Album Rating: 4.0

Slayer are reliable, you know what you are getting.

Album Rating: 2.5

lol what

Album Rating: 4.0

Trying to get into the mind of the common sputniker.

Album Rating: 4.0

Rofl

Album Rating: 4.0

That's my point, I like that same repetitive shit.

Album Rating: 4.0

And so do I, but a little variation is welcome.

Album Rating: 1.5

Awesome Review.

Album Rating: 3.5

The new Slayer isn't that bad, but it also isn't that great.



They've certainly done better.

Album Rating: 3.0

Listened to the album on myspace. It's guud. Being Slayer, it doesn't have to be anything new and spectacular (though it's nice when it is). It just has to be Slayer. And this is Slayer.



Also Bostaph > Lombardo



"New Faith" off GHUA = best Slayer song ever IMO



RIB, SintA, and GHUA = peaks of each of Slayer's periods; = best albums

Album Rating: 5.0

what the fuck oblivious user

Album Rating: 4.0

Bostaph is a great drummer, but Dave is way above him. GHUA is like the low point of Slayer's career...I mean I enjoy some various nu-metal every now and then but c'mon

Album Rating: 3.0

Lombardo drumming fits Slayer's music much more effectively than Bostaph. It's simpler and easier to digest, especially his ride jams.

EXIIIIIIIIIIIILEEEEEE EXIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILEEEEEE

Now wasn't that a nice song

Album Rating: 3.0

Bostaph turns any thrash band into more than they are. Testament's new album w him (IMO) is their best, largely because of his drumming. Forbidden ruled. Can't wait to get the Exodus record he's on even though half the lineup is gone!



GHUA is not that nu-metal. Diabolous is. I don't care for nu-metal much. Exile's awesome. I'll admit sometimes the lyrics on GHUA are a little self-deprecating - which is annoying. Emo even. But the music blasts me harder than any other thrash album.



"[Lombardo's] drumming is simpler and easier to digest." Case in point.

"Bostaph turns any thrash band into more than they are. Testament's new album w him (IMO) is their best, largely because of his drumming. Forbidden ruled. Can't wait to get the Exodus record he's on even though half the lineup is gone!"

Yeah, that and a 80% return of the original line up helped, especially the return of Skolnick.
And Bostaph's records with Slayer are some of their worst.

Album Rating: 2.0

Bostaph>Lombardo

Album Rating: 2.0

I think that if Slayer had tried doing something different with this album then people would just bash the fact that they "sold out" or they were trying to do things that Slayer should never attempt. Yet, when they put out a typical "Slayer" album then everyone bashes it for not trying anything different.



Do we really want Slayer to incorporate clean interludes ala Opeth? Do we want them using dissonance and noise-core ala Converge? Do we want 10-minute prog jam sessions like BTBAM?



Fuck no. I bought this album because I like fucking Slayer and fucking Slayer is what I got. No, it's not a genre-defining album like Reign in Blood. No, it's not the thrash perfection (minus the guitar tone) of Seasons in the Abyss. But it is a piece of lean, mean, visceral thrash metal. And in the end, isn't that what we all expected?

Album Rating: 2.0

I don't want any of those things from Slayer either, but they good at least try to come up with something they haven't done before



calling this album "new" is a disgrace

Album Rating: 2.0

So, what would you suggest they try?

Trip hop ftw