Jetzt müssen alle SLAYER Fans stark sein – laut Kerry King sei nämlich die Zukunft der Band bzw. die Aussicht auf weitere Studioalben unklar! Dies gab der Gitarrist im Rahmen eines Interviews mit EMP Rock Invasion kürzlich bekannt. Hier wurde Kerry nach Frontmann Tom Araya und dessen kürzlichen Hinweisen gefragt, ob dieser sich tatsächlich zurückziehen wolle, die Antwort von King: „He’s very unclear. That’s just how he is. I don’t know if he likes holding his cards in his pocket or what.“ „I mean, I don’t have an answer. I’m holding off a lot of things I wanna do at home, just ‚cause I don’t know if I’m gonna be working in two years. I’m gonna be working, hopefully in SLAYER. Yeah, dude. What else am I gonna do? I came out of high school and fucking went on tour.“

Das Ganze bezieht sich auf ein Interview, welches Tom Araya vorher Loudwire gab. In diesem sagte der Fronter: „At 35 years, it’s time to collect my pension. This is a career move.“ „I’m grateful that we’ve been around for 35 years; that’s a really long time. So, yeah, to me, it is. Because when we started off, everything was great, because you’re young and invincible. And then there came a time where I became a family man, and I had a tough time flying back and forth. And now, at this stage, at the level we’re at now, I can do that; I can fly home when I want to, on days off, and spend some time with my family, which is something I wasn’t able to do when [my kids] were growing up. Now they’re both older and mature. So now I take advantage of that.“ „Yeah, it just gets harder and harder to come back out on the road. 35 years is a long time.“

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