open 12 to 7 ! on this date 20 years ago today ! Divine Intervention is the sixth studio alb** by American thrash metal band Slayer. Released on September 27, 1994 through American Recordings, it was their first alb** featuring Paul Bostaph, replacing the band's original drummer Dave Lombardo. Several of the songs on the alb** were inspired by television shows. The production posed as a challenge to the record company, as its marketing situation drew arguments over the alb**'s explicitness. The band used the Decade of Aggression live alb** to give them time to decide the alb**'s style. 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 alb**s. The cover was painted and designed by Wes Benscoter as a re-imaging of the group's early Slayergram graphic. Even though so much time was spent on production, Kerry King said that the mixing and mastering should have had more attention. The song's origins not only come from television, but were also inspired by various other things, including Rush Limbaugh, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, and Araya's wife. Araya concluded that the alb** came out of the past four years of hating life. In 1998 the alb** was banned in Germany due to the lyrics of SS-3 , Circle of Beliefs , Serenity in Murder , 213 and Mind Control .
