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\nSLAYER are set to release limited edition white vinyl pressings of their early efforts, \u201cHaunting The Chapel”, \u201cLive Undead”, \u201cShow No Mercy\u201d and \u201cHell Awaits”. 500 copies of each are being pressed with details available HERE<\/a>.
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\nREPENTLESS IS A DECLARATION: THERE WILL BE NO COMPROMISE<\/p>\n
Slayer, the long-reigning titans of thrash, returns with Repentless, the band\u2019s 11th studio album and its first album for Nuclear Blast. Produced by Terry Date, Repentless was written and recorded by guitarist Kerry King and singer\/bassist Tom Araya at Henson Studios in Los Angeles, along with returning drummer Paul Bostaph and guitarist Gary Holt. Repentless is crushing and brutal, steadfastly refusing to cater to the mainstream.
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\nThree and a half decades into its career, Slayer remains the preeminent punk-thrash band that helped establish the genre and that up-and-coming metal heads continue to revere and emulate. Slayer is a five-time nominated, two-time Grammy Award-winning metal juggernaut that writes songs which mirror the turmoil and aberrations of our society. Repentless, the band\u2019s first new album in six years, continues the Slaytanic offensive with a twelve-song, blood-shaking sonic attack. Repentless is dark, fast, aggressive and without mercy. It was also the most challenging record Slayer has ever had to make. <\/p>\n
In 2013 the world mourned the loss of guitarist Jeff Hanneman who died from complications following a two-year illness. A co-founder of Slayer, losing Jeff was very difficult for the band. During Jeff\u2019s illness, friend of the band, guitarist Holt stepped in to help out on tour with Jeff\u2019s blessing and stayed on. Around that time, drummer Dave Lombardo exited the band for the third time and Paul Bostaph, (who played with the band from 1992 \u2013 2001), returned to take over the throne. Slayer never skipped a beat and since Holt and Bostaph both played in Exodus, it was all-in-the-thrash-family. <\/p>\n
But it didn\u2019t come easily. As guitarist and Slayer co-founder Kerry King puts it, \u201cI remember the day that Jeff died. It was the day of the Revolver Golden Gods Awards. We knew he\u2019d been sick but nobody expected it to be so quick. I assumed I\u2019d be able to go out there and see him after I got done with whatever business I had to do and that day never came.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe went out and toured afterwards to see how we felt about it. That\u2019s what you do as a musician: you either go out and tour or you stop working. Even though we\u2019d been touring for two years without Jeff, thinking he was going to come back, now there was finality to it. And the thing with Gary was that we were all friends. Exodus was the first band we\u2019d ever met that became our friends immediately and we stayed friends throughout the years. Gary is just a guitar dynamo and he was the guy.\u201d <\/p>\n
Tom Araya agrees. \u201cJeff would want us to continue. I\u2019d think that if something were to happen to someone else in the band, whoever it was would feel the same way. Just get on with it. Gary\u2019s a friend, a friend of Jeff\u2019s, he knew what was going on and he wanted to help in any way he could, so Gary made Slayer a comfortable place to be. Having Paul back was also a comforting feeling. He\u2019s a former member and that\u2019s the best thing about it. It wasn\u2019t some other guy. Having Paul and Gary made everything a little easier to handle. It\u2019s about the band. Slayer was a big thing for Jeff, and so I\u2019m looking at it in that sense. It was his baby, too. And we hope we\u2019ve done Slayer and him justice.\u201d<\/p>\n
King said that Slayer still had to test the water. \u201cNow we were out to see if it made sense to continue, to see if we liked it, to see if the band still enjoyed it. And the way I looked at it was: if it wasn\u2019t this, it was going to be something that sounded exactly like this, so why not continue doing this? It\u2019s super-potent. We\u2019re really tight right now and we\u2019re stoked that we\u2019re still doing it. Once we had that under our belts we started thinking about a record and never looked back.\u201d SLAYER are set to release limited edition white vinyl pressings of their early efforts, \u201cHaunting…<\/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-53811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53811","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=53811"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53815,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53811\/revisions\/53815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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