SLAYER: Behind-The-Scenes Footage From 'Repentless' Video Shoot

September 3, 2015

On August 26, SLAYER filmed a video for "Repentless" — the title track of the band's new album — at the Sybil Brand Institute, the women's prison in East Los Angeles. While SLAYER performed the track under that punishing sun over an eight-hour period, the "prisoners" had to stage a riot for somewhere north of twelve takes before director BJ McDonnell finally called it a wrap. But that was all pretty much in keeping with McDonnell's brutal vision for the clip, a vision that many in the veteran cast and crew referred to as "more like something for a feature film than a rock band's music video."

Behind-the-scenes footage from the "Repentless" video shoot — courtesy of RollingStone.com — can be seen below.

This is McDonnell's first stint directing a music video. He directed the 2013 horror film "Hatchet III", and his rich resume as a motion picture cameraman includes "Avengers: Age Of Ultron", "Ant-Man" and "The Interview". For SLAYER's "Repentless", he and the video's producer Felissa Rose pulled together a gang of actors and crew who have been part of some of the most iconic horror films ever made: Derek Mears ("Predators", "Friday The 13th"),Tyler Mane ("Halloween"),Jason Trost ("Hatchet III"),Danny Trejo ("Machete", "From Dusk Till Dawn"),Tony Moran ("Halloween"'s Michael Myers, "American Poltergeist"),Sean Whalen ("Men In Black", "Halloween II"),and Vernon Wells ("Mad Max 2", "Commando", "Weird Science") all are featured inmates in the video. And if that wasn't enough, McDonnell and Rose brought in stunt coordinator Nils Allen Stewart who is known for his work on films like "Planet of The Apes", "Anger Management" and "Daredevil".

SLAYER's prison yard performance is just one facet of what promises to be a grizzly video.

While McDonnell and Rose are keeping full details about the video tightly under wraps until its premiere, it's safe to say that there was a lot of blood spilled within those prison walls.

The date for the premiere of SLAYER's "Repentless" music video will be announced shortly.

SLAYER's eleventh studio album, "Repentless", will be released on September 11 via Nuclear Blast. The highly anticipated follow-up to 2009's critically acclaimed, Grammy-nominated "World Painted Blood" was produced by Terry Date, who has previously worked with PANTERA, DEFTONES and SOUNDGARDEN.

The "Repentless" title track is an ode to SLAYER's late guitarist, Jeff Hanneman, who passed away in 2013. "I call it the Hannemanthem!" King said of the song. "I wrote that for Jeff. Oh, dude, it's fast as fuck. You don't know what the fuck's coming!"

He added: "It's my perspective of Jeff's perspective. It's what I think... If Jeff wrote a song for himself, 'Repentless' would be it."

Photo credit: Stephanie Cabral

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