Starting out all mid-tempo and ending in psychotic screams of "Birthright! Murder!" over brutal speed metal, this song stands shoulder to shoulder with classic Slayer. Tom Araya sings and then barks a first person narrative of the infamous blood Countess Bathory. Drummer Dave Lombardo and guitarists Kerry King and Jeff Henneman don't sound a day over 1989, other than like a good wine they have grown more complex and refined. This is the kind of song that could change a 16 year old's life forever, or make an aged headbanger in his middle ages feel 16 again. "Beauty Through Order" is so far beyond the typical "return to form" that it becomes the form itself.
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