Source: Bravewords.com

After months of being off the market, SLAYER‘s last two albums – 2006’s Christ Illusion and 2009’s World Painted Blood – are being reissued in North America by American Recordings/Universal Music on April 9th. Official press releases for both read as follows:

2006’s Christ Illusion is the tenth studio album from Slayer and entered the Billboard 200 at number 5, the band’s highest US chart position to date. Christ Illusion was the band’s first studio album to feature original drummer Dave Lombardo since 1990’s Seasons In The Abyss.

The follow-up, World Painted Blood, was produced by Greg Fidelman and executively produced by Rick Rubin. Released in 2009, there were four different artworks released for the album, each which completed one-fourth of a map, that when put together, illustrates the earth painted with red. There are eleven tracks on the album, with origins illustrating death and destruction, war, serial killers, and the Apocalypse. It is the band’s first studio album to be played in E-flat tuning since Divine Intervention.