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 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.
When we play 'Angel of Death', it's actually a 2 and half minutes sing 'til our party starts. That song is pretty much been played traditionally in the end.
I play loud onstage for my own benefit as I like. But I'm not too fond of the P.A. either.
If you dont tour, you cannot expect to sell a huge numbers of your albums either. It was both a business - and an economical decision and we wanted to play anyway. We just wanted to get out for the tour when it was safe enough for us.
We haven't played that many of them because all our gear was over here waiting for us when we could get here. So we didn't get to rehearse any of the new stuff, so we have planned to play 3 or 4 new ones.
I think no matter what kind of music you play, there will be moments when you feel like it's all been done before.
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.
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.