Dogmatic

Ah the good ole US of A. Fighting for ‘freedom’ in Iraq yet their own country is turning into a warped Christian Taliban. Many retailers throughout ‘the land of the free’ are refusing to carry the forthcoming new Slayer opus ‘Christ Illusion’ unless the cover is censored.

Larry Carroll, who did the cover artwork for Slayer’s ‘Reign in Blood’, ‘South of Heaven’, and ‘Seasons In the Abyss’ album, painted the original piece for the ‘Christ Illusion’ cover also. Working only from the song titles and early lyrics, Carroll has produced a classic Slayer masterpiece — a portrait of the Christ whose forearms have been chopped off, standing in an ocean of blood surrounded by floating, decapitated heads. (Now what in hell is offensive about that?) Carroll created the painting on a 4-by-4-foot slab of wood using a combination of mediums. Slayer guitarist Kerry King already has placed dibs on ownership of the original wooden canvas.