CHRIST ILLUSION is the ninth studio album by the American thrash metal band Slayer. Released on August 8, 2006, the album received generally favorable critical reviews, and it entered the Billboard 200 at number 5 — the band's highest U.S. chart position to date. CHRIST ILLUSION includes the Grammy Award-winning songs "Eyes of the Insane" and "Final Six", and is the band's first studio album to feature original drummer Dave Lombardo since 1990's SEASONS IN THE ABYSS.
Depicting a mutilated Christ painted by longtime collaborator Larry Carroll, the album's graphic artwork courted controversy. An alternative cover was issued to conservative retailers who felt uncomfortable with the original. Lyrical themes, particularly in the song "Jihad" which describes the September 11 attacks from a terrorist perspective, outraged the Mumbai-based Christian group Catholic Secular Forum in India. As a result, all Indian stocks of the album were recalled and destroyed by EMI India.
The breathtaking double-time drums, grinding guitar riff, and throat-shredding vocals on the opener, "Flesh Storm," signal the relentless sonic onslaught in store for the listener. Lyrically, too, Slayer is in fine form, exploring in typically dark fashion the pitfalls of religion, orthodoxy, and - with timely references to unrest in the Middle East - the ideology of war. But it's the band's musical chops that impress the most, with radical song structures, angular tempo changes, and blistering guitar solos that prove the legendary band is still a step ahead of their numerous followers. CHRIST ILLUSION marks a return to form for one of the fiercest and most influential metal bands in history.
Slayer: Tom Araya (vocals, bass guitar); Jeff Hanneman (guitar); Kerry King (guitar); Dave Lombardo (drums).
Christ Illusion (2006) (AMERICAN)
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Album Description:
CHRIST ILLUSION is the ninth studio album by the American thrash metal band Slayer. Released on August 8, 2006, the album received generally favorable critical reviews, and it entered the Billboard 200 at number 5 — the band's highest U.S. chart position to date. CHRIST ILLUSION includes the Grammy Award-winning songs "Eyes of the Insane" and "Final Six", and is the band's first studio album to feature original drummer Dave Lombardo since 1990's SEASONS IN THE ABYSS.
Depicting a mutilated Christ painted by longtime collaborator Larry Carroll, the album's graphic artwork courted controversy. An alternative cover was issued to conservative retailers who felt uncomfortable with the original. Lyrical themes, particularly in the song "Jihad" which describes the September 11 attacks from a terrorist perspective, outraged the Mumbai-based Christian group Catholic Secular Forum in India. As a result, all Indian stocks of the album were recalled and destroyed by EMI India.
The breathtaking double-time drums, grinding guitar riff, and throat-shredding vocals on the opener, "Flesh Storm," signal the relentless sonic onslaught in store for the listener. Lyrically, too, Slayer is in fine form, exploring in typically dark fashion the pitfalls of religion, orthodoxy, and - with timely references to unrest in the Middle East - the ideology of war. But it's the band's musical chops that impress the most, with radical song structures, angular tempo changes, and blistering guitar solos that prove the legendary band is still a step ahead of their numerous followers. CHRIST ILLUSION marks a return to form for one of the fiercest and most influential metal bands in history.
Slayer: Tom Araya (vocals, bass guitar); Jeff Hanneman (guitar); Kerry King (guitar); Dave Lombardo (drums).
Produced and Mixed by Josh Abraham.
Executive Producer: Rick Rubin.
Track Listing:
1. Flesh Storm - 4:14
2. Catalyst - 3:07
3. Skeleton Christ - 4:22
4. Eyes of the Insane - 3:23
5. Jihad - 3:31
6. Consfearacy - 3:07
7. Catatonic - 4:54
8. Black Serenade - 3:16
9. Cult - 4:40
10. Supremist - 3:51