It was long due from Indian fans…here’s a track by track experience felt on Slayer’s ‘World painted blood’. The opening/title track is an onslaught of evil, blood & death to the world. A minute into the song a diabolical beginning riff unfolds into a punkish doom climate. It has an overture from likes of ‘seasons’ meeting ‘diabolous’ era. ‘Like a disease spreading death. Erasing your existence‘, one of the wickedest /uncanny verse is sung over a double paddle & gentle bass. This disproportionately expands into an ‘Araya’ scream from the middle earth to ending the war of the world.

‘Unit 731‘ a title picked from covert biological & chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese army, slayer on this one are fast, manic, bouncy, and real thrash lords. A 40 second solo split by Hanneman’s & King riding on a thunderous galloping riff is the pavement to ‘Snuff ‘A repeat phenomena is observed during last segment where rather than splitting the solos they mesh like tight whips never experienced by a slayer junkie before. This number is all about slayer fan rediscovering Slayer during a ‘reign in blood’ or ‘south of heaven’. The veterans aren’t tired, aren’t jaded & faded. ‘Beauty through order‘ has a lizard riff movement; the sound is a perfectly dark, gloomy, evil & far-spread. During the groove parts guitars become unrestrained, unrelenting assault of destruction. You will be hooked to those snake solos.

Mid-way ‘Hate worldwide‘ draws attention towards Mr.Lomabrdo, as he’s as repetitive as he was on the snare a couple of decades ago, crisp, perfect punching masterpiece on the pedals. Track 6 ‘Public display of dismemberment‘ is a storm of hate enthroned upon you with a lethal double base effect on the drums; bass tapping is in synch with the drilling thrash riffs. Its so much of a plug effect, it feels as if Slayer want to drill down dismemberment drive right from your cerebrum to the asshole. Next track ‘Human stain‘ is slow, creepy, dispelling a haunting of SLAYERRR! Conventional easy riffing is the USP as the core Slayer elements are retained with full originality. While this song is playing one actually start believing in slayerism…that’s so fresh even after 2 full decades of aggression. Mean, meaner & meanest it grows with size as it moves from scratch to finish on this one.

‘Americon‘ is a politically motivated offering, not that slayer hasn’t done it in the past, for the band it becomes like beating the same bush by bringing ‘oil & Iraq’ into lyrics at this juncture. Very whimsical of slayer in this period when they have sung about similar stuff on ‘God Hates Us all’ etc. ‘Psychopathy Red‘ is lightening in nature, it moves from patch to patch leaping & climbing metres.This song has Tom pushing himself right till the edge of delivery during the finishing stages. Drum rotations & intermediate boiling solos of King make it one of the hardest song to rehearse & play over & over again.’Playing with the dolls‘ is a perfect sing along during any slayer live performance, pre-cursor to the first interlude has all slow sing along elements of genocide.’Die infront of me….Die infront of me….Die infront of me….’ And the plagues caused by Jeff rhythms are blends of a cult creation & the thrash holocausts on the final stages of the track calls for a cult following.

Like any Slayer album closure ‘Not of this God‘ is the food for your ultimate uplift from the modern thrash, its historic, its bred in a battlefield, a rising that can’t be controlled. ‘World painted blood’ is a masterpiece by the masters who have mastered the art of mastercraft over the last 26 years. Place it in your rack forever!