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KERRY KING Teases His Upcoming Post-SLAYER Comeback: “It Will Be F**king Good!”

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SLAYER guitarist Kerry King was famously quoted as saying he believes the iconic thrash act called it quits too soon earlier this week. But in a recent talk with Metal Hammer, the 57 year old shredder drives home the fact that he will be returning to the metal music world with a vengeance.

King shared his widely-reported opinion that SLAYER “quit too early” in a video message congratulating MACHINE HEAD on their 30th anniversary earlier in the week.

“So, I hear congratulations are in order for my friends in Machine Head,” King says in the video. “Apparently, it’s 30 years, which is quite an achievement. Not a lot of bands get there. We did… and then we quit too early. Fuck us. Fuck me. I hate fucking not playing.”

SLAYER’s last gig ever took place on November 30, 2019, when their farewell tour wrapped up with a show The Forum in Inglewood, California. Reflecting back on the band’s final show, and his original intention to waste no time in throwing himself back into music, King said, “I had picks that I threw out at those shows — The Final Campaign — at the end of the show. And in every city, I threw out two that said, ‘Reborn in 2020,’ because that was my plan — I planned on touring in 2020.”

“Then the pandemic came up and we were into 2021,” King explains, “because I want everybody to get the bumps out of the road before I go out. Here we are at the end of 2021 and I’m looking at the end of 2022 now. And we’ll see what happens next year because it’s evolving. I don’t want to go out and feel stuff out, I want to go out and have a good time. I’m not being selfish, I don’t mean it like that. I mean that whatever the new rules are, I want them to be smooth before I go out.”

Remaining somewhat evasive on specifics, King explains, “I’m dragging my feet on letting the world know what I’m doing because there’s no rush. I have a tour that I’m considering doing, but I’m not going to announce a band, I’m not going to announce a record, I’m not going to announce anything. But you will see me in the future — it will be fucking good.”

Last year King revealed that he has “more than two records’ worth of music” written for a new project, in which he will be reunited with former SLAYER drummer Paul Bostaph.