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Band
Slayer
Title
World Painted Blood
Type
LP/EP
Company
American Recordings
YOR
2009
Style
Thrash
3/18/2010 - Review by: Ben McCraw

Slayer
World Painted Blood

Company: American Recordings
Release: 2009
Genre: Thrash
Reviewer: Ben McCraw

  • Good clean family fun



  • Slayer: "World Painted Blood" The dark lords released their fourteenth album last year (if you count Decade of Aggression) and it is undoubtedly one of Slayer's finest; why you ask? This marks their second outing this decade with original drummer Dave Lombardo, who helped create some of the most important metal anthems in history: Raining Blood, Hell Awaits, etc. and his frantic yet calculated style is what gives Slayer records their characteristic "tension". Trademark songs like "Psychopathy Red", and "Unit 731" recall classic eighties-era thrash metal, the sound that Slayer helped to create. More modern elements of their sound such as down-tuned guitars and groove-oriented drums can be heard on "Beauty Through Order" and the albums title track, which describes the Mayan's doomsday predictions for 2012. Kerry King has said in recent interviews that the band was more comfortable working with producer Greg Fidelman on this record than Josh Abraham, who produced 2006's "Christ Illusion" and that kind of creative freedom can be heard all over this record. What you get from "World Painted Blood" is a great mixture of the old and new Slayer styles and a band working at its maximum creative potential. It's good clean family fun, and I would recommend it to any Slayerite.


    • 1 :REVIEW COUNT
      4.5 :AVE RATING

    ALL REVIEWS FOR: SLAYER
    TITLE
    DOR
    COMPANY
    REVIEWER DATE MADE RATING
    Still Reigning
    2004
    American Recordings
    Ken Pierce12/14/2004
    -
    War at the Warfield
    2003
    Universal
    Frank Hill2/22/2004
    -
    World Painted Blood
    2009
    American Recordings
    Ben McCraw3/18/2010
    4.5

    ALL INTERVIEWS FOR: SLAYER
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