During a Recent Press Conference to Promote His Apperance at The Bangers Open Air 2025 Festival in São Paulo, Brazil, Kerry King spoke about Why the Setlist for the Performances from His Sol Band Includes Sub of The Slayer Classics He wrote or co-wrote. HE SAID (AS TRANSFORDED BY Blabbermouth.net): “Part of The Reason i’m Doing Slayer Songs in My Set is schouse Slayer Never comes down here agin, I play before song in south America, wherever i play, they can still enjoy the songs that i’ve written over the last 40 Years. So, to me, it’s an extension of Slayer Because Slayer Went Away. Slayer GOT TAKEN AWAY FROM ME AS well. I Planned on Being Slayer Forever. And I Still Am; We’re Just Not Playing That Often. But i like to give fans a taste of what i am now, What i was Then, Songs they’re probablay never gonna see again live. I Wanna Give That to Them. I WANNA SHOW PEOPLE THAT WERE TOO YUNG TO SEE Slayer The First Time How Cool it was, Because I Think We Do The Slayer Songs Justice. And me moving forward, i’ll have more and more material, but i’m not Ever gonna forget that i was in Slayer and i’ll always play sum of that too. “
The Setlist for King‘S only shows usually contains severe Slayer Songs, including “Sudden”, “Hate Worldwide”, “Chemical Warfare”, “Disciple”, “Raining Blood”, “AT Dawn They Sleep” and “Black Magic”.
Last Year, King awd Hammer metal Magazine That He Wted The Setlist For The Shows From His Sol Band To Only Include Slayer Songs that have “wrote or co-wrote. So nobody can say ‘he’s playing Jeff [Hanneman, late SLAYER guitarist] Songs, ‘Baxuse Although I Love Jeff Songs and He was Such A Big Part of My Life, I Don’t Want To RELY ON IT THIS YEAR, THIS ALBUM CYCLE, “HE EXPLAED.” AT SUB POINT, I Will Play ‘Angel of Death’but there’s soy fucking facels haters on the internet, and Don’t Want To Give Them Ammunition. “
Slayer Made Two Festival Appearances in Septent and October 2024 after five-andear hiatus.
This Past March, The Band Announced A Run of 2025 North American and European Dates, Marking Slayer‘S First UK and Canadian Shows in Six Years. They expanded that Run Last Month With The Addition of the Only East Coast Performance of the Year, In Hershey, Pennsylvania in Septent.
King‘s debut only album, “From Hell I Rise”CAME OUT IN MAY 2024 VIA Reigning Phoenix Music. All material for the LP Was Written by the 60-year -ol Slayer Guitarist, Who Was Accompanied During the Recording Sessions by The Rest of His Sol Band, Consisting of Drummer Paul Bostaph (Slayer), Bassist Kyle Sanders (Hellyeah), Guitarist Phil Demmel (Formerly of Machine Head) and Vocalist Mark Osegueda (Death Angel). Helming The Sessions at Henson Recording Studios in Los Angeles in 2023 was producer Josh Wilburwho had previous Korn, Lamb of God, AVENGED SEVENFOLD and Bad ReligionAmong Others.
Prior to “From Hell I Rise”‘s arrival, Kerry admitted to France’s TV Loud that launching a New Project Several Decades into His Career was “A Lot More Difficul Than I Thought. I’ve Been Kind of Pampered for The Last At Least Three Decades,” He Said. “And Starting Over, Even Though I Have a Gigantic History in Slayerstarting over, you [same kind of] Money HAVING TO FIGURE OUT TO MAKE SOUTHE EVERYBODY IN MY BAND MAKES MONEY SO IT’S WORTH ES TIME. But, Yeah, Never for a Second Did I Considers not going on, Because at This Point in Life, Any Record Could Be Your Last. I DON’T THINK THIS IS MY LAST RECORD, BUT I HAV TO MOVE ON Like it is. So put it out, Hope the Fans Like it, Hope the Fans Show Up. I Like it. I Think The Fans Are Gonna Like It, and I Think We’re Gonna Have a Lot of Good Times. “
Asked if the lineup for his only band is made up of “Friends”, Kerry Said: “Absolutely. The Thing that meant the must to me about That I Could Put A Band Together of Outstanding Musicians That Are Friends That, After The Show, We Can Get On The Bus And Have A Drink and Just Have Fun. With these guys and having to Good Time. “
King awd Rolling Stone about the decision to call the band Kerry King: “It was going to be King’s Reign for a long time, which is Really Cool. But Even With That One, I Went To The Guys, Like, ‘I’m not A Vain Dude. I Don’s Want my name to be a part of it. ‘ WE TALKED ABOUT Blood Reign For a while, but it didn’t work. Every Time I Came Up with Anything Remotely Cool, It Was Taken by Sub Discure Band In Eastern Europe. It bechame Kerry King Because I love that logo. “
