Than the guitarist Kerry King And the bassist and vocalist Tom Araya They are not the best friends in the world we could intuit him after the statements of the first in which he assured that There was no talk with the frontman since Slayer’s last concertnot even by email. Recently, the charismatic ax exposed himself on his current relationship with Arayasomething that summarized with the following sentence: “It is not the guy with whom I started the band”.
In an interview with Luiz Cesar Pimentel of the Brazilian medium Cucamonga, Kerry King detailed how the death of the guitarist and founding member Jeff Hanneman affected his relationship with Tom Araya: “I think Jeff’s death weighed more in Tom than in me. And I don’t say it from the friendship perspective. It’s just that I didn’t take it as bad as Tom. Of course it was horrible, and nobody wanted that to happen, but it really weighed in Tom. I think that’s what led him to want to retire before me, because I think he felt that the band was different. But then, from nothing, Tom decided that he wanted to play in some concerts last year I said: “Well, I never wanted to stop doing concerts. So, let’s try it “”.
King continued: “As in the first years of Slayer, Tom and I do not talk on the phone. We rarely send messages. And that is just because we have been together for 40 years, but it became a very different person. It is not the guy with whom I started the band. No, on a personal level, it is a different person. I basically became very similar to what I was when I was twenty years rehearse for Slayer meeting concerts..
-That reunion was not at all forced, according to Kerry: “We did those two concerts (In the Riot Fest of Chicago and at the Sacramento Aftershock Festival). I was supercontent. We got together after the second, we took a little shot after the concert. He drinks tequila and I love tequila, so that’s what we take. And I think the first idea of playing with Slayer again this year was for the concert of the Louder Than Life festival that we lost last year because of the hurricane. So we reserved it again and I said: “If we never play again, I want to fix it with the promoter,” because it wasn’t our fault. But he wanted us to touch. So we will play there this year. And this year we are going to play at the Black Sabbath concert. I can’t wait, fuck “.
Both Kerry King as Tom Araya will be present to pay tribute to Black Sabbath in what will be the farewell concert of Ozzy Osbourne the next July 5 In the stadium Villa Park de Birminghamtogether with Pantera, Slayer, Anthrax, Gojira o Mastodon Among many others in the event “Back to the Beginning”.
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