Slayer released The Repentless Killogy (Live at the Forum in Inglewood, CA) on November 8, 2019, through Nuclear Blast. The album captured their August 5, 2017 performance at the Forum in Inglewood, California. It arrived during the closing stretch of their farewell tour, preserving a complete show from the earlier tour supporting Repentless.
Tom Araya handled bass and vocals, with Kerry King and Gary Holt on guitars and Paul Bostaph on drums. The recording opened with “Delusions of Saviour” and “Repentless,” putting the 2015 album at the front of a set that reached across Slayer’s catalog. The band released footage of “Repentless” ahead of the live album, showing the concert portion of a project that also included a fictional horror story.
The 21-track release ran roughly 91 minutes. Its sequence put “The Antichrist” immediately after “Repentless,” while “When the Stillness Comes” and “Cast the First Stone” appeared farther into the show. Those choices gave the 2015 material room alongside songs such as “War Ensemble” and “Dead Skin Mask.” The complete-set format kept those songs in the order fans heard them that night.
The film’s origins lay in a much smaller plan. Slayer initially expected to make a single music video for “Repentless.” Nuclear Blast connected them with BJ McDonnell, a camera operator who had directed the 2013 horror film Hatchet III. His enthusiasm helped win over Araya. In a Nuclear Blast feature about the trilogy, the singer recalled that McDonnell “was a fan, and his excitement rubbed off.” After that first video, the idea expanded into a prequel and sequel. “You Against You” and “Pride in Prejudice” followed in 2016, turning separate songs from the same album into parts of a continuing story.
McDonnell wrote and directed the narrative portion of Slayer: The Repentless Killogy, assembling the three videos chronologically and extending the story of Wyatt, a former neo-Nazi seeking revenge against his old gang. He had hoped to continue Wyatt’s story alongside a later Slayer album. In Nuclear Blast’s film announcement, McDonnell explained that the band’s farewell plans made the combination of videos and concert a way to close that storyline. Wayne Isham directed the concert portion, which formed the film’s second part and supplied the companion live album.
Trafalgar Releasing screened the combined film in cinemas on November 6, 2019, two days before the audio release. The concert soundtrack followed on two CDs and two LPs, while the film received digital and Blu-ray editions. That rollout gave the Forum performance both a theatrical presentation and a standalone audio release.
By then, Slayer’s farewell tour had been running since May 2018. They returned to the Forum for its conclusion, playing two consecutive nights at the venue. As Revolver reported after the closing show, the tour ended there on November 30, 2019. Both the recorded 2017 set and that farewell finale closed with “Angel of Death.”
