SLAYER's Kerry King - "I Like (Christ Illusion) Better Than Anything We've Done Since Reign In Blood"
February 21, 2007, 17 years ago
The following report is courtesy of Sean Piccoli from Sun-sentinel.com:
Don't get Kerry King wrong: It's nice that SLAYER won a Grammy, but the band's founding guitarist sounds less than dazzled at the new trophy for best metal performance.
For one, there was the nominated track, 'Eyes Of The Insane'. King, 42, calls it "one of the poorest representations of us on the record," meaning Slayer's 11th studio album, Christ Illusion. He would have picked 'Jihad' -- like 'Eyes', a track written by singer-bassist Tom Araya and guitarist Jeff Hanneman.
King also has doubts about how well members of the Grammys' parent organization, the Recording Academy, know his band's music.
"Realistically, I think people on the academy who vote pick the household name," he says. "And that's what we are."That claim doesn't come across as boastful: By the cultish standard of extreme metal, Slayer really is the household name in a field populated by scary-sounding acts such as OBITUARY, VENOM and ANTHRAX. The quartet, formed in 1982 in suburban Los Angeles, plays Revolution in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday. If King isn't treating the current tour like an overdue victory lap, he does feel the Grammys got one thing right, albeit indirectly.
"I like this one," King says of Christ Illusion, which marks the return of founding drummer Dave Lombard, who left the band in 1990 on unfriendly terms. "I like it better than anything we've done since Reign in Blood."To read the entire interview head to this location.
