Slayer Writing New Album

Slayer have confirmed that the band are busy writing a brand new album, to follow their tenth album "World Painted Blood" in 2009.

The confirmation came from drummer Dave Lombardo over Twitter, who said:

Sadly, information stopped short there and there is no indication about when to expect the final product, what it might be called or who will record it.

News of a new record is not entirely unexpected. The band were due to start work on their next release when guitarist Jeff Hanneman contracted a flesh-eating disease from a spider bite in February, which prompted the band to say that preparation for the new album would be postponed.

"There's no way we'd go into a studio without him," declared singer Tom Araya at the time. "We require his musical skills, his writing skills … He's an integral part of the band. So we're going to hold off until he's at 100 percent and can join that process and be part of it."

In other Slayer news, the band recently confirmed they would perform their flagship album "Reign In Blood" in full in London next May as part of the ATP I'll Be Your Mirror festival. The event will mark 25 years since the album was first released.

Phil Anselmo of Pantera gave praise to the classic album earlier this month, recalling the impact it had on metal in 1986: "There wasn't a single show I'd go to where "Reign In Blood" wasn't the talk of the night. It killed everything else even considered heavy."

Comments

[SuicidalFreak]

A new Slayer album should kick so much ass. I'm glad they're not doing it without Jeff. It would just be crazy.

[Pagan_Poetry]

If they recorded without Jeff, I'm sure their guilt would eat away at them.

Terrible joke. Sorry. I'm not huge on Slayer anymore but I grew up with them and am looking forward to this final album, whenever it comes out.

[Mcjimmy]

Doing the album without Jeff would have been a huge mistake, he's the second biggest reason to listen to Slayer. Lombardo being first.

[Duke_Lukem]

Slayer haven't had a good album since... Oh wait.

[cory_i]

SLAYERRRRR

[eloera1]

Every album is the same, same riffs, same solos, same style, they never expanded their creativity. For their trash metal theyr good but other than that thers not much to expect. The word blood will prolly be somewhere in the name lol

[stondagain]

E5 & B flat better start warming up.

[dopelope]

SHOW NO MERCY is the only Slayer album I will ever need.
SLAYER!!!!!

[Iamtdawg]

Yes!!!!!

[hardrocker64]

kickass!!!!

[Starmaker]

Lou Reed + Slayer, anyone?

[metallicamadmik]

First Metallica, now Slayer...could they please play full albums somewhere closer, like somewhere in the f***ing USA????

[motortallica]

anthrax release worship music, megadeth release 13, slayer release this. METALLICA!!! MOVE YOUR ASS!!!!! LULU DOESNT COUNT!!!!

[fav13andac1)c]

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I'm sure it'll sound something like that ^

[Abacus11]

I hope they can bounce back after "World Painted Blood". I thought it was their weakest album in a long time.

[Deified]

Flesh eating virus has got to be up there for most bizarre reasons an album has been postponed.

[SUICIDEXX666]

FUCK YEAH SLAYERRRRR IS BACK WITH NEW MATERIAL HOPE JEFF IS DOING OK I MISS HIM WHEN I SAW SLAYER

[Basti95]

SLAYAAAHHH f*ck yeah.

[Metal_Mesh]

Hell yeah! But please make it more like "Christ Illusion" than "World Painted Blood".

[moparhead]

Metal_Mesh wrote:

Hell yeah! But please make it more like "Christ Illusion" than "World Painted Blood".

and again someone controversy

[KerNeL_KLuTcH]

fav13andac1)c wrote:

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I'm sure it'll sound something like that ^

at 200 bpm

[AngelEyesRipper]

nice

[ImagineTheThorn]

metallicamadmik wrote:

First Metallica, now Slayer...could they please play full albums somewhere closer, like somewhere in the f***ing USA????

I saw Megadeth play Rust In Peace in it's entirety and Slayer played Seasons In The Abyss in it's entirety when they did the American Carnage tour in 2010. Where have you been?

[ChucklesMginty]

Starmaker wrote:

Lou Reed + Slayer, anyone?

Slayreed - Table of Death.

[dopelope]

I'll be surprised if any of you posers even know what Show No Mercy is. With all these request for Lou Reed and to make the new album sound like their recent stuff..... Pathetic.

[trivium_4_eva]

Wasn't the 25th anniversary of Reign in Blood last month?

[test1cles]

ChucklesMginty wrote:

Starmaker wrote:

Lou Reed + Slayer, anyone?

Slayreed - BloodyTable of Death.

[axeldarkman420]

Sweet.

[IRONxPANTERA]

Eh....I'll just pass this one up =)

[atomic667]

SSSSSLLLLLAAAAAYYYYYEEEEERRRRR

[atomic667]

dopelope wrote:

I'll be surprised if any of you posers even know what Show No Mercy is. With all these request for Lou Reed and to make the new album sound like their recent stuff..... Pathetic.

Actually i take all these Lou Reed comments as jokes, and yes i have Show No Mercy. On CD, not downloaded like 60% of the world...

[SomeMetalLover]

motortallica wrote:

anthrax release worship music, megadeth release 13, slayer release this. METALLICA!!! MOVE YOUR ASS!!!!! LULU DOESNT COUNT!!!!

ehm.... that lulu record is a TOTAL DIFFERENT GENRE. So it is not necessary to mention that album. Get it? So go on and play boooooring riffs like slayer and oh yeah! remove the a,d,g,b,e strings and use only the low e string

[j-walk]

ImagineTheThorn wrote:

metallicamadmik wrote:

First Metallica, now Slayer...could they please play full albums somewhere closer, like somewhere in the f***ing USA????


I saw Megadeth play Rust In Peace in it's entirety and Slayer played Seasons In The Abyss in it's entirety when they did the American Carnage tour in 2010. Where have you been?

Yeah I saw the same tour in halifax Ns. Also in 04 I saw slayer play the reign in blood album in its entirety. Also Damageplan opened up so I can say I saw Dime play.

[DarkieBC]

I saw Slayer for the first time in March and i didn't like them much but after see those monsters live i just went crazy, i love them now. I didn't knew much of their songs and listening to Season in the Abyss live definitly made me a fan. Slayer are awesome \m/
These are great news!

[CoolMcAwesome]

eloera1 wrote:

Every album is the same, same riffs, same solos, same style, they never expanded their creativity. For their trash metal theyr good but other than that thers not much to expect. The word blood will prolly be somewhere in the name lol

agreed, but this is EXACTLY what makes Slayer so great! You buy new Slayer album, what are you going to get? ****ing SLAYER!!

[darkdevout]

motortallica wrote:

anthrax release worship music, megadeth release 13, slayer release this. METALLICA!!! MOVE YOUR ASS!!!!! LULU DOESNT COUNT!!!!

Metallica is making a new album a true successor to DT, I hope, haha watch it be a St.Anger 2 just to piss us of, literally call it St. Anger 2 and copy and paste the first St. anger into it.

[swave75]

Awesome awesome awesome!!!!

[RUSTDOGG666]

This is awesome to hear that they are going to keep going because they said that world painted blood was going to be their last. That's why it came out so quick cause they wanted to get it over with. I hope they keep releasing albums and never stop.

[punxnotdead77]

Deified wrote:

Flesh eating virus has got to be up there for most bizarre reasons an album has been postponed.

Flesh eating virus has got to be a good idea for a Slayer song.

[leohimself]

double pedal to the metal! yeah! oh wait... that actually sucks.

[nightruler666]

motortallica wrote:

anthrax release worship music, megadeth release 13, slayer release this. METALLICA!!! MOVE YOUR ASS!!!!! LULU DOESNT COUNT!!!!

metallica is writing for the next album also

[Necrotise]

eloera1 wrote:

Every album is the same, same riffs, same solos, same style, they never expanded their creativity.

And that why their fans love them, they never sold out, they never experimented too much. You know what to expect when you buy a Slayer album and you either love that or you dont. Clearly you fall into the latter category but their fans fall into the first.

[LeakyFlask]

You've got to hand it to Hanneman. A flesh eating virus, contracted from a SPIDER BITE no less, is the most metal illness ever. Tons of people play metal, but how many people are metal medically?

[AngelWolf]

SomeMetalLover wrote:

motortallica wrote:

anthrax release worship music, megadeth release 13, slayer release this. METALLICA!!! MOVE YOUR ASS!!!!! LULU DOESNT COUNT!!!!



ehm.... that lulu record is a TOTAL DIFFERENT GENRE. So it is not necessary to mention that album. Get it? So go on and play boooooring riffs like slayer and oh yeah! remove the a,d,g,b,e strings and use only the low e string

you know.. the style of thrash has palm muted notes on the e string mainly. thats the style. yout saying its boring but you also mean it doesnt change.. but you can say that about any style of playing. its like whinning about how boring blues is because it uses the same format in every song. or how acdc have used the same chords for 30 years. but if you listen to everything thats mentioned every single song maybe using the same this that or the other but music is music theres only 11 notes.. and a band playing one style of music for 30 years is gunna have a similar format during songs.

[sewoo55]

LeakyFlask wrote:

You've got to hand it to Hanneman. A flesh eating virus, contracted from a SPIDER BITE no less, is the most metal illness ever. Tons of people play metal, but how many people are metal medically?

Tom Araya has a metal plate in his neck to prevent him from headbanging. Which makes him more of a metalhead

[LordRyur]

Duke_Lukem wrote:

Slayer haven't had a good album since... Oh wait.

South of Heaven. At the very least, Divine Intervention.

Show No Mercy is the only album you really need to listen to though, it's their best. The solos are actually good on that album, and Tom's vocals don't actually suck.

eloera1 wrote:

Every album is the same, same riffs, same solos, same style, they never expanded their creativity.

People who think Slayer has remained the same since the beginning are stupid. If they had, they'd still be good.
Slayer started playing Nu-Metal-influenced music with Diabolus in Musica, and that stayed until Christ Illusion. THEN they started rehashing old Slayer riffs and were never, ever, as good as they were during their first 2-3 albums. World Painted Blood sounds like it's a third-rate Slayer clone that was lucky enough to get Tom on vocals, not Slayer themselves.

[ds24601]

Necrotise wrote:

eloera1 wrote:

Every album is the same, same riffs, same solos, same style, they never expanded their creativity. And that why their fans love them, they never sold out, they never experimented too much. You know what to expect when you buy a Slayer album and you either love that or you dont. Clearly you fall into the latter category but their fans fall into the first.

So in other words... they're a boring, mindless metal band? I don't really listen to Slayer much but I don't listen to them for any form of musical pleasure, just mindless riffage that gets me pumped, so I see what you mean, but I don't see why it's a good thing for a band to play pretty much the same thing for 30 years (they have done some experimenting of sorts but not much). I used to like Slayer when I was like 13 but I got bored of them pretty quickly. Their music isn't particularly interesting and it's so... samey. I actually prefer listening to the Jonas Brothers over Slayer (they're a pretty good pop band who have some catchy songs and I like the tone of Joe's voice). Although Reign in Blood is still bad ass.

[DrumVillain]

I saw the headline and had to ask the question... is Tom doing no-shave november??

[rapprocka1017]

DrumVillain wrote:

I saw the headline and had to ask the question... is Tom doing no-shave november??

Bitchplease, Tom INVENTED no-shave November.

[xxjohnnyxx89]

To be more specific Hanneman contracted necrosis.....which is not a virus you people. its a bacteria

[Soundservant]

No talk of Philm, anyone?

[Vicryl 2.0]

xxjohnnyxx89 wrote:

To be more specific Hanneman contracted necrosis.....which is not a virus you people. its a bacteria

Necrosis still sounds Metal. and flesh-eating bacteria sounds like a slayer song. \m/

[snuggleblade]

Like Mike Patton said - "I don't trust anyone who doesn't like Slayer!" ... Plus Slayer is one of the few heavy bands left (besides Meshuggah and the Melvins) .. everything else is pretty much garbage.

[super collasal]

FUCKING SLAYER!

[Superperfex]

South of Heaven por favor

[yasman88]

yess time to listen to the same shit for a 10th time!

new album name probabilty:
devil blood death
death devil blood
blood death devil

and on and on and on and on...

[Alpha_Wolf]

Eh.

[inproninja]

ds24601 wrote:

Necrotise wrote:

eloera1 wrote:

Every album is the same, same riffs, same solos, same style, they never expanded their creativity. And that why their fans love them, they never sold out, they never experimented too much. You know what to expect when you buy a Slayer album and you either love that or you dont. Clearly you fall into the latter category but their fans fall into the first.


So in other words... they're a boring, mindless metal band? I don't really listen to Slayer much but I don't listen to them for any form of musical pleasure, just mindless riffage that gets me pumped, so I see what you mean, but I don't see why it's a good thing for a band to play pretty much the same thing for 30 years (they have done some experimenting of sorts but not much). I used to like Slayer when I was like 13 but I got bored of them pretty quickly. Their music isn't particularly interesting and it's so... samey. I actually prefer listening to the Jonas Brothers over Slayer (they're a pretty good pop band who have some catchy songs and I like the tone of Joe's voice). Although Reign in Blood is still bad ass.

I actually prefer listening to the Jonas Brothers over Slayer (they're a pretty good pop band who have some catchy songs and I like the tone of Joe's voice).

I'm not sure if this is a troll or not....

[inproninja]

fav13andac1)c wrote:

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I'm sure it'll sound something like that ^

who knows, maybe it's tuned down a semitone :P haha

[darkwolf291]

eloera1 wrote:

Every album is the same, same riffs, same solos, same style, they never expanded their creativity. For their trash metal theyr good but other than that thers not much to expect. The word blood will prolly be somewhere in the name lol

Two albums come to mind where they changed things up.
South of Heaven
God Hates Us All.
They were bitched at and ostracized for doing something different, and when they put out another album in the traditional Slayer style, they get yelled at for not doing something different.
There's no pleasing anyone.
If it sounds like a Slayer album, it's because its what they wanted to do. Simple as that.

[David Dark]

just when I thought they couldn't come up with more album titles with the word 'blood' in it.

btw
SLAYERRR! \,,/

[Skuzzmo]

TBH the last 2 albums have kind of past me by. I don't they are great examples of Slayer. BUt I still love slayer and will go and see them any chance i can get.

[Grimriffer]

Da-dad----dadadadadadadadada-dada-dadaDAAAAA!

Slaer pwns!

[dhruvd353]

KerNeL_KLuTcH wrote:

fav13andac1)c wrote:

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I'm sure it'll sound something like that ^


at 200 bpm

Palm Muted.....

[NoInnerKind]

Simple formula for a Slayer album:
- Some of the songs must have the word 'blood' in them.
- The songs must be about death, religion and war.
- Kerry King must abuse the **** out of the whammy bar and play random notes to make a 'solo'.
- They must and I mean MUST beat the hell out of the open E string for 3 to 4 minutes straight.

[D4CE]

[quote]NoInnerKind wrote:

Simple formula for a Slayer album:
- Some of the songs must have the word 'blood' in them.
- The songs must be about death, religion and war.
- Kerry King must abuse the **** out of the whammy bar and play random notes to make a 'solo'.
- They must and I mean MUST beat the hell out of the open E string for 3 to 4 minutes straight.[/quote

Lol; and people are making fun of Nickelback for being formulic :p

[trivum_rulz666]

FUCKIN A!!!!! ATSCHWITZ THE MEANING OF PAAAAAIN!