Appearances
"Angel of Death" has appeared in several movies, including Gremlins 2; in a scene when the gremlin Mohawk is turning into a spider. It appears in Jackass: The Movie during a car stunt, and features in the 2005 Iraq War documentary Soundtrack to War, which details the role of music on the contemporary battlefield. The half-time riff was sampled by Public Enemy in their 1988 song "She Watch Channel Zero?!", sampled by KMFDM on their 1990 single "Godlike", and featured in the multi-platform video game Tony Hawk's Project 8. Nolan Nelson, who selected the soundtrack for the game asserts the song is "one of the greatest heavy metal songs ever recorded. Don’t know who Slayer is? I feel sorry for you."
A Slayer tribute band called Dead Skin Mask released an album with eight Slayer tracks, "Angel of Death" being one of them. The death metal bands Debauchery and Monstrosity covered the song, and the track was featured on "cello metal" band Apocalyptica's 2006 album Amplified // A Decade of Reinventing the Cello. Sgt. Discharge, a thrash metal band with members from Morbid Saint, has also covered this song. Al Sur del Abismo (Tributo Argentino a Slayer), a Slayer tribute album compiled by Hurling Metal Records, featured sixteen tracks covered by Argentina metal bands, Asinesia covered "Angel of Death". The song was once again covered by deathcore band Carnifex and appears on their third album Hell Chose Me as a bonus track included on the vinyl and iTunes editions.
A compilation album of bands that have been featured in the Ozzfest line-up, of which Slayer have headlined multiple times, features "Angel of Death".
The song recently appears in the British teen drama television series Skins.
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