Slayer - World Painted Blood (2009)

World Painted Blood is the eleventh studio album by American heavy metal band Slayer. It was released through American Recordings/Sony Music on November 3, 2009. The album was produced by Greg Fidelman and executively produced by Rick Rubin. It is the band's only album produced by Greg Fidelman. With much anticipation for the album after 2006's Christ Illusion, members of Slayer were revealing information about the album since early 2009. There were four different artworks released for the album, each which completed one-fourth of a map, that when put together, illustrates the earth painted with red. There are eleven tracks on the album, with origins illustrating death and destruction, war, serial killers, and the Apocalypse.
Three singles were released from the album: "Psychopathy Red", "Hate Worldwide", and "World Painted Blood". "Psychopathy Red" leaked onto the internet over a year before its release, and was released as a seven–inch single on April 18, 2009. The album received generally positive reviews from music critics. It was praised by The A.V. Club, who said that the "resounding success in that regard: It's eclectic, but never self-consciously so." "Hate Worldwide" was nominated for a Best Metal Performance Grammy Award, and the album peaked number two on the US Top Hard Rock Albums chart, as well as twelve on the Billboard 200 and forty-one on the United Kingdom album chart.

Tracklist :

1. World Painted Blood (5:53)
2. Unit 731 (2:39)
3. Snuff (3:42)
4. Beauty Through Disorder (4:36)
5. Hate Worldwide (2:55)
6. Public Display of Dismemberment (2:34)
7. Human Strain (3:09)
8. Americon (3:22)
9. Psycopathy Red (2:26)
10. Playing With Dolls (4:13)
11. Not of This God (4:20)

Line Up :

• Tomás Araya : Bass & Vocals
• Jeff Hanneman : Guitars
• Kerry King : Guitars
• Dave Lombardo : Drums