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Slayer - Christ Illusion


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=Staff's pick

Flesh Storm
Catalyst
Skeleton Christ*
Eyes of the Insane
Jihad*
Consfearacy*
Black Serenade
Catatonic
Cult*
Supermist


Genre Thrash Metal
Tom Araya
Vocals
Tracks 10
Jeff Hanneman
Guitar
Runningtime 38 Min.
Kerry King
Guitar
Label American Recordings
Tom Araya
Bass
Release 08 Aug. 2006
Dave Lombardo
Drums
Country USA
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Keyboards
Similar artists Demiricious, Grip Inc., Exodus

The unholy alliance of Slayer souls who have been cast into aspersion and castigated by the masses, may believe that God rates us all. Perhaps they feel forsaken in their hour of divine intervention. Anxiously, they may hope and anticipate that hell awaits somewhere south of heaven.

Thankfully, we have all celebrated the moribund dance for so many seasons in the abyss. In fact, Slayer fans have become the cult of impiety. This is owing to the fact that for well over two decades of decadence, Slayer have consistently created mind shattering music; thus serving as the catalyst for speed metal, and thereby spawning a thousand clones in every genre.

Many fans relinquished the band after Dave Lombardo's departure. Paul Bostoph is an incredible drummer and he mapped and matched metalstorm of the Slayer sting until his eventual exodus. Now that he is playing drums for Exodus, himself along with Lee and Gary have reinstated the bay area sound. The sanguine Slayer style, though, not prevalent on the last two studio releases, caused them to become too catatonic.

When Dave rejoined the band, and they released the Still Reigning DVD, perfectly performing all the Reign In Blood cuts, I again felt the bloodlust for that classic killer constant, after having shown no mercy to the band for many years. After witnessing them perform this summer, I'm pleased to pronounce, that Slayer has returned live and undetrimented!

Christ Illusion is the album this band needed to forge, against the fashion . This crisis of delusion, therefore is what I must dispel. This is by far their best effort since Divine Intervention, but it still falls short of the glorious '80s aggregate. The opening track, Flesh Storm, is another viceral war epic culling, reaping and calling to mind horrid images of the ghost of war ensemble, disassembled.

This along with Eyes Of the Insane are pure Tom Araya. His mandatory, sewage pride is stamped and sealed in blood. His bile black serenade is the only chilling, grizzly, sex - murder - artwork in praise of death, which is to be found on this CD, with its hints and haunts of the dead skill masked inside the lyrics.

The real born of fire, twisted cross-sections of melody blister and blaze with black magic, fire and fury. The prefect preens as the king of blaphemy captures the sin of insanity, and aggressively perfects his own spark of characteristic carnage. Songs like Cult and Skeleton Christ easily create enough contumacious controversy to incite and/or create a riot of violence, led by priests and parishioners perishing in flame.

Here Jeff and Kerry conjures the true Slayer spirit in black axe attack. The king's undisputed attitude and circle of beliefs will also enrage political demagogues when they discern his mind control consfearacy of supremacy. Kerry King vociferously validates his stance with no concern for backlash. Jeff also is no handiman as he'll harass and seemingly upset the victims of 9/11 through his gibe the Jihad, which is told from the perspective of the terrorists. Musically this song is as dissonant as the disassociated soul who penned and premised it.

The overall theme for Christ Illusion runs the gamut with it's blackballish grin and polemical polishing of Slayer's residual; summoning the sound south of the divine abyss. Christ, I'm losing my patience; since the CD is so damn short! The music really reigns in bluff, as an attempt at regaining past glory; but sincerely, I feel they could have written more songs. This is even more the case when the CD was forlorn in it's initial omen for being released on 6 June of this year.

Essentially, I'm pleased with the blab serenade and serenity in murmur; a muriatic acidic auricular auspicious attribute. I'm grateful that the shroud of Slayer is vibrantly still haunting the chapels layer after layer-year-after year. I'm just left yearning for more chemical war, far enough?

See also review of: Repentless , World Painted Blood , Still Reigning

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8 chalices of 10 - Michael the MettleAngel

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