BURST Bassist Recounts Meeting With SLAYER's KERRY KING

January 19, 2006

According to a feature in the current issue of Resound magazine (the free magazine/mail-order catalog of Relapse Records),SLAYER guitarist Kerry King has been dropping the name of Sweden's BURST in recent interviews as one of his new favorite artists. While sincerely flattered by the endorsement, BURST bassist Jesper Liveröd is also a tad perturbed and ambivalent about the situation as he reveals the story of how he himself met King at a MASTODON show in Sweden.

"I was standing in a hallway having a beer with some friends, and my friend Jensen from THE HAUNTED calls me and says, 'There is someone here backstage that wants to meet you,'" he recounted. "Jensen comes out, slaps a pass on me, drags me into the catacombs of this huge arena, and all of a sudden I'm face to face with Kerry King and his wife. King starts miming riffs and singing lyrics from [BURST's] 'Prey On Life' and just showers our band with praise, and all I could say was, 'Uuuh•I love the solo on 'Dead Skin Mask', dude.' Both him and his wife were very grounded and pleasant, and considering it was one of the few times I was reduced to a fan boy, the experience meeting him was weird and cool.

"After the SLAYER show, I'm standing backstage talking to Sharlee 'D'Angelo] from ARCH ENEMY, and Kerry comes up to me and starts talking, only to run away and fetch someone from SLIPKNOT who 'had to meet me.' Sharlee put it very accurately: 'You realize that something is fundamentally wrong here, right? The guy from SLAYER is getting the guy from SLIPKNOT to meet the guy from fucking BURST. That's not right.'"

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