World Painted Blood is the tenth studio album by American thrash metal band Slayer. It was released through American Recordings on November 3 2009 and was produced by Greg Fidelman and executively produced by Rick Rubin. It is the band's only album produced by Greg Fidelman. With much anticipation for the album after 2006's ‘Christ Illusion’, members of Slayer were revealing information about the album since early 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 mostly in E-flat tuning since ‘Divine Intervention’. ‘World Painted Blood’ is Slayer's last album to feature founding guitarist Jeff Hanneman and the last to feature Dave Lombardo.
