Slayer - Record Title And Release Date Announced
Official press release:
"Christ Illusion" has been confirmed as the title of the new Slayer album, it has been announced, and the CD's release date is now confirmed for August 8, 2006.
"Christ Illusion" is Slayer's first new studio album since 2001, and the first recorded by the band's original line-up - Kerry King/guitars; Tom Araya/bass, vocals; Jeff Hanneman/guitars; Dave Lombardo/drums - since 1990's "Seasons In The Abyss." "Christ Illusion" was produced by Josh Abraham and executive produced by Rick Rubin, and will be released on Slayer's long-time label, Rubin's American Recordings/Warner Bros. Records.
"Christ Illusion" deals with familiar Slayer themes - god, religion, hate, and war. Song titles are "Flesh Storm," "Catalyst," "Eyes of the Insane," "Jihad," "Skeleton Christ," "Consfearacy," "Black Serenade," " Catatonic," "Cult," and "Supremist." According to Araya, "No one is going to be disappointed, it's going to blow everybody away. It's fast, heavy, and maybe faster than anything we've done before."
"It's a good mix of fast, brutal music and slower moodier stuff, it's pretty intense," added King. "It sounds like a damn Slayer record."
A core player in Slayer's history has also rejoined the team for the "Christ Illusion" project. Larry Carroll, who did the cover artwork for "Reign in Blood," "South of Heaven," and "Seasons In the Abyss," has painted an original piece for the "Christ Illusion" cover. 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. Carroll created the painting on a 4-by-4-foot slab of wood using a combination of mediums. King already has placed dibs on ownership of the original wooden canvas.
Slayer will headline this summer's six-week-plus "Unholy Alliance Tour: Preaching To The Perverted," which features Lamb of God, Children of Bodom, Mastodon, and Thine Eyes Bleed, and kicks off at the Tweeter Center in Camden, NJ next Thursday, June 15.
"Christ Illusion" has been confirmed as the title of the new Slayer album, it has been announced, and the CD's release date is now confirmed for August 8, 2006.
"Christ Illusion" is Slayer's first new studio album since 2001, and the first recorded by the band's original line-up - Kerry King/guitars; Tom Araya/bass, vocals; Jeff Hanneman/guitars; Dave Lombardo/drums - since 1990's "Seasons In The Abyss." "Christ Illusion" was produced by Josh Abraham and executive produced by Rick Rubin, and will be released on Slayer's long-time label, Rubin's American Recordings/Warner Bros. Records.
"Christ Illusion" deals with familiar Slayer themes - god, religion, hate, and war. Song titles are "Flesh Storm," "Catalyst," "Eyes of the Insane," "Jihad," "Skeleton Christ," "Consfearacy," "Black Serenade," " Catatonic," "Cult," and "Supremist." According to Araya, "No one is going to be disappointed, it's going to blow everybody away. It's fast, heavy, and maybe faster than anything we've done before."
"It's a good mix of fast, brutal music and slower moodier stuff, it's pretty intense," added King. "It sounds like a damn Slayer record."
A core player in Slayer's history has also rejoined the team for the "Christ Illusion" project. Larry Carroll, who did the cover artwork for "Reign in Blood," "South of Heaven," and "Seasons In the Abyss," has painted an original piece for the "Christ Illusion" cover. 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. Carroll created the painting on a 4-by-4-foot slab of wood using a combination of mediums. King already has placed dibs on ownership of the original wooden canvas.
Slayer will headline this summer's six-week-plus "Unholy Alliance Tour: Preaching To The Perverted," which features Lamb of God, Children of Bodom, Mastodon, and Thine Eyes Bleed, and kicks off at the Tweeter Center in Camden, NJ next Thursday, June 15.
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| Lucas Mr. Noise Elite Posts: 13427  |
Hope it will kick ass! 
---- SLUDGE. DOOM. DEATH. Wait, what?  "The reason I'm running for president is because I can't be Bruce Springsteen." - Barack Obama
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| Xtreme Jax Psycroptipath Posts: 2322  |
Daves back ... therefore Slayer are back! I doubt that it will be the fastest that they've done as Tom said, but hopefully it will sound like the old Slayer. I dont mind the newer releases but the old rules outright. Im sure i wont be dissappointed ... I very anxious about the release, even though the album title doesnt impress me much.  SLAYER!! 
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| Daru Jericho Posts: 2098  |
I look forward to it.
---- Aborted Misanthropic Smurf Puppy On Acid.
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| Stigmatized .......... Posts: 3820  |
Wow, dumb cover idea and album title. Hope the music is good.
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| Clintagräm Shrinebuilder Posts: 5773  |
I am the only one who thinks this is classic Slayer? Quit crying guys. It's fucking Slayer. At least they're back.
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| Syk myspace/bonerama Posts: 1504  |
Horle, I think it's cos King had a deal with them for his & Slayer's lines of T-shirts. I do agree though, it's not really befitting a band like this (same goes for Deicide's release for Apple "Whoreslut" iTunes)
---- death ? thrash ? death/doom/prog ? Hail Zoldon! he's not the kind you have to [url=../bands/album.php?album_id=28982]wind up[/url] on Sundays
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071  |
Written by [user id=2084] on 12.06.2006 at 17:25 Hot Topic might be commercial but releasing it in only 5,000 copies sure as hell isn't commercial.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996 
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| Lucas Mr. Noise Elite Posts: 13427 |
@danzig111, why don't you just wait before you judge?
---- SLUDGE. DOOM. DEATH. Wait, what? "The reason I'm running for president is because I can't be Bruce Springsteen." - Barack Obama
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| Thryce Retired Staff Elite Posts: 4346  |
Because danzig111 likes to judge things he doesn't know anything about except for prejudices... :  (refering to his "knowledge" of Alternative and Nu Metal and Metalcore)
---- Your favorite band sucks.
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071 |
funny that people keep on syaing that siince Dave is back it will be better than their previous releases because as far as I remember Dave has written almost none of the classic Slayer stuff. Dave is an awesome drummer I agree but so is Paul Bastoph (who of course recorded with them) and Tony Scaglione who toured with them. I wodner what the new stuff will be like. What I've heard I like it a lot, btu then again I am also a fan of their newer material like on God Hates Us All (NO that is NOT nu-metal) Divine Intervention, Diabolus in Musica and especially their Undisputed Attitude cover album consisting of great hardcore and punk covers and an awesome own song.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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