God Hates Us All
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God Hates Us All
God Hates Us All is the ninth studio album by American thrash metal band Slayer, released on September 11, 2001 by American Recordings. It was recorded over three months at The Warehouse Studio in Vancouver, and includes the Grammy Award-nominated "Disciple". Guitarist Kerry King wrote the majority of its lyrics, taking a different approach from earlier recordings by exploring topics such as religion, murder, revenge, and self-control. The band experimented, recording most of the album in C# tuning, with three songs in drop B and two others with seven-string guitars in B♭. -Wikipedia
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Revolver Mag
God Hates Us All stands as a testament to their impact, a modern classic that lives up to their finest offerings and that we will all be listening to long after the band's final curtain call.
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The Metal Archives
"God Hates Us All" isn't one of Slayer's best efforts to date, but it's also not one of the worst, it's just a decent effort where the band tried to experiment a bit and change its sound, but it's unfair to cast stones at this album just because it took influences from a genre not popular on this site.
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Decibel Magazine
By not relying on their traditional arsenal, Slayer created an album that is not only an enjoyable listen but placed them on an upward trajectory that has continued after the release of God Hates Us All.
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Metal Storm
"God Hates Us All" is a very good album, seeing Slayer back in a niche where they belong. They once again recorded an uncompromising set of hate anthems that are going to nail the attention of any real metal fan.
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Drowned in Sound
This is without a shadow of a doubt the greatest Slayer release for many years. ‘God Hates Us All’ but he likes us enough to give us this record. Amen to that.
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Blabbermouth
While God Hates Us All possesses some of the same ingredients that made Diabolus… a marginally refreshing surprise, SLAYER's latest represents yet another failure on the band's part to take the initiative and reinvent themselves—a regurgitation of the group's past songwriting efforts in the hopes of pleasing no one but their most ardent and loyal fans.
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Sputnik Music
Their flexibility to produce a precarious album like this may cause some fans to loose interest, but it's their determination to at least record something which shows their complete evolution as a band that makes the album original and stand out from its two predecessors, which are much more undefined.
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The Headbanging Moose
It’s heavy, fast, furious, controversial, violent, and more important than that, it’s Slayer.
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AV Club
This stuff is so joyless, severe, ugly, and hateful that it seems to represent an actual philosophy that exists outside of trends.
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Metal Forces Magazine
God Hates Us All, for me anyway, is another dead-end Slayer record which signified a real low period for the band.
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No Clean Singing
This album is just great. It doesn’t have a single bad song on it. It’s the most primal roots of what metal is all about, distilled.
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Head of Metal
God Hates Us All is good, its highlights an omnipresent reminder of Slayer’s finest work. I think it could have been even better had it been compressed to a length of the band’s usual ten songs or fewer compared to the baker’s dozen presented here.
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Ultimate Guitar
I think this is possibly Slayer's best album.
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Kerrang!
Honestly, this is actually one of my favorite records by Slayer. God Hates Us All’s nu-metal elements work a lot better than Diabolus’s, especially on Here Comes The Pain and Exile.
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All Music
God Hates Us All should be a relief for long-time Slayer fans who were afraid the band had fallen off during the '90s, and it well may surprise newcomers unfamiliar with the band's prime recordings from the mid- to late '80s.
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Ultimate Metal
Slayer is losing the aggression they once had, so instead of using theyre anger from today's world, they stole the idea of writing lyrics of sacrelige, careful, Glenn Benton of Diecide might burn you.
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BraveWords
This is a King album, but man, Kerry is big into the idea of song and the bloodbeat of groove.
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Orlando Weekly
This is simply another brutal effort from one of the best hard-edged bands on the planet. Heck, even the uninitiated might convert after one listen.
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Spirit of Metal
I would give this album a rating of 18/20 and would recommend it to all thrash metal fans.
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Exclaim
God Hates Us All is the band's ninth studio album and, somewhat surprisingly, it is yet another winner.
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Full Stop
Slayer’s “God Hates Us All” is the most important album in my life.
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Prindle Record Reviews
Slayer have left me not just disappointed but actively irritated. There's like no RIFFS on this album. Most of the songs are just the same low chord played over and over again while the drummer pounds his set in an unpleasant, non-rolling manner and Tom Araya shouts every single word at the exact same key.
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