The Creation (Haydn) of tone painting, perhaps an inspiration to Haydn's own pervasive use of this device in "The Creation". The text of "The Creation" has a long history. The three sources are Genesis, the Biblical book of Psalms, and John Milton's "Paradise Lost". In 1795, when Haydn was leaving England, the impresario Johann Peter Salomon (1745–1815) who had arranged his concerts there handed him a new poem entitled "The Creation of the World". This original had been offered to Handel, but the old master had not worked on it, as its wordiness meant that it would have been 4 hours in length
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