MegaDave to call it a day

[Ducky]

Bitter Peace is a good tune as well. I think World Painted Blood is by far the best out of all three bands' listed there (questionable guitar tone aside).

Most of the songs are short and punchy, and Psychopathy Red sounds like Dittohead's nasty little cousin.

There's a few duds on it (Americon and Playing with Dolls), but it's by some margin a better Slayer album had any right to be in 2009.

[Trev]

The Hanneman/Araya tracks were usually decent, always thought Bloodline was one of the best latter day ones. King had a few good ones bit his lyrics were just generally shite

Funny that Anthrax probably have the best recent output, and they still just stick to Among the Living and the tired covers for their setlist

[Pagan Saviour]

World Painted Blood

A really good album, would've been a fitting closure too. Lombardo's performance unbelievable. I actually like the guitar sound - it's a skill in itself to play at that speed with such a frugal distortion. King's contributions do lower the tone a little - though I do like Public Display of Dismemberment - think that's the one with the blast beat.

[Necro Red]

World Painted Blood

A really good album, would've been a fitting closure too. Lombardo's performance unbelievable. I actually like the guitar sound - it's a skill in itself to play at that speed with such a frugal distortion. King's contributions do lower the tone a little - though I do like Public Display of Dismemberment - think that's the one with the blast beat.

exactly that. I think k it is a very dark album and reminds me of South Of Heaven in that regard

[Pagan Saviour]

Definitely - Hanneman and Araya's lyrics were always on point. It's a shame King wrote the bulk of the 2000's material. Hard to believe it was written by the same dude that came up with the bulk of Divine Intervention

[Circlepit]

I find World Painted Blood to be a bit of a chore mostly become of the production.
It clips the whole way through.

It's hard not to hear anything else.

[StrangersWithGuns]

What does clips mean exactly, heard the term before but no idea what it means

[Mooncat]

What does clips mean exactly, heard the term before but no idea what it means

When the sound gets too loud so it distorts, IE the sound wave is pushing too high and gets cut off. It causes digital distortion, which sounds really harsh static-y sounding, not like the good kind of distortion you get from an amp. It is something that should be ironed out in the production phase. If clipping is happening even when you're listening at low volume, that's a production error.

 

[Circlepit]

It was especially noticeable when listening to it in the car.
A prime example of clipping is Sonic Brew by BLS. Apparently that was done on purpose but it just makes the whole thing painful - music aside.

Dave Ellefson has come about again trying to bash MegaDave, plead with him to let him play.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

When the peak of the wave form is literally clipped (cut off) by the compression volume boost, causing degradation in reproduction of the actual recorded sound and sometimes even an audible "clip"-like sound.

[Ducky]

If you listen to the two different versions of Rush's "Vapor Trails" that'll give you a good idea - the original clips like hell, the remix cures it.