SLAYER - Repentless (11 Septembre)

Droom a écrit:Slayer d'été ? Encore ? Punaise ! Je dois modifier tous les bidules électroniques et retoucher aux montres ? Pfff...

Cedric a écrit:Ca me fait penser à un titre à la fin, c'est quoi ? "Seasons" ? "South Of Heaven" ?

Kerry King says he has considered putting out a solo album – but insists he couldn't allow anything to take his focus away from Slayer.

The guitarist is a prolific riff writer and thought about using some of his material outside of the band, but changed his mind. He tells Rolling Stone: "There's plenty of people that I considered doing it with, but I have to have Slayer covered before I consider anything like that."

Slayer's 11th album is due for release later this year. It is the follow-up to 2009's World Painted Blood and their first without late guitarist Jeff Hanneman.

The band last year released a new track called Implode, and at the weekend issued When The Stillness Comes for Record Store Day. Versions of both songs will appear on the upcoming album.

And King has also revealed some of the other track titles – Take Control, Chasing Death, You Against You, Cast The First Stone, Pride and Vices.

He describes You Against You as "very punky" and says Cast The First Stone was inspired by a walk around the city of Athens and thinking of the historic battles that took place there. He adds: "It's just about battle, not a particular battle. You cast the first stone, I'm gonna win."

On Vices, he says: "Vices is one of my favourite heavier ones. I can't wait to play that one live. It's gonna be off the charts. You're gonna love it."

After Hanneman's death, and the sacking of drummer Dave Lombardo, Kerry knows the band will have to win over some sceptical fans. But he is ready for the hate.

"I know there's gonna be naysayers," he says. "I know there's gonna be people expecting us to fail, because so many things changed in the last six years. I'm prepared for that because I know humans are just retards when they get on the internet. But I know we put a good product together. I'm proud of it."

SLAYER has set "Repentless" as the title of its new album, due worldwide on Friday, September 11 via Nuclear Blast.

In a recent interview with U.K.'s Metal Hammer magazine, SLAYER guitarist Kerry King spoke about some of the individual tracks that will appear on the long-awaited follow-up to 2009's "World Painted Blood".

"There's a couple of songs that are going to be on it that the fans might know," he said. "'Atrocity Vendor' was released in the States on the B-side of some single [a limited vinyl edition of 'World Painted Blood'], so now it's 'Atrocity Vendor 2015'. It's completely re-recorded. It's got new leads, new vocals, Paul [Bostaph] playing drums ... it's pretty cool. There's a brand new version of 'Implode' [which was recorded in 2014 and given away for free] on there. The version of 'When The Stillness Comes' is brand new compared to the single [that came] out [for last month's Record Store Day]."

He continued: "The first song is called 'Repentless' and that one's pretty much... I call it the Hannemanthem! I wrote that for [late SLAYER guitarist] Jeff [Hanneman]. Oh, dude, it's fast as fuck. You don't know what the fuck's coming! [Laughs] A song called 'Vices' is on there somewhere. It's super heavy. It'll pummel you in the face. 'Take Control''s another fast one. 'Cast The First Stone''s another heavy one."

King added: "There's 12 songs on it, one being the intro, one being 'Implode', one being 'Atrocity Vendor' and one being 'When The Stillness Comes', but every version of those songs you may have heard before is different, so I think that's cool, but I also wanted them to be part of a collection. I like the finality of songs belonging on a record. It's probably about 40 or 45 minutes, maybe less. We did 'God Hates Us All' and we put every song we had at the time on the record because that was the trendy thing to do, but as soon as we did that, I vowed never to do it again. I grew up with 10-song albums."

Asked it it was his aim to make "When The Stillness Comes" sound like something Hanneman might have written, Kerry responded: "That one came out surprisingly good."

He continued: "If you know our history, I never did the clean or spooky stuff. That was always Jeff. It was the one thing musically that was just his. I'd do the crazy, punky fast stuff arnd he'd do the moody stuff. So 'When The Stillness Comes' was my first attempt and it gave me goose bumps. I thought, 'This is pretty fuckin' good!'"

Asked how they respond to suggestions that the current lineup of SLAYER — which features drummer Paul Bostaph and guitarist Gary Holt — "isn't really SLAYER anymore," SLAYER bassist/vocalist Tom Araya said: "In the past, the fans have always known what to expect. But now they don't know what to expect.

"We've tried to reassure them that they're going to get SLAYER ... and that's what they're getting!

"The way social media is, it's all instant, so the response will be immediate this time."

He continued: "It'll be interesting to see what the first, initial reactions are. That all adds to the emotions I'm feeling this time round."

Added Kerry: "I don't pay attention to anything on the Internet. I don't have any social media, because of that stupid horseshit. It's just people spouting off.

"If those people could hear [the upcoming SLAYER] record and say, 'Man, it's horseshit!' then I'd be stunned. I'm very excited."

SLAYER's eleventh studio album will be released on the band's own as-yet-unnamed label through Nuclear Blast.

SLAYER will tour extensively to support the new album, headlining this summer's Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival as well as playing other major outdoor festivals and several "An Evening With..." SLAYER-only concerts.

The new album marks the first time SLAYER has worked with producer Terry Date (PANTERA, SOUNDGARDEN, DEFTONES). It is also SLAYER's first CD since Bostaph's return to the band in 2013 and guitarist Gary Holt's addition to the SLAYER touring lineup in 2011.

On what the hardest part was about making "Repentless":

Kerry: "I think moving forward, with the passing of [co-founding SLAYER guitarist] Jeff [Hanneman in May 2013], that was the hardest thing. I mean, we had a lot of advertisty since the last record by all means. I think, at the end of day, we had to learn how to be SLAYER again, in just a different circumstance. The first tour… I mean, yeah, we had been playing with [current SLAYER guitarist] Gary Holt [since 2011], but that was under the assumption that, at some point, Jeff would probably come back. And with the finality of Jeff not coming back, we had to see what it was like moving forward, 'cause we never had to do that. I think it was just feeling it out, I think, more for Tom and myself."


Tom: "In this band, the relationships between me and Jeff was very different than me and Kerry. It was very easy to have communication and dialog with Jeff, and not so easy with Kerry — at least between me and Kerry. And I think that has a lot to do with personalities, how we are as people. We're very 'black and white,' when you compare the two of us."

On whether the band ever contemplated calling it quits:

Kerry: "I always wanted to move forward, because this is my job; this is what I've been doing since I was seventeen. I don't know any other job. I don't know what else I would do. I don't wanna find out what I would have to do if this went away."

Tom: "We let each other know how we felt and where we stood about certain things, and we agreed that we should keep the line of communication open between us too [laughs], and that's how it's been. But, I mean, we decided that, 'All right. If things can change, if things can get better between the two of us, then let's move forward, let's go ahead and do this record."

On the writing and recording process for "Repentless":

Kerry: "You know, and then it was just getting the songs together, finding the time to record, feeling comfortable with the entire… everything about the album. And we got it done. I'm very proud of the record. I think it's everything the naysayers say it won't be."

Tom: "We started this with a different producer at the time, and everybody was involved — and including… you know, that would be Jeff and Dave [Lombardo, original drummer]. Then it paused. And then we picked it up again almost a year and a half later with a different producer. And it allowed time for songs to evolve, music to evolve. And when we had the finished product, I was, like, 'Oh my God! This is actually really good.' I was really surprised. You know what I mean?! 'Cause I'm not… I preferred the writing… music style of one more than the other. You know what I mean?! And, in all honesty, I wasn't sure how it was gonna be, where it was gonna go."

On SLAYER's musical evolution:

Kerry: "I don't wanna evolve. I don't think our fans want us to evolve. I think the fans want us to be SLAYER and just make up the next batch of songs that make 'em wanna sing along, make 'em wanna beat people up, make 'em wanna thrash, make 'em wanna do circle pits, make 'em wanna crowdsurf, and I think we've achieved that."

Tom: "SLAYER has evolved… lyrically has evolved. We've matured as lyricists. 'Cause when we started writing stuff, it was about demons and devils. And then we moved that into more of a… society… the demons and devils of society. And that's what we've matured to. Every time we work on a new record, we don't really progress, we just write great songs for every record, and I think that's the important thing."

On whether fans can look forward to more SLAYER albums in the future after "Repentless":

Kerry: "I'm not done by any means. I haven't really talked to Tom about it, but this recording cycle, we had so much material, we've recorded probably another six songs beyond this record. And the reason they're not done, we didn't write lyrics for 'em yet. In my eyes, we're halfway towards another record, so I would love to have one, if not two more, after this. And that's just… You know, we're getting to a point in our lives where you don't know how many more you've got. So I would hope for one... two… three. It just depends how quickly we get 'em out. If there's another six-year gap, yeah, maybe one. [Chuckles]"

Tom: "Everything about this band is always in the now; it's on a day-to-day. It's never… We never set out and plan out what we plan to do for the future; we just take the day as it comes. Right now, it's great. The album we put together is really, really cool. I can't wait for people to hear it, because it's just… it's SLAYER — half of SLAYER, but it's still SLAYER."

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