Kerry King

Kerry King
Kerry King

King performing in 2007
Background information
Born June 3, 1964 (1964-06-03) (age 47)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Genres Thrash metal, speed metal, heavy metal
Occupations Musician, songwriter
Instruments Guitar, vocals
Years active 1981–present
Labels American Recordings, Metal Blade
Associated acts Slayer, Megadeth, Witchery
Notable instruments
B.C. Rich
KKV

Kerry M F King (born June 3, 1964[1] in Los Angeles, California) is an American lead and rhythm guitarist. He is best known as the lead guitarist and cofounder of American thrash metal band Slayer. He co-founded the band with Jeff Hanneman in 1981 and has been a member ever since. He has made guest appearances with acts including the Beastie Boys, Marilyn Manson, Pantera, Ice-T, Witchery, Sum 41, Megadeth and Metallica. King is known for playing B.C. Rich guitars with Marshall amplifiers.

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Biography

King was born in Los Angeles, California. His father was an aircraft parts inspector, and his mother was an employee of a telephone company. When he was a teenager, Kerry started learning guitar at Calvano's music in South Gate Ca. Russ Dismuke was his teacher. Kerry moved to Phoenix, Arizona as an adult. He divorced once; his current wife is Ayesha King.[2] In 1981 King was trying out for the position as a guitarist in a band. After the session was over Jeff Hanneman approached him and the two began playing Iron Maiden and Judas Priest songs with the session drummer. Hanneman mentioned "Why don’t we start our OWN band?” [Laughs] I was like, “… Fuck yeah!"[3] He graduated from high school as valedictorian. King's trademark image, was praised to such a degree by Blender magazine, who included a tour of his body ink.[4] King's acronym, KFK, was revealed to mean "Kerry Fuckin' King" in the January 2007 Issue of Guitar World.[5] King currently resides in Corona, California.[5]

Guest appearances

In addition to appearing on Slayer's albums, he has also made several guest appearances as lead guitarist. While lending production to 1986’s Reign in Blood, Rick Rubin was also helming production of the Beastie Boys debut album Licensed to Ill. Rubin felt the track "No Sleep till Brooklyn" needed a guitar solo, so he offered King several hundred dollars to lay down the part.[6] King has since commented that his playing ability "certainly wasn’t that of a virtuoso".[6] "No Sleep till Brooklyn", whose title was a spoof on Motörhead’s 1981 live album No Sleep 'til Hammersmith, was originally intended to feature King being knocked offstage by a gorilla in its music video though King refused.[6] King replied, "If there’s gonna be anyone knocking anyone offstage, it’ll be me knocking the gorilla", which is what subsequently happened.[6] King has reminisced that he thought the Beastie Boys were cool, although never having heard any of their music at the time.[6] On Licensed to Ill, King also played the guitar solo on the song "Fight For Your Right (To Party)".[7]

King at Tuska-Festival

King contributed a lead guitar outro part to Pantera’s song "Goddamn Electric", which appeared on the 2000 album Reinventing the Steel.[8] King’s rig was set up in Pantera’s bathroom backstage just after Ozzfest in Dallas, as the group still didn't have their own dressing room on top of not appearing on the festival bill.[8] After King had finished the first take, Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell ran in and yelled "DON’T LET HIM DO IT AGAIN!"[8] King tried again with the hope he would find a superior rendition, though the first take was used.[8] King has also made several guest appearances in Marilyn Manson's "Rape Of The World" tour, joining the band to play classic tracks such as "Little Horn", "1996" and "Irresponsible Hate Anthem". Many fans noticed elements of King's own style used on these occasions.[9] On October 21, 2010, the finale date of the Jägermeister Music Tour, King joined Megadeth on stage, at the Gibson Amphitheater in Hollywood, California to perform "Rattlehead" which was the first time in 26 years that King has shared the stage with Megadeth and Inan with his band.[10]

Feuds

King has had well-publicized disagreements with several of his contemporaries, including a long-standing feud with Dave Mustaine of Megadeth, who attempted to persuade King to leave the "posers," "lame spikes," and "eyeliner" of Slayer behind and focus on Megadeth. In GuitarWorld.com's Dear Guitar Hero, King noted that he "admires him to this day" as a guitarist, though he considered Mustaine a "hypocrite".[11] In 2009 Slayer and Megadeth co-headlined a small, four show Canadian tour.[12] In January 2010, Dave Mustaine and Kerry King were in a T.G.I. Friday's in Temecula, California, getting to know each other again.[13] The feud between King and Mustaine was suggested by a Blabbermouth.net interview to have been dropped after a chance meeting at an airport, as King noted that he "just couldn't remember" what the feud was about anymore.[14]

There was a feud between King and Machine Head frontman Robb Flynn, who claims that King started "talking shit about us out of nowhere."[15] King labeled Machine Head as “sell-outs” after the release of their 2001 album Supercharger. King continued to criticize the band stating "They're responsible for rap-metal", "they fooled me into thinking they're metal," "'they have no integrity left.".[15] Flynn has since noted that King has "finally squashed the beef."[16] King proposed a tour between the "Big Four" Thrash Metal bands; King suggested that Machine Head be included instead of Anthrax[17] King stated in an interview that Machine Head's The Blackening is "kick-ass".[18]

In 2006, Slayer's producer Rick Rubin lent production to Metallica's then-untitled Death Magnetic album, instead of Slayer for their album Christ Illusion. King deemed this action a "slap in the fucking face,"[19] labeling Metallica as a "sinking ship."[20] During an interview on drummers, King mocked Soulfly drummer Joe Nunez for not joining Slayer because "his mother wouldn't let him", that Adrian Erlandsson "hits his drums like a fag", and that Raymond Herrera of Fear Factory "has no hands" in regard to his drumming abilities.[21] In 2011 Adrian Erlandsson responded by posting a photo on his Lockerz account of a bent bass drum beater along with the caption, "Up yours, Mr. King, soft hitters don't bend bass drum beaters!"[22]

Style

Kerry King's first experience with a guitar was when he was still a child.[23] Early albums, such as Hell Awaits and Reign in Blood, featured a "wailing style" and "demented soloing often mimicking the screams of the song's victims".[24] Steve Huey of Allmusic described his (along with Jeff Hanneman) guitar solos as "wildly chaotic",[25] and Thom Jurek, also of Allmusic, described his work on 2006's Christ Illusion as "create an intensely harrowing and angular riff that changes from verse to verse, through the refrain and bridge, and comes back again."[26]

Equipment

Brand Name Ref
Guitars [27]
[28]
[29]
B.C. Rich KKV Signature V
B.C. Rich KKW "Metal Master Warlock"
B.C. Rich KKV "Speed V Handcrafted G2"
B.C. Rich KKV "Beast V N.T."
B.C. Rich KKW "Wartribe" 7 string
Amplifiers and cabinets
Marshall JCM-800 2203KK (Signature Model)(x3)
Marshall Mode Four 4x12 Cabinets (x6)
Effects
Boss GE-7 Graphic EQ
Boss TU-2 Chromatic Tuner
Dunlop DCR-1SR Crybaby Rack Wah
Dunlop KFKQZ1 Q-Zone Pedal (signature model)
MXR 10 Band EQ Pedal (signature model)
Shure UHF Wireless System
Voodoo Lab Ground Control Pro floorboard
Eventide H3000S Harmonizer
MXR Smart Gate Pro
Radial Tonebone Trimode Classic Tube Distortion
Name Ref
Accessories [27]
[28]
Jim Dunlop Signature Strings
Monster Cable
MM Guitar Picks
Kahler Tremolo System (model 2315)
Dragon Cases
EMG 81 (bridge) (only for 6-string)
EMG 85 (neck) (only for 6-string)
EMG SA (neck) (Used for 6-strings equipped with Fernandes Sustainer)
Fernandes FSK-401 Sustainer (neck) (Seated next to EMG S)
Fernandes FSK-101 Sustainer (Neck) (For 6-string when neck pickup isn't needed)
EMG 81-7 (bridge) (only for 7-string)
EMG 707 (neck) (only for 7-string)

Discography

Slayer
Year Album Ref
1983 Show No Mercy [30]
1984 Haunting the Chapel [31]
Live Undead [32]
1985 Hell Awaits [33]
1986 Reign in Blood [34]
1988 South of Heaven [35]
1990 Seasons in the Abyss [36]
1991 Decade of Aggression [37]
1994 Divine Intervention [38]
1996 Undisputed Attitude [39]
1998 Diabolus in Musica [40]
2001 God Hates Us All [41]
2006 Eternal Pyre [42]
2006 Christ Illusion [43]
2009 World Painted Blood [44]
Other artists
Year Song Artist Ref
1986 "No Sleep till Brooklyn" Beastie Boys [45]
2000 "Goddamn Electric" Pantera [46]
2001 "Dead Girl Superstar" Rob Zombie [47]
2001 "Final Prayer" Hatebreed
2002 "What We're All About" Sum 41 [48]

References

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  4. ^ "Tour of Kerry King's Tattoos". Archived from the original on 2007-10-12. http://web.archive.org/web/20071012163343/http://blender.com/video/965/KerryKingsTattoos.video?src=blender_ed. , Blender Online, retrieved on March 2, 2007
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