SLAYER Guitarist On New Album: 'We Wrote Things A Lot Quicker Than We Usually Do'

July 3, 2009

Christina Fuoco-Karasinski of LiveDaily recently conducted an interview with SLAYER guitarist Kerry King. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

On this year's Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, an outing that for the second time in two years will team the group with MARILYN MANSON:

"We haven't done North America in about 22 months. We haven't done the States since it was us and Manson the last time. This is the hungriest [audiences] have been for us in some time."

"We'll probably only play one [new] song. Me being a fan and how I would want to see a band play, I would like to see stuff that I know and maybe get a taste of the new record. Being we're only playing an hour, we're scheduled to play one [new] song."

On the songwriting process for SLAYER's new album, "World Painted Blood":

"It was bizarre. We had to not really rush it, but we were in a time window in which we had to get things done. We wrote things a lot quicker than we usually do, and just kind of put them out. I think it gave it more of a retro kind of vibe because it's very similar to how we made stuff up in Tom's [Araya, bassist/vocalist] garage in the '80s. I think that affected how we were writing."

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