KERRY KING - From Hell I Rise (17 mai 2024)

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merci foule fête a écrit:Si King cherche un second guitariste (j'imagine que oui), ça va être une sacrée pression pour le gars ou la fille qui acceptera (parce que ça va jouer en mode Slayer-like, évidemment, les gens vont venir aux concerts pour entendre Raining Blood, pas les machins de son futur album). Bon, j'imagine que ça va se bousculer aussi, si Holt est resté si longtemps avec Slayer, c'est que ça devait bien payer. Ou alors, ça va être Demmel.

Gagné, c'est Demmel ! Et Osegueda au chant, Bostaph à la batterie (ça on le savait) et Kyle Sanders de Hellyeah (qui ?) à la basse.

SLAYER's Kerry King will release his debut solo album, "From Hell I Rise", on May 17 via Reigning Phoenix Music.

Joining the 59-year-old guitarist on the LP are DEATH ANGEL singer Mark Osegueda, longtime SLAYER drummer Paul Bostaph, former HELLYEAH bassist Kyle Sanders, and ex-MACHINE HEAD and VIO-LENCE guitarist Phil Demmel.

"From Hell I Rise" contains 13 tracks that were recorded with longtime LAMB OF GOD producer Josh Wilbur.

King told Rolling Stone that the title track, "From Hell I Rise", is one of two songs — along with "Rage" — on the album that he has carried over from SLAYER's "Repentless" sessions. "It was finished, we recorded it," he says. "I wasn't happy with the performance part of it, so I was like, 'All right, I'll put this in my back pocket until the next SLAYER record.' And that didn't happen, so it's now on my record."

Asked why he decided to call his band KERRY KING, the guitarist said: "I didn't. It was going to be KING'S REIGN for a long time, which is really cool. But even with that one, I went to the guys, like, 'I'm not a vain dude. I don't want my name to be a part of it.' We talked about BLOOD REIGN for a while, but it didn't work. Every time I came up with anything remotely cool, it was taken by some obscure band in Eastern Europe. It became KERRY KING because I love that logo."

Regarding how he put together his solo band, Kerry said: "I knew Paul was going to be with me. My original intent was to have [SLAYER guitarist] Gary Holt but the farther I got away from SLAYER, the more I thought people would call this band "SLAYER Light" or "Baby SLAYER." They're going to say that anyway, so I didn't need to fuel that fire. There was no falling out between me and Gary.

"Demmel came out with SLAYER at the end of 2018 to fill in for Gary for four shows," he continued. "What he did for us, I don't think I could do for any band on the planet. He had basically two days to watch [SLAYER] play so he could know where the pyro was and the tempo of our set. I couldn't do that for JUDAS PRIEST, and I'm a giant PRIEST guy. With this, Bostaph said, 'Hey, what about Demmel [for the new band]?' I texted him. He's like, 'Yeah, I just got done with MACHINE HEAD the day before yesterday.' I went, 'Well, that's kind of perfect.'

As for Osegueda's addition to the band, Kerry said: "With Mark, he was on board early on. I just didn't pull that trigger. I was like, 'Let's see what happens.' Say for instance, [JUDAS PRIEST's] Rob Halford calls me and says, 'Hey, I would love to be your singer,' I'd have to go that way."

King also confirmed that PANTERA's Philip Anselmo was "considered" as a possible singer for his new project. "My management, my promoter, my record label all wanted Phil," Kerry said. "Phil's a good friend of mine, but I always thought he's not the right guy. That has nothing to do with his ability; I just knew he wasn't the right guy. When you hear Mark on this record, you know that's the guy.

"I had to do due diligence, because at the end of the day, had Philip been the guy, we'd be in arenas immediately because we could play new stuff, we could play PANTERA, we could play SLAYER, and fans would've been happy. It ended when the PANTERA thing came up.

"I saw Mark a few years back singing covers of MINOR THREAT and cameo in THE WEDDING BAND with members of METALLICA. It was different from what he does in DEATH ANGEL, and he sounded great. He's super versatile. He took steps to make this different than DEATH ANGEL. I don't touch on probably 50 percent of what he can do on the album.

"Mark knew how I expected the songs to be performed. On my demos, I sing with very good conviction, but I don't have pipes; that's why I don't sing. With 'Residue', he sounded so good I had to ask him, 'Is this sustainable? I don't want you to blow your load on this record and then blow your voice out every third show.' And he swore up and down he could do it. He went on to some of the harder ones and did the same thing on those, so I went, 'Okay.'"

"From Hell I Rise" track listing:

01. Diablo
02. Where I Reign
03. Residue
04. Idle Hands
05. Trophies Of The Tyrant
06. Crucifixation
07. Tension
08. Everything I Hate About You
09. Toxic
10. Two Fists
11. Rage
12. Shrapnel
13. From Hell I Rise

Pourquoi juste donner son nom à ce projet quand il aura pu nommer ça KK's Slayer ?

Bien vu
Le line up fait envie, déjà.

Seosamh a écrit:Pourquoi juste donner son nom à ce projet quand il aura pu nommer ça KK's Slayer ?

Ca aurait été magnifique !

Du coup Demmel quitte Vio-Lence mais Osegeda ne quitte pas Death Angel.

Et chez les ex-Slayer les relations sont au beau fixe...

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Personne ne veut lui parler ? Si j'étais Kerry King, je me poserais une ou deux questions, quand même
Edith vient de se mettre à jour de l'historique de Vio-lence : c'est devenu un peu n'importe quoi. Manifestement Killian et Demmel ne sont plus sur la même longueur d'ondes, et Demmel a su saisir ou provoquer sa chance en partant rejoindre Slay... Kerry King. Holt était resté officiellement avec Exodus quand il était avec Slayer, sacrifiant en partie "son" groupe qui pendant ce temps sortait peu d'albums, tandis que Holt faisait peu de concerts. Vio-lence ayant moins d'audience, Demmel ne s'est même pas donné la peine de rester dans le groupe et va toucher son cacheton, comme il le faisait avec Machine Head. Vus les ambitions très basses qu'il avait pour Vio-lence ("sortir des EP") et le niveau bon sans plus de l'enregistrement de la reformation, ce n'est pas bien grave. Perso, je suis content d'avoir pu voir une fois le groupe en concert avec la formation historique (moins Flynn).

Première photo du groupe :

Kerry King en remet une couche sur ses anciens collègues: il se serait chargé lui-même d'enregistrer la basse et toutes les guitares rythmiques sur les albums de Slayer depuis les années 90.  

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/kerry-king-slayer-idle-hands-from-hell-i-rise-1234951010/

I was surprised you had a second guitarist. I thought you would have played all the guitar and bass yourself.
I have done that. Not on this, but since the early Nineties I’ve done all the rhythm guitars and all the bass [on Slayer records]. I’ve always done bass because my guy [Tom Araya] really didn’t.

On va pas se mentir : ça s'écoute bien tout ça.

Tout à fait. Franchement qui s'attendait à quelque chose d'original de sa part ?

Du gros n'importe quoi : Slayer se reforme ! 
Le line up est celui du groupe avant la séparation : Araya, King, Holt et Bostaph.

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C'est vraiment bizarre, j'ai longtemps cru à une blague.
En dehors des motivations très certainement financières (ça ne sera pas le premier groupe à renier ses principes, n'est-ce pas Mötley Crüe ?) et des déclarations très récentes de King sur Araya, ce qui m'étonne le plus c'est le timing de cette annonce. King vient de débuter la promo pour son album solo et cette reformation met plus que du plomb dans l'aile à son projet. Qui aura envie d'aller voir King faire du sous-Slayer en sachant que Slayer est de retour (et la moitié du line up est la même !) ?  
Tout ça est absurde, en tout cas je ne comprends pas la démarche.  

Même Phil Demmel, guitariste du groupe de King, n'était pas au courant du retour de Slayer !

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Ils sont ridicules. Et comme tu dis, avec l'album solo qui arrivait, c'est encore plus bizarre.

Nouvel extrait intéressant !

C'est le Phil Demmel de Machine Head ?

Non, le Phil Demmel de Vio-lence. (oui, c'est bien lui. Il a réactivé son groupe mais apparemment il s'est pris la tête avec le chanteur. Il cachetonne à droite à gauche)

Avec Kerry King ça devait être plus que du cachetonnage au départ, mais le retour improbable de Slayer change peut être la donne ?