Divine Intervention (album)
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| Studio album by Slayer | ||
| Released | October 3, 1994 | |
| Recorded | 1994 Oceanway, Los Angeles, California Sound City, Van Nuys, California, USA |
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| Genre | Thrash metal | |
| Length | 36:38 | |
| Label | American Recordings | |
| Producer(s) | Slayer Rick Rubin Toby Wright |
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| Professional reviews | ||
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| Slayer chronology | ||
| Decade of Aggression (1991) |
Divine Intervention (1994) |
Live Intrusion (1995) |
Divine Intervention is the sixth studio album by the band Slayer, released October 3, 1994 through American Recordings. This was the first album Slayer recorded with drummer Paul Bostaph. The album reached #8 in the Billboard Top 200. Some of the albums lyrical themes were not without controversy. "213", for example, was famed serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment number and is the inspiration for the lyrics in the song of the same name.
The band courted controversy by featuring a picture of a fan's wrists, into which he had carved the Slayer logo. The CD inlay features a collage which includes newspaper clippings of cases where music had been blamed for violence or murder.
Almost all the music on the album was written by Kerry King, which is evidenced on the fact that a lot of the music is speedy, harsh, and almost devoid of melody (King's writing style is as such, while guitarist Jeff Hanneman's style is slower and more melodic)
Because of Songs like "SS-3" this record is indexed in Germany and hard to find.
The album sleeve features for the first time the backronym
Satan
Laughs
As
You
Eternally
Rot.
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[edit] Reception
Divine Intervention was released on October 3, 1994 and peaked at number 8 on the Billboard 200 album chart.[1]
[edit] Track listing
- "Killing Fields" (music: King; lyrics: Araya) – 3:57
- "Sex. Murder. Art." (music: King; lyrics: Araya) – 1:50
- "Fictional Reality" (music & lyrics: King) – 3:38
- "Dittohead" (music & lyrics: King) – 2:31
- "Divine Intervention" (music: Hanneman/King; lyrics: Araya/Bostaph/Hanneman/King) – 5:33
- "Circle of Beliefs" (music & lyrics: King) – 4:30
- "SS-3" (music: Hanneman/King; lyrics: Hanneman) – 4:07
- "Serenity in Murder" (music: Hanneman/King; lyrics: Araya) – 2:36
- "213" (music: Hanneman; lyrics: Araya) – 4:52
- "Mind Control" (music: Hanneman/King; lyrics: Araya/King) – 3:04
[edit] Credits
- "213" (file info) — play in browser (beta)
- 28 second sample
- SS-3 (file info) — play in browser (beta)
- 28 second sample
- Problems playing the files? See media help.
- Recorded at Oceanway, Los Angeles, California and Sound City, Van Nuys, California, USA
- Mixed at The Record Plant, Hollywood, USA
- Dave Brock - Assistant Engineer
- Jim Champagne - Engineer
- Stephen Marcussen - Mastering
- Rick Rubin - Executive Producer
- Jim Scott - Engineer
- Jeff Sheehan - Assistant Engineer
- Toby Wright - Producer, Engineer, Mixing
- Dirk Walter - Art Direction, Design
- Neil Zlozower - Photography
- Stephen Stickler - Photography
- Brian Pollack - Assistant Engineer
- Annalisa - Artwork
- Wes Benscoter - Artwork, Cover Illustration
- Rick Sales - Management
[edit] References
- ^ Slayer's album chart history. Billboard.com. Retrieved on 2007-03-19.
| Slayer |
| Tom Araya | Jeff Hanneman | Kerry King | Dave Lombardo |
| Discography |
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| Albums and extended plays: Show No Mercy | Haunting the Chapel | Hell Awaits | Reign in Blood | South of Heaven | Seasons in the Abyss | Divine Intervention | Undisputed Attitude | Diabolus in Musica | God Hates Us All | Eternal Pyre | Christ Illusion |
| Live albums: Live Undead | Decade of Aggression |
| Compilations: Soundtrack to the Apocalypse |
| Videos and DVDs |
| Live Intrusion | War at the Warfield | Still Reigning |
| Songs |
| "Angel of Death" | "Raining Blood" | "Eyes of the Insane" | "Jihad" |
