![]() How many times can I say the riffs are good? Honestly, it's better off if you just listened to it. It's really difficult for me to describe the experience you get from this entire record. His fills are always great, but the drumming on this album is the best it's ever been, hands down. One of the best riffs they have ever written opens the record, and by the time Lombardo enters it's all over for every listener. This is where Slayer put their foot down and created something that was purely SLAYER, nothing more, nothing less. I know that I said Hell Awaits takes that point, but that was about writing extreme metal songs. This is where Slayer peaked, both in terms of performance and writing songs. You owe it to yourselves, as fans of the band, but more importantly, you owe it to Slayer for making your life so damn exciting. Don't you feel the shivers up your spine when the instrumental that opens the record starts playing? Can you hear the riff change after the second chorus of "Take Control"? Doesn't your blood start pumping at the end of Cast the First Stone? Repentless has a moment like that on every song, and you should start listening harder. You probably love this band as much as the next guy and I can bet you were disappointed four years ago, but trust me, there is ACTUAL good stuff to be found here. And guess what, I do, and we come to the next thing on the bucket list: open your ears. Tom, who I think we can all agree is the heart and soul of this group, was hit extremely hard by Hanneman's passing, but he wanted to keep going and make something the fans would love. They were probably facing huge doubts about themselves. The fact that they were able to make it as competent as it already is means, for me, an accomplishment by itself. ![]() First off, acknowledge the huge effort it meant for what was left of Slayer in 2015 to get their shit together long enough to record this. You need to do two things to understand my love for Repentless. It's extremely difficult for me to be impartial, since this is basically the first release I ever got truly excited for. Let's begin.īefore I begin, make sure you understand that this album is one of the most important records ever for me. Here I'll do my best to rank 10 of their 12 albums, leaving behind the much disliked Diabolus In Musica and unoriginal Undisputed Attitude, two losses which I'm sure everyone will mostly be okay with since they would've served just to fill the bottom spots. Slowly, they managed to capture me somehow, but now with a much more detached (and less normie-approved) approach to their albums, I'm sure I can bring a pretty unique point of view on Slayer as a musical experience. It took a couple of years of exploring the depths of death metal, in my eternal mission to become the biggest musical caveman, until I was forced to boomerang back to these famous giants. It wasn't long before I found different types of metal to enjoy and I left Slayer behind, with a new found distaste for their whole music and image. There was a time when even I worshiped at the altar of Reign in Blood as the crowning achievement of extreme metal and considered the american unit to be the most evil and blasphemous group in history. Everybody has an opinion on them: you may find it appealing to carve their name on your flesh, you maybe enjoy their music a lot or you maybe hate their guts for being so popular and so simplistic in their ways at the same time. ![]() ![]() (74321_24849_2) are, for better or worse, a part of every metal fan's journey.
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