Divine Intervention
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Description:
Slayer: Tom Araya (vocals, bass); Kerry King, Jeff Hanneman (guitar); Paul Bostaph (drums). Recorded at Oceanway, Los Angeles, California and Sound City, Van Nuys, California. Slayer: Jeff Hannerman, Kerry King, Tom Araya. 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?
Details:
Track Listing:
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Killing Fields
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| 2. |
Sex, Murder, Art
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| 3. |
Fictional Reality
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| 4. |
Dittohead
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| 5. |
Divine Intervention
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| 6. |
Circle of Beliefs
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| 7. |
SS-3
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| 8. |
Serenity in Murder
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| 9. |
213
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| 10. |
Mind Control
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Availability
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