Technically, SLAYER Never Said They Would Never Play Again

Slayer ripped via the world on their farewell tour all through 2018 and 2019. The tour was referred to as The Remaining Marketing campaign and by all accounts was very clearly going to be Slayer‘s final stand. Then Slayer introduced a handful of reunion exhibits for 2024 and naturally some folks had been pissed off. Although in the event you ask Slayer guitarist Kerry King, he’ll inform you that they by no means mentioned they had been performed taking part in.

In an interview with Anne Erickson of Audio Ink Radio, King mentioned Slayer solely specified that they had been performed touring and never that they had been performed taking part in. And I get what he is saying – technically he is proper. However I feel the understanding general was that Slayer was performed at that time… I imply come on, King even dropped the chains.

“Yeah, on the finish of the day, it wasn’t unhealthy blood. Tom was simply performed. And when Tom advised me he was performed, I went, ‘Okay, nicely, I am not gonna attempt to speak you into it,’ as a result of in the event you’re attempting to speak any person into it, their coronary heart’s not in it. So it was over for me. And, in fact, a month after we had been performed, provides are available as a result of folks assume you are performed.

“So what we retired from was touring. We by no means mentioned we had been performed taking part in. We mentioned, ‘That is our remaining tour’, and I do not assume three exhibits represent a tour. So in the event you wanna get technical, I feel we’re within the ballpark of being truthful.”

King lately sat down with Steel Injection for an intensive interview the place he talked about {that a} Slayer reunion present in Europe may occur too. On extra Slayer exhibits, King has been adamant that they are largely not occurring.

“It is exhausting to not. I am attempting to be actual and positively say, hey, we’re not gonna tour once more. And we’re actually not gonna report once more, ‘trigger I’ve a way of doing that now with my band. [We’re doing] three exhibits for now. And I say ‘for now’ as a result of I do know Europe’s gonna come knocking, ‘Hey, man, you guys performed America. Come see us.’ So it would not shock me if one thing like that occurred, nevertheless it’s actually not on my books proper now.”