# Raining Blood guitar solo > Kerry King, Jeff Hanneman's guitar solo on Raining Blood by Slayer (1986) starts at about 1:58. From the album Reign in Blood. Canonical URL: Slayer, 1986, from *Reign in Blood*. Solo by *Kerry King, Jeff Hanneman*. The solos arrive in a frantic burst before the album collapses into rain and feedback. Raining Blood closes Reign in Blood with a riff built on dread, and the solos land like a sudden storm. After the ominous, pounding intro and the band's headlong charge, Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman unload a short, frantic burst of leads, full of fast tremolo picking and wild, careering notes that seem barely held together. The solos do not linger or build; they erupt and vanish, and then the song collapses into the sound of rain, thunder and feedback. It is one of thrash metal's great endings. Listen for how brief and violent the solo section is compared with the long build-up, and notice how the final collapse turns the chaos into eerie silence. Raining Blood by Slayer is ranked #534 in our consensus of 80 guitar-solo lists. The solo is played by Kerry King, Jeff Hanneman and the song was released in 1986. It appears on 1 lists, placing as high as #76 (Guitar Solo Legends). ## In our lists - [The 25 Greatest Thrash Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/thrash/) — #9 - [The Best Slayer Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/slayer-guitar-solos/) — #1 - [Top 20 Guitar Solos of 1986](https://greatestsolos.com/list/best-guitar-solos-1986/) — #12 ## Sources - [Guitar Solo Legends: The 100 Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time — Ranked (2026)](https://guitarsololegends.com/) — #76 ### Who played the guitar solo on Raining Blood? Kerry King, Jeff Hanneman played the solo on Slayer's Raining Blood (1986). ### Where does Raining Blood rank among the greatest guitar solos? #534 in the GreatestSolos consensus of 80 published lists; it appears on 1 of them. --- GreatestSolos ranks the greatest guitar solos by consensus across published lists. Agent guide: [llms.txt](https://greatestsolos.com/llms.txt) · [Sitemap](https://greatestsolos.com/sitemap.xml) · [Dataset (CSV)](https://greatestsolos.com/data/greatest-guitar-solos.csv) · [How we rank](https://greatestsolos.com/method/)