{"id":11320,"date":"2009-12-04T09:01:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T14:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=11320"},"modified":"2009-12-04T09:01:27","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T14:01:27","slug":"slayer-gets-fourth-grammy-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=11320","title":{"rendered":"SLAYER &#8211; Gets Fourth Grammy Nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i3.photobucket.com\/albums\/y55\/RSCODY\/slayer300.jpg\" alt=\"t\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i66.photobucket.com\/albums\/h259\/rsid999\/tmdcom.jpg\" alt=\"tmd\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nDen Headz, this is the mighty SLAYER&#8217;s fourth Grammy nod in the Best Metal Performance category, this one coming for the track &#8220;Hate Worldwide,&#8221; off of the band&#8217;s new album World Painted Blood, which offers a Slayer-ized viewpoint of our world &#8211; God&#8217;s terrifying global genocide, the chaos of our broken political system, the way-too-close proximity of world horrors that technology has brought us, and a chilling hypothesis of how the rest of the world might view America. &#8220;Hate Worldwide,&#8221; written by King, showcases classic Slayer hate-fueled venom spewed forth at impossible speeds &#8211; &#8220;That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s become my obsession\/To treat God like an infection\/My scars, insane\/My life, profane\/I deny, defy, and spread a little hate worldwide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Released November 2, World Painted Blood has received raves from retail: the album debuted at #12 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums charts; radio: after multiple weeks at #1 on all of the major metal radio charts, the album says farewell to 2009 still firmly embedded in that #1 position; and press: according to one media outlet, World Painted Blood &#8220;recaptures the manic fury of Reign in Blood, the range of South of Heaven, and the grand scale of Seasons in the Abyss.&#8221; In addition, the album was a Top Ten debut in numerous countries outside the U.S., including Germany, Australia, Japan, and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Nominated for a Grammy three previous times in the Best Metal Performance category, Slayer has taken the award home twice &#8211; in 2006 for &#8220;Eyes of the Insane,&#8221; from Christ Illusion, and in 2007 for &#8220;Final Six,&#8221; from the Christ Illusion Limited Edition release. The band&#8217;s first Grammy nomination came in 2002 for the track &#8220;Disciple&#8221; from the album God Hates Us All.<\/p>\n<p>Slayer will kick off Twenty-Ten co-headlining the North American American Carnage tour, marking the first time that Slayer and Megadeth have shared a U.S. stage since 1991&#8217;s epic &#8220;Clash of the Titans&#8221; tour. The 26-date trek kicks off January 18 in Seattle, WA.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slayer.net\/us\/orderwpb\">http:\/\/www.slayer.net\/<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Den Headz, this is the mighty SLAYER&#8217;s fourth Grammy nod in the Best Metal Performance&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}