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Divine Intervention is an album by the band Slayer, released October 3, 1994 through American Recordings. This was the first album Slayer recorded with drummer Paul Bostaph. The album reached No. 8 in the Billboard Top 200. Some of the albums lyrical themes were not without controversy. "213", for example, was famed serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment number and is the inspiration for the lyrics in the song of the same name.

The band courted controversy by featuring a picture of a fan's wrists, into which he had carved the Slayer logo. The CD inlay features a collage which includes newspaper clippings of cases where music had been blamed for violence or murder.

Track listing

  1. "Killing Fields" (music: King; lyrics: Araya) - 3:57
  2. "Sex. Murder. Art." (music: King; lyrics: Araya) - 1:50
  3. "Fictional Reality" (music & lyrics: King) - 3:38
  4. "Dittohead" (music & lyrics: King) - 2:31
  5. "Divine Intervention" (music: Hanneman/King; lyrics: Araya/Bostaph/Hanneman/King) - 5:33
  6. "Circle of Beliefs" (music & lyrics: King) - 4:30
  7. "SS-3" (music: Hanneman/King; lyrics: Hanneman) - 4:07
  8. "Serenity in Murder" (music: Hanneman/King; lyrics: Araya) - 2:36
  9. "213" (music: Hanneman; lyrics: Araya) - 4:52
  10. "Mind Control" (music: Hanneman/King; lyrics: Araya/King) - 3:04

Personnel

Charts

Album

Billboard (North America)
Year Chart Position
1994 The Billboard 200 8

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