Kerry King
Kerry King
Kerry Ray Kingis an American musician, best known as a guitarist for the American thrash metal band Slayer. He co-founded the band with Jeff Hanneman in 1981 and has been a member ever since. He became lead songwriter for the band after Hanneman's death. Kerry King also played as lead guitarist with Dave Mustaine in 1984 with his band, Megadeth...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth3 June 1964
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
It's a new perspective where I got a role in and they are just spewed out of my mouth.
I fly a lot, so I knew what's gonna be good and what's not. So I put everything into my check bag I think I might need during these flights.
I had to stand guard at the door.
This was the first time I lived there for 3 months; I became a Canadian for 3 months so to speak. Now Vancouver is like my second home.
This new one was held for a couple months, so I guess it was better, but when we go into thinking our next record tragedy, it traditionally will probably change the distribution again and it will get held up again.
This is probably the most prepared we've been to record an album since the '80s. We've been writing and cutting demos for months.
Of course we are doing this primarily for ourselves, but I know our fans dig most of it, too.
So, there's like one luxury you take and since we do that, y'know, you're involved with people in suits; business people all the time. But hey, if I sit down on a bar and they leave, good for me.
It's good to be playing one and a half hour again. In the States we played like an hour and when you got onstage it felt like all of a sudden you are already done your set. But now, it feels like we are touring again.
They even didn't know if I would have liked it, so I took it home and made a song up on it and thought I guess I'd better order one.
It was only supposed to be on WCW compilation; on that wrestling compilation. And for that I thought it was good. And then we threw it on our record as well.
I play loud onstage for my own benefit as I like. But I'm not too fond of the P.A. either.
In the beginning when I started to write lyrics, I wanted to do something what I haven't done before. So, I threw away the synonym finder.
When I go there, I can go out everywhere and wherever I go, I can get free booze and hang around like anybody else. It's kind of cool, y'know.