Kerry Kingilta sooloalbumi toukokuussa: Ensimmäinen single ”Idle Hands” kuunneltavissa
Slayerista tunnettu kitaristi Kerry King julkaisee uransa ensimmäisen sooloalbumin nimeltä ”From Hell I Rise” toukokuun 17. päivä. Kingin tulevan soolobändin kokoonpanosta tulevat löytymään Kingin lisäksi Phil Demmel (kitara, ent. Machine Head), Mark Osegueda (laulu, Death Angel), Paul Bostaph (rummut, Slayer) sekä Kyle Sanders (basso, Hellyeah) ja voit kuunnella projektin ensimmäisen singlen ”Idle Hands” tästä:
Kerry King on antanut albumiin liittyen Rolling Stonelle haastattelun, jossa on paljastanut pohtineensa ensin projektiin laulajaksi Panteran Phil Anselmoa mutta päätyneensä lopulta Mark Oseguedaan koska piti tätä monipuolisena laulajana. King kertoi Anselmosta sekä Oseguedan päätymisestä yhtyeeseen seuraavaa:
”My management, my promoter, my record label all wanted Phil. 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.'”