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GasmaskAvenger
my 2nd least favorite Slayer album. Better than GHUA but you can clearly tell the songwriting is really tired and stale on this one, plus for some reason, the usually trusty Terry Date turns in a shockingly bad production job here (unless things got fucked in the mixing/mastering stage)...even moreso considering his remix of Pantera's Reinventing the Steel from several years later is sooooo damn good.
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PeteKropotkin
The lyrics for this album feels like an edgy teen wrote them. The rest just sounds like Kerry King B-sides.
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MisterJunior
More than likely the final album Slayer will ever make. Not terrible, but nothing like a masterpiece, and definitely close to the bottom tier of Slayer records, IMO-- in fact, I would say other than maybe God Hates Us All it's probably my least favorite of their LPs. Jeff was always the best songwriter in the band, so his absence (aside from "Piano Wire," which he wrote) is of course felt in that department in addition to his dying as a fairly young man being just a tragedy in general. Anyway, re: the album, it's to Slayer's eternal credit that they've never released an album I would consider to be truly bad, even if this is not one I'll ever really get the urge to listen to very often.
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CRUNCH_TOWN
I actually like both Repentless and God Hates Us All. My least favorite would probably be Diabolus in Musica.
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Idiots-Rule
Did not think much about it when it was released a year ago. Mediocre maybe, but no other thoughts pretty much. Listening to it right now again, I really dig it. But then I've mostly listened to Slayer post-"Seasons..." as of late. Really like the production on this one, anyway. Much better than the shity Death Magnetic-sounding World Painted Blood and the also rather aweful Rick Rubin-sounding Christ Illusion. That cat just lost his magic behind the board in the 2000's. Slayer did the right thing getting rid of him by now.
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Idiots-Rule
Yeah, Tony Iommi said the exact same thing about Rubin when they worked with him on 13. Corey Taylor also called Rubin overpaid or something on Blabbermouth a while back. That really seems to be the case with him.
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Chrilu
I think he's still resting on the laurels of his very early hands. He was lucky to sign big selling bands like Beastie Boys, Public Enemy LL Cool J, Run DMC with Def Jam / Def American / American Recordings. Today, at least for the last 25 Years, he's doing good because of his "big name"... He started to regain new strength when he was able to bring back "The Man in Black", Johnny Cash.
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ABHORRANCE666
To me, Christ Illusion and World Painted Blood (Psycopathy Red is probably one of my all time favorite Slayer songs) were almost as good as South of Heaven and Seasons in the Abyss. I don't quite like Repentless as much as those albums, but I really do enjoy it more than most music. Slayer at their worst are better than most other bands. And this isn't Slayers worst (that would be Diabolous). Production does suck ass (Greg Fidelman needs to be banned from mixing). The album is chock-full of signature killer Slayer riffs, with a huge flaw; Kerry King neglected to write/record a single harmony (aside from the intro) to accompany these riffs (something that would have never happened with Hanneman). Listen to the old and new version of Atrocity Vendor for an example of this. Overall song structures are cool, lots of speed, and groove combined. Gary Holt, while being minimally included, has some sweet-as-fuck solos. You Against You is a shred fest!!!!
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