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[coragem]

parece que o proximo album vai estar um bocado slipknot e death magnetic

[xhavokx]

parece que o proximo album vai estar um bocado slipknot e death magnetic

Foda-se, nem a brincar digas isso!

[coragem]

parece que o proximo album vai estar um bocado slipknot e death magnetic

Foda-se, nem a brincar digas isso!

Tentatively due in early October via American Recordings/Columbia Records, "World Painted Blood" will feature the following track listing:

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

Review em http://music.msn.com/superfans/heavy-me ... ck-review/

Slayer's new album, World Painted Blood, won't be out until October, but some folks have already heard it - and I'm one of 'em. So here is my very early, complete track-by-track rundown of what you can expect when the disc drops this fall.

"World Painted Blood" - the album starts with a martial drum roll and some creepy, hard-to-make-out spoken vocals, before a Sabbathy opening riff comes in. At the one-minute mark, things speed up, with the rhythm guitar sounding more like James Hetfield on Death Magnetic than Slayer's usual sound. (More about this later.) Tom Araya's vocals are hoarse and breathless, which adds a dramatic urgency to his usual lyrical litany of horrors. This song is spiritually kin to "South of Heaven," but faster and more aggressive, with an absolutely killer main riff and a noisy, dive-bombing, reverbed-to-hell-and-back solo backed by unexpectedly prominent bass from Araya. Best line: "Walk among the dead/Pick your grave." If this song has a flaw, it's that it's a little too long (nearly six minutes) and has a few too many ideas, but overall it's a really good start to the album.

"Unit 731" - a super-fast murder anthem of the type Slayer have written a dozen times before and will write until they hang up their guitars for good. Lombardo's still the master of the thrash drum fill, though, and his kit has a punk-rock looseness on this album that makes it fresh. The mix on World Painted Blood is really surprising - not just the drums, but the space given to Araya's bass and the weight of the guitars. Producer Greg Fidelman has given the album a very similar sound to Death Magnetic (which he also produced), but without the blown-out mastering job after the fact; consequently, it works even better for them than it did for Metallica.

"Snuff" - this song begins with two guitar solos. That's new. The title gives it away; it's about snuff filmmaking, and follows a fairly typical Slayer path, fast then slightly slower then back to headlong charging again. Araya's verses are fairly plain, just a rhythmic chant, but he's still in good voice, sounding genuinely enraged and dangerous. There's a second set of guitar solos in the middle, and a really intricate, technical unison guitar line taking the song out. This is one of the most musically challenging Slayer tracks in a long while.

"Beauty Through Order" - moody and doomy, with a riff and structure very (I mean very) similar to "Eyes of the Insane," from Christ Illusion. That song won them a Grammy, so it's not surprising to see them return to the well, but this is practically a re-recording. At around the two and a half minute mark, they change it up, though, and start playing riffs and a solo that sound inspired by Reign in Blood and Seasons in the Abyss in equal measure, as Araya screams "God did not do this" over and over. Obviously, they're Slayer and they're always gonna be, but this song feels like they're plagiarizing themselves a little too much.

"Hate Worldwide" - the second of two songs they've released to teas fans (click the title to hear it). It's one of the most punk-rock and stripped-down tracks on the album, hitting hard for under three minutes with a noisy solo from each guitarist and a witty chorus ("Let's spread a little hate worldwide"). Archetypal Slayer, in other words, but without sounding like a rehash.

"Public Display of Dismemberment" - holy hell, Dave Lombardo plays fast on this song. This might be his fastest beat since "Silent Scream," from South of Heaven. The lyrics are somewhat political, which you might not get from the title. When it's time for the first solo, pre-bridge, things slow down to an ultra-heavy chugga-chugga. The second solo is taken at lightning speed, though. This is another short one - two and a half minutes - and it'll leave fans breathless if/when it's played live.

"Human Strain" - if this was a Cannibal Corpse song, it would be about feeding people into a strainer, but the strain they're talking about is a virus. It's not a rewrite of "Epidemic" from Reign in Blood, though; it's another relatively slow song, taken at an almost martial tempo with parade-ground drumming from Lombardo. There's a really nice break in the middle, with spoken recitation from Araya over dissonant guitar, and some of his cleanest singing in years - if not ever. This, along with "Snuff" and "World Painted Blood," shows that Slayer still has plenty of room for original tweaks to its core sound.

"Americon" - another political song, this one based on a riff that sounds like they've been saving it since the Diabolus in Musica sessions. The guitars go through a pedal that makes them sound like Slipknot, and Lombardo strips his playing down to a crude pummel. It's a good enough song, but it sounds less like what you might typically expect from Slayer than anything since "Dead Skin Mask" from Seasons in the Abyss (my least favorite Slayer song ever). I'm not making a direct comparison between the two songs - "Americon" doesn't have a terrible singalong chorus - but this track sticks out from the rest of the album quite a bit.

"Psychopathy Red" - fortunately, they come right back with this punk-rock (there's even a bass break) blast of pure 1000 mph Slayer hate. This song could have fit right in on Reign in Blood, and producer Fidelman captures that vibe of blind headlong rage perfectly. Araya's screaming sounds positively unhinged. It's no wonder this song's been a sensation since hitting the Internet last year (click the title to hear it, if you haven't).

"Playing with Dolls" - another song that recalls Christ Illusion, but this one reminds me of that album's most striking track (musically and lyrically), "Jihad," so it's a very good thing. The first minute-plus are slow and creepy, but when the drums come in for real and the rhythm guitars begin to grind, it's a whole different story. There are subtle industrial-influenced sound effects in the background that actually add to the hostile, alienating vibe (when I say subtle, I mean subtle; this isn't some Fear Factory b.s.). And the guitar solo actually seems to arise organically out of the main song, a rarity for Slayer.

"Not of This God" - the album's final track combines the speed, power and head-down assaultiveness of "Unit 731" with a bridge that explores groove in the Slipknot-esque manner of "Americon," only better. It's very much a modern Slayer track, combining their perennial strengths with a willingness to try new things, and it takes you out of the album breathless and jacked up on the cocktail of pure aggression that these guys have patented.

Final verdict: A lot of people say Slayer hasn't really been great since Seasons in the Abyss. Those people are wrong. The Paul Bostaph years had a lot to recommend them (Diabolus in Musica is a seriously underrated album), and Christ Illusion showed that Slayer could experiment with dissonance and melody, and kick their own playing and songwriting up a notch when they wanted to. The bandmembers have given a lot of interviews talking about how a lot of this album was written in the studio. Listening to it, you can't tell. That's really impressive. Much the way Metallica's Death Magnetic combined the thrash of their early years with the hard-rock grooves of their 1990s work, World Painted Blood builds on the success of every Slayer album before it. It's not a legacy-polishing effort; it's the next step in a still-ongoing journey. Highly recommended.

[xhavokx]

Não sei bem o que achar da review...

Por um lado parece que fizeram um bom trabalho, nada repetitivo e com algumas coisas novas...
Por outro, pelas palavras e comparações com outras bandas parece-me polido demais para o que se pede de Slayer.

De uma coisa não tenho dúvidas, de certeza que vão resultar em concerto.
A ver vamos...

[Pedrof]

parece que o proximo album vai estar um bocado slipknot e death magnetic

Se vai estar um bocado Death Magnetic ate nem é mau de todo , mas se for um bocado Slipknot é um bocado mau...

[Evoked]

Não gostei nada da Psychopathy Red.

[coragem]

sejamos sinceros..

desde o divine que os Slayer nao fazem um album à Slayer

[Evoked]

Para mim desde o Seasons in the Abyss.

[Ribeiro]

Para mim desde o Seasons in the Abyss.

x2

[Pedrof]

Para mim desde o Seasons in the Abyss.

x2

x3

Embora o God Hate Us All e o Christ Illusion sejam albuns razoaveis, mas nao estao nem de perto, nem de longe ao nivel dos 5 primeiros

[Enigma]

sejamos sinceros..

desde o divine que os Slayer nao fazem um album à Slayer

Agora é que me surpreendeste! Pensei que referisses o South of Heaven (1988), ou no máximo, o Seasons in the Abyss (1990)!

Os últimos dois álbuns estão muito bons, mas concordo quando dizem que não estão ao nível dos 5 primeiros, embora não estejam muito distantes.
Se o próximo for do nível destes últimos, já ficarei bem contente.

[Pedrof]

sejamos sinceros..

desde o divine que os Slayer nao fazem um album à Slayer

Se o próximo for do nível destes últimos, já ficarei bem contente.

x1

Mas confesso que nao tenho muitas esperanças... alias estou mesmo a ver que este novo album vai ser um Diabolus in Musica 2! Espero estar enganado

[coragem]

sejamos sinceros..

desde o divine que os Slayer nao fazem um album à Slayer

Agora é que me surpreendeste! Pensei que referisses o South of Heaven (1988), ou no máximo, o Seasons in the Abyss (1990)!

Os últimos dois álbuns estão muito bons, mas concordo quando dizem que não estão ao nível dos 5 primeiros, embora não estejam muito distantes.
Se o próximo for do nível destes últimos, já ficarei bem contente.

se queres saber
o south, o seasons e o divine ainda se ouvem. mas nem se comparam com os 3 primeiros

[Evoked]

Sim não é dizer que slayer depois do seasons so fez merda, até fez malhas bem porreiras mas pronto é aquela cena, 1 ou 2 boas musicas por cada álbum não faz dele bom.

[Ribeiro]

Para mim desde o Seasons in the Abyss.

x2

x3

Embora o God Hate Us All e o Christ Illusion sejam albuns razoaveis, mas nao estao nem de perto, nem de longe ao nivel dos 5 primeiros

Pa eles nao fazem albuns maus...tipo death Magnetic's e etc etc no meu ver só que já não são é da qualidade de outros tempos

Era bom que cá voltassem em digressão deste novo cd