SLAYER's KERRY KING Talks 'American Carnage' Tour In New Video Interview
September 6, 2010Roadrunner Records conducted an interview with SLAYER guitarist Kerry King prior to the band's August 12, 2010 performance at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey as part of the "American Carnage" tour with MEGADETH and TESTAMENT. You can now watch the chat below.
SLAYER performed the song "Hate Worldwide" on the August 10 edition of NBC-TV's "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon".
"Hate Worldwide" was nominated for a 2010 Grammy Award in the "Best Metal Performance" category. The award eventually went to British heavy metal legends JUDAS PRIEST, who were honored for the track "Dissident Aggressor", from the band's 2009 live album "A Touch of Evil: Live".
On August 17, 2010, SLAYER's DVDs — 2003's "War at the Warfield" and 2004's "Still Reigning" — were reissued, and, for the first time ever, 1995's "Live Intrusion", having been digitally remastered, is also available on DVD. All three are sold separately at retail and online ($13.98 each),and the limited-edition "Slayer Live DVD 3-Pak" ($29.98),is available exclusively on SLAYER's web site, www.slayer.net.
Every one of the SLAYER live-in-concert DVDs represents a different era of the band: "Live Intrusion" was recorded on March 12, 1995 at the Mesa Amphitheatre in Mesa, Arizona and features guitarists Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman, bassist/vocalist Tom Araya, and drummer Paul Bostaph; "War at the Warfield" was filmed at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco, California on December 7, 2001, and like "Live Intrusion", features drummer Paul Bostaph, marking his last release with SLAYER before original drummer, Dave Lombardo, rejoined the band; Filmed at the Civic Center in Augusta, Maine on July 11, 2004, "Still Reigning" — also gold-certified and voted Best Live DVD by the readers of Revolver magazine — was directed by Dean Karr and recreates SLAYER's thrash/punk, 28-minute classic 1986 album "Reign In Blood" performed in its entirety.
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