Slayer guitarist Kerry King talks about the band’s new album, touring, the loss of Jeff Hanneman and more in a new interview with Las Vegas Magazine. Read an excerpt below:

LVM: I can’t think of a band besides AC/DC where it was so clear that fans did not want you to break up (after the death of a key band member). Other bands have gone down from much less crucial members being lost.

Kerry King: “We’re compared to AC/DC all the time. Not necessarily that, but the fans and the records you make… AC/DC’s made the same record for 40 years. That’s why we like ’em. We’ve made the same record for basically 30-35 years now. That’s why our fans like us. I speak as a fan as well. I was a fan of AC/DC. Still am. Judas Priest, Sabbath. Maiden - all that stuff. When I was growing up, when publications were still important, we’d wait just to see live pictures because you didn’t have the Internet and five million pictures of your favourite band. It was important to read about ‘em, and be anxious about he magazines coming out so I could get some information. This day and age, it’s not like that. It’s instant information.”

Read the complete interview at Las Vegas Magazine.

In Slayer's song "You Against You”, vocalist Tom Araya screams "Your perfect world is ending this day, So what? I wouldn't have it any other way."  And so, from the very first frame of the band's "You Against You" music video, the gore, the violence, the projectile-blood-spewing and the carnage begins and just never ends.  

"You Against You" is the prequel to "Repentless”, Slayer's brutal 2015 video filmed at an L.A. prison that has logged nearly 7.5 million YouTube views.  Like "Repentless”, "You Against You" was directed by BJ McDonnell, stars Jason Trost (Hatchet III) as Wyatt, the eyepatched rebel inmate, and tells the story of the circumstances that led to Wyatt's erroneous arrest and imprisonment.

Slayer's performance of "You Against You" was shot deep in the heart of California's Mojave desert earlier this year in a graveyard of jets, airliners, and helicopters.  

"After the “Repentless” video," said Slayer's Tom Araya, "BJ delivers with “You Against You”. Fu**ing awesome!!!!!"

Repentless, Slayer's 12th studio album, was released on September 11th, 2015, making its career-highest debut on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart, coming in at #4 and scanning 50,000 units. The album also debuted in the Top 5 in the US, Germany, the Netherlands, Australia, Canada, Finland, Switzerland, Belgium, Denmark, Portugal, Czech, Greece and Sweden, and was the #2 best-selling album in the world on the United World Chart.

Slayer is currently in the final weeks of its winter 2016 North American tour with Testament and Carcass supporting. Remaining dates are below:

March
19 - The Paramount - Seattle, WA
20 - Roseland Ballroom - Portland, OR
22 - Warfield Theatre - San Francisco, CA
23 - Warfield Theatre - San Francisco, CA
25 - Rabobank Theatre - Bakersfield, CA
26 - The Joint - Las Vegas, NV