On June 6th, Hessians worldwide come together to do something upon which we can all agree - listening to SLAYER and in Sweden, we celebrate the National day along with SLAYER :)
International Day of SLAYER is celebrated annually on June 6th. This year marks the 18th annual International Day of Slayer.
Today's tune "Pride In Prejudice" is a piece taken from the twelfth and final studio album "Repentless" It was released on September 11, 2015, and is the band's only album recorded without Jeff Hanneman, who died from liver cirrhosis in 2013. Gary Holt replaces Hanneman as a guitarist. Drummer Paul Bostaph also makes his first appearance on a SLAYER album since 2001's "God Hates Us All". It is also the only one the band released on Nuclear Blast and was produced by Terry Date, replacing Rick Rubin after twenty-nine years and nine studio albums as their producer or executive producer. The six-year gap between World Painted Blood and Repentless was the longest between two SLAYER albums in their career. This would also be the band's final studio album before embarking on a farewell tour in 2018–2019 and eventually disbanding.
Three singles were released from the album: "Repentless," "You Against You" and "Pride In Prejudice".
"Pride In Prejudice" was the last song that SLAYER guitarist Kerry King put together musically for "Repentless". "There were like six or eight other songs already done with keeper drums, keeper guitars, and keeper bass," he told Artist Direct. "There were no leads or vocals because I had just gotten done writing music. 'Pride' was the last one I made up that actually made the record. I was going to save that for the next record because I was just done working at that point. Tom (Araya, vocals) wanted to work on it and I said, 'Sure man, knock yourself out.' He basically did the vocals on his own."
"That clean intro, I was just waiting for Paul (Bostaph drums) to come back inside," King continued. "I think he was outside on the phone at rehearsal. I was just d--king around on guitar playing that clean part. He asked, 'What's that?' I said, 'I don't know. I just made it up." That's how simple things become SLAYER songs. It's remember it, record it on something, and come back to it. That song's 'BLACK SABBATH Heavy.' That's what I call it, because it's just heavy as f--k."
"Tom had most of those lyrics for 20 years," he added. "I remember he wrote them for Divine Intervention. They never panned out. They show up here on this song. Yeah, it's a new record, but that s--t's 20-years-old." The video was directed by BJ McDonnell, who previously worked with Slayer on their "Repentless" and "You Against You" clips. The third of a trilogy, the gory clip shows the prisoner, played by Jason Trost, being forced to make a life-or-death choice in a basement filled with Nazi imagery.
"I'm particularly excited about this third video," said McDonnell, "because we played with stylistic differences with the trilogy. Where one video plays like an action film, this third one is more of a dramatic piece. The final story takes us into a world that is especially sinister in tone, with the dark and the light colliding. The conclusion is visually cinematic and harsh, with SLAYER conducting us through it all with "Pride In Prejudice".
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