World Painted Blood
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World Painted Blood
World Painted Blood is the eleventh studio album by American thrash metal band Slayer. It was released through American Recordings and Sony Music on November 3, 2009 and was produced by Greg Fidelman and executively produced by Rick Rubin. It is the band's only album produced by Greg Fidelman. With much anticipation for the album after 2006's Christ Illusion, members of Slayer began revealing information about the album beginning in early 2009. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
The best album from thrash metal's Big Four (Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax) since the 1990s is fast, finely controlled, and nearly fat-free.
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The Metal Archives
this album is their true, TRUE return to form, and probably their best album of the four they’ve released since the turn of the century. Back to thrashing, back to good lyrics and riffing, and just back to classic, no-nonsense Slayer.
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COS
The bottom line with the songs on World Painted Blood revolves around something Slayer succeeds in delivering (as always): pure, unadulterated anarchy.
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Blabbermouth
It's a good mix of killer, thriller and a little bit of filler.
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Metal Injection
World Painted Blood confirms that Slayer is a once-in-a-lifetime band, and that the prospect of hearing "Psychopathy Red" and "Unit 731" live is going to be too great to miss out on.
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The Quietus
this is the SLAYYYARRRGHHH! we've been waiting for.
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BBC
This, studio album number ten, is their best in years. Many pundits lazily passed similar judgements on the band’s weak later efforts, but you can take this one to the bank. It’s better than Christ Illusion and everything else back to 1994’s Divine Intervention.
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Metal Storm
Truthfully, this album, at least to me, is stronger top to bottom than 2006's Christ Illusion.
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MusicOMH
Tearing through riffs and bezerk guitar solos, this is heads-down Slayer at their best with Lombardo’s drumming jaw-dropping as always. It’s a fitting end for the most brutal album they’ve made in a long while. World Painted Blood may not be Reign In Blood, but it finds Slayer close to their best.
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Sputnik Music
What Slayer have released here is an album that, overall, feels rushed and lazy; which is something their last album 'Christ Illusion' didn't fall victim to.
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AV Club
World Painted Blood is a resounding success in that regard: It’s eclectic, but never self-consciously so. It rarely flags in intensity, and it’s good enough that if it were inserted in Slayer’s discography right after Seasons In The Abyss—the record it most resembles—it would be an almost seamless transition.
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Punk Rock Theory
Slayer is here to show everyone how it’s done. If the rumors about them calling it a day are true, then at least they are going out with one hell of a bang.
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Head of Metal
Almost ten years later, World Painted Blood is a better listen than I remember at the time. That may seem an underwhelming statement about the late Jeff Hanneman’s final album. The album will surely continue to be enjoyed on that basis, if not for the sheer merit of these mostly pretty-good tracks that bleed classic Slayer.
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Last Rites
Word Painted Blood is a modern Slayer album. It has scattered quality that conjures up the days of yore, but overall it is a tired and uninspired listen. Despite the enjoyable songs, I honestly can’t say I’ll ever listen to it straight through again.
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No Clean Singing
I seriously can’t think of much good at all to say about this album. It’s flat-out awful. I can’t even express my contempt for how awful it is, though I’ve tried.
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E.D.
From start to finish, World Painted Blood is guaranteed to satisfy metal fans yearning for thrash from an old school band. Unlike Reign in Blood and South of Heaven, World Painted Blood has Slayer sounding a bit more modern but no less edgy.
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PopMatters
As long as expectations are met, we'll be happy. And with World Painted Blood, we're happier than we've been in some time.
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All Music
On World Painted Blood the focus is more on songs, and therefore the return of the "melodic" aspect of the band's past -- and let's face it, during the classic years Slayer were peerless in that department.
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BraveWords
World Painted Blood easily sits beside Slayer’s greatest works of dark art.
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Exclaim
While it's not absolute, definitive Slayer, World Painted Blood finds them back on stable ground, doling out deep, dark thrash with vitriol, confrontation and controversy.
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The Escapist
if you're a hardcore fan of the band, you'll love it-it's largely consistent and has enough thrashers to keep the fans happy and retains the slight experimentation to please, even somewhat, the critics. So no, it's no Reign In Blood or South Of Heaven, but it's still a good, almost great, but not quite, thrash album.
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Kerrang!
It’s a solid record, but it’s a little unfocused.
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Death Metal Underground
With World Painted Blood, Slayer find a voice in this new style, and while this is their best album since Seasons in the Abyss, it shies away from the prog-influenced complex song structures of early Slayer and sticks with the verse/chorus construction of Divine Intervention and beyond.
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Razorcake
overall, this album finds Slayer returning to a territory I think most fans will appreciate. No, this isn’t a masterpiece, but it’s a must for any fans of the band as well as those of you who may have written the almighty Slayer off some time ago.
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Metalholic
World Painted Blood brings back the band back to their roots, the sound more reminiscent of their early works, like the seminal Reign in Blood.
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Sea of Tranquility
My advice is stick World Painted Blood in your player, and take this new Slayer release for what it is, another top thrash metal album, that rekindles some of that early feel.
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Bloody Good Horror
“World Painted Blood” is proof that Slayer can still contend, even if they have to lean on the crutch of their legend a little bit, and channel that same energy again.
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Antiquiet
If they can't put out another album on this level, I think this is a great place to call it quits as far as recording goes. It sound like they've still got it.
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Doubtful Sounds
So Slayer keep on doing what they do best – writing brutal and nihilistic metal. It is unflinching in its purity, regardless of how seriously you view their approach. Fans of the band will hungrily devour World Painted Blood and no doubt hold it high as a true return to form.
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Metal Temple
There is absolutely no point trying to find all their references since this album can give you a strong SLAYER dose and warm your ears like hell just before you catch the band on the road.
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Metal Underground
The whole album is full of the classic Slayer sound with plenty of twists and turns to keep it fresh.
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Rukus Magazine
World Painted Blood is an excellent album that combines death, hate, and gore, with wailing solos, heavy riffs, and pounding drums.
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Metal Assault
Overall, there is a lot of variety in this album with some old school thrash as well as some slow and dark tunes. The band has shown that they still have what it takes to deliver the goods for their fans. Every Slayer fan should definitely go out and get this.
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Prindle Record Reviews
If you considered Christ Illusion a godlike return to form for the world's greatest thrash band, you will take to this album like a fish to worms.
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Chronicles of Chaos
Like many of their generation, Slayer has been talking up the possibility of this being their last hurrah. Were that the case, they'd certainly not be bowing out on a bum note.
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Spirit of Metal
Overall, "World Painted Blood" is a good album and features some very good tracks and great riffs from one of the most legendary metal bands ever.
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mxdwn
This is probably not an album you want to buy if you’re looking for some major innovation, but if you want to appreciate some classic thrash and black metal, then definitely check out World Painted Blood.
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Hall of the Mountain King
“World Painted Blood” is not a bad Slayer album. In fact, it might be some of their best work since “Divine Intervention.”
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knac
And while Blood is by no means perfect — given the redundancies and self-plagiarizing that will probably remain an albatross around Slayer’s neck until the band finally go tits up — it’s a complete, well-rounded album that does prove this old dog can still learn a few new tricks, as well as tear a big, meaty hunk out of your ass.
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