Reception
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| The Deseret News | Favorable |
| Entertainment Weekly | B |
Allmusic said that "instead of doing something calculated like emulating Nirvana or Pearl Jam—or for that matter, Nine Inch Nails or Ministry—Slayer wisely refused to sound like anyone but Slayer. Tom Araya and co. responded to the new environment simply by striving to be the heaviest metal band they possibly could." By the album's release date, vocalist Tom Araya considered it to be their best album. The album has been to the melodic excursions of Seasons in the Abyss often referred to as a comeback album because the music was much faster and more aggressive again.
Divine Intervention sold 193,000 copies in its first week, and by 2002, it sold over 400,000 copies in the US . It was reported that in the same year of its released, Kevin Kirk from the Heavy Metal Shop "ordered 1,000 copies of Slayer's Divine Intervention and sold every last album in a matter of weeks". Although it is less accessible than its predecessor Seasons in the Abyss, Rolling Stone considered it to be their most successful album as of 2001.
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