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Kerry King

(1964) Guitarist United States

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Kerry King is a guitarist from the United States, best known for Heavy Metal.

Quick Facts About Kerry King

Born: June 3, 1964
Nationality: United States
Profession: Guitarist
Notable works: Heavy Metal

About Kerry King

Kerry Ray King is an American musician, best known for being the co-lead guitarist and songwriter of thrash metal band Slayer. He co-founded the band with Jeff Hanneman in 1981 and is one of two members to stay with the band for its 45-year existence, along with Tom Araya. King is also currently a solo artist, with his debut album From Hell I Rise released in May 2024.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Kerry King

If I'm ever feeling uninspired, all I have to do is go see Exodus or Arch Enemy, and think 'Oh yeah, that's…

Arch enemy

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I just saw Jensen the other day. They are gonna be in the States at the same time when we are doing…

States

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I don't reflect much, unless I'm talking to the media. I have more of a 'Forward, march!' kind of attitude.

Attitude

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I have tons of friends in the heavy-metal music world, and just going to see them inspires me.

Friendship

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You kind of have to become a song so to speak and we wanted to make sure that Tom did them with…

Ability

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My strangest media moment a photo session they all had dressed up like 50 gangsters. That was pretty cool. We have to…

Dressed up

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My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got.

Dragons

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Traditionally the show must go on which is a stupid thing to say, but that in a nutshell is what's going on.…

Business

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No, my first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got. I wish that…

Concerts

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Venom were the first thrash band i heard on record-it really pushed me to the best!

Band

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I think no matter what kind of music you play, there will be moments when you feel like it's all been done…

Done

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I think the church and the religion right now have a lot more to be worried about than SLAYER.

About

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Well, to be honest with you, yes there is and there is not. But as I am a fan of this kind…

Am

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If you dont tour, you cannot expect to sell a huge numbers of your albums either. It was both a business -…

Albums

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Even though there's these songs and whoever the hell put it in the internet, if there's any good riffs in them, we…

Hell

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It's a new perspective where I got a role in and they are just spewed out of my mouth.

Perspective

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This record was supposed to come out in July already, but it just got delayed and delayed, so, well, I guess it…

Coincidence

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I've never thrown out a TV set out of some hotel's window, but I have thrown a microwave out of one 'coz…

Hotel

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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…

Business

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It's hard 'coz you have got different time zones; you can't sleep and y'know, it's boring way for the show to happen,…

Boring

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When something irritates me, I don't go home and write; I just don't do that.

Home

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It's good to be playing one and a half hour again. In the States we played like an hour and when you…

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I remember in the old days, when we were promoting a show, we'd be out taping flyers to high-school lockers. Now you…

Flyers

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Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the…

Albums

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It's fun when you are on tour to go a place you are familiar with in any given city. It's like being…

Away from home

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