SLAYER performed two new songs — “Repentless” and “When The Stillness Comes” — live for the first time at the opening show of this year’s Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival on Friday, June 26 at Sleep Train Amphitheater in Chula Vista, California.

SLAYER‘s eleventh studio album, “Repentless“, will be released on September 11 via Nuclear Blast. The CD’s title track is now on sale digitally virtually everywhere, including on Amazon, iTunes and Google.

The highly anticipated “Repentless” is SLAYER‘s eleventh studio album, the first since 2009’s critically acclaimed, Grammy-nominated “World Painted Blood” and the first with producer Terry Date (PANTERA, SLIPKNOT, SOUNDGARDEN).

The band — Tom Araya (bass, vocals), Kerry King (guitar), Paul Bostaph (drums), and Gary Holt (guitar), who recorded lead guitar parts for about a half-dozen of the album’s new tracks — started recording “Repentless” in March 2014, and made the track “Implode” available as a free download in April of that year.

The band and Date continued to record between September 2014 and mid-January 2015 at Henson Studios in Los Angeles. For the album, “Implode” was completely re-recorded from the ground up, and “When The Stillness Comes“, used as an instrumental track in a Scion commercial, got a revamped intro and all new vocals.

(via Blabbermouth)