South of Heaven is the fourth studio album by American thrash metal band, Slayer. "South of Heaven" was released on July 5, 1988. The album was released through Def Jam. It is the second collaboration with record producer Rick Rubin.
The album is their second to enter the Billboard 200 and was their last album that was released under Def Jam Recordings. Guitarist Jeff Hanneman has said that the album was the only album that the band members had discussed before writing the music. They knew that they "couldn't top Reign in Blood", and that whatever they recorded would be "compared to that album", he believed they "had to slow down", something the band had never done on albums before, or since.
Guitarist Kerry King mentioned the need to "keep people guessing" as another reason for the musical shift. According to Slayer's official biography: "In order to contrast the aggressive assault put forth on Reign in Blood, Slayer consciously slowed down the tempo of the album as a whole". "They also added elements like undistorted guitars and toned-down vocal styles not heard on previous albums."
Zviad Gamsakhurdia
Zviad Gamsakhurdia (, tr. "Zviad K'onst'ant'ines dze Gamsakhurdia"; , tr. "Zviad Konstantinovich Gamsakhurdiya"; March 31, 1939 — December 31, 1993) was a Georgian scientist and writer. He became the first democratically elected President of Georgia in the post-Soviet era.
Eduard Shevardnadze
Eduard Shevardnadze (; , tr. "Eduard Amvrosiyevich Shevardnadze"; 25 January 1928 - 7 July 2014) was a Georgian politician. He was a former Soviet minister of foreign affairs. He served as President of Georgia from November 1995 to November 2003.
Nino Burjanadze
Nino Burjanadze (Georgian: ნინო ბურჯანაძე, also romanized Burdzhanadze or Burdjanadze, born 16 July 1964) is a Georgian politician and lawyer. She served as the acting President of Georgia two times from 2003 to 2004 and again from 2007 to 2008. She announced in 2013 that she will run for president in the upcoming elections.
Tengiz Sigua
Tengiz Sigua (9 November 1934 – 21 January 2020) was a Georgian politician. He served as Prime Minister of Georgia from November 1992 to August 1993.
Otar Patsatsia
Otar Patsatsia () (born May 15, 1929) is a Georgian politician. He served as the country's Prime Minister from August 20, 1993 to October 5, 1995.
Andrew Mango
Andrew James Alexander Mango (1926 – 7 July 2014) was a Turkish-British writer and photographer. He worked for the BBC for a while until his retirement in 1986. He was a press office for the British Embassy in London. He spent many years writing about Atatürk.
Bora Todorović
Borivoje "Bora" Todorović (Serbian Cyrillic: Боривоје "Бора" Тодоровић) (November 5, 1929 – July 7, 2014) was an Serbian actor. He was known for his roles in "Who's That Singing Over There" (1980), "The Marathon Family" (1982), "Balkan Express" (1983), "Balkanski Špijun" ("Balkan Spy", 1984), "Time of the Gypsies" (1988), and "Underground" (1995).
Volkmar Groß
Volkmar Groß (31 January 1948 – 3 July 2014) was a German football player. He spent seven seasons in the Bundesliga with Hertha BSC, Tennis Borussia Berlin and FC Schalke 04. He represented Germany against Greece.
Michael Apted
Michael David Apted, (10 February 1941 – 7 January 2021) was a British director, producer, writer and actor. He directed James Bond movie "The World is Not Enough". He was known for directing "Amazing Grace" and "".
Apted died at his home in Los Angeles on 7 January 2021, at the age of 79.
My Plague
"My Plague" is the third single off American metal band Slipknot's second studio album "Iowa". The song was released on July 8, 2002.
There was a remix for the song called "New Abuse Mix" that was featured on the soundtrack to the 2002 movie "Resident Evil". the remix cut a screamed layer of vocals and replaced it with a more monotone, drone-like sounding layer.
The new version was cut by approximately 00:37 seconds by removing the transitional ""Kill you, fuck you, I will never be you"" section. Some of the profanities were also replaced with less offensive phrases; like the phrase ""...the everyday bullshit things that you have done"" was changed to, ""...the everyday abusive things that you have done"" and ""You fucking touch me, I will rip you apart..."" was replaced with ""...and if you touch me, I will rip you apart..."". The whole second verse of the chorus was removed.
In 2003, the song was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Metal Performance category but it lost to Korn's "Here to Stay".
The Specialist
The Specialist is a 1994 American action thriller movie. Sylvester Stallone plays Ray. Sharon Stone plays May Munro. This movie is about a former CIA agent getting mixed up in violence, drugs and deception. It is set in Colombia and Miami.
Many critics did not like the movie. Its box office intake, however, was positive. The movie was released on October 7, 1994.
Marek Jakóbczak
Marek Jakóbczak (1970 – 27 June 2014) was a Polish footballer. He graduated from a small club in Warsaw Pharmacy Tarchomin. He played with the teams Polonia Warsaw, Radomiak Radom, Steel Steel Will, Petrochemical Plock, GKS Belchatow-ie, Jagiellonia Bialystok, Silesia, Wroclaw and Israeli Hapoel Beit She'an. He had played 49 matches in the league and scored 9 goals.
Jakóbczak died in Warsaw, Poland from lung cancer, aged 44.
Tymon Mabaleka
Tymon Mabaleka (1949/1950 – 27 June 2014) was a Zimbabwean footballer and music producer. He was nicknamed "The Whitehorse". His career lasted for nearly twenty years in sports and another fifteen years in the music industry.
Mabaleka was born in Nswazi in Umzingwane District. He attended Losikeyi Primary School in Bulawayo. He studied at Mpopoma High School and later moved to Mzilikazi High School.
He played for the Highlanders FC. In 1973, the Highlanders won Chibuku Trophy. He retired in 1982 to become a music producer. He worked for Gallo Records.
Mabaleka died in Harare, Zimbabwe from unknown causes, aged 64 or 65. He is survived by his wife, Josephine Mabaleka. He was buried in Harare the next day.
Robert A. M. Stern
Robert Arthur Morton Stern, usually credited as Robert A. M. Stern (born May 23, 1939), is an American architect. He is currently the Dean of the Yale School of Architecture. He is known for his works 15 Central Park West, Comcast Center, and the Norman Rockwell Museum. His buildings are mostly postmodernism.
Margaret Fulton
Margaret Isobel Fulton OAM (10 October 1924 – 24 July 2019) was a Scottish-born Australian food and cooking 'guru', writer, journalist, author, and commentator. She was the first of this genre of writers in Australia. She was born in Nairn, Scotland. Fulton's best known work was writing "The Margaret Fulton Cookbook" and for hosting "Recipes from the Duchess of Duke Street".
Fulton was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 1983 Queen's Birthday Honours "In recognition of service to the media as a journalist and writer in the field of cookery".
Fulton died on 24 July 2019 at the age of 94.
Alan Alan
Alan Alan (born Alan Rabinowitz; 30 November 1926 - 4 July 2014) was a British escapologist and magician. He was known for creating the escape from straight jacket stunt. He performed a buried alive trick that almost killed him. He appeared in a number of television magic shows, including "The Magic of David Copperfield".
C. J. Henderson
Chris "C.J." Henderson (December 26, 1951 – July 4, 2014) was an American writer. He wrote books of horror and hardboiled crime fiction genres. He also comic books and was influenced by Stan Lee. Henderson was known for creating the Jack Hagee detective series and his supernatural detective Teddy London series.
Henderson died in Brooklyn, New York from cancer, aged 62.
Typhoon Neoguri (2014)