Undisputed Attitude

Undisputed Attitude is a work on which SLAYER spat out, at unrelenting speed, the love for punk and hardcore at their roots. While keeping the roughness of the originals, the pressure of the guitar and drums clearly becomes SLAYER’s own. It is a covers album gathering the classic punk/hardcore songs that influenced them. On “Abolish Government / Superficial Love,” “I Hate You” and “Guilty Of Being White,” a decisiveness that runs short, dirty and sharp stands out. They repaint the songs of punk/hardcore acts they admire — such as Minor Threat, T.S.O.L. and D.R.I. — with SLAYER-style violence. Though covers-centered, it becomes a clue to where the band’s aggression comes from — an intriguing record that again showed the meeting point of metal and hardcore.