MARILYN MANSON AND SLAYER ARE BFF
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 at 12:20pm by Axl RosenbergI really did think that Marilyn Manson and Slayer’s Kerry King would start talking shit about one another at some point during their tour together, but I guess they found a couple of things they have in common: they both hate Jesus, or at least pretend to hate him for media attention, and they both pride themselves on being evil. So I guess they managed to see past the fact that one is more or less a known homophobe and the other wears make-up.
ANYWAY, here’s footage of King playing guitar for Manson during a rendition of the latter’s “Irresponsible Hate Anthem” in LA this past Saturday night. I would have liked to see Manson try his hand at “Angel of Death” – I don’t think he could do any worse than Araya at this point – but I have to wonder if this will lead to a full-on cash-in guest spot on Manson’s next album. King hasn’t done one of those since that song with Sum 41 or Blink 182 or Matchbox 20 or whoever the fuck it was for Spider Man, so he’s due.
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Kerry King is quite possibly the most over-rated metal guitarist alive or dead. Yes, he can play fast, but every solo sounds exactly the same. Exactly.
“We interrupt this Slayer song to bring you Kerry King playing a bunch of notes really fast. They will almost be in the same key as the song…and…OUT! Back to your Slayer song.”
Sweet. Antichrist was a amazing cd. Been into manson since i saw the video for dope hate one morning on mtv at like 3 or whenever. It’s probably his best one he’s done. I was glad to hear Twiggy is back. Maybe manson will start going psycho again and cutting himself again on stage now.
Ken M says Sammy is the most overrated poster ever. What have you done that comes close to anything that Kerry King has done.
+1, Sammy
Ugh! It pains me to see Kerry King playing with douche supreme Marilyn Manson who is an affront to nature and should be smote from the face of the earth post haste.
Sammy isn’t entirely wrong. Technically speaking, Kerry King is a REALLY piss poor soloist (Hanneman isn’t much better). However, it’s that careening train flying off the rails thing he has that just happens to fit Slayer so well that it kinda doesn’t matter. I mean, if they ever decided to ’slow things down’ and play less evil, blistering fair his limitations as a player would show through and it would be painful to listen to.
It’s probably why he’s stuck to the formula that has worked all these years and I still love him for it.
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Hey Ken M, I never said I could touch anything Kerry King has ever done. He could shred circles around me and then shred circles around the circles. I just said I hate what he does with his shreds. They have no context to the music. King has written some of the most iconic metal riffs of all time, then has gone on to ruin them with non-sensical fretboard jack-offs.
Simon Cowel can’t sing a note, but makes $100 million a year evaluating musical talent – or the kind of talent that sells, anyway. I don’t have to be Eric Clapton to know when something is shit.
And Sammy wants to know what the fuck is up with Ken M talking about Ken M in the third person? By the way, thanks Hegster. Appreciate the backup.