SLAYER Guitarist KERRY KING Says BLABBERMOUTH.NET Is 'A Cancer Of Cyberspace'

Patrick Douglas of the Great Falls Tribune recently conducted an interview with SLAYER guitarist Kerry King. A few excerpts from the chat follow:

On giving fans exactly what they expect:

"When you talk about SLAYER, it's like getting a written guarantee. When you buy the record or go to a gig you know what the record's gonna sound like before you buy it. You just haven't heard the music.

"When you go see a gig, you're gonna get visually assaulted by lights and video and us, so people have never had to say 'man, that was a really crappy SLAYER show,' or 'that was a horrible SLAYER record.' I think as long as you do that and you deliver, that's what kids are into.

"We've been around each other for so long, nobody's gonna come out and say 'hey, let's write a pop song. It just doesn't exist. We don't think of concepts for albums. We just make up songs and treat each one as its own entity and 10 or 11 entities make up an entire record."

On web sites like BLABBERMOUTH.NET providing fans a chance to read the latest news on bands and share their opinions with a wide audience:

"It's good and it's bad. I think Blabbermouth as a whole is a cancer of cyberspace, but people can get good information off it. But you've gotta put it in perspective, you can also get garbage off it."

On keeping up to date on the music scene:

"I'm the one in the band that if you lived in L.A., you'd see me at all the metal shows. Anaheim House of Blues is kinda near me and if any of my friends or any band that's getting a lot of heat that I haven't checked out play, then I go there and check it out."

Read the entire interview at www.greatfallstribune.com.