Has anyone noticed that the "coming soon" lists at the bottom of these posts don't match the actual reviews I do? Group 5 and Aquaboogie reviews are coming soon. They're just harder to write than a review for:
Christ Illusion by Slayer
Slayer - Christ Illusion
To be honest, I haven't paid any attention to Slayer since Seasons in the Abyss, mostly because that was the last album they released while I was at school - Slayer was popular at Naenae College. As it turns out, Christ Illusion is the first album since Seasons with the original line-up. So I can't comment on the supposed "return to form" of this album, because I missed the supposed "fall from lack of grace".
What I can say is that if you love Slayer, you'll probably love this (though there are always curmudgeons), and if you hate Slayer you'll probably never listen to this.
What we have here is 10 songs making up about 38 minutes of pure aggression and hate. Slayer's usual subject is "God sucks, Christianity is evil, religion kills." The War On Terror (TWOT) provides them with an all-new focus for their aggro screaming, as they skewer both Christianity and Islam, though to be honest they seem a little softer on Islam - they bash God and Jesus specifically but never single out Allah and Mohammed.
Crap guitar solos are such a Slayer standard that they're quite endearing at this point. This is mostly heavy slabs of thrash. I loved it. Maybe you will too.
Highly recommended to people who like this sort of thing. It's the Album of the Week at Tower right now, bless their burnt-black corporate evil hearts.
Posted by pearce at August 11, 2006 12:44 PMI heard it playing in one of the big Tower shops in Tokyo too... quite a giggle, the vast majority of shoppers presumably completely oblivious to the angry shoutings about Jesus being the root of evil and whatever else.
Posted by: michael at August 13, 2006 2:57 AM