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spitfire421	posted on 05-10-2001 @ 1:45 PM
O&A Board Regular Registered: Dec. 00	from sonic.net Slayer Guitarist Talks New Projects With WWF, Rob Zombie Metal band's God Hates Us All drops July 17 after Extreme Steel tour. With a slot on Pantera's Extreme Steel summer tour and a new album following soon afterward, one might imagine Slayer relaxing before the sonic onslaught begins. But as the saying goes: There's no rest for the wicked. Guitarist Kerry King said he's been asked to contribute to three outside projects before the Extreme Steel tour, which pairs the two seasoned metal veterans on the same bill for the first time, begins June 20 (see "Pantera Line Up Dates For Extreme Steel Tour") and his band's eighth album, God Hates Us All, drops July 17 (see "Slayer Start On Diabolus Follow-Up"). "If I'd had my choice, I would have done Stone Cold [Steve Austin] or Triple H first. But they were both taken." — Slayer's Kerry King Slayer have already recorded their take on the theme song for the World Wrestling Federation grappler known as Test, a track King expects will appear on a WWF compilation scheduled for release later this year. Though the theme song, which was being mixed in Vancouver, British Columbia, last week, doesn't have a proper title, King says it has Slayer stamped all over it. "The WWF people wanted me to take the essence of Test's theme and put our spin on it," he said. "So we took the main riff of his intro and threw a few bars on top of it." An avid wrestling fan, King is pleased with how the Test theme turned out. But he'd frankly prefer to have written for two of his favorite grapplers. "If I'd had my choice, I would have done Stone Cold [Steve Austin] or Triple H first. But they were both taken. Motörhead did a really good job with Triple H, so I can't gripe about that too much." King, who lent a riff to the Beastie Boys' "(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)" 15 years ago, has been asked to contribute to Rob Zombie's second solo album. Zombie "is sending me some music and I'm going to check it out. If it's cool, which I'm assuming it will be because I can't imagine him asking me to do anything lame, it'll be a decent tune." King was also invited to play on the forthcoming Fu Manchu album. And although rumors to the contrary have been swirling, he hasn't yet decided to accept the invitation. "I heard about that a long time ago," King explained. "Somebody told me I was doing it, and I'm like, 'That's the first I've heard about it.' Somebody just gave me a CD last week, and I'm like, 'I don't know. I'm already going to be on Zombie's album and it kind of takes the specialness out if you're playing on everybody's record.'" Finishing touches are being added to God Hates Us All in New York. King said tracks slated to appear on the album include "New Faith," "God Send Down," "Cast Down," "Disciple," "War Zone," "Payback," "Threshold" and "Seven Faces," as well as the previously released "Bloodline" from the soundtrack to the movie "Dracula 2000." "Here Comes the Pain," from last year's WCW Mayhem compilation, has been re-recorded with new vocals and will likely appear on the album. A Slayer retrospective box set is also in the works, King said, and is expected to hit stores before the end of the year. I stand alone on the cliffs of the world, no-one ever tends to me. Sitting alone covered in breeze. Some things are so my mind can breathe. The waiting is hard, fuckin' takes so long. Draped in sun, hands in sand. Earth acid cleanses me. It cleanses me clean, but the world it never comes(Kyuss, Space Cadet)
Rog2K	posted on 05-10-2001 @ 2:13 PM
O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01	Sweeeeet. Slayer is the only band that doesn't have one single song that sucks. I can't wait for GHUA and the box set (not that I don't own every album already)! If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done? -George Carlin

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