Slayer announce release details for their 11th album 'Repentless'
Six years after the release of their last album World Painted Blood, Slayer's 11th studio album release date has finally been revealed! It will be called Repentless and it will hit shelves on the 11th of September.
Slayer guitarist Kerry King shared the following about the upcoming album:
"There's 12 songs on it, one being the intro, one being 'Implode', one being 'Atrocity Vendor' and one being 'When the Stillness Comes', but every version of those songs you may have heard before is different, so I think that's cool, but I also wanted them to be part of a collection. I like the finality of songs belonging on a record. It's probably about 40 or 45 minutes, maybe less. We did God Hates Us All and we put every song we had at the time on the record because that was the trendy thing to do, but as soon as we did that, I vowed never to do it again. I grew up with 10-song albums."
Worth mentioning is that the God Hates Us All was released on September 11, 2001, the day of the 9/11 attacks and the new album Repentless will come out, at the exact same date, 14 years later.
Repentless will be the first in the band's career without guitarist Jeff Hanneman, who passed away from liver failure in 2013. Despite reports that Hanneman's physical playing would be featured on the album, King came out and said that those reports were false. However, a piece composed by Hanneman was recorded by King for Repentless and the album's title track was written by Kerry as a tribute to his longtime band mate.
"The first song is called 'Repentless' and that one's pretty much... I call it the Hannemanthem! I wrote that for Jeff", King says. "Oh, dude, it's fast as f***. You don't know what the f***'s coming! [Laughs] A song called 'Vices' is on there somewhere. It's super heavy. It'll pummel you in the face. 'Take Control' is another fast one. 'Cast the First Stone' is another heavy one."
In less than four months the album will be available, so get ready for Repentless to thrash your ears on September 11!