyptica]]'s 2006 album ''[[Amplified / A Decade of Reinventing the Cello]]''.<ref name="APOCALYPTICA: 'Amplified' Collection To Feature New Recordings">{{cite news
|title=Apocalyptica: 'Amplified' Collection to Feature New Recordings
|work=Blabbermouth.net
|date=April 4, 2004
|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=50571
|access-date=March 21, 2007}}</ref> A Slayer tribute album titled ''Al Sur del Abismo (Tributo Argentino a Slayer)'', compiled by Hurling Metal Records, featured sixteen tracks covered by [[Argentines|Argentinian]] metal bands, including Asinesia's version of "Angel of Death".<ref name="SLAYER: Argentine Tribute Album Detailed ">{{cite news
|title=Slayer: Argentine Tribute Album Detailed
|work=Blabbermouth.net
|date=June 10, 2006
|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=53522
|access-date=March 11, 2007}}</ref>