The house lights came up on the loudest room in Los Angeles and the band that has never once apologised had to ask for quiet. Slayer stopped their show at the Kia Forum on 14 November, roughly eight songs in, after part of the crowd started taking the building apart.
It was the second of two sold out nights for the fortieth anniversary of Reign In Blood. Tom Araya addressed the room from the stage. "Quiet. I just need your attention, alright?" he began, and told them he had held this conversation before, when the band first started playing in huge places: you have to maintain yourself, you cannot start destroying things, because they will shut it down.
The crowd booed him. "No, I don't want to hear 'ooooo'," he said. "Listen, if you guys want to have fun, you have fun right here in front of us, in the middle of the area where there's nothing you can destroy, except each other." He added that the fire marshals were in the building for the audience's safety, and that the pause was theirs: "So the fire marshal said we're gonna pause. We're gonna pause until you guys get your act together, okay?"
He finished with the part that will travel. "There's no one to blame but you, and you know who I'm talking about. Not these people in the front, not them, not them." The band came back and played Reign In Blood to the end.