Gutter's News Slayer have set ‘Christ Illusion’ as the title of their new album, due on August 8, 2006 via America
| Slayer have set ‘Christ Illusion’ as the title of their new album, due on August 8, 2006 via America |
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| Written by b b,n,m, | |
| Thursday, 06 July 2006 | |
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The new Slayer track, entitled ‘Cult’, is available at the band’s official web site. Slayer will preview their first album in five years with a five-song EP, ‘Eternal Pyre’, exclusively available at Hot Topic stores. The CD will include ‘Cult’, the lone new song the band plans to play live on the upcoming Unholy Alliance Tour. Araya’s two-hour May 5 minor gall-bladder surgery forced Slayer to suspend the June 6 launch of this summer’s Unholy Alliance Tour, which also features Lamb of God, Mastodon, Children of Bodom and Thine Eyes Bleed. The trek will instead kick off June 15 in Camden, New Jersey, and run through July 26 in Denver. Christ Illusion’ is Slayer’s first new studio album since 2001, and the first recorded by the band’s original line-up — Kerry King (guitars); Tom Araya (bass, vocals); Jeff Hanneman (guitars); Dave Lombardo (drums) — since 1990’s “Seasons In The Abyss”. ‘Christ Illusion’ was produced by Josh Abraham and executive produced by Rick Rubin. ‘Christ Illusion’ deals with familiar Slayer themes — god, religion, hate, and war. Says Araya, “No one is going to be disappointed, it’s going to blow everybody away. It’s fast, heavy, and maybe faster than anything we’ve done before.” “It’s a good mix of fast, brutal music and slower moodier stuff, it’s pretty intense,” added King. “It sounds like a damn Slayer record.” A core player in Slayer’s history has also rejoined the team for the ‘Christ Illusion’ project. Larry Carroll, who did the cover artwork for ‘Reign in Blood’, ‘South of Heaven’, and ‘Seasons In the Abyss’, has painted an original piece for the ‘Christ Illusion’ cover. Working only from the song titles and early lyrics, Carroll has produced a classic Slayer masterpiece — a portrait of the Christ — whose forearms have been chopped off — standing in an ocean of blood surrounded by floating, decapitated heads. Carroll created the painting on a 4-by-4-foot slab of wood using a combination of mediums. King already has placed dibs on ownership of the original wooden canvas.
The following songtitles are expected to appear on the new Slayer CD (NOTE: This information has not yet been confirmed by the band or their record label): Cult |
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