World Painted Blood
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October 30, 2009 |
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CD |
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11 |
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39 min 49s |
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Studio (s) |
October 2008 and January to March 2009 in Los Angeles |
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World Painted Blood is the eleventh studio album by the US thrash metal band Slayer and was released on October 30, 2009 on the American Recordings record label . It is the last studio album with guitarist Jeff Hanneman († 2013) and also with drummer Dave Lombardo (left the band in 2013).
Emergence
According to the band members, World Painted Blood was recorded in two phases: After part of the tracks had already been recorded in October 2008, Slayer finished the work between January and March 2009. The band decided on Rick Rubin and Greg Fidelman as producers for the production of the album. Slayer had worked with Rubin several times, so he and the band had produced Reign in Blood together . For Fidelman, however, the production of World Painted Blood was the first collaboration with Slayer after he had already expressed his will to work on the predecessor Christ Illusion . The decision to hire Fidelman as the second producer was made by the band together with Rick Rubin.
For the band, the production of World Painted Blood differed in that a large part of the material was only written and finished in the studio. In previous productions, the pieces were written and rehearsed before they moved into the studio. According to drummer Dave Lombardo , the band members were more responsive to each other when writing songs for World Painted Blood . While almost all the pieces on the predecessor Christ Illusion were composed by Kerry King , this time Jeff Hanneman also contributed a significant part to the songwriting. Several times, Lombardo and the rest of the Slayer members affirmed Greg Fidelman's share of the album:
"Greg [...] kept listening to our older records between his individual production steps in order to grow as deeply as possible with the slayer sound. After that he always came to us and encouraged us to give even more. [...] "
In October 2008, Slayer put the title Psychopathy Red on the Internet. In July 2009 the song Hate Worldwide followed as a CD single. The song was nominated at the 52nd Grammy Awards in Los Angeles in the category "Best Metal Performance", but was defeated Dissident Aggressor by Judas Priest .
Texts
On World Painted Blood , Slayers deal with topics that are typical for them. Some of the lyrics are about death, destruction and the apocalypse. Furthermore, religion, the state and the media are traditionally criticized. The song Psychopathy Red is inspired by the Russian serial killer Andrei Romanowitsch Tschikatilo, known as the "Rostov Ripper". Tschikatilo had admitted to brutally killing 56 people. The two plays Public Display of Dismemberment and Americon are about the reputation of the United States of America in the world.
Cover
The cover of World Painted Blood is available in four different versions. All four variants each show a different continent formation. The continents shown are North America , South America , Eurasia and Australia . If you put the four different variants together, you get the picture of a world map. The continents are dark, the separating seas are a lighter red.
Track list
- World Painted Blood - 5:53
- Unit 731 - 2:39
- Snuff - 3:42
- Beauty Through Order - 4:36
- Hate Worldwide - 2:55
- Public Display of Dismemberment - 2:34
- Human Strain - 3:09
- Americon - 3:22
- Psychopathy Red - 2:26
- Playing with Dolls - 4:13
- Not of This God - 4:20
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Chart placements
World Painted Blood was able to enter the top 20 hit parades in German-speaking countries as well as in the United States of America. The album stayed in the charts for two to three weeks in many European countries. An exception was Finland , where World Painted Blood stayed in the charts for eight weeks.
Reviews
Most of the press response to World Painted Blood has been clearly positive. The US website Metacritic calculated an average of 78 - out of a possible 100 - points from eleven English-language reviews. According to the website's designation system, this corresponds to a classification as “generally positively rated”. In addition to Dave Lombardo's drumming, the German-speaking critics mainly praised the approach of the band to their musical style of the late eighties. Yan Vogel from the Laut.de e-zine was delighted with the band's songwriting and attested the songs Playing With Dolls , Beauty Through Order and Not Of This God variety and sustainability. He also rated Tom Araya's singing and Dave Lombardo's drumming positively and awarded the highest rating of five points. The editors of Metal Hammer magazine named World Painted Blood "Album of the Month". In the accompanying review, the author came to the conclusion that World Painted Blood connects all metal generations and that the band “played with their roots and reinvented themselves”.
Moritz Grütz and Dennis Drögemüller from Metal1.info and Plattentests.de drew a comparison with Metallica's Death Magnetic , which was also produced by Greg Fidelman. While Drögemüller attested a “decent sound” to Fidelman's work on World Painted Blood - in contrast to that on Death Magnetic - Grütz was of the opinion that “the first guitar notes of the opener and title track [on World Painted Blood] could just as well be played on metallics In this regard, the often scolded "Death Magnetic" are [...] ".
Rock-hard reviewer Frank Albrecht also agreed that the album was reminiscent of the style of the late eighties, especially South of Heaven . In the title Human Strain , however, he also saw a low point on World Painted Blood . Further positive feedback came from Jan Wigger ( Spiegel Online ) and Markus Eck ( Sonic Seducer ) , for example . Lombardo's drumming and the parallels to earlier works by the band were once again praised in both reviews, so the two reviews show similarities in terms of content and overall assessment to the above-mentioned reviews of the specialist magazines.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f SLAYER: More 'World Painted Blood' Details Revealed. In: blabbermouth.net. Roadrunner Records , July 6, 2010, archived from the original on July 9, 2009 ; accessed on February 13, 2010 (English).
- ↑ a b c d Markus Eck: Revitalized - Slayer . In: Sonic Seducer . No. 11 , 2009, p. 122 .
- ↑ grammy.com: Nominees accessed on February 13, 2010. (English)
- ↑ a b c Dennis Drögemüller: Slayer - World painted blood - blood thirst quencher. In: plate tests . Retrieved December 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Album Art Revealed ( Memento from January 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ musicline.de: Chart tracking / Slayer / Longplay ( Memento from January 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved on February 13, 2010.
- ↑ austriancharts.at: Discographie Slayer.Retrieved on February 13, 2010.
- ↑ hitparade.ch: Discographie Slayer.Retrieved on February 13, 2010.
- ↑ World Painted Blood in the Official UK Charts (English)
- ↑ billboard.com: Slayer Album & Song Chart History.Retrieved February 13, 2010. (English)
- ↑ austriancharts.at: Slayer - World Painted Blood.Retrieved on February 13, 2010.
- ↑ metacritic.com: World Painted Blood reviews Retrieved February 13, 2010. (English)
- ↑ Yan bird: Slayer - "World Painted Blood" (CD review) In: Laut.de . According to AG, accessed on February 13, 2010.
- ↑ WORLD PAINTED BLOOD ( Memento from December 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Moritz Grütz: Slayer. In: Metal1.Info. October 30, 2012, archived from the original on October 30, 2012 ; accessed on December 2, 2018 .
- ^ SLAYER - World Painted Blood. In: rockhard.de. December 25, 2019, accessed December 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Jan Wigger: Listened: The most important CDs of the week In: SPIEGEL ONLINE . Spiegel Online GmbH, October 27, 2009, accessed on February 13, 2010.
- ↑ Markus Eck: CD Reviews: Slayer - "World Painted Blood" . In: Sonic Seducer . No. 11 , 2009, p. 96 .