God Hates Us All
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2001 |
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CD, LP |
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13 |
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42 min 53 s |
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God Hates Us All ( English for "God hates us all") is the eighth studio album by the thrash metal band Slayer . It was released by American Recordings on September 11, 2001 .
Emergence
In God Hates Us All , Rick Rubin was no longer directly involved, who had produced all of the band's studio albums since Reign in Blood in 1986; instead, Matt Hyde took over . The album was recorded in Vancouver, Canada .
Originally the album was supposed to be called Soundtrack to the Apocalypse . But Tom Araya found the title more suitable for a box set . This was published in 2003.
A Collector's Edition was published in 2002, it contained three music videos ( Darkness of Christ , Bloodline , Raining Blood ) and interview / B-roll footage and the additional track Scarstruck .
God Hates Us All is the band's last album for the time being, on which Paul Bostaph can be heard on drums. He left the band in late 2001 and was replaced by Dave Lombardo . Bostaph can only be heard on Slayer's final album, Repentless .
Album cover
Kerry King was dissatisfied with the original design, where Bible verses are crossed out in the liner notes and the cover depicts a bloody Bible with burned-in Slayer lettering and hammered nails. He criticized the whole thing as being too poorly thought out, for example using his nails to indicate a pentagram .
“It represents a record company with absolutely no idea what the fuck they were going to do. If we would have had more time, it could have been better. It looks like some seventh-grader defaced a Bible. "
“That represents a record company with no idea what the hell it was going to do. If we had more time it could have been better. It looks like some seventh grader defaced the Bible. "
Because the cover was considered too offensive, an alternative cover was used as a cover, which consists of brown lettering, four brown crosses and a white background.
Style & content
The album contains influences from the hardcore , but in contrast to the previous albums is less oriented towards Nu Metal . The song structures are “unconventional”, the album as a whole “solid and balanced”. The guitars are tuned lower than standard tuning.
With regard to the lyrics and the album title, Kerry King said:
“I definitely wanted to put more realism in it, more depth. God Hates Us All isn't an anti-Christian line as much as it's an idea I think a lot of people can relate to on a daily basis. One day you're living your life, and then you're hit by a car or your dog dies, so you feel like, "God really hates me today." ”
“I definitely wanted to put more realism and depth [into the lyrics]. "God hates us all" is not so much an anti-Christian line as it is an idea that I think many people can empathize with on a daily basis. One day you live your life and then you get hit by a car or your dog dies and you feel like "God really hates me today". "
reception
The album received a metascore of 80% based on twelve professional reviews. It did a little better than the band's two subsequent studio albums.
The song Disciple was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance . It was the first such nomination for the band.
Allmusic praises God Hates Us All for returning to the earlier Slayer style and awards three and a half points out of five. Even the Rolling Stone awards read. The song Disciple in particular is praised and highlighted by the trade press for its "intensity".
Track list
- Darkness of Christ - 1:30
- Disciple - 3:36
- God Send Death - 3:54
- New Faith - 3:18
- Cast Down - 3:31
- Threshold - 2:28
- Exile - 3:55
- Seven Faces - 3:42
- Bloodline - 3:36
- Deviance - 3:08
- War zone - 2:48
- Here Comes the Pain - 4:25
- Payback - 3:04
Most of the lyrics are by Kerry King , with the exception of the songs God Send Death , Bloodline and Deviance , which were written by Tom Araya and Jeff Hanneman .
The composition of the pieces is relatively evenly divided between Jeff Hanneman (track numbers 1, 2, 3, 6, 10) and Kerry King (track numbers 4, 5, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13). Both Hanneman and King are given as authors for Bloodline (Title 9).
Individual evidence
- ↑ metal-rules.com : Slayer Interview - Tom Araya (accessed June 12, 2010)
- ↑ a b recoilmag.com : Interview with Slayer ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Retrieved June 12, 2010)
- ↑ metalstorm.net : Slayer - God Hates Us All (accessed June 12, 2010)
- ↑ The Washington Post : Slayer's 'God Hates Us All': Nothing for Everyone (accessed June 12, 2010)
- ↑ a b c Jason Birchmeier: Review at Allmusic (accessed June 12, 2010)
- ↑ Diehl, Matt. "God Smacked". Guitar World. October 2001 ; cited from English Wikipedia - as of May 19, 2012
- ^ "God Hates Us All" on Metacritic (accessed May 19, 2012)
- ^ "A Conversation With Kerry King" rockzone.com (Retrieved May 19, 2012)
- ↑ Slayer - God Hates Us All - Album review ( Memento of November 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Retrieved May 19, 2012)
- ↑ sputnikmusic.com : Slayer - God Hates Us All Review (Retrieved June 12, 2010)
- ↑ stylusmagazine.com : Christ Illusion Review (Retrieved June 12, 2010)