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Kerry King<\/a><\/strong> originally revealed that he’s played bass on every Slayer<\/a><\/strong> record since the ’90s thanks to one comment in an interview with Rolling Stone<\/em>: “I have [played bass in the studio]. Not on [my solo album], but since the early nineties I’ve done all the rhythm guitars and all the bass [on Slayer<\/a><\/strong> records]. I’ve always done bass because my guy [Tom Araya<\/strong>] really didn’t.”<\/p>\n But why did King<\/strong> take up the four-stringed mantle in the studio? Long story short, Araya<\/strong> never really learned the songs. In an interview with Guitar World<\/em>, King<\/strong> also noted that Araya<\/strong> is perfectly capable of playing the songs live, it’s just that he never really got it together in the studio.<\/p>\n “We would always let Tom<\/strong> play bass until he got tired of not being good at it. In Tom<\/strong>‘s defense, up to that point, he had never played the songs. It was always just me and Paul<\/strong> going through ’em. And then we get in the studio, it’s time to record. I think Tom<\/strong>‘s got it in his head that he’s gonna be able to pull it off. But for anybody that’s never played a song before, to come in without knowing the music and get it up to recording level is not realistic.<\/p>\n “So, if I’ve already done my guitar tracks, Jeff<\/strong>‘s done his guitar tracks, and Tom<\/strong> doesn’t know the bass parts, I can pick up a bass and get it done in less than a day ’cause I already know the songs. It got to where he’d mess around and play one song for eight hours before he got frustrated and just said, ‘Here, you do it!’ I don’t want anybody to think for a second that he couldn’t do it if he had the time to learn it.”<\/p>\n On his new solo album From Hell I Rise<\/em> and bassist Kyle Sanders<\/strong> playing on it, King added: “It’s refreshing. I never wanted it. It’s not something I needed musically. It’s not something I needed personally. Having it was super cool and super fun, and working with new people was super fun. This is the first record I haven’t played bass on, probably, since the nineties.”<\/p>\n Kerry King<\/a><\/strong> will be out on tour with Lamb Of God<\/a><\/strong>, Mastodon<\/a><\/strong>, and Malevolence<\/a><\/strong> later this month. Get your tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n 7\/19 Grand Prairie, TX Texas Trust CU Theatre
7\/20 Austin, TX Germania Insurance Amphitheater
7\/21 Houston, TX 713 Music Hall
7\/23 Jacksonville, FL Daily\u2019s Place
7\/24 Orlando, FL Orlando Amphitheater
7\/25 Alpharetta, GA Ameris Bank Amphitheatre
7\/27 Raleigh, NC Red Hat Amphitheater
7\/28 Richmond, VA Virginia Credit Union LIVE!
7\/30 Pittsburgh, PA Stage AE
7\/31 London, ON Budweiser Gardens
8\/1 Montreal, QC Bell Centre
8\/3 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena
8\/4 Manchester, NH SNHU Arena
8\/6 Bangor, ME Maine Savings Amphitheatre
8\/8 Reading, PA Santander Arena (w\/ Unearth, no Malevolence)
8\/9 Cleveland, OH Jacobs Pavilion (w\/ Unearth, no Malevolence)
8\/10 Sterling Heights, MI Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre @ Freedom Hill (w\/ Unearth, no Malevolence)
8\/13 Moorhead, MN Bluestem Center For The Arts Amphitheater
8\/15 Calgary, AB Scotiabank Saddledome
8\/16 Penticton, BC South Okanagan Events Centre
8\/17 Kent, WA accesso ShoWare Center
8\/18 Portland, OR Theater of the Clouds
8\/21 Los Angeles, CA The Kia Forum
8\/23 Phoenix, AZ Arizona Financial Theatre
8\/24 Rio Rancho, NM Rio Rancho Events Center
8\/25 El Paso, TX El Paso County Coliseum
8\/27 Magna, UT The Great Saltair
8\/29 Morrison, CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre
8\/31 Omaha, NE The Astro Amphitheater\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n