Source: Blabbermouth.net
“Cast The First Stone”, a brand new song from SLAYER , can be streamed using the SoundCloud widget below. The track is taken from the band’s eleventh studio album, “Repentless”, which will be released on September 11 via Nuclear Blast.
“Cast The First Stone” can be downloaded for free at AdultSwim.com.
SLAYER guitarist Kerry King told Rolling Stone that he got the idea for the song while walking around Athens, thinking about all of the clashes that took place there over the centuries. “It’s just about battle, not a particular battle,” he said. “You cast the first stone, I’m gonna win.”
“Repentless” track listing:
01. Delusions Of Saviour
02. Repentless
03. Take Control
04. Vices
05. Cast The First Stone
06. When The Stillness Comes
07. Chasing Death
08. Implode
09. Piano Wire
10. Atrocity Vendor
11. You Against You
12. Pride In Prejudice
The “Repentless” title track went on sale digitally virtually everywhere in June.
“‘Repentless’ is my Jeff [Hanneman] tribute,” said King. “I call it the ‘HannemAnthem.’ It’s my perspective of Jeff‘s perspective, it’s what I think… If Jeff wrote a song for himself, ‘Repentless’ would be it.”
“Repentless” will be made available in a wide array of formats, as detailed below:
* Limited CD + Blu-ray digipak (includes Blu-ray of “Slayer Live at Wacken 2014” and the “Making of Repentless” documentary)
* Limited CD + DVD digipak (includes DVD of “Slayer Live at Wacken 2014” and the “Making of Repentless” documentary)
* Strictly limited 12-inch sized Box (includes CD + Blu-ray digipak, DVD, exclusive Repentless 12-inch picture vinyl, “Slayer Live at Wacken 2014” CD, 12-inch photo card, 12-inch fold-out poster)
* CD jewel case
* Vinyl in gatefold (audio mastered for vinyl)
* Digital (all digital platforms)
* Limited edition “Metal Eagle Edition”
The artwork was created by Brazilian artist Marcelo Vasco in collaboration with the band’s Tom Araya and Kerry King.
“We had a number of submitted ideas for the cover artwork,” said Araya, “and we felt Marcelo‘s was the best. We made some suggestions and the result is an awesome album cover.”
The highly anticipated “Repentless” is SLAYER‘s eleventh studio album, the first since 2009’s critically acclaimed, Grammy-nominated “World Painted Blood” and the first with producer Terry Date (PANTERA, SLIPKNOT, SOUNDGARDEN). The band — Tom Araya (bass, vocals), Kerry King (guitar), Paul Bostaph (drums), and Gary Holt (guitar), who recorded lead guitar parts for about a half-dozen of the album’s new tracks — started recording “Repentless” in March 2014, and made the track “Implode” available as a free download in April of that year. The band and Date continued to record between September 2014 and mid-January 2015 at Henson Studios in Los Angeles. For the album, “Implode” was completely re-recorded from the ground up, and “When The Stillness Comes”, used as an instrumental track in a Scion commercial, got a revamped intro and all new vocals.
“Repentless” also includes “Piano Wire”, an unfinished song from the “World Painted Blood” sessions written by Hanneman. About the track, Rolling Stone wrote that it “begins with an eerie guitar line before evolving into a full-on-doom (and classic SLAYER) riff onslaught.” King put it this way: “When I hear it, I think ‘Jeff.’ It sounds like a Jeff Hanneman song.”
The 12-track “Repentless” is, according to those who have heard it, a sonic assault of brutal, ominous, lightening-fast and heavy-as-hell music with lyrics that unmask what SLAYER knows best — the terror, the corruption and the societal turmoil that dominates our world.
“The new album sounds like SLAYER,” said Araya. “In the past, our fans have always known what to expect, this time they don’t. But we really like it, and I don’t think the fans are going to be disappointed.”
