SLAYER's brutal, blood-and-gore prison video clip for 'Repentless,' the title track from the band's most recent album, was just voted 2015's "Best Metal Video" in the 5th Annual Loudwire Music Awards, beating out stellar entries from SLIPKNOT, IRON MAIDEN, MASTODON, and GHOST.
The 'Repentless' video, shot at the Los Angeles women's prison Sybil Brand, features cameos by some of the horror film genre's most iconic actors including Danny Trejo...
Yesterday, in near 100-degree heat and high humidity, a riot broke out in the exercise yard of the Sybil Brand Institute, the women's prison in East Los Angeles, where SLAYER shot the music video for the new track 'Repentless.' In fact, while SLAYER performed the track under that punishing sun over an eight-hour period, the “prisonersˮ had to stage a riot for somewhere north of twelve takes before director BJ...
Leading up to the 9/11 release of »Repentless«, SLAYER's new studio album, Tom Araya, Kerry King, Paul Bostaph and Gary Holt talk about working with producer Terry Date on this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=868wzI_jXSQ. Pre-order your copy of »Repentless« directly here: http://nblast.de/SlayerRepentless
Today, SLAYER unveil the album artwork for their 11th studio album, »Repentless«, due out 9/11/15 (Nuclear Blast). The artwork was created by Brazilian artist Marcelo Vasco in collaboration with the band’s Tom Araya and Kerry King.
“We had a number of submitted ideas for the cover artwork,“ said Araya. “And we felt Marcelo’s was the best. We made some suggestions and the result is an awesome album cover.“
Last week, SLAYER announced their heaviest release ever - the »Metal Eagle Edition« of their upcoming album »Repentless«. Made of aluminum alloy, measuring 15” X 17” X 3” and weighing in at a hefty 7.8 pounds, the »Metal Eagle Edition« will house a deluxe digipak of the new »Repentless« CD plus bonus material detailed below. The limited (only 3,000 copies worldwide) and numbered »Metal Eagle Edition« will be a direct-to-consumer...
Who'd have thought we'd ever see this! Two of the ‘Big Four’ thrash metal legends (Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer & Anthrax) on one and the same night in Luxembourg. With the tastiest of what's happening in the current generation of headbang bands as opener: Norway's Kvelertak. Pretty much every band in the ‘heavier’ genre whose music employs a double bass-drum or who tunes their guitars in the direction of drop B,...
'When The Stillness Comes', the first new track from SLAYER in nearly a year, will be available as part of Record Store Day on April 18, it is announced today by SLAYER and Nuclear Blast. The song, accompanied by a live recording of 'Black Magic', from the band's 1983 album »Show No Mercy« and recorded live at the 2014 Wacken Open Air Festival, will be available as a limited-edition (only...
Anthrax and Slayer at den Atelier! A most phenomenal full headline metal double bill! The legendary thrash metal titans of Slayer lay waste to anything that gets in their way. This is THE band to deliver the soundtrack for the post-Apocalypse. Steeped in scorching riffs and a litany of menacing tracks and tirades on religion and violence, Slayer forges ahead on its devastating path of aural destruction since 1981. Anthrax...
