 | Slayer Divine Intervention
3.3
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| Ranking: #75 for 1994 | |
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| 4.0 excellent | Resident Metalhead Piranha | May 12th 17 |
Slayer nosedive into the mid 90's with the criminally underrated Divine Intevention and is perhaps their last excellent album in what followed a very hit-and-miss career. "Killing Fields" shreds and grooves a bit differently than previous works but is also very familiar at the same time while "Sex Murder Art" and "Dittohead" are brief and to the point thrashers, and the rest of the music resembles thrash with some underlying grooves. This results in some excellent material free of filler ("Serenity In Muder," the title track, and "213" are atmospheric and really good), and newcomer Paul Bostaph destroys his kit with the most frantic drumming ever featured on a Slayer record. The production takes some getting used to, but it's actually very fitting, and this is perhaps their swansong to consistently excellent material before descending into mediocrity.
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| 3.5 great | Barksdale | April 19th 23 |
Best Tracks: Killing Fields, Dittohead, Divine Intervention, Circle of Beliefs, 213, Mind Control.
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| 4.0 excellent | Elmo | January 12th 22 |
gud ablum
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| 2.5 average | Mitch | May 25th 21 |
Stunning quality drop you got here, Slayer. Good on you.
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| 3.0 good | GamamJ | April 14th 20 |
Alright Slayer album. Still good and very aggressive, but less organic than their previous efforts. Also, the production doesn?t help. It?s almost like it was produced by Rick Rubi...... Oh wait.
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| 3.0 good | ShaquilleONeal | April 20th 17 |
Out of all the bad Slayer albums, this one is the best. Its definitely a huge step down from
Seasons of Abyss, but its still not abysmal like their future albums.
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| 3.5 great | BRAman22 | May 15th 14 |
This is by no means a bad album, its just difficult to justify rating it any higher than a 3.5 since it is of lesser quality than all of the other releases that Slayer put out before it. The fact that they never play any songs off of it live also makes it a pretty irrelevant album.
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| 3.0 good | FirstStrikeIsDeadly | April 28th 14 |
The best songs are Killing Fields, Fictional Reality, Dittohead, the title track, and 213. Slayer went downhill starting with this album, and I'm sad to say that Diabolus in Musica and God Hates Us All both sucked the big one. However, the production isn't that bad, and I don't get why everyone rags on it.
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| 0.0 | RYMsfullofscenesters | October 9th 13 |
Kind of a half-hearted way to enter the 90s. It's like they were afraid of both being seen as stagnant and being seen as trend-hopping sellouts, so they calculated a middle road right between the classic Slayer sound and the emerging "groove metal" thing that didn't offend anybody. The consequence is that it doesn't excite anybody either.
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| 3.0 good | Fernando Alves STAFF | January 11th 12 |
One of my least favourite Slayer albums, however still has its moments.
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| 3.5 great | whackerinc | July 20th 07 |
Much like Testament's Low, this album is criminally underrated. Sure, the production on this should've been better because what we have here, is some top quality thrash. Plus, the muddy sound tarnishes what is, to me, Paul Bostaph's best Slayer performance. The dude's a machine! Check out the intro to Killing Fields. Tell me that's sloppy and I'll hit you with a pink shovel. One of my favourites is Fictional Reality. It has awesome riff and one of the coolest Slayer solo section. And, of coure, Dittohead, which is one of the fastest Slayer songs you'll ever hear. It's an all-out thrasher. The title track also deserves attention for its rather creepy lyrics and overall sound. Slayer have a gift for creating some of the best opening songs but their closing songs are no exception. Mind Control isn't Raining Blood, that's for sure, but what it lacks in epic grandeur, it makes it up with speed. Blistering fast and Bostaph really making an impact here. It's sad that people tend to overlook this but for those who don't, they'll have a fun time.
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| 3.0 good | bren732 | July 18th 07 |
This album isnt sh*t; but after being used to the sound SLAYER had with their previous albums, this album is way different. Yes, every SLAYER album has a different sound, but Divine Intervention has so much difference compared to the sound of its predecessor, Seasons in the Abyss. Also, SLAYER for the first time addresses politics directly with this album, in songs such as "Dittohead". And vocalist Tom Araya explores different styles of singing, as he screams his throat out in the title track, and lowers his voice with "Serenity in Murder". This is also the first album to feature drummer Paul Bostaph; to me he was good enough to replace Dave Lombardo, but matches nowhere close to Dave. If you are looking a follow up to Seasons, may i suggest Christ Illusion?
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