Kerry King
Pull a thread
Three Tuesdays in 2001: Iowa, Toxicity and God Hates Us All, 25 Years On
Slipknot, System of a Down and Slayer released records on three consecutive Tuesdays in 2001, exactly seven days apart, and the third one reached stores on the morning of September 11. Under the dates runs one producer, one label, and the distance between #1 and #28.
The Tuesday rule
For most of the CD era, new records in the United States came out on a Tuesday. That is why the sequence below lines up without a gap or an overlap: one heavy record per street date for three weeks running.
God Hates Us All at 25: Slayer's nailed Bible cover, the September 11, 2001 street date, and the same date on Repentless in 2015
Twenty-five years ago this week, Slayer put out the record with the nails through the Bible, on the one Tuesday in 2001 nobody remembers for a record. Fourteen years later they put out another one on the same date.
The street date was a Tuesday. That is all it was supposed to be.
Slayer released God Hates Us All on September 11, 2001. In the US that was a normal Tuesday street date, the day new records went on the shelf. The album had already been pushed back once because of the cover, as Loudwire’s anniversary piece notes, so the date was not chosen for anything. It was where the schedule landed after the delay.