Still Reigning is a live performance DVD by the thrash metal band Slayer, released in 2004 through American Recordings. Filmed at the Augusta Civic Center on July 11, 2004, the performance showcases Reign in Blood (1986), Slayer's third studio album and its first to enter the Billboard 200. The album was played in its entirety with the four original band members on a set resembling their 1986 Reign in Pain Tour. Still Reigning was voted "best live DVD" by the readers of Revolver magazine, and received gold certification in 2005. In the finale, the band is covered in stage blood while performing the song "Raining Blood", leading to a demanding audio mixing process plagued by production and technical difficulties. The DVD's producer Kevin Shirley spent hours replacing cymbal and drum hits one-by-one. Later, Shirley publicly aired his financial disagreements with the band and criticized the quality of the recording.
Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Still_Reigning
_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1846:
British soldier Frederick John White died after a flogging, leading to a campaign to end the practice in the British Army. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Frederick_John_White
1864 :
A riot broke out in Leicester, England, at the failed launching of a hot air balloon (pictured). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leicester_balloon_riot
1928:
Ukrainian archaeologist Ivan Borkovský discovered a medieval skeleton at Prague Castle; competing factions claimed the skeleton as Germanic or Slavic in origin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Castle_skeleton
1936:
New York City's Triborough Bridge, the "biggest traffic machine ever built", opened to traffic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Bridge
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
yessum: 1. (US, dialectal, dated) Used to express agreement with a woman (and, somewhat less commonly, a man): yes, ma'am. 2. (Australia) Alternative form of yes. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yessum
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks. --Harper Lee https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harper_Lee