The Seasons (Haydn) France or French people; Haydn in fact had friendly relationships with French musicians (see, e.g. Paris symphonies). Rather, Haydn was probably referring to an earlier attempt by van Swieten to persuade him to set the croaking of the frogs by showing him a work by the French composer André Grétry that likewise included frog-croaking. Although the work has always attracted far less attention than "The Creation", it nonetheless has been strongly appreciated by critics. Charles Rosen calls both oratorios "among the greatest works of the century", but judges "The Seasons" to be the musically more successful of the two. Daniel
Seasons in the Abyss substantial airplay on MTV's now-defunct "Headbangers Ball". "Seasons in the Abyss" features Slayer's first music video, filmed at the Giza Plateau in Giza, Egypt . The album received generally positive reviews by critics. AllMusic's Steve Huey said that it "brought back some of the pounding speed of "Reign in Blood" for their third major-label album", and addressed it to be "their most accessible album, displaying the full range of their abilities all in one place, with sharp, clean production". Huey later wrote that the album "paints Reagan-era America as a cesspool of corruption and cruelty, and the music is as