Slayer recording new album

Slayer have announced that they have entered the studio to record their twelfth studio album, and are hoping to have completed the album by September.

The band stated in a recent interview with Rolling Stone that they recently finished two songs, began work on two others, and demoed two more with producer Greg Fidelman, who the band worked with on ther 2009 album "World Painted Blood".

Guitarist Kerry King said, "If I get off my ass and start writing again on the road – since we've been in Europe, I keep trying to work on lyric ideas, maybe some leads, and fixing songs that didn't work correctly – it should be a real quick process."

The band has so far been unable to work with guitar player Jeff Hanneman, who continues to recover from a spider bite, which occured earlier in 2011. King explained, "After Mayhem we'll reevaluate and see if he's any closer. We're planning for him to come back and the door is open, because it's his fucking gig. If he can play, Jeff Hanneman is going to fucking be here, and I'm stoked about that. I love playing with Gary [Holt, Exodus], and he's doing a killer job, but if Jeff came back and said 'I'm ready,' I'll check him out to see that he's ready, and off we go."