Slayer's tenth studio album available 11/3/09


Track Listing:

01. World Painted Blood
02. Unit 731
03. Snuff
04. Beauty Through Order
05. Hate Worldwide
06. Public Displays of Dismemberment
07. Human Strain
08. Americon
09. Psychopathy Red
10. Playing With Dolls
11. Not of This God

SLAYER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

I might want to pick up this one for my birthday on the day after Thanksgiving, along with 'Endgame' by Megadeth!!!!

I loved Slayer's new "Blood". The riffs have an old school thrash/death metal thing to them.

My favorites are "Snuff" and "Hate Worldwide".

Album Review - SLAYER's 'World Painted Blood' a Solid Release
Posted Friday, November 20, 2009
By: Jonathan Barkan

Slayer is back, three years after "Christ Illusion" and almost 25 years after one of their masterpieces, "Reign in Blood". Considering that these guys have been going strong for almost 30 years, it's impressive that they are still putting out solid material.

"World Painted Blood" is a testament to that statement.




The album starts with the title track, "World Painted Blood". The song is a blast into frenzied, familiar Slayer territory. Lyrically dark and violent, this song is a mix of thrash and mid-tempo speeds, making for a very fun headbanger.

The rest of the album, with the exception of a few songs, follows this pattern. A great thing about each song is that there is no f**king around. Once the song starts, there is no let up and the majority of each song doesn't go past four minutes.



The production for the album is overall of very high quality.


The drums sound articulate with each kick drum hit having a solid thump behind it.

Cymbals are mixed in nicely and have a crisp top end.

The guitars are very defined and noticeably different sounding yet complimenting each other perfectly.

The bass could stand to be a bit more present but the overall album has a solid low end.

The vocals are obviously clearly recorded but could stand to be just a little bit more in the mix.



I found myself straining to understand what Araya was saying. Little things here and there throughout the songs give the album a nice "raw" feeling (hearing the drum sticks set down on a drum at the end of "World Painted Blood" is an example).




If you like previous Slayer releases, you are going to like "World Painted Blood". The songs have a frenzied "grab you by your throat" feel.

The solo trade offs between Hanneman and King have airs of Kirk Hammett and Dimebag Darrell. Some of the most interesting songs on this album are also the ones that fit the least.

"Human Strain" has a very Gothenburg sound while "Americon" sounds like it would fit rather neatly onto a Static-X album.

"Playing With Dolls" has the feel of a black metal song and sports some rather gruesome lyrics.



"World Painted Blood" has a very solid production but the songs tend to be somewhat indistinguishable from each other with a few exceptions ("Human Strain" and "Playing With Dolls").


Overall, a strong Slayer release.

Rating - 4/5

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