Slayer - The Repentless Killogy (2 LP, 2025 Repress Transparent Vinyl)

Product specifications

Details

Album

The Repentless Killogy

Artist

Slayer

LP release year

2025

Album release date

8 nov 2019

Label

Nuclear Blast Records

EAN

4065629738617

Available

Yes

Product information

Format

LP

Quantity

2 piece(s)

Type

Reissue

Mono or stereo

Stereo

Duration

1 uur, 31 min

Tracks

21 tracks

Colour

Transparent

EAN

EAN

4065629738617

Other

Limited Edition

No

Country

Europe

Genre

Thrash metal

Box set

No

Remastered

No

Reissue

Yes

• Great Sound, Not 180g

  4 out of 5 stars
  Va99618 November 2025United States🇺🇸

  These aren't 180g vinyl, but they sure do sound great.

• Slayer's Live Essentials

  4 out of 5 stars
  PistJowtigfx17 September 2025United States🇺🇸

  Awesome Live record featuring Slayer's top tracks from over the years, solid press though the vocal mix ain't the greatest

• Worst Recording Ever

  1 out of 5 stars
  voxsik15 July 2025United States🇺🇸

  This is the poorest recording I've ever heard, hands down, across all artists, genres, and formats.

• Slayer's Disappointing Musical Finale

  2 out of 5 stars
  giit_weirl14 April 2024United States🇺🇸

  This record is a visual treat, but a musical disaster. The splatter vinyl is indeed a sight to behold, but the actual content is a disappointing finale to Slayer's career. Every version of this release suffers from poor recording and mixing, making the DVD, digital, and vinyl versions equally unsatisfactory. It's as if the microphones were plugged in but left in their cases backstage, instead of being placed on the drums or amps to capture the instruments properly. It feels like the sound engineer had a nightmare where several microphones or inputs failed during the show, and this is the salvaged result. The snare and rack tom microphones seem to have been absent, with only some overheads and floor tom microphones picking up the sound. These floor toms are quite prominent, but they lack definition, as if they were precious microphones wrapped in cotton wool. The main fills sound distant, like biscuit tins, culminating in a noise akin to a giant wearing moccasins on a trampoline. The guitars also sound like they were recorded with overly precious microphones, kept safe from the raw sounds of the amps. The tone is poorly defined and fits more of a dingy, down-on-its-luck club with an angry sound engineer who just found out their partner was cheating on them with a band member. As expected with Slayer, the bass is barely noticeable, occasionally making an appearance here and there. The vocals are the only aspect that has been recorded well enough. A live thrash performance without a snare is hard to comprehend, and it's baffling that this was presented as the final chapter of Slayer's recorded output without any overdubs or a redo. Given that Slayer managed a good live recording on "Decade of Aggression" almost 30 years prior, and even "Live Undead" from their early days, it's disappointing that they didn't present their final chapter in a better way. As a Slayer fan of over 30 years who has bought many of their albums multiple times, from tapes as a teen to CDs in my young adulthood and now collecting vinyl in middle age, it's disheartening that my loyalty and that of others is repaid with such disappointment. The only thing that could make it worse is if a Winger vinyl was mistakenly placed in the sleeve of a first press of "Reign in Blood"! In conclusion, this release is for completists only. It looks good, but no matter what record player, amp, or speakers you use, it will sound worse than most bootlegs. Leave it in the wrap and let your grandkids sell it for a fortune to some unsuspecting enthusiast in the 2070s, but anything beyond admiring the splatter vinyl is a waste of your time. I've done the hard work, so you don't have to! You can thank me later, but I guess you've already heard it and share the empty feeling that you've just sat through Slayer's "Killogy." The two stars are for the look of the vinyl.