It's their first record since Hanneman's death in 2013, with Exodus' Gary Holt in his place. It's also the first since splitting with drummer Dave Lombardo earlier that year, and bringing back Paul Bostaph.
Kerry King spoke about the album with Metal Hammer for their cover interview of their current issue (no 270). "There's a couple of songs that are going to be on it that the fans might know," he said. "'Atrocity Vendor' was released in the States on the B-side of some single, so now it's 'Atrocity Vendor 2015'. It's completely re-recorded. It's got new leads, new vocals, Paul playing drums ... it's pretty cool. There's a brand new version of 'Implode' on there. The version of 'When The Stillness Comes' is brand new compared to the single [that's already] out."
He continued: "The first song is called 'Repentless' and that one's pretty much... I call it the Hannemanthem! I wrote that for Jeff. Oh, dude, it's fast as f***. You don't know what the f***'s coming! A song called 'Vices' is on there somewhere. It's super heavy. It'll pummel you in the face. 'Take Control''s another fast one. 'Cast The First Stone''s another heavy one."
King added: "There's 12 songs on it, one being the intro, one being 'Implode', one being 'Atrocity Vendor' and one being 'When The Stillness Comes', but every version of those songs you may have heard before is different, so I think that's cool, but I also wanted them to be part of a collection. I like the finality of songs belonging on a record. It's probably about 40 or 45 minutes, maybe less. We did 'God Hates Us All' and we put every song we had at the time on the record because that was the trendy thing to do, but as soon as we did that, I vowed never to do it again. I grew up with 10-song albums."
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