Time has passed since they delivered such great albums like "Show no Mercy", "Hell Awaits" or the "Haunting in the Chapell" EP, all trough the great "Live undead" to the once unclasificable, the accelerated "Reign in blood". Slayer was at that time the band wich captured all the requests and exigencias of a metal generation. Time when Araya  claimed metal to be the only genre capable of kicking the shit out of the stablished system, reason wich led them to be enthroned by a legion of fans as the the true ambassadors of their more brutal and dark feelings. But it seems all this has changed, maybe caused by Lombardo´s departure, cause it´s after he leaves the band when  they release a bunch of albums wich are not what their most loyal fans identify with."God hates us all" is not a bad album, but   it looks like some pseudo-modernism and wrongly called "new" metal has interfered with the band composition. Disorderly screams on vocals replace Tom´s rhytmic elegys, wich used to submerge us into a strange dimension of evilness, technical, palm mute galloping riffs, to define all this in a word "trash". We miss the seducing infernal hale the older tracks used to have. It ´s also the way Bostaph plays the drums, what makes a difference between this album and some previous releases of the band. The sick, berserk guitar solos are still there, but this time just one per song maybe to introduce chopped riffs á la Slipknot and almost raped vocals not proper for Slayer.

Score:6/10

Review by Martirio