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Slayer have announced that their 11th album Repentless will be released on September 11 via Nuclear Blast Records.

Repentless will be the band’s first album in nearly six years, serving as the follow-up to 2009’s World Painted Blood. Today, Slayer shared a video trailer for the new LP, which you can watch below.

Watch Slayer’s album announcement:

Slayer guitarist Kerry King recently discussed the album with Metal Hammer, saying: “There’s 12 songs on it, one being the intro, one being ‘Implode’, one being ‘Atrocity Vendor’ and one being ‘When The Stillness Comes’, but every version of those songs you may have heard before is different, so I think that’s cool, but I also wanted them to be part of a collection.”

“I like the finality of songs belonging on a record,” he continued. “It’s probably about 40 or 45 minutes, maybe less. We did God Hates Us All and we put every song we had at the time on the record because that was the trendy thing to do, but as soon as we did that, I vowed never to do it again. I grew up with 10-song albums.”

Repentless will serve as the band’s first album without guitarist Jeff Hanneman, who passed away in 2013. However, one of his compositions, called ‘Repentless’ was recorded by King for the album, who wrote it as a tribute to Hanneman.

“The first song is called ‘Repentless’ and that one’s pretty much… I call it the Hannemanthem! I wrote that for Jeff,” King shared. “Oh, dude, it’s fast as f—. You don’t know what the f—’s coming! [Laughs] A song called ‘Vices’ is on there somewhere. It’s super heavy. It’ll pummel you in the face. ‘Take Control”s another fast one. ‘Cast The First Stone”s another heavy one.”

Slayer will be playing the following shows. For tickets and information, click here.

May 22-24 - Pryor, OK - Rocklahoma
May 23 - El Paso, TX - The Socorro Entertainment Center

June 11-14 - Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo
June 16 - Huntington.NY - The Paramount
June 17 - Huntington.NY - The Paramount
June 18 - Portland,ME - State Theatre
June 20 - Montebello, Canada - Amnesia Rockfest
June 26 - San Diego, CA - Sleep Train Amphitheatre
June 27 - San Bernardino, CA - San Manuel Amphitheater
June 28 - Mountain View, CA - Shoreline Amphitheatre
June 30 - Seattle, WA - White River Amphitheatre

July 01 - Boise, ID - Ford Idaho Center
July 03 - Phoenix, AZ - Ak-Chin Pavillion
July 04 - Albuquerque, NM - Isleta Amphitheatre
July 05 - Denver, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre
July 07 - Council Bluffs, IA - Harrah's Council Bluffs
July 08 - Milwaukee, WI - Eagles Ballroom
July 10 - Indianapolis, IN - Klipsch Music Center
July 11 - Detroit, MI - DTE Energy Music Center
July 12 - Chicago, IL - First Midwest Ampitheatre
July 07 - Toronto, Canada - Molson Canadian Ampitheatre
July 17 - Pennsauken Township, NJ - Susquehanna Bank Arts
July 18 - Pittsburgh, PA - First Niagara
July 19 - Hartford, CT - Xfinity Theatre
July 21 - Holmdel, NJ - Pnc Bank Arts Center
July 24 - Bristow, VA - Jiffy Lube Live
July 25 - Winthrop, MA - Xfinity Center
July 26 - Wantagh, NY - Nikon Theatre At Jones Beach
July 29 - Atlanta, GA - Aaron's Amphithatre At Lakewood
July 31 - San Antonio, TX - White Water Amphitheater

August 01 - Houston, TX - Cynthia Woods Pavillion
August 02 - Dallas, TX - Gexa Energy Pavillion