During SLAYER's appearance Saturday night (July 9) at the Jarocin Festiwal in Jarocin, Poland, the members of the band were presented with gold-record plaques for Polish sales of their latest album, "Repentless". "Repentless" debuted at No. 4 on The Billboard 200, having shifted 50,000 equivalent album units in the week ending September 17, 2015. The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). In terms of pure album sales, "Repentless" opened with 49,000 copies, marking SLAYER's highest-charting album yet. "Repentless" now holds the record as the band's career-highest chart debut in Germany (No. 1), Holland (No. 2), Australia (No. 3), New Zealand (No. 8), the U.K. (No. 11) and on the Japanese International Chart (No. 1). It bowed at No. 3 in Finland, No. 4 in Belgium, and No. 5 in both Sweden and Greece. Additionally, the album debuted in the Top 10 in France (No. 7), Italy (No. 8), Hungary (No. 9), and Japan (No. 10). The follow-up to 2009's critically acclaimed, Grammy-nominated "World Painted Blood", "Repentless" was produced by Terry Date, who has previously worked with PANTERA, DEFTONES and SOUNDGARDEN. The artwork was created by Brazilian artist Marcelo Vasco in collaboration with the band's Tom Araya and Kerry King. As previously reported, SLAYER will join forces with special guests ANTHRAX and DEATH ANGEL this fall for a seven-week North American beat down. The dates start in Cleveland on September 9 and will hit both major and secondary markets across the continent.
Gold record plaques were presented to the guys tonight here at the Jarocin Festival in Poland ! Thank you @nuclearblasteurope and thank you, Poland ! #repentlesstour2016 #SLAYER #nuclearblastrecords #nuclearblasteurope
'Repentless' went gold in Poland ! Another killer shot of the guys with their certified gold plaques ! THANK YOU awesome Polish fans ! And again, thank you @nuclearblasteurope ! FUCKING SLAYER ! Photo by Lamont #repentlesstour2016 #SLAYER #nuclearblasteurope #nuclearblastrecords
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Gold record plaques were presented to the guys tonight here at the Jarocin Festival in Poland ! Thank you @nuclearblasteurope and thank you, Poland ! #repentlesstour2016 #SLAYER #nuclearblastrecords #nuclearblasteurope
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'Repentless' went gold in Poland ! Another killer shot of the guys with their certified gold plaques ! THANK YOU awesome Polish fans ! And again, thank you @nuclearblasteurope ! FUCKING SLAYER ! Photo by Lamont #repentlesstour2016 #SLAYER #nuclearblasteurope #nuclearblastrecords
A photo posted by Slayer (@slayerbandofficial) on Jul 9, 2016 at 7:27pm PDT
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