Metal legend Kerry King recently revealed the plans for his new solo album From Hell I Rise, which is set to be released in Spring 2024.
Speaking to Rolling Stone’s Kory Grow, King revealed that he had been thinking about his own material as soon as Tom Araya said he wanted Slayer to come to an end.
“I’m like, ‘Well, I’m not done’” the BC Rich player noted. “The only regret I have is that we [Slayer] finished when we finished. But it’s also like, ‘Hey man, we’re Peyton Manning: We won the Super Bowl and we left.’ And unfortunately, the world went to sh*t right after” King added, speaking about the pandemic.
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The full lineup for King’s solo material has also been confirmed, with former Slayer drummer Paul Bostaph on the docket, as well as Death Angel vocalist Mark Osegueda, x-Hellyeah bassist Kyle Sanders and Vio-lence guitarist Phil Demmel.
The new track ‘Idle Hands’ (which you can check out below) is very much a continuation of where Slayer left off, and King admitted that it was originally meant for the next album from the Big Four legends.
“It was finished, we recorded it. I wasn’t happy with the performance part of it, so I was like, ‘All right, I’ll put this in my back pocket until the next Slayer record.’ And that didn’t happen, so it’s now on my record” King revealed.
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