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Repentless (2015)

Where the lyrics of Repentless take you, and where it was really made.

Slayer's final album is the only one recorded without Jeff Hanneman, yet one of its songs was written by him before he died.

Key places

Recorded and mixed in Hollywood (2015)

Recording site The Music Grinder (Hollywood) — The album was recorded and mixed at Henson Studios in Hollywood, CA. The point uses the city-center position, so the exact studio building is not confirmed here. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Repentless: twelfth and final studio album by American thrash metal band Slayer
• Released September 11, 2015; the band's only album on Nuclear Blast
• Produced by Terry Date, replacing Rick Rubin, who had produced the band for twenty-nine years and nine studio albums
• Only album recorded without guitarist Jeff Hanneman, who died in 2013
• Gary Holt took over Hanneman's guitar role
• First album with drummer Paul Bostaph since God Hates Us All (2001)
• Six-year gap after World Painted Blood (2009), the longest between two Slayer albums
• Three singles: "Repentless", "You Against You" and "Pride in Prejudice"

Background

• Jeff Hanneman died on May 2, 2013 in a Los Angeles hospital; alcohol-related cirrhosis was announced a week later
• Araya said Hanneman had been working on material for the album
• Piano Wire was recorded before Hanneman's death and appears on the album
• Paul Bostaph was announced as the permanent replacement for Dave Lombardo

Recording

• Writing began in November 2011, announced by Lombardo through Twitter
• Recorded and mixed at Henson Studios in Hollywood, CA; mastered at Howie Weinberg Mastering, Los Angeles
• Implode was offered as a free download on April 24, 2014, Slayer's first song in five years

Cover

• Cover artwork by Marcelo Vasco; photography by Andrew Stuart

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · pt.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com

Tracklist

Disc 1

Disc 2

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Formed in 1981 in Huntington Park, California by Kerry King, Jeff Hanneman, Dave Lombardo and Tom Araya.
• Started by playing covers of Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and Venom at parties and clubs in Southern California.
• Signed with Metal Blade Records after the song "Aggressive Perfector" appeared on Metal Massacre III.

Members

• Current lineup: Kerry King, Tom Araya, Paul Bostaph and Gary Holt; Holt joined in 2011 and became permanent after Hanneman's death in 2013.
• Former members include drummers Dave Lombardo (left three times) and Jon Dette.

Career

• Released twelve studio albums, including Reign in Blood (1986), widely described as one of the most influential thrash metal albums.
• Christ Illusion (2006) won a Grammy for "Eyes of the Insane", the band's first Grammy-related recognition.
• Disbanded in 2019 after a farewell tour and reunited for sporadic shows from 2024.
• Considered one of the "Big Four" of thrash metal alongside Metallica, Megadeth and Anthrax.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Repentless received generally positive reviews from critics, according to the English-language article
• Exclaim! critic Greg Pratt wrote that the album isn't going to be one of the classic Slayer albums, but still has plenty of good thrash
• Spectrum Culture's J.C. Maçek III wrote that Slayer not only has something new to say on Repentless, but a new way to say it
• AllMusic writer Thom Jurek gave the album three out of five stars, calling it a retro, workmanlike effort
• The Guardian stated that Slayer have always been a model of consistency
• Spin's Kim Kelly called the album middling and said it mostly falls flat

Records

• Debuted at number 4 on the US Billboard 200, the band's highest-charting debut in its native country
• Sold 49,000 copies in its first week
• Fell to number 34 in its second week, selling 11,000 copies
• Sold over 80,000 copies in the US seven weeks after release
• Topped the chart in Germany
• Reached the top ten of almost twenty charts around the world

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · pt.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The album featured one song, "Piano Wire", that was written by Hanneman prior to his passing.
• A behind-the-scenes mini-documentary on the making of the title track's music video was released a few days before the album came out.
• The album is the only one the band released on Nuclear Blast.
• The Spanish-language article notes that the album opens with the band's first completely instrumental song, Delusions Of Saviour, which serves as an intro to Repentless.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · pt.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org · fr.wikipedia.org

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