Produced by Matt Hyde
Executive Producer Rick Rubin
Mixed by Sean Beavan
Except "Darkness Of Christ" and "Bloodline" mixed by Matt Hyde
Engineered by Matt Hyde & Dean Maher
Assistant Engineer Paul Forgues
Recorded at Warehouse Studios, Vancouver, Canada
Mixed by Eddy Schreyer at Oasis Mastering, Studio City, CA
A&R Dino Paredes
Legal: Scott D. Harrington for Selverne, Mandelbaum & Mintz, LLP

Photo Illustrations: Louis Marino
Art Direction/Design: Louis Marino
Creative Direction: Rick Patrick
Official Website: www.slayer.net
Official Store: www.slayerdirect.com

Management: Rick Sales & Nick John for Rick Sales Management, Los Angeles, CA

Kerry King uses: B.C. Rich Guitars (KKV King V. Guitar, Marschall Amplification, D'Addario Strings, EMG Pick-Ups, Fernandes Sustainer, Kahler Tremolo Systems, Monster Cable, D'Andrea Picks & Dunlop Rack Wah.

Jeff Hanneman uses: ESP Guitars, Marschall Amplification, D'Addario Strings, Kahler Tremolo Systems and EMG Pick-Ups.

Tom Araya uses: ESP Basses, D'Addario Strings, SVT Amplification and Ampeg Cabinets.

Paul Bostaph uses: Tama Drums, Paiste Symbols, Remo Drum Heads, Vater Drum Sticks and Stick Handler Grip Tape.

Thanks:
Bernie, Dave, Sean & all at B.C. Rich, Brian Gregg and all at Rocktron Inc., James Quan, Tom Menrith and all at Monster Cable, Lori Bradley at D'Andrea, Jimmy Jr. and Julie at Dunlop Manufacturing, Tim Cadiente and all at Oakley, Rob Timmons and Erik Goehrisch and all at Fernandes Guitars (North Hollywood), Dani Zizak and all at Doc Martens, Scott Miller and all at Kahler Systems, Mark Caler and Cowboy at Ryder Truck North Hollywood, Furman Sound Conditioning, Lorin Dender and Bennet at Camel, MFG, Gene Pervencio & Tim Kamatchak at Tama Drums, Rich Magiacaro, Steve Risken and all at Paiste Cymbals, Chad Brandolini and all at Vater Drum Stix, all at Bounty Hunter, all at Orange Country Percussion, Chris Lagerborg "Drum God", Richard Diemer at Diemer Amp Repair, Tim Bolin at Gibson Custom Nashville, Kirt Soto and everyone at Vans, Serial Killer Clothing, Inc., Fuct Clothing, Inc., Nick Bowcott and everyone at Marshall Amplification, Gary Sanders at Crush Bomb, Jaysun & Zack at Sick World, Shea at Grow Industries, Zong Toy Co. & Seedless Clothing, Rob 420 Thanks for the gear, Chalice, Joe K., Graphix, Dan Druff guitar tech, Steve Dachroeden at St. Louis Music, Amber Gieleson @ The Warehouse Studios.

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Darkness of Christ
(Music: Hanneman - Lyrics: King)

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
2 Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?
3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?
4 Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgement?
5 Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
6 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
7 Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.
9 Thou hast sent windows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
10 Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;
11 Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.
12 Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
13 And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.
15 Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men had trodden?
16 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
17 Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
18 Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
19 The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
20 Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
21 Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
22 Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
23 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, ....
24 Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the.......
25 Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver
26 .................and shalt lift up thy face unto God.
27 Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
28 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto the........thy...............................There....................it is.......

Disciple
(Music: Hanneman - Lyrics: King)

Drones since the dawn of time
Compelled to live your sheltered lives
Not once has anyone ever seen
Such a rise of pure hypocrisy
I'll instigate I'll free your mind
I'll show you what I've known all this time

I reject this fuckin' race
I despise this fuckin' place

©2001 Molosser Music/Pennemunde Music (ASCAP)

18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not did it:
19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
20 The wicked man travelleth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him
22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for the sword.
23 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle
25 For the stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
26 He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
27 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks..
28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfecton thereof upon the earth.
30 ......the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his........
31 ........trust in his vanity: for.........
32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his ......
33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, .......
34 For the vongregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery
35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

God Send Death
(Music: Hanneman - Lyrics: Hanneman/Araya)

On your back look on to me
You'll see genocide
Face from death more than insane
Profane pleading cries
Watch you die inside watch you die

Death's design blood splattered wall
Face melting one vicious whore
Twisted figures
Drown your mind in blood

©2001 Pennemunde Music/SS810 Music (ASCAP)

Then Job answered and said,
2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
3 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
4 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach
6 Know now that........hath...........
7 ........cry.......
8 ............
9 .........
10 ............
11 ......... he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle
13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.

New Faith
(Music & Lyrics: King)

Holy man open up your eyes
To the ways of the world you've been so blind
As the walls of religion come crashing down

Pray for life - wish for death
Pray for life - wish every breath
You'll pray for death - you'll pray for death
Embrace new faith, embrace new faith
Yeah, new faith - yeah, new faith.

©2001 Molosser Music (ASCAP)

14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I inteated for the children's sake of mine own body.
18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
26  .................... this body yet in my flash shall I see God:
27 ...........shall behold, and not another; though my reins be...........
28 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the .......the matter is found in me:

Cast Down
(Music & Lyrics: King)

Despair, emptiness
See the hatred wasted on yourself
Face down taste the dust; it's getting harder everyday
Just to find a reason not ot end it all yourself
Suicide on the street
Everywhere around you watch it breed
It begins to bury yo in self-induced rejection

Cast down and thrown away
You are the living dead
The needle numbs the pain
Of all your suffering
This is where the world of money changes nothing

©2001 Molosser Music (ASCAP)

Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
2 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding ... me to answer.
4 .........
5 ..........
6 .........
7 .........
8 .........
9 ......... him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
13 Though be spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

Threshold
(Music: Hanneman - Lyrics: King)

I don't want to see, I don't want to hear
I don't want to feel anything can't you understand
Everything I do doesn't stem from you
It doesn't have a fucking thing to do with you
I just want to die throw it all away
Never have to feel again the way you make me
Lose my fuckin' mind all the fuckin' time
Can't control the violence that's spewing from me
Take it
I can't control the rage that flows from me
I can't shut it down it ovewhelmes me
I can't stop the rage that flows from me
Can't stop the
Violence I love it
No one's immune to hate that flows from it
Infectious I feed on it
Every fucking endless day
You're either on my side or else you're in my way
No one stands a chance when I'm lasthing out
Random hate there is no other way
It's my discipline it's my way of life

Never wanted bliss never wanted you
Never needed anyone I've polluted
Everything you feel everything you are
Everything you'll ever be you repulse me
It's always about you always come at me
Lose my fuckin' mind all the fuckin' time
Can't control the violence that's spewing from me
Take it
Can't stop the
Violence I love it
No one's immune to hate that flows from it
Infectious I feed on it
Every fucking endless day
You're either on my side or else you're in my way
No one stands a chance when I'm lasthing out
Random hate there is no other way
It's my discipline it's my way of life

©2001 Pennemunde Music/Molosser Music (ASCAP)

1 But Job answered and said (bullshit),
2 Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations
3 Suffer me that I may speak (bullshit); and after that I have spoken, mock on.
4 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
5 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
6 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold of my flesh.
7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old yea, are mighty in power?

Exile
(Music & Lyrics: King)

Even though some things are better left unsaid
There's a few things I need to get off my chest
I need to vent let me tell you why

Can't count the ways that you light my fuckin' fuse
I can't tolerate the sight of you, the thought of you or anything about you
You know what I want to see?
How many ways can a loser fucking lose
I know you'll find a way
The humility awakening the idiot inside
You spineless fucking maggot - you're just wasting my time
Get out of my face - get out of my life
Out of my fucking way - just die

©2001 Molosser Music (ASCAP)

1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the window's ox for a pledge.
4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

Seven Faces
(Music & Lyrics: King)

I saw them all around today
They don't stop they won't go away
They love the darkness in my eyes
Help me find a way out when I'm lost within myself

I am becoming all things envied, I am the excess
I want it all more pain more sex more lies more of everything

©2001 Molosser Music (ASCAP)

6 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
10 Thay cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
11 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor ... hief.
15 ... ath for the twilight, saying. No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his fa ...
16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they ...
17 ... as the shadow of death, no one know them, they are in the terrors of the ...
18 ... swift as the aters; then portion is cursed ... way of the vine- ...
19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.
20 ... the worm shall feed ... on him; he shall be no more remebered; and wicked ... as a tree.
21 ... that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
22 He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.
23 Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.
24 They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

Bloodline
(Music: Hanneman/King - Lyrics: Araya/Hanneman)

Eternal the kiss I breath
Siphon your blood to me
Feel my wounds of your god
Forever rape mortality
I smell of death
I reek of hate
I will live forever
Lost child pay the dead
Bleeding screams of silence
In my veins your eternity

Blame God chosen children
As you die I'm immortal
Faithless no religion
Stalking prey is my confession
Captive blood enslavement
Pain and hunger drives your madness
Drink flesh life itself
Prepare to reign a thousand years

©2001 Pennemunde Music/SS810 Music/Molosser Music (ASCAP)

2 How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?
3 How hast thou, counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?
4 To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
5 Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
6 Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
7 He stretched out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
8 He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
9 He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it.
10 He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.
12 He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.
13 By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.

Deviance
(Music: Hanneman - Lyrics: Hanneman/Araya)

I embrace the darkness within
Forever serve beneath its hand
Horrid thoughts that surface to me
Ceremony bloods command
I will live through this forever
I have done the things you grieve
As you kneel before its evil
Death is here deep inside you

God is dead can't save me
Taking lives with impunity
Resurrection of a deviant Christ
Feeding hate to capacity - deviance

©2001 Pennemunde Music/Molosser Music (ASCAP)

1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.
2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.
3 He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all ... darkness, and the shadow ...
4 ... from the inhabitant; even ... foot; they are dried up, ... men
5 ... of it cometh bread: and ... were fire.
6 ... ace of sapphires: and it ...
7 ... path which no fowl knoweth, and ... eye hath not seen:
8 ... helps have not trodden it, nor the ... by it.
9 ... upon the rock; he over... the mountains by the roots.
10 He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seen every precious thing.
11 He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing ...
12 ... where is the place of understanding
13 Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.
14 The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.
15 It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.

War Zone
(Music & Lyrics: King)

Explosive you feel the impact hit your face
What makes you think I'll let you survive
You want a war I'm the front line
Unbroken

War zone - this is where it's going down
War zone - when you walk in my world
Madness is coming your way
As long as my heart still beats
I can guarantee you
Madness is coming your way

©2001 Molosser Music (ASCAP)

1 ...
2 On that I were as in months past, as in the days ...
3 When his candle shined upon my head, and ...
4 As I was the days of my youth, when the ...
5 ...
6 When I washed my steps with butter and the ...
7 When I wen out to the gate through the city ...
8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
9 The princess refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

Here Comes The Pain
(Music & Lyrics: King)

I am the new hell on earth
The lord of agony divine
Domination, intimidation
Lives within these eyes
Reign of power
Remorseless anarchy
I am arrogance in the flesh
Unleashed intensity

Bring it all on
Come and take on what you fear
I'm the storm
That towers overhead
Ticking time bomb
With an infinite charge
Bringer of torture
The master is here
Everyone falls

©2001 Molosser Music (ASCAP)

1 But now they yhet are young or that I have me in derision whose ... to have set with the dogs of my ...
2 Yea, whereth might the strength of their hands profit me in whom of age was perished?
3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
4 Who put up mallow by the busher, and juniper roots for their meat.
5 They were driven forth from among men (they cried after them as after a thief;)
6 To dwll in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
8 They were children of fools, yea, children of base men; they were viler than the earth.
9 And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
11 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
12 Upon my right hand raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
14 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
1 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
2 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
3 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

Payback
(Music & Lyrics: King)

You need to take closer look at me
Cause I was born to be the thorn in your side
No matter what you think you're gonna see
You never wanted this barrage of fucking pride
You don't want none of me

You've got a fucking catherer in your brain
Pissing your common sense away
When you draw first blood you can't stop this fight
For my own peace of mind I'm going to
Tear your fucking eyes out
Rip your fucking flesh off
Beat you till you're just a fucking lifeless carcass
Fuck you and your progress
Watch me fucking regress
You were made to take the fall now you're nothing
Tear your fucking eyes out
Rip your fucking flesh off
Beat you till you're just a fucking lifeless carcass
Fuck you and your progress
Watch me fucking regress
You were made to take the fall now you're nothing
Now you're nothing

©2001 Molosser Music (ASCAP)

5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
7 And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
8 Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering: and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite
10 ... LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his ...
11 Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted money, and every one an earring of gold.
17 So Job died, being old and full of days.