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The thrash legends are on their farewell tour, but could there be an extra album from the Repentless sessions? theIr reIgn of

terror as a live band may be coming to an end, but Slayer still have unfinished business with their studio work. As Kerry King explained to us in 2016, the sessions for the band’s last album, were so fruitful that another studio record remains a real possibility.

“I think I never really got out of writing mode for the last record,” the guitarist told “There’s so much extra material recorded – seven, eight or nine songs with guitar, drums and bass. They’re just sitting there and as long as lyrics don’t change them musically, they’re done.”

Whether this arsenal of unheard material is unleashed in standard album form or as bonus material on some future retrospective, we do at least know what it will sound like: fucking Slaaayyyeeeeerrrr! And wouldn’t it be cool for the legends to bow out, leaving us with brand new evil anthems ringing in our ears? Yes. Yes it would. It’s concerning that there’s been no mention of these tantalising leftovers since Slayer announced their retirement, though. Let’s have ’em!