Product Description

'God Hates Us All' is the follow up to Slayer's last album 'Diabolus In Musica' which was released in 1998. Incorporates thrash metal with punk and hardcore influences such as Black Flag and The Exploited. Slayer are credited with inventing metal alongside Anthrax, and Metallica. This collectors edition includes previously unreleased bonus tracks, interviews, and videos.

Track Listing

1. Darkness Of Christ
2. Disciple
3. God Send Death
4. New Faith
5. Cast Down
6. Threshold
7. Exile
8. Seven Faces
9. Bloodline
10. Deviance
11. War Zone
12. Scarstruck (Bonus Track)
13. Here Comes The Pain
14. Payback
15. Addict (Bonus Track)
16. Darkness Of Christ (DVD Intro)
17. Bloodline (Video)
18. Raining Blood (Video Live)
19. Interview / B-Roll Footage

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #82206 in Music
• Released on: 2002-07-15
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Enhanced, Explicit Lyrics

Amazon.co.uk Review
On first listening to God Hates Us All, one immediately fears a terrible regression to the Slayer who were so desperate to shock that their lyrics became nothing more than a dull catalogue of historical evil-doings and painful ways to die, and whose sound was reduced to an annoying, structure-less buzzing, lacking all weight and power. After the introductory "Darkness of Christ", the band burst into "Disciple", an enraged howl backed by a mean riff that increases in momentum till the guitars begin to blur. But, thankfully, there's a saving grace: the drums, though searingly fast in their rolls, don't attempt to out-run the over-heating guitars. Consequently, Slayer never lose control, retaining their heaviness and vitality as the tom-tom rumble of "New Faith" leads them into "Bloodline", with its chopping "Children of the Grave"-style riff and electric shriek of a solo. Here's a further improvement--Slayer's solos are always brief, brutal shudderings, often, as in ! "Here Comes The Pain", sounding like some creature being quickly killed. The vocals too are notable in their refusal to descend to a bog-standard metal grunt (such a silly affectation). Though they occasionally lapse into predictable rap & grind ("Cast Down"), Slayer and producer Matt Hyde have kept this album true to the band's raison d'etre--it's shockingly heavy. --Dominic Wills

Customer Reviews

Crushing brutal heavy noise. You know you want to
It has to be tough for slayer. This is the band who defined what a certain brand of metal sounded like, even what it could sound like. Reign in Blood was the record I wanted to hear in 1986. It was the yard stick by which I measured not just metal, but all extreme/noise music. I spent years trying to find another record that would give me that same hit. Now here is that record.

Nothing inbetween has offered that same visceral brutality. Like Reign in Blood this is an album that takes my breath away, I find myself listening to a track, then replaying it, just to relive the sensation. It somehow leaves me feeling clean, in the same way that you feel purged after a fist fight, not clever, but in touch with something elemental.

Maybe the involvement of Rick Rubin in Production has something to do with this being so good. But it bears no relation to the work he did on Reign in Blood, There is more meat on the bones of this record, Where before you were flayed, now you're bludgeoned. It can be no accident that for Slayers two best records, Rubin's been at the controls

I'm not sure if this is really much of a metal album, It seems closer to the rage of classic hardcore, like black flag. And this has to be a good thing, to distance yourself from the overblown nonsense, of lycra, of viking helmets, and get closer to a music that is generated by common experience, life as lived. Daunting and hate-filled. And by doing this slayer remain relevant. They stand shoulder to shoulder with the generation of bands they inspired. Listen to them next to DFA1979, Sunn0))) or Boris and they don't sound wanting, and a league apart from the nu-metal pretenders to the crown. Could you say that of Slayers 1986 contemporaries? Back then, in thrash, there were a few bands that really mattered, that were leading the way. Amongst those bands two really stood up beside Slayer; Metallica and Anthrax, at least in terms of profile. Anthrax who? As for Corporate, the kids castigating, the man sucking off, Metallica: have you seen the car crash that is Some Kind of Monster? I'm not one to knock Metallica of course. They are a business like any other, like Pepsi-Cola or IBM, as that hilarious movie made clear. That they are whinging, lazy, bullying, trend chasing, pompous and boring isn't their fault. But Slayer they are not. But it is worth noting that while Metallica disappeared up their collective arse to make St Anger, an awful record, Slayer seemingly distilled their essence for me God Hates Us All. Punk was supposed to kill off the rock dinosaurs, the bloated ego's, wasted excesses and useless self indulgence. Slayer are punk to Metallica's Dinosaur.

I'LL KILL YOU AND YOUR DREAMS TONIGHT
God hates us all is slayers 9th album and is certainly in the top 5 of that list easily,its an album thats full of the usual spite,rage and anger at the world and where the album title is controversial kerry king says its just a statement about having a bad day,a day when you feel god is against you,explain that to your parents if they ask readers.
Strangely as a matter of coincidence the album was released on the day of september 11 2001 when america fell to its knees due to terror,but thats just a coincidence so lets not go wild on that just yet.
The album was warmely recieved after a few poor slayer releases and songs like disciple,god send death,seven faces and the excellent bloodlines showcase this album to be something special,its certainly an album that is full of speedy riffs,good helpings of melody and arayas vocals tug at your soul like a demon staring through the trapdoor,all in all another slayer album that refuses to sell out so get stuck in.

Total aggression - Amazing guitars
This was released on Sept 11th 2001. An interesting day on which to release these nasty sounds of disiilusion and anger. Of course, Slayer are coming at it all from a right-wing republican POV but that isn't always so very different from the radical Islamist agenda either. Slayer are, first and foremost, disappointed/angry Conservatives, despite all the references to Satan.

This album rips it up from the very beginning though. This is what I love about Slayer - they take some punky riffs and tempos and just distort the whole thing way beyond sanity but never beyond their own amazing control. There are some duff songs on here I think (hence the 4) but that is nothing unusual on all Slayer albums since RIB - all albums from SOH onwards have contained a few weaker tracks, often on the second side - once the initial assault has conquered you things tend to ease off.

It's worth noting that the production on this is fantastic, in my opinion. Some other relatively recent Slayer albums (I'm thinking of Divine Intervention in particular) have been dulled by some really lame and unimaginative production. GHUA however sounds as raw and angry as anything I have heard. I have listened to it a thousand times and it still retains a raw violent edge and a lot of the credit has to go to the producer as they have done a great job of capturing the Slayer rage.

So, in conclusion, definitely worth checking out. Not really pushing musical boundaries (what do you expect from Slayer?) but doing the Slayer thing brilliantly.