SLAYER's KERRY KING Interviewed By 'The Music Zoo' (Video)

September 17, 2011

The day before the "Big Four" concert at Yankee Stadium in New York City, SLAYER's Kerry King came to The Music Zoo to show off some of new BC Rich guitars and chat with Tommy Colletti. You can now watch the interview below.

Gary Holt of EXODUS has spent the last few months filling in for SLAYER founding guitarist Jeff Hanneman who in January contracted necrotizing fasciitis, likely caused by a spider bite, and has been undergoing surgeries, skin grafts and intense rehab since.

When asked for an update on Hanneman's health and when fans can expect to see Jeff back up on stage with SLAYER, the band's bassist/vocalist Tom Araya told Linna Olsson of SVT in early July, "Jeff was seriously ill. Jeff ended up contracting a bacteria that ate away his flesh on his arm, so they cut open his arm, from his wrist to his shoulder, and they did a skin graft on him, they cleaned up It was a flesh-eating virus, so he was really, really bad. So we'll wait for him to get better, and when he's a hundred percent, he's gonna come out and join us."

Araya told Billboard.com that SLAYER will not return to the studio until Hanneman has fully recovered.

"There's no way we'd go into a studio without him," Araya said. "As a band we're not going to do something without him. He's an integral part of the band. We require his musical skills, his writing skills. He's an integral part of the band. So we're going to hold off until he's at 100 percent and can join that process and be part of it."

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