Slayer – Divine Intervention (1994)

March 18, 2024

I expected a fairly high drop off of quality after Seasons… so I was pleasantly surprised to find that Divine Intervention has aged quite well. Yeah, there’s more of the “groove” sound here than anything that could be called thrash metal, but we are now firmly entering the phase that I like to call “angry Slayer”. It’s a silly term, I know, because Slayer has always been angry, but from here on out they seem generally more angsty and pissed off with absolutely everything and everyone. There’s a streak of hardcore punk running through this in some of the more chaotic moments, which makes sense with what was to come next in their discography. The biggest downside for me is that Lombardo is gone, but Paul Bostaph holds his own, I’ll give the man his dues.