Ελληνικά
Genre: Thrash
Country: U.S.A.
Label: Reigning Phoenix Music
Year: 2024
“From Hell I Rise” is the debut solo album by Slayer guitarist Kerry King, released on May 17, 2024, through Reigning Phoenix Music. As it is King’s first album since disbanding Slayer in 2019, all eyes are upon this release. Wisely King picked a bad ass throat for his frontman so he collaborated with Mark Osegueda of Death Angel on vocals, but he also made a strong team featuring an all-star group with former Vio-lence and Machine Head guitarist Phil Demmel, Hellyeah bassist Kyle Sanders, and Slayer and former Testament, Forbidden and Exodus drummer Paul Bostaph. C’mon this is a Bay Area thrasher’s wet dream lineup! Of course as we have more than a month that we’ ve been listening to the record, it is no lie that it sound has been described as similar to Slayer. But who wanted something different after all? So as we are dealing basically with a natural continuity of Kerry King’s old band, rather than something new or something that he couldn’t express with Slayer, I can’t see why any thrash fan shouldn’t buy this album especially the enthusiasts of the last 15-20 years of Slayer’s discography. Yes “From Hell I Rise” probably isn’t a 100% Slayer album, but it is continuation of 2015’s “Repentless” (lyrics/music/atmosphere) and as I wrote too many times the moniker Slayer just go grab it guys! Josh Wilbur, the producer, wisely let the rawness and the ferocity to flow in a so-over polished sub-genre that almost emasculated in the last ten years the fury out of Thrash and created an album that features some killers like the 90’s born like “Crucifixation”, “Trophies of the Tyrant”, “Shrapnel”, the punk “Two Fists” ,the groovy “Tension” , and last but not least the (most here inspired by Slayer) “Everything I Hate About You” and “Toxic”.
