A new Slayer album doesn’t happen too often. In fact, it has been a laborious five years since the underrated ‘God Hates Us All’ album pummeled our eardrums on that fateful 9-11 day. Sheesh, if ever a band was created to be the perfect soundtrack for airplanes crashing into towers - then Slayer is it! So here we are, several years later and the band’s original (and definitive) line-up have once again joined forces to bring us another slab of Slayer nastiness! With drummer supremo Dave Lombardo back in the ranks, the band is whole again. Since Lomabardo’s departure, the band never really sounded like Slayer - such is his key influence and importance to the Slayer sound. The return of it’s master skinsman, the aforementioned Lombardo, had this particular fanboy chomping at the bit! So I’ve had the album for a day now and have managed several listens and I gots to tell ya, I’m really enjoying this one. The band haven’t sounded this sinister and visceral since the glory days of ‘Reign In Blood’ & ‘South of Heaven’ - the band’s finest moments. The band haven’t abandoned their Satanic overtones, in fact, they glorify them on this album and mix it all up with the almost pro-terrorist track ‘Jihad’ - a song written from the terrorist’s point of view(!) Now isn’t that gonna rile up the skirts of Christian Middle America? Hell yeah! Slayer are at their best when they shove their collective middle finger in the ass of all that is wrong with this world - and this album is sure to piss off all the self-righteous religious scum of the Earth on the eternal quest for their collective ‘good guy badge’. This is clearly Slayer’s finest moment in over a decade - just do not listen to this one when on your next plane trip!
this album fucken rocks got my hands on a pirted copy last night and it fucken rules its not gonna leave my cd player
deffently gonna by the cd when it comes out allways support you bands…………………………………….
SLAYER FUCKIN RULES!!!!
666 MUTHER FUCKERS
I am now listening to Christ Illusion, and let me say, it is definatly worth the 5 year wait we as Slayer fans have encountered….. however seeing a box set, and 2 dvd’s and for those of us lucky enough, a live show, would suffice….. but, dare I say all true Slayer fans will agree, they are nothing life new Slayer material…. good work guys, good to see you are still true to the scene….666
Yes, my mouth is watering, or should I say it’s bleeding, over this release. I actually liked the Paul Bostaph drumming flavour. Even though it wasn’t classic ‘busy’ Slayer drumming of Lombardo, Bostaph was still very intense in a machine-like way. But Lombardo is the shit. Just wondering if you’ll upgrade the album to five stars after a few more listens. For the record, I’d give God Hates Us All four stars. I also think Seasons in the Abyss is excellent and equal to South and Reign, though lacking ‘classic’ status. You can’t top landmark, seminal releases like those!
Good to see you pick up a copy of Terrorizer. It’s still a fine mag and you get a 20-track demo CD with it nowadays. There’s no sign of death metal riding off into the sunset yet, it seems. My friend does hate the way they review bands with female singers. There seems to be a bias against them for some reason.
It gets 5 out of 5 from me. A welcome return to the kings of thrash metal! slayerrrrrrrrrr!!!!
I always get excited when I find out that a new Slayer album is about to be released. They are the best Metal Band ever! After listening to this album several times (10 ), it is easily in my top 3 of all time albums from them. This album proves why they are the best. I enjoyed this album from “Flesh Storm” to “Supremist”. It is just a great album!!!
got chills,great,same ol slayer
FUCKIN WICKED ALBUM…….I NEVER THOUGHT I’D SAY THIS…….BETTER THAN REIGN IN BLOOD……….10000000000%
welcome to reign in blood 2.
chills down my spine each time ive been listening this!Finally back to the source a must just like any slayer cd
Jihad is agressive speedpunk thrash @ it’s best…….TIME TO TEACH THESE 14 YEAR OLDS WHAT SERIOUS SPEED IS.
I have listened to the whole album and I must say that I’m kind of disappointed in the men from Slayer…. Some of the songs are ok, but some of the tracks are definately not a Slayer type of music…. Maybe cause they are getting older it’s harder to play, but I will still buy the album when It comes out on 8/8/06