SLAYER Announcement

The brand new, twelfth SLAYER studio album, REPENTLESS, out September 11, 2015 (worldwide) via Nuclear Blast Records.

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[jayman]

I stood for 18 hours at Rock Allegiance and it was the best show EVER... Thank you Slayer

[harshysquarts]

This means that the new album is gonna knock shit down!!! Fuckin awesome! !

[raccooneyes]

Won't be the same without Jeff but I'm still excited to hear new SLAYER!!

[tsbirthdeath]

I have been a SLAYER fan, a DIE HARD, maniacal (and in my youth my worship was even seen as "scary") since 1991, and was even able to see the band on the Clash Of The Titans tour, which was the single moment that changed my life and opened the path to the journey that I still to this day tread, now nearly in my 40's.

Up until "Diabolus In Musica", in my eyes, before that album was released, SLAYER were untouchable. SLAYER were the METAL Gods. Even through the explosions of both the Extreme/Brutal Death Metal/Grindcore and 2nd wave Black Metal explosions of the early to mid 90's that were a major part of MY and many other's lives as well, and still are to this day, SLAYER were always THE band. The ones who would never "sell out". Who were still willing to push the limits and envelope for what was "acceptable" and extreme. I was fortunate enough to see the band pre-"Divine Intervention" when they played the Milwaukee Metalfest in 1994, and blew away EVERY band on either stage that weekend, from MORBID ANGEL to CANNIBAL CORPSE to OVERKILL and everything in between. The impact of seeing them "return" after such a seemingly long hiatus and seeing/hearing/FEELING one of the new songs live, "Mind control", proved to EVERYONE that SLAYER were atop the throne of Metal, and there was no one able to dethrone them.

After "Divine Intervention" was released that September, they took to the road and destroyed on the "Divine Intourvention" tour of 94/95, even though Hanneman was clearly not in top shape. He walked off the stage for EVERY show when they played "Sex.Murder.Art." (seen even on the "Live Intrusion" VHS/DVD)  because he could not play it due to his worsening pain in his arm and joints, a fact that even Robb Flynn pointed out after Hanneman's death. But, the band was STILL hungry, and nearly EVERY publication at the time was calling the album "Reign In Blood Pt. 2".

With the band being sickened by garbage such as GREEN DAY and THE OFFSPRING calling themselves punk, the scheduled cover album originally titled "Selected And Exhumed", was eventually renamed "Undisputed Attitude" and instead of featuring cover tracks by their influences from BLACK SABBATH, JUDAS PRIEST, DEEP PURPLE etc mixed alongside with their Punk/Hardcore influences such as MINOR THREAT, DRI, VERBAL ABUSE etc, they felt that the rage coming from their pissed off view of the Punk/Hardcore POSERS of GREEN DAY etc, that the album should be Punk/HC ONLY, to not only prove a point that what was being called "Punk/HC" was NOT, but also becaus that reawakened a FURY in them that was seen when they took the stage live in 96 on the "Undisputed Attitude Tour". The show that I attended this tour was hands down the most ALIVE, EXTREME and VICIOUS performance I had EVER seen the band perform BEFORE, or AFTER that night.

When "Diabolus In Musica" was released in June 98, that was the first time that I could not believe my ears and was sickened by the ONE band I would have bet my life on as far as never NEVER "Selling out" and bowing to the corporate music machine. Though songs such as "Bitter Piece", "Perversions Of Pain", "Point" and one or 2 others were great, the other half of the album was ATROCIOUS, and even tread into the territory of the bands considered the enemy to those of us in the Extreme Metal Underground such as KORN and DEFTONES etc. I tried to give them benefit of the doubt, but when they pushed "Stain Of Mind" and "Love To Hate" to EVERY sampler/magazine etc as the MAIN single of the album (the band even uploaded a 1 minute snippet of the track via their original website in early 98 before released) it displayed for the first time in all of my years of worship, that the one true band I NEVER thought would betray not only ME and their TRUE legion of fans, but also THEMSELVES, I realized that the band that helped to shape my existence due to their unwavering PURITY, had finally succumbed, if only partially, the to enemy, and the corporate machine.

Things were only made that much worse when the band released the atrocious "Gods Hates Us All" which showed the band this time emulating the pathetic, gimmick joke band SLIPKNOT. The band playing on this album, is NOT the same band that recorded "Hell Awaits" (regardless or not if Bostaph was not on "Hell...", the main songwriters were on both), but rather a band LOST, and trying to stay viable amongst a world that was changing. This was the time when I saw the crowds of SLAYER fans at a show morph into the lowest common denominator. When the band used to be famous for the Donohue or Geraldo episode "5 Out Of 5 Kids Who Kill Listen To SLAYER", the crowd went from extreme and truly violent and dedicated individuals, to being made up of baggy pant wearing NON Metal fans who latched onto the band after the band's fall from grace. No longer were maniacs with long hair, skinned heads and even spiked mohawks in leather/denim jackets covered in patches, jack boots, spikes, chains and bullet belts the "average" fan at a SLAYER show. These new fans emulating a look more accustom to garbage such as KORN and LIMP BISKIT were not the "average" at a SLAYER show. Whether the band realized this, or even CARED, is a non issue at this point in time.

When Lombardo was welcomed back into the fold, the band go their shit almost entirely back together and created "Christ Illusion", and to make things quick from this point, the band returned to the SLAYER that i knew and loved, or much closer to that band, than in the last DECADE at this point in 2006.

"World Painted Blood" was another success and proved that the band was still ready for war, and though never going to match the power and energy of the original classics that laid the foundations and legacy of the band, but still able to create music that is undeniably SLAYER.

Now, from all of this written above, all that i have to say about the future of SLAYER, is that the SECOND that Jeff Hanneman died, SLAYER died as well. Lombardo was absolute one of the main ingredients to the SOUL of SLAYER as well, however, Hanneman was one of the FOUNDATIONS of this band.... of this ENTITY. For Araya and especially King to continue on with the band, regardless of how average of a SLAYER album (on the partial facade) they will produce, NO ONE, not old school fan such as I through to someone just discovering the band today, should expect anything, nor go into this album expecting anything that is worth debating. The fact of the matter is, the band is no longer a "band". For the current members, it is a CAREER. It is their financial stability. For someone such as King, it is the food for his ego, and one that he cannot sustain without. And though it is sad to see the band that in my childhood meant so much to me, and changed my life and laid the foundation for the path that I am on today, come to this point in their existence, And on that, for those who chose to actually read this all of this, know that the band releasing "Repentless" is NOT SLAYER. SLAYER died on May 2, 2013.

S.L.A.Y.E.R. - SLAYER

[Coloradiohead]

i heard repentless was a song that hanneman was working on before he died and so they used it as a tribute to him and as for 9-11 being the release date, i think they've used that date every time they have a new album since the real McCoy 9-11

[waynekeer]

The problem with these guys is not knowing when to retire. No Hanneman and Lombardo = No Slayer

[Michael_Michaels]

So... the new album name is Repentless and comes out on 9/11?

[GoopVideos]

God hates us all was released on September 11, 2001 I'm sure it was a complete coincidence there's no way they could've known albums come out on Tuesdays and that's just what happened but they did it on purpose this time either way it's probably going to be a really good album anyway

[andu]

SLAAYYYEEER!
Seriously, I assume the album will suck as much as GHUA.
But I hope I can see them on tour and finally cut my hair.

[xSMOKExEMxALLx]

Not out till Sept, wtf? oh well theres a new Fear Factory that I'll have to tide me over until Sept ;)

[seanwillis]

i have a feeling this is going to knock the fuck out of us. Be prepared for a battering.

[rac]

Not getting too excited yet. Hope this goes well but not too sure without Jeff and Lombardo.

[Dentros]

No Hanneman, no Lombardo.  Missing the best writer in the band, and the godfather of double bass, I don't see this going anywhere.  Too bad too, old school slayer was amazing.

[JEKAZOL]

Duh! Yes it looks like the album title. Take a fucking hint.

[WeaMag]

What are the names of the new members? The guitarist and drummer.