Divine Intervention is the sixth studio album by American thrash metal band Slayer. Released on September 27 1994 through American Recordings, it was their first album featuring Paul Bostaph, replacing the band's original drummer Dave Lombardo. The production posed as a challenge to the record company, as its marketing situation drew arguments over the album's explicitness. Since it was released nearly four years after ‘Seasons in the Abyss’, vocalist Tom Araya said that there was more time spent on production compared to the band's previous albums. The cover was painted and designed by Wes Benscoter as a re-imaging of the group's early “Slayergram” graphic. In 1998 the album was banned in Germany due to the lyrics of ‘SS-3’, ‘Circle of Beliefs’, ‘Serenity in Murder’, ‘213’ and ‘Mind Control’.
