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Slayer - Christ Illusion
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Artist...............: Slayer
Album................: Christ Illusion
Genre................: Thrash Metal
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 2006
Ripper...............: Exact Audio Copy (Secure mode) & NEC DVD±RW ND-3540A
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.2.1 20070917
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 85 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Tags.................: VorbisComment
Information..........:
Ripped by............: DaZD[N]KnFuZD on 22/02/2008
Posted by............: DaZD[N]KnFuZD on 11/09/2008
News Server..........: news.easynews.com
News Group(s)........: alt.binaries.sounds.lossless.metal
Included.............: NFO, LOG, PAR v2, CUE
Covers...............: Front
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Tracklisting
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1. (00:04:15) Slayer - Flesh Storm
2. (00:03:08) Slayer - Catalyst
3. (00:04:22) Slayer - Skeleton Christ
4. (00:03:23) Slayer - Eyes Of The Insane
5. (00:03:31) Slayer - Jihad
6. (00:03:08) Slayer - Consfearacy
7. (00:04:55) Slayer - Catatonic
8. (00:03:16) Slayer - Black Serenade
9. (00:04:40) Slayer - Cult
10. (00:03:51) Slayer - Supremist
11. (00:04:11) Slayer - Final Six
12. (00:02:59) Slayer - Black Serenade (alternate version)
Playing Time.........: 01:08:51
Total Size...........: 343.94 MB
NFO generated on.....: 11/09/2008 11:10:06 AM
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Special note, I have included the two extra tracks from the Special Edition
release which were posted here at some stage (I just grabbed the two extra
tracks and not the entire album, I own the original) so apologies to those who
are anal about exact rips as the CUE & LOG files are NOT accurate (i.e. they
do not reference the extra tracks).
http://www.metal-archives.com/release.php?id=121478
Full-length, American Recordings
August 8th, 2006
Line-up:
Tom Araya: Vocals/ Bass
Jeff Hanneman: Guitars
Kerry King: Guitars
Dave Lombardo: Drums
On par with Divine Intervention - 85%
Written by MLTC on August 12th, 2006
After listening to this album, I think it's safe to say that Dave Lombardo is the
only drummer that belongs in Slayer. Not to say that Paul Bostaph was bad
(in some elements he was better than Lombardo) but Lombardo definitely
brings back a lot more of that 'Slayer' feel than has been there for a very,
very long time.
Let's look at Bostaph's contributions. Divine Intervention was undisputedly
the best post-Lombardo work of Slayer. Lots of speed, pretty consistent
songwriting despite a lack of classics or standouts. Diabolus was noticably
slower, like South of Heaven, but not nearly as good and with a lot of modern
experimentation. Only a few songs worked, others had their moments, but
overall it was a quite lackluster release. GHUA had some of the most
ridiculous and pointlessly vulgar Slayer lyrics yet, and really only held three
standouts (the classic Disciple being the only amazing point of the album).
The rest, like Diabolus, had a lot of more modern experimentation
(comparisons to Slipknot often drawn) and usually didn't work.
So here we are, a tedious 5 years after GHUA, and we have Christ Ilusion.
Larry Caroll (designing this album's art as he did with the unholy trilogy of
RIB/SOH/SITA) and Dave Lombardo in tow, Slayer seemed set to release
their best album since Seasons and reclaim that classic sound they used to
have.
I can say that for the most part this has been achieved. This is clearly the
best album since Seasons (although Divine Intervention is really not far
behind). There's more speed then there has been since Divine Intervention,
and there's just much better songwriting overall. I don't really see the
comparisons to War Ensemble, but Flesh Storm starts the album off in
speedy/catchy fashion, followed closely by the similarly fast Catalyst.
Skeleton Christ has a chugging riff that is better than just about any of the
midpaced material off of Diabolus/GHUA, and features some truly catchy and
evil riffs. Eyes of the Insane...lord knows why Slayer chose this one as the
video. Although the song isn't completely bad, it is clearly the worst on the
album and really doesn't go anywhere. Jihad is a song that seems to grow on
you and is currently my favorite on the album. Very fast and full of classic
Slayer riffage (is it a coincidence that my favorite song on this album is
written by Jeff Hanneman?...I think not, I think he deserves a lot more credit
than all the attention that Kerry King gets). Consfearacy is another speedy
number, much akin to the first two songs. Catatonic is one of the BEST slow
Slayer songs ever (mostly due to the fact that isn't oppresively boring and
the ending riff is brutal as hell). Black Serenade is another evil little number
written by Jeff, with a catchy if not overused chorus. Cult features some of
Slayer's dumbest lyrics ever (Religion is a whore?...cmon Kerry, enuff's
enuff), but despite this remains a riff-fest and is a pretty fun listen.
Supremist is the first Slayer song to feature blast beats and closes the album
in fashion.
Overall, this album is extremely fast and brutal, mostly on par with Divine
Intervention in that it's extremely consistent (far more so than DIM/GHUA
were) but seemingly lacks truly classic tracks that we find on older Slayer
material. Jihad and Cult may be the new classics from this release...maybe.
It's too soon to say.
Bottom line-the best since SITA, and Lombardo is with them once again.
Coincidence..? I think not. Lombardo is one big key to the 'classic' Slayer
sound. Kudos to Slayer for putting their last two releases to shame and
making something in the old vein again.
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