05/10/2009 13:10

Slayer

Slayer announce the release date for their new album

Columbia Records has announced that Slayer's forthcoming new album will be released on July 7. The band are currently in the studio in Los Angeles putting the final touches on the album, the follow-up to 2006's 'Christ Illusion'.

The first new track from the album, 'Psychopathy Red', was released on a 7-inch vinyl disc on April 18 of this year for the third annual Record Store Day. Only 5,000 of these limited edition discs were manufactured worldwide. The blood-red vinyl 'Psychopathy Red' 7-inch collectors disc will be packaged in a special Russian crime scene "evidence envelope", as the tune was inspired by the heinous Russian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, aka the Rostov Ripper, who confessed to murdering 56 children.

(source: Columbia Records)