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: #121950 in Music
• Released on: 2002-07-15
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Enhanced, Explicit Lyrics, Extra tracks
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

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

CD 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.

Customer Reviews

awesome
slayer have taken the great diabolous in msica and created a darker atmosphere with some hard hitting lyrics that are bound to disturb some holy joes out there. the individual tracks are all fantastic from the initial opener 'disciple', to the intense 'here comes the pain'. I believe slayer have found something that they are very good at and have stuck to it. i think that slayer have gone out to prove a point with this album, which is we might be getting on a bit ( but any band would like an 18 year history like these guys) we can still do it harder and faster than all of these ''nu -metal'' bands out there, who are all crap anyway!

Brilliant, as a whole album possibly the best...
I strongly disagree with meny of the things people have said about this album.

Firstly, I think the album is full of classics. Notably "Disciple", "Exile", "Bloodline" and also "Threshold".

The lyrical content of the album is also amazing. People stab at it sying they're being contrversial for the sake of it. Maybe, but that's what slayer have always done ("Angel of Death" isn't the most PC song now is it), and that's what make them great. Particularly "New Faith", i found some of the lines in the song to be thoroughly thought-provoking.

I don't think the change to 7 string has changed the music either, it does sound lower but then it still sounds like slayer.

I think this album could have easily followed on from Seasons (I wish it had) and there would have been no problem. And as an album I think it's brilliant, every song is brilliant. Some of the earlier albums bored me in places (Reign in Blood's middle section for example).

It's also still thrash, "Disciple" and "Exile" rate up with "Raining Blood", "Hell Awaits" and "At Dawn they Sleep".

I'd definitely recommend buying it and listning to it at least 5 times before making a judgement (it took me a while to like it, and now...:) )

This really is no holds barred......
Slayer; how to see Slayer....could they be the total and complete obsessives about their anti-religion attitude, who write songs about pain and murder and the like? Or could the be the band who write some of the fastest, exhilerating, heart-pumping, scream-along thrash metal the world has ever seen...who write songs about pain and murder and the like?

Well in the majority of cases it could be both, but the latter should always remain at the top. And going on their latest shall we say, 'flourish', the attention grabbingly titled, "God Hates Us All", they put a stamp on it. A great big metal one with no frills, virutally no melody and vocals that only the devil himself could possibly be sponsoring...and this is a stone cold classic of latter day thrash metal.

The aforementioned vocals are one of many highlights of the album with vocalist, Araya, screaming like a man possessed and like he never has before. The next thing that hits you are those huge riffs that just don't give up...so if you really don't want to hear songs that just pound at your skull, forget this. Particular strong tracks which feature the best of both these worlds, although they all do, would be the minute-and-a-half opener 'Darkness Of Christ', the straight to the point, 'Disciple', the rollicking 'Threshold' (possible one of Slayer's more under-rated songs), 'Exile' and the single 'Bloodline'.

The thing that ran through me, bar the sweat down my back was the sheer thought that these guys should be coming up to collecting thier official rock star pension books, and you question how the hell (quite the apt word) they can put out something this heavy, this battering, this bruising, and dare I say it...their heaviest album to date? Many think so including myself.

This is the same old Slayer that ripped the world of rock apart with the unbelieable, 'Reign In Blood', in 1986...1986...that's 17 years ago. Slayer have been going for more than 20 years and they've barely changed a bit, nor have they needed to (Although many see their last album as pretty different but forget any worries that it is the same as that...as the sticker on the front cover of my copy says, it, 'combines the combative fury of Divine Intervention, the sinister groove of, Diabolos In Musica, and the speed of Reign In Blood). As we enter a new generation, it's nice to see that some things never change.

Thank God...although he hates us all, but obviously loves Slayer.

5 Stars.