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What can you say about a band that can find, to quote one song title, "Serenity In Murder?" And that can write a poetic, detailed observation on the subject?
Nothing that scores of critics haven't said about this shocking heavy-metal band for years, except that they're quite good at it. While their ultraviolent songs are figments of their overactive imaginations, the rage they give voice to isn't; things just may be going down the tubes. The first-person descriptions of rape ("Sex, Murder, Art") and necrophilia ("213") on DIVINE INTERVENTION are merely a leap of the imagination from the album's third-person attacks on war criminals ("SS-3"). Think of it as a character study of a man watching society crumble and crumbling along with it.
Slayer's superfast, supertight metal, propelled by Paul Bostaph's machine-gun drumming, bottles that crumbling psyche into music that's almost as dangerous as the words are alleged to be. The speed-of-light vocal on "Dittohead," an indictment of the justice system, is sprayed out like lead from an automatic weapon. "Serenity In Murder" slows the singing down over a still-fast beat, creating a psychedelic thrash feel for a song that wallows in the deluded spirituality of a psychotic's act. In the title song, he meets his maker, who may just be the devil. "Who am I to judge thy grace?" he asks. And who are you to judge theirs?
Out-of-print in the US. Import version of their 1994 album. Warner.
Recorded at Oceanway, Los Angeles, California and Sound City, Van Nuys, California.
Slayer: Tom Araya (vocals, bass); Kerry King, Jeff Hanneman (guitar); Paul Bostaph (drums).
Rolling Stone (2/9/95, p.58) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...Musically, DIVINE INTERVENTION is spectacular. It careens along at impossible tempos, shifting from all-out hardcore ranting to percussive, dissonant riffcraft, often in a single tune....Slayer are one hell of a rock & roll band..."
Entertainment Weekly (9/30/94, p.60) - "...the music's headlong charge toward the apocalypse demonstrates why Slayer is the speed-metal band against which all others will forever be judged..." - Rating: B Divine Intervention Music Divine Intervention Music Divine Intervention Music Review Average Rating: (4.1 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews METALLICA SUX,SLAYER RULES!!!!!!
Divine Intervention Is One Of My Favourite Slayer Albums And It Actually Misses The Dust Unlike Metallica Who Cant Face The Sands Of Time And Just Quit.Also Saint Anger SUCKS!!!! HARD Like So Hard,That Comparing That 'Thing' To We Have Come For You All,The System Has Failed And God Hates Us All There Is Definatelly An Odd One Out And It Isnt Anthrax,Megadeth Or Slayer Its Metallica And The ajtipton Guy Is 100% Retard,Well 99% IF You Count Morbid Angel
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Negative reviews? Gotta be kdding me.
I can't believe someone actually said Metallica's St. Anger is a better album than this--you gotta be kidding me. D.I. is probably the strongest release SLayer has ever done. It also marked the first album with Tom's "new" yelling voice, as well as a shift from devil/evil lyrics to social/political lyrics, which really amped up the aggression of this band. Musically, the album is flawless. There are no weak tracks here at all. It pounds, all the way from beginning to end.
Now for my rant: I think what's going on here is that a lot of younger people who were born in the 90's are now "first discovering" Slayer and comparing them to their corporate-brainwashing NU metal/Grunge throwback/fake death metal garbage that's been coming out for about 15 years now. These are the same people who think Kurt Cobain is God's gift to mankind. If you think Slayer stinks, you are most likely a metal poser, or someone who has not been exposed to enough metal to appreciate what the genre really stands for.
Submitted by herbertbirdsfoot (illinois)
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Awesome album. my only gripe was that you had to pay real close attention to tom because his singing was not as clear as abyss or south of heaven. still a sick album. Dittohead circle of beliefs are the standouts along with ss-3.
Submitted by sean21878 (wilmington delaware USA)
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This is my fav exept for South this cd is totally brutal fast and hard.Buy this if you like thrash metal.
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slayer=one of the best bands ever!
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