Thrash metal antiheros Slayer talked to MTV about their upcoming album today, saying it may be the fastest album yet. Singer Tom Atraya:

“This album is actually like a culmination of everything we’ve done,” Araya said. “There’s one song that I’m thinking will surprise everybody, because of the song itself. I’m not going to say why, because you have to keep that element of surprise, dude. Musically, it’s going to blow everybody away. It’s going to trip everyone out. It has all the elements of everything we’ve done. No one’s going to be disappointed with this record. It’s fast, heavy — maybe faster than anything we’ve done before. It’s going to be brutal. It’s what everyone expects from a SLAYER record.”

Sounds like typical “band in the recording studio hyping their next album up” jargon. What is worth noting is that the new album has a tentative release date of June 6th, 2006 — that’s 6/6/6 if you’re a bit slow. Is that not the perfect release date? Okay, so it made me laugh. Nevermind.