SLAYER - written 10 brand new songs

SLAYER have already written 10 songs for their next studio album, which they're going to release before April, 2004. "It's gonna sound like a band that starts with the letter 'S' and ends with 'R,' " - joked singer/bassist Tom Araya. Although the tragic events of September 11, 2001, and the violence that's erupted in the Middle East seem like natural lyrical subjects for a band like SLAYER. The group hope to enter a Los Angeles studio in early December.