The Las Vegas Review-Journal has posted a new interview with Slayer guitarist Kerry King. An excerpt below:

Review-Journal: So, tell me, before we get into the new record, I read a quote of yours that I thought was interesting. You talked about how the ’90s were a mess and that you were glad that Slayer survived it and made it through that era. What did you mean by that?

King: “We were having a big party through most of the ’90s. If I had anything to do over, I’d get a mulligan on the ’90s for sure. We weren’t paying attention. Money wasn’t a problem, and we really weren’t … we certainly weren’t making our best records. We made some great songs, without a doubt.

“But I remember like when Diabolous In Musica, when we were working on that record, and I was so disenchanted with music, because I couldn’t understand why what was popular was popular, and I let it get to me.

“That’s the only time in my life I let it get to me, and you can tell by the way God Hates Us All came out, with fucking guns blazing. That was just me feeling sorry for my poor metal roots and not loving where music was going, and I let it get to me.”

Review-Journal: Well, it did get pretty inane, you have to admit. The stuff that was going on back then was pretty inane. But Slayer, like true metal, persevered.

King: “Yeah, I got my head out of my ass and made a great record.”

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
25 - Rabobank Theatre - Bakersfield, CA
26 - The Joint - Las Vegas, NV