{"id":12245,"date":"2001-09-11T00:00:45","date_gmt":"2001-09-11T00:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=12245"},"modified":"2013-06-01T17:50:50","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T17:50:50","slug":"album-review-slayer-god-hates-us-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-slayer-god-hates-us-all\/","title":{"rendered":"SLAYER – God Hates Us All (2001) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

SLAYER
God Hates Us All<\/strong><\/span>
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\nAmerican Recordings (2001)<\/span>
Rating: 4.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Slayer<\/a> moved into the new millennium equipped with too many nu-metal notions, armed to the teeth with child-like obscenity, and unknowingly provided a soundtrack to the terrible Manhattan terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n

God Hates Us All<\/em> is a rampant 13-track opus that was originally going to be called Soundtrack To The Apocalypse<\/em>, which, like many of guitarist Kerry King\u2019s song titles, sounds like something you\u2019d associate with an American wrestling extravaganza.<\/p>\n

Musically, it\u2019s a record that attempts to be pissed off and violent yet without effect. Sure, the guitars hurtle at a rattling pace, Tom Araya screams like a banshee, and Paul Bostaph (who left Slayer after the release of the album) batters the crap out of his skins. However, since the atrocious Diabolus In Musica<\/em><\/a> (1998) Slayer were struggling to find themselves after the sickly nu-metal invasion, their only reaction to go hell for leather on this one, in turn producing a record that isn\u2019t fit to be on the bottom of Reign In Blood<\/em>\u2019s (1986) shoes, let alone lace them.<\/p>\n

Slayer may have recorded a brutal album in God Hates Us All<\/em>, but as proven with the follow-up, Christ Illusion<\/em> in 2006, they could probably churn this sort of tripe out all year, and I\u2019m pretty sure that a number of metal fans would lap this sort of extremity up \u2013 but again, we must hearken back to those glorious days of Reign In Blood<\/em>, South Of Heaven<\/em><\/a> (1988) and Seasons In The Abyss<\/em> (1990) to truly judge how poor this record is.<\/p>\n

The fact is, there is nothing here that stands out. It\u2019s Slayer pissed off and yet lacking ideas, with the expected topics of murder, religion, revenge and anti-Christian themes running throughout, but these type of subjects and the over-the-top riffs does not always amount to extremity. For instance, Kerry King\u2019s guitar crunch is so un-Slayer like, but then again we got used to this on Diabolus In Musica<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Lyrically, the record reeks of naivety rather than insanity, and although Bostaph does a fantastic job at bolstering tracks such as \u2018God Send Death\u2019 and \u2018Deviance\u2019 this album is clearly King\u2019s baby, and with titles short and sweet (\u2018Disciple\u2019, \u2018Exile\u2019 and \u2018Warzone\u2019) each of these angry subjects merely flash by at an almost laughable pace, all the while spitting harmless venom.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m guessing King had spent too much time listening to Slipknot, because those choppy riffs and blunt Araya statements are some of Slayer\u2019s least potent ingredients. The hilariously titled \u2018Payback\u2019 and \u2018Here Comes The Pain\u2019 are prime examples of attempts at \u201cin-your-face\u201d metal, the band refusing to let up with their bloodshed, but not once does the blade embed itself into the flesh.<\/p>\n

Although different in sound to Diabolus In Musica<\/em>, God Hates Us All<\/em>, for me anyway, is another dead-end Slayer record which signified a real low period for the band. Some of the Slipknot (who Slayer rather bizarrely toured with) fans may well have welcomed this, but I still hope and pray that those of higher intellect and with a true heart for Slayer would have seen this record for exactly what it is; a pile of noisy trash with Kerry King\u2019s bald-headed aggression running right through it.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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