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COVER ART FOR WORLD PAINTED BLOOD IS SLAYERIFFIC

 Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 at 11:45am by

World Painted Blood

It wouldn’t be Slayer cover art if it weren’t gruesome. And the cover for World Painted Blood is pretty gruesome.

Actually, it’s technically four pieces of cover art that all come together to make the big picture you see above. Says a press release:

Slayer’s World Painted Blood, the band’s highly-anticipated new album set for a November 3 release (American Recordings), will initially ship with four special collector’s edition CD covers. Each of the four covers will display one-fourth of a provocative continental map illustrated with human skulls and bones; when placed together, the four images form a complete and grisly map of the world.

All four of the initial CD packages will include a special blood-red, see-through top panel with the map displayed beneath it.

The World Painted Blood Deluxe Edition will have its own special layout of the map cover art and will be in a double-digipak housed in a blood-red, see-through plastic sleeve. The Deluxe Edition will include the World Painted Blood CD, the “Playing With Dolls” DVD, a 20-minute animated graphic novel featuring music from the album (including part of a new non-album song), and an expanded booklet.

I know what you’re thinking: “Is there really any moron who’s gonna fall for this and buy all four editions of the album?”

And the answer is, “Yes.” I will. I am that idiot. I bought that crazy “Psychopathy Red” vinyl single, and I will buy four editions of the new Slayer album. ‘Cause even if I’m not “Carve the band’s name into my arm” crazy, I’m still a pretty huge Slayer fan.

Go here to see each album cover individually, before being joined together like Voltron to make one mega-cover.

So… is it November 3 yet?

-AR

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  • key

    Doesn’t look like the art from The Downward Spiral at all!

    erm, actually…

  • orbital

    so how is this art going to show up on my iPod then?? LOL

    • http://myspace.com/obeydarklord mr_Izan

      copy the above image and go to the “get info” screen for the slayer album. then paste the image under “artwork” for each track. easy. as. pie.

      • orbital

        <3

        Thanks!!

  • msv81

    Fucking awesome!!

    I, too, am an idiot who will buy all four! November 3 can’t come soon enough.

  • Gary S.

    Kerry King’s first period!

  • Chimp-0-Neg

    I love the art – but it is very cynical to make it part of a 4 cover series. Why not have the fold out art in the packet?

    Nah – I call lame on this one. Still looking forward to hearing it though.

  • You Don’t Know Me

    It’s Slayer so I’ll probably check it out. Worst case scenerio: It’s an album that sounds like everything else they’ve ever put out so you really can’t loose if you like Slayer.

  • Double D

    I am going to buy this shit and I am going to love it. You bet your bippy, I’m gonna love it.

  • no-ghost

    Its ok. eh ……

  • crank

    That art is pretty sick actually. Will purchase.

  • http://www.kingdomofnoise.blogspot.com MetalMatt

    This one will be a buyer. ONE copy. but I’ll buy it. I might shell out for the Deluxe edition.

  • d00shc00gr

    blah, “it’s got great artwork but you have to find and purchase each of the 4 limited edition versions to see it”
    Lame.
    Crack the Skye had awesome art and I only had to buy it once.

    • kylemurder

      1

  • bucketochicken

    “Each of the four covers will display one-fourth of a provocative continental map…”

    Geography fail.

  • Gospel of Madness

    I’ll will be buying ONE copy, while I am all for increasing the over all sales of metal albums, since cd sales are in rapid decline, I cannot justify spending that much money for the same album, not when Vader, Scar Symmetry, and Insomnium have albums coming out soon as well.

  • cookie

    Is there any incentive to buy all four, like unique bonus tracks?

    • Kevin French

      Red and Blue version?

      I’m gonna buy one, and then download it illegally three times.

  • Mike

    This album art sucks.

  • http://richarddawkins.net/ RICHARD DAWKINS

    SLIGHTLY BETTER THAN THE DESTRO ART BUT THAT ISN’T SAYING MUCH. WHAT WAS WRONG WITH LARRY CARROLL? YOU COULDN’T GET HIM TO DO THE ART FOR THIS ONE? I CAN’T IMAGINE HIM BEING TOO BUSY.

    BY THE LOOKS OF THAT MARKETING SCAM YOU GOT GENE SIMMONS INSTEAD.

  • iolanach

    *snooze*

  • Che Guitarra

    The art isn’t what I was expecting. Brutal, but not what I normally expect from Slayer art… don’t get me wrong, I’m gonna buy the sonbitch, probably the Deluxe so i get the whole map and then some… the more I look at it, the more I like it.

  • Edward Wilfred

    I think it would’ve been cooler if the cover you got depended on what region you live in. Like if you live in the united states you get a cover with that on it.

  • SP420

    Stupid. Let’s take the album title literally, splatter water with food coloring on a map, and work from there. I’ll be sure only to download this.

  • Biff Tannen

    “And the answer is, “Yes.” I will. I am that idiot. ”

    Fucking retards.

  • Timothy

    Cool album art. Kind of like this one http://www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs/eilertsjul.jpg

    • iolanach

      That one is much better. The music probably is, too.

  • dot

    maybe this is a new way to get back lost sales from piracy.

    “for every cd you buy, we shall download three!”

  • metalguy

    that looks so gay

  • Rez

    If the art spanned out over 4 releases and was more interesting, then I’d be down with this. But this seems like just another marketing ploy..

  • Brandonmetal

    cool cover /m/ probably will be a decent album, they know all eyes are on slayer at this point; with metal being more popular and slayer touring more regularly…

  • Mitchell

    There isn’t much blood on the Middle East… I find that interesting, being the most war-torn part of the world

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Matt-Dasher/30826541 Matt Dasher

    People bought all four of KoRn’s album covers when they did this.

  • David

    Why have Slayer and John Carmack never collaborated?

  • matt

    feels like i opened a christmas present early, excited i am still getting it, but the initial surprise is kinda gone, buying the 4 to make a world map just doesn’t seem great enough as the usual artwork we’ve grown to love from slayer, But the deluxe edition sounds rowdy as hell and def. worth buying and it’s Slayer!, so of course i am ready to grab a copy when it hits store shelves