Kerry King's new band

[Bloody_Inferno]

A little better than the last one as far as reheated Slayer leftovers are concerned.

I do like that Demmel gets a full solo section, while King just get chopped lines.

 

[gabito]

Yep, it sounds like Slayer.

Shame it doesn't sound like 80s / early 90s Slayer, though.

 

[JimF]

Its not bad. I'm just sat here getting hopeful to see some ex Slayer members play Slayer songs in small venues.

 

[JSKrev]

It's pretty World-Painted-Blood-sounding. Phil's solo is cool.

 

[gabito]

I just listened to the album. Good for KK if he wants to keep playing until he's dead, but this sounds as boring as anything Slayer has done in the past 20 years (YMMV).

Not surprising, I know.

They could've re recorded Repentless or World Painted Blood and I would've not noticed. Maybe they did? Not feeling like listening to the album again, I'll ask ChatGPT or something.

 

[p0ke]

Yeah, I don't think I need to hear it a second time. It's just really monotonous and generic stuff. I feel like you could grab any random riffs from all over the album and stick them together and they'd work just as they do now. I don't mind listening to this as background music, but I'm not gonna remember a single riff I heard afterwards.

So TL;DR -> exactly what I expected

At least production's pretty good... And I actually prefer the vocals to Araya's, they sound very similar but more aggressive.

 

[JimF]

As much as I dislike the idea, I wonder if he would have been better doing a "Kerry King Featuring..." type album, and have guest musicians and songwriters. Something to make it sound fresh...

 

[nightflameauto]

Kerry King's new band sounds like what happens when you don't know how to change the tempo in your DAW so everything is recorded at exactly the same tempo with exactly the same feel.

 

[manu80]

Album is out. No one yet ?

I like it. It's nothing new, lots of bits here and there already heard, like Angel of death a bit everywhere, Payback from GHUA, From hell I rise sounds like a Diabolus leftover, Trophies sounds like 213 onDivine etc...) but I don't expect KK to go another way, like Megadeth, AC/DC etc....
Osegueda sounds a bit like Araya from time to time but I find him a bit too linear, not a lot of variations in hos singing

Anyways, we all need a bit of Slayer in our life so it's fine

 

[STRHelvete]

Album is out. No one yet ?

Chyle don't nobody care about Stumpy Tattoo Man's bullshit. The real Slayer sucked enough. Don't nobody want no damn Temu Slayer

 

[zappatton2]

I'll probably end up picking up a copy. Slayer was very much my gateway to heavier music, and even though I don't hear any new ground being broken here, it is kinda like the "comfort food" of metal. Nostalgia's a helluva drug.

 

[JSKrev]

I'll give him credit for putting together a band of legit Bay Area thrash guys. He could have done a Hellyeah.

Edit: the bass player is from Hellyeah. Goddammit.

 

[fps]

As much as I dislike the idea, I wonder if he would have been better doing a "Kerry King Featuring..." type album, and have guest musicians and songwriters. Something to make it sound fresh...

I would have been really into this. It's not something he could then tour however, and his intent is to keep going to the end of time, which I enormously respect.

I think this album will probably open up on repeated listens. But I'm not sure I want to give it repeated listens.

 

[drool1419]

I'm really digging the album, Slayer is one of my favorite bands so I didn’t need them to reinvent the wheel

 

[ArtDecade]

I'm really digging the album, Slayer is one of my favorite bands so I didn’t need them to reinvent the wheel

 

[JSKrev]

Honestly, it's solid. Probably better than Slayer did post-Divine.