SLAYER — God Hates Us All (review)

SLAYER — God Hates Us All album cover Album · 2001 · Thrash Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
Warthur
It used to be that I didn't get why God Hates Us All was so overlooked in the Slayer discography - after all, there's a certain extent to which it's the point where things got on the right track after Diabolus In Musica. Is it a perfect album? No, not by any means - in particular, I don't think Paul Bostaph brings a particularly good performance to bear on the drumming, which isn't nearly aggressive enough (though perhaps a tweak or two to the mix might have helped this). Still, it's loud, fast, angry, ugly, thrashy Slayer - you know, the sort of Slayer we all like, right?

Well, not quite. With repeated listens and the passage of time it becomes more apparent that Slayer were borrowing motifs and techniques from nu metal whilst failing to convincingly integrate them into their own thrash sound, and the lyrics and tone feel more like an angry teenage Slayer fan's angsty poetry than the real fire and brimstone Slayer of times past. Not the utter disaster it's sometimes made out to be, but not top-shelf Slayer either.
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