Slayer: Sountracking The Apocalypse
By: Joseph Foley
Blistering.com: I bet it feels good to take a little time off - so what are you up too?
Kerry King: [Just] getting the house back together and enjoying being nobody for a while. Blistering.com: Touring after all these years, what keeps you guys going?
Kerry: Touring is the best part for me. It's always cool to come up with new [material], but a lot of times that's more of a pain in the ass than it's worth - you know just getting it done. But that’s a necessary evil to get back on the road again. Blistering.com: What made you decide to do a clothing line and how’s it doing so far?
Kerry: It just [opened] up last week. We had a coming soon up there for fucking eternity. And I got side tracked being on the [Jagermeister] tour, but like three days after we were home we had it up and people could finally go there if they dig the shirts, pick them up. Besides, it was just an idea I had over the summer; I had a bunch of t-shirt ideas I thought were really cool but didn't have anything to do with Slayer. Than I am trying to keep them separate so like I don't blow any Slayer ideas on my own stuff. Blistering.com: Is the clothing only going to be available on the website or will it be in any retail stores?
Kerry: The retail part [you] can get it through Pruvoto, the same people who do the Slayer shirts. That ones trickling out slower then the online thing because the online thing you can just get them on the spot, to where you got to wait for retailers to figure out what's going on and get them in the stores. Blistering.com: How big are you getting with it, t -shirts only, full product line or…?
Kerry: It's not going to be like D.C. shoes or anything, you know like where you have shoes and pants and all that crap. My vision right now is just the concert stuff like t-shirts, long sleeves, hoodies. Blistering.com: No Kerry “Fuckin” King boxers?
Kerry: NO! (Laughs) I'd have to kick my own ass for that one. Blistering.com: You guys released War At The Warfield in July. There's a segment called "Fans Rule" on it, fans are saying all kind of crazy shit. Like they're into necrophilia. How do feel about this, do you find it embarrassing for Slayer or just awesome and fucking hilarious like me?
Kerry: I mean everybody's got their own vibe. They do what they want. If we didn't write the song called Necrophiliac people would still be fucking dead people, you know what I mean? I can't say it's something I'm into, but it makes for an interesting video. Blistering.com: How would you compare War At The Warfield to the only other "official" live video Live Intrusion? (Released in ’95)
Kerry: Um, Live Intrusion, that's always going to have a special spot for me. Because NFL films did it and I'm a BIG football fan. And it was just really wild how they went in there and had the dude in the mosh pit with the mosh cam that was really awesome, but this one, the new one, has a complete live show plus that fan stuff, you know, there's cam interviews with us in that. So I think there's more to the new one. Blistering.com: Is there any plans for Live Intrusion to be released on DVD anytime, seeing as it was VHS at the time?
Kerry: I think it's going to be released next year. That's a question I had recently. Blistering.com: The Boxed Set, Soundtrack To The Apocalypse, are you happy with it (packaging & content) was there anything you guys wanted to add but did not get a chance?
Kerry: Not really, at some point it becomes a money issue. We could keep cramming it full of shit, but then you stop and think, well how much does your average Slayer fan make and how much are they willing to kick out for something that half of which they already have anyway? So we tried to keep the price down. Blistering.com: How long has it been in the making?
Kerry: We've been talking about it about three years or so. But actual "let's do it”, when the record company decided hey let's go was probably three or four months ago. Blistering.com: There's a lot of awesome footage out there both rare and live, audio and live, what made you guys decide to use the stuff you did?
Kerry: Well a lot of the stuff came out of stuff I saved from the beginning, a lot of that stuff is from my own camera except for the great quality stuff obviously wasn't mine. In the early days I would just set my camera up at the soundboard so we could see what we looked like you know with the lights and everything more than the sound but some of them sound pretty decent, but a lot of people should know a lot of the stuff you haven't seen, shit you haven't seen on the DVD isn't the best sound quality or video quality it's pretty much bootleg quality because that's what it is. It's stuff I filmed, well not from me but from my camera.
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