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Leave it to metal maniacs Slayer to take advantage of technology in the interest of expanding the nightmarish visions in their music into the realm of multimedia. Fans are doubtlessly already throwing double-fisted devil signs at the news of Slayer’s upcoming album, World Painted Blood, set to arrive on November 3, but the deluxe version that comes out the same day will take things a blood-soaked step further.

A bonus DVD containing the 12-episode, 20-minute “video-graphic novel” Playing With Dolls (named after the World Painted Blood song of the same title) has been assembled by no less appropriate an auteur than Metalocalypse director Mark Brooks. Incorporating an unusual visual approach that mixes animation and still photography, Brooks’ creation tells the appropriately unsettling tale of a serial killer with a sinister method to his bloody madness. And not only do the songs from World Painted Blood serve as the soundtrack to the DVD, Slayer maniacs will salivate at the information that one of the episodes uses music from an otherwise-unreleased new track, “Atrocity Vendor.” If you decide that you can’t wait until November 3 to get a peek at all this homicidal frenzy, you can visit Slayer’s website and avail yourself of both a Playing With Dolls trailer and excerpts from the album.