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'When The Stillness Comes', the first new track from SLAYER in nearly a year, will be available as part of Record Store Day on April 18, it is announced today by SLAYER and Nuclear Blast. The song, accompanied by a live recording of 'Black Magic', from the band's 1983 album »Show No Mercy« and recorded live at the 2014 Wacken Open Air Festival, will be available as a limited-edition (only 5000 copies worldwide), 7-inch vinyl picture disc exclusively at all participating independent record stores worldwide. Log onto www.recordstoreday.com for the list of stores. SLAYER - Tom Araya, Kerry King and Paul Bostaph - recorded 'When The Stillness Comes' last year in Los Angeles with producer Terry Date. Currently, the band is in the final stages of recording what will be its first new album since 2009's Grammy-nominated »World Painted Blood«, which is expected out later this year.ABOUT SLAYER: The Chicago Tribune's Greg Kot wrote that the five-time-nominated, two-time Grammy winning SLAYER is "one of the great American rock bands of the last 30 years, forget about genre." Their membership in "The Big Four" - METALLICA, SLAYER, MEGADETH and ANTHRAX - the four bands that defined the thrash/metal genre - secures their place in music history. Indeed, few bands come close to matching the intensity that SLAYER brings to its live shows, having been named "Best Live Band" by numerous media outlets including Revolver, SPIN, and Metal Hammer. With songs that mirror the turmoil and aberrations of our society - God's terrifying global genocide, the chaos of our broken political system, chemical warfare, the hideous minds of serial killers, and the way-too-close proximity of world horrors that technology has brought us, SLAYER remains crushing and brutal, steadfastly refusing to cater to the Mainstream. SLAYER's founding member, guitarist Jeff Hanneman passed in 2013, and EXODUS guitarist Gary Holt has been filling in since. Paul Bostaph, who was SLAYER's drummer from '94 - '01, has rejoined bassist/vocalist Tom Araya and guitarist Kerry King, and is back behind the kit. SLAYER is currently in the studio recording a new album set for a 2015 release. Read more... then come back and comment below.

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Do we really care about new Slayer? The last time they released anything of note, and the first since Seasons In the Abyss, was Christ Illusion. Even on World Painted Blood they were running on fumes, and now they're down to two original members? Are they even really Slayer anymore? I have respect for Gary Holt, so if he has any writing contributions then maybe he can breathe some life into the band, but with him still being active with Exodus, I question how much time he's going to have for Slayer as anything but a touring guitarist.

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That song title alone is enough to convince me this is not worth wasting my ears on. Slayer have two excellent albums and two decent ones in their entire discography. Show No Mercy and Hell Awaits are the former whilst South Of Heaven and Divine Intervention are the latter. Everything else is pretty much garbage.

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