Slayer - World Painted Blood release date 2nd November
The Californian thrash-metal band, Slayer are to release their tenth studio album – World Painted Blood – on Monday 2nd November in the UK with a RRP of £22.99 for the Deluxe Edition.
The album has been the cause of much excitement amongst fans and within the band itself as this is the first time Slayer have written and prepared material while in the studio. In a recent interview, Dave Lombardo, drummer has described the recording as being one of the greatest experiences Slayer has experienced: “We were together during the writing process more than we had been for the past albums”, he explained, “We worked more collectively, everyone’s suggestions and ideas were heard and considered and that camaraderie is definitely heard in the album,” he said, adding, “The other albums were good, but on this one there’s some kind of magic that I can’t put my finger on, it just flows really well, the structuring is done well, the melodies are done well.”
The album is being released in three different editions: a limited edition CD with multiple CD covers, a deluxe edition CD/DVD and a 180-gram vinyl edition. The CD/DVD comes in a double digipak, housed in a transparent, blood-red sleeve and containing an APET “blood specimen” O-card. DVD content includes the 20-minute animated graphic novel, Playing With Dolls and features music from the album as well as a previously unheard song and an expanded booklet.
The album contains some typically controversial material including a track (Unit 731) about human experimentation undertaken by the Imperial Japanese Army during the second Sino-Japanese War. Other tracks include Snuff, Playing with Dolls and Not of This God. As befits a band credited with being on the of “Big Four” thrash metal legends along with the likes of Metallica, the thirteen tracks mix brutal, full-on metal with intensely brooding intros delivered with faultless production.
Play.com is offering a free exclusive track – Jihad – on the deluxe edition, that can be downloaded within a few days of an order being placed.
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Bon Jovi's new album The Circle is released on 2nd November
Bon Jovi’s new album The Circle will be released on 2nd November and comes in two versions; a single disc version and the disc and a two-disc DVD Deluxe Limited Edition incorporating the exclusive documentary When We Were Beautiful.
The US rock band continues the successful songwriting collaboration between vocalist Jon Bon Jovi and guitarist Richie Sambora that came up with the goods on a series of popular albums throughout the 1990s and 2000s. The Circle sees them reuniting with producer and songwriter, Jon Shanks who worked with the band on Have a Nice Day and half of Lost Highway.
Fans will find that the single We Weren’t Born to Follow is different from the one currently being broadcast on the airwaves, after fans indicated they would prefer more of a typical “rippin’and burnin” Richie Sambora solo. As Richie himself comments; “The album is a wholehearted return to rock and roll with some big choruses; It sounds like Bono Jovi but it sounds fresh,” he says.
Jon Bon Jovi agrees; “The last thing we want to do is try and Xerox something until it becomes a pale imitation of the original so when Jon called me up last year and said it was time to start writing, the first thing we asked ourselves was, ‘what do we feel like doing? Where are our heads at? And rocking was the answer,” he said.
The Deluxe version of The Circle costs £12.98 and the single CD £8.98 and will be on the shelves from 2nd November.
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