Album Review: Slayer – World Painted Blood
Posted on 10.23.09 to Album Review by JD
Almost four years after their 2006’s Christ Illusion,the mighty Slayer is back with World Painted Blood
World Painted Blood features Greg Fidelman on production, while Rick Rubin handled the executive production. It’s worth noting that both of them worked on Metallica’s Death Magnetic a little over a year ago, only under slightly different roles. Should we be worried already? Then again, both Psychopathy Red and Hate Worldwide have been around for a while now, and those don’t sound like anything else other than Slayer.
World Painted Blood, the title track, is a good way to start the record, just try to make it through it’s lengthy intro.
As soon as intro for Unit 731 kicks in, it’s safe to assume that the band is taking it up a notch. I wonder if they noticed that the part after the solo sounds almost too much like that intro from Reign in Blood though.
Wait a minute…is that actual singing I hear on Beauty Through Order? To say it’s rare to hear Tom Araya sing would be an understatement. He manages to give it a creepy touch that makes it the more fitting to the band’s sound. Don’t think the first part of the song lays the ground for the whole thing. The track’s all over the place.
Right after that we’re hit with Hate Worldwide. Not much too say about this one other than it’s classic Slayer. It’s a no frills, lightning fast kick in the groin.
I love this band for songs like Psychopathy Red. It’s insanely fast and aggressive, and it’s packed with plenty of great riffs. The punky break before the second chorus and the ending are definitely some of the song’s highlights. Kudos to Tom Araya for the vocal work at the end of the track.
And then there’s more singing on the slower Playing with Dolls. Again it’s a good deliver, it fits the band’s sound nicely.
For the record’s ending, on Not of This God the band mixed it up adding some low tuned guitars to their usual arsenal. It isn’t apparent at first but the thundering low end can be clearly appreciated after the break in the middle of the song.
Like the music on the album album, lyrics on World Painted Blood are consistent with the rest of Slayer’s catalog. It’s all about blood, death, greed, disease, etc.
For Slayer the word of the day is, and has always been, consistency. Sure they don’t stray too far from their signature moves, but as long as the ass kicking remains a key element in their formula, the quality of their music is assured.
World Painted Blood will hit the stores on November 3rd.
The record’s tracklist is as follows:
World Painted Blood
Unit 731
Snuff
Beauty Through Order
Hate Worldwide
Public Display of Dismemberment
Human Strain
Americon
Psychopathy Red
Playing with Dolls
Not of This God
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