Slayer Announces Heaviest Album Ever - Literally

With the title and release date just announced for Slayer's "Repentless," due out September 11th via Nuclear Blast, today the thrash icons announce their heaviest release ever - literally - the "Repentless" Metal Eagle Edition.

Made of aluminum alloy, measuring 15" X 17" X 3" and weighing in at a hefty seven pounds, the Metal Eagle Edition will house a deluxe digipak of the new "Repentless" CD plus exclusive bonus content to be detailed soon.

The limited (only 3000 copies worldwide) and numbered Metal Eagle Edition will be a direct-to-consumer item and available exclusively via the Nuclear Blast mail-order here.

"Repentless" is Slayer's 11th studio album, the first since 2009's "World Painted Blood" and the first with producer Terry Date (Pantera, Slipknot, Soundgarden). The band (Tom Araya/bass, vocals, Kerry King/guitar, Paul Bostaph/drums, and Exodus/Slayer touring guitarist Gary Holt, who recorded lead guitar parts for about a half-dozen of the album's new tracks) started recording "Repentless" in March 2014, and made the track "Implode" available as a free download in April of that year.

Recording resumed between September 2014 and mid-January 2015 at Henson Studios in Los Angeles. For the album, "Implode" was completely re-recorded from the ground up, and "When The Stillness Comes," used as an instrumental track in a Scion commercial, got a revamped intro and all new vocals.

Repentless also includes "Piano Wire," an unfinished song from the "World Painted Blood" sessions written by Jeff Hanneman.

"The new album sounds like Slayer," said Araya. "In the past, our fans have always known what to expect, this time they don't. But we really like it, and I don't think the fans are going to be disappointed."