Despite The current relationship between guitarist Kerry King and singer and bassist Tom Araya It is not that of the best friends in the world, the veteran ax continues to consider his period in Slayer as a fundamental part in his career. In this sense, the reason why songs will always play songs from this band with its solo project will always explain to us. During a press conference To present the participation of Kerry King At the festival Bangers Open Airwhich will be held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the musician detailed the reason why in his repertoire there will always be issues of Slayer that he composed or collaborated in the past.
These were his words: “Part of the reason why I play Slayer songs in my repertoire is because it is part of my past, part of my legacy, and if Slayer never returns here, I touch these songs so that people in South America, wherever you touch, can continue enjoying the songs I have written in the last 40 years. So, for me, it is an extension of Slayer because Slayer disappeared. Slayer also moved away from me”.
King He is very proud to have belonged to the band: “I planned to be from Slayer forever. And I’m still in; just we don’t play so often. But I like giving fans a sample of what I am now, what it was then, songs that will probably never see live again. I want to give them that. I want to show people who were too young to see Slayer the first time how great it was, because I think we do justice to the songs of Slayer. More and more solo material, but I will never forget that I was in Slayer and I will always touch some of that too ”.
The setlist of the solo concerts of King It usually contains several songs from Slayerhow “Repentless”, “Hate Worldwide”, “Chemical Warfare”, “Disciple”, “Raining Blood”, “At Dawn They Sleep” o “Black Magic”among others.
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