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Joel Barrios

  • Assistant Editor, Photographer, and Journalist, Metal Injection
  • Founder, Photography That Rocks
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The 10 Best SLAYER Songs of the 21st Century

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Slayer spent the 1990s in a genuinely uncertain place, a decade some members have since admitted was creatively uneven, solidified by 1998's nu-metal-adjacent Diabolus in Musica. What followed was a genuine reawakening: four studio albums across fifteen years that rediscovered the band's classic thrash foundations while pushing into territory the '80s-era Slayer never touched: war trauma, religious extremism, serial killers, and the band's own mortality.
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No Producer, No Plan, Nine Days: How SLAYER Made 'God Hates Us All' 25 Years Ago, Before Everything Changed

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Slayer's ninth studio album, released Sept. 11, 2001, marked a deliberate return to the band's classic thrash foundations after a decade some members have since described as creatively uneven. Guitarist Kerry King later reflected bluntly on the album's origins in an interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal: "That's the only time in my life I let it get to me, and you can tell by the way God Hates Us All came out, with fucking guns blazing.
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Converge's fourth studio album, released in September of 2001 through Equal Vision Records, arrived at a genuine inflection point for the Boston band. Recorded across a three-month stretch spanning Q Division Studios, GodCity Studio, and Fort Apache Studios, and produced by Matthew Ellard alongside guitarist Kurt Ballou, the sessions came together as the band's lineup was itself in flux.
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