SLAYER — World Painted Blood (review)

SLAYER — World Painted Blood album cover Album · 2009 · Thrash Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4.5/5 ·
Kingcrimsonprog
World Painted Blood is the 11th studio album from the American Thrash Metal band Slayer, released in late 2009 this was the second studio album recorded after the band reunited with original Dave Lombardo.

This forty minute album finds the band split pretty much down the middle between straight forward no thrills thrash songs and groove-orientated songs, with some of each kind featuring slow atmospheric intros.

Tracks like ‘Psychopathy Red,’ ‘Snuff,’ and ‘Hate Worldwide,’ deliver the trademark Slayer pounding sound, while ‘Beauty Through Order,’ and ‘Playing With Dolls,’ are more menacing numbers which break up the album from being all speed.

The album has taken a fair amount of criticism for its production job and for a perceived laziness, lack of variety or lack of new ideas. This is something you’ll have to try for yourself as the same standard of musicianship and aggression Slayer always delver is present on the record but the album met with mixed reviews anyway.

If you are a Slayer fan I recommend that you pick up a copy and give it a good few listens before dismissing it all together. Tracks like ‘Not Of This God,’ and ‘Americon,’ provide enough new spins on the Slayer formula to warrant at least a curiosity listen and the rest of the album delivers what you normally want from Slayer.

My advice is that you try this before buying it. At first, I personally wasn’t overly keen on the album but it is a grower and now I am fairly fond of it. Certainly, World Painted Blood is not Slayer’s best album, will never be hailed as a classic and is not the best place for new fans to start; however neither is it devoid of value as some hyperbolic reviewers would have you believe.
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