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Divine Intervention is the sixth studio album by American thrash metal band Slayer, released on September 27, 1994, by American Recordings.The album's production posed a challenge to the label, as its marketing situation drew arguments over its explicitness; to give them time to decide over its style, the band released the live album Decade of Aggression. [1]
After the album was released, Lombardo departed Slayer and was replaced by Paul Bostaph. [3] 1994's Divine Intervention, the first album to feature Bostaph, peaked at number eight in the US, the band's best chart performance at the time. [2]
Name of song, lyric/music writer(s), original release, and year of release Song Lyric writer(s) Music writer(s) Original release Year Ref. "213" Tom Araya: Jeff Hanneman: Divine Intervention: 1994 [1] "Abolish Government / Superficial Love" ‡ (T.S.O.L. cover) Jack Grisham Ron Emory Mike Roche Todd Barnes Undisputed Attitude: 1996 [2] "Addict ...
Undisputed Attitude is the seventh studio album by American thrash metal band Slayer, released on May 28, 1996, by American Recordings.The album consists almost entirely of covers of punk rock and hardcore punk songs, and also includes two tracks written by guitarist Jeff Hanneman in 1984 and 1985 for a side project called Pap Smear; [2] its closing track, "Gemini", is the only original track.
The album became Slayer's highest charting, improving on its previous highest-charting album, Divine Intervention, which had debuted at number 8. However, despite its high positioning, the album dropped to number 44 in the following week. [52] Three weeks after the album's release, Slayer were inducted into the Kerrang!
In its first week of release, the album sold 62,000 copies in the United States and debuted at number 5 on the Billboard 200 chart. [35] Though this ranked as the band's highest chart position as of 2015, and was their first top 10 charting since 1994's Divine Intervention, [35] the album dropped to number 44 the following week. [36]
Slayer in 1983. From left: Kerry King, Dave Lombardo, Jeff Hanneman, and Tom Araya. Slayer was the opening act for Bitch at the Woodstock Club in Los Angeles, performing eight songs—six being covers. [2] While performing an Iron Maiden cover, the band was spotted by Brian Slagel, a former music journalist who had recently founded Metal Blade ...
However, on September 25, 2003, it was announced by employees of MTV that the box set's release date had been pushed back to November 18, 2003. [5] On October 23, 2003, employees of MTV announced that the box set's release date was pushed back to November 25, 2003. [6] Since November 25, 2003, Slayer has released the box set five different times.