Diabolus in Musica (Album)
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1998 |
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| Label (s) | American Recordings | |||
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CD, LP |
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Title (number) |
11 |
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40 min 19 s |
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Studio (s) |
Oceanway Studios, Los Angeles |
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Diabolus in Musica is the seventh studio album by the thrash metal band Slayer . It was released on June 9, 1998 by American Recordings . The album was produced by Rick Rubin and recorded at Oceanway Studios in Los Angeles . The album reached number 31 on the US charts.
History of origin
As always, the album was produced by American Records label boss and star producer Rick Rubin . The recordings took place at Oceanway Studios in Los Angeles .
The album marked the return of Paul Bostaph , who quit after Divine Intervention to continue his solo project The Truth About Seafood . In time for the recordings, he returned to Slayer after he was replaced by Jon Dette of Testament after the recordings for the album Undisputed Attitude . In retrospect, Paul Bostaph called the album his favorite work with Slayer, as the group was more experimental than ever before.
The album title is an outdated term for the tritone .
Music genre
Much of the guitar riffs were written by Jeff Hanneman . Hanneman made use of some elements of Nu Metal , which modernized the sound of the band, but still stuck to Thrash Metal. In particular, Slayer worked less aggressively and quickly on this album, but placed more emphasis on groove .
This led to indignation among fans from the very beginning. The modernized band logo on the album cover was also controversial. The new band logo no longer contained a sig rune and showed the letters individually instead of building on one another. The album is now regarded as a "rather unimportant album in the Slayer catalog".
Track list
Title list standard version
- Bitter Peace - 4:32
- Death's Head - 3:34
- Stain of Mind - 3:24
- Overt Enemy - 4:41
- Perversions of Pain - 3:33
- Love to Hate - 3:07
- Desire - 4:20
- In the Name of God - 3:40
- Scrum - 2:16
- Screaming From the Sky - 3:12
- Point - 4:11
In addition to the version with the eleven standard tracks, there is also a Japanese version with two bonus tracks ( Wicked and Ungard ) and a limited version with a bonus CD with unreleased live versions of well-known pieces and one of the two Japan bonus tracks.
Limited version playlist
CD 1 (standard version including Wicked )
- Bitter Peace - 4:32
- Death's Head - 3:34
- Stain of Mind - 3:24
- Overt Enemy - 4:41
- Perversions of Pain - 3:33
- Love to Hate - 3:07
- Desire - 4:20
- In The Name of God - 3:40
- Scrum - 2:16
- Screaming From the Sky - 3:12
- Wicked - 6:00
- Point - 4:11
CD 2 (bonus CD)
- Raining Blood 2:32
- Angel of Death 5:21
- Mandatory Suicide - 4:01
- Chemical Warfare - 5:32
- Dittohead - 2:37
- South of Heaven - 4:25
successes
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The album was placed in the middle of all relevant record markets. In Germany the album reached number 32 and in the USA number 31. It reached the highest chart position in the United Kingdom with number 27. Compared to the last studio album Divine Intervention , this meant a step backwards. The intervening cover album Undisputed Attitude , on the other hand, had similar chart positions. Overall, the album sold 290,000 copies in the United States, the worst of all the group's 1990 albums.
Song info
During the recording of the album, Tom Araya had problems with Christianity for the first time . Araya was irritated by the text to In the Name of God , which Kerry King had written. The song contains the line of text “Antichrist is the name of God”, which pissed him off.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Slayer biography on Yahoo.de
- ↑ Interview ( memento of October 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) with Paul Bostaph on Metal-Rules.com
- ↑ a b Götz Kühnemund: Slayer - Titans of Thrash . Rock hard special.
- ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts UK Charts US
- ↑ Slayer: 'Christ Illusion' Lands At No. 5 On Billboard Chart! Blabbermouth , August 16, 2006
- ↑ Interview with Kerry King in Guitar World Magazine, published on Blabbermouth July 1, 2006