Kerry King has teased what appears to be a 2024 reveal of his long-awaited post-Slayer project.
The guitarist kept things vague, sharing an image of his iconic chain, which he wore for years while performing with Slayer, resting on what looks to be the floor of a stage. The caption reads: “Coming in 2024…”
The image is a callback to the symbolic moment when King removed his chain before lifting it and letting it fall to the stage floor at the end of Slayer’s final concert in 2019 at The Forum in Los Angeles.
“One of the reasons I did the chain drop at the last show was so everybody in the building could hear it,” King later told Dean Guitars in a 2020 interview. “And it wasn’t something I planned. We were doing the last run, and I said, ‘I wanna do this on the last Forum show so people take it more seriously.’ Like, ‘King took off his chains. He left them on the stage. What the fuck, man?’ So people hopefully got that. This isn’t one of those, ‘We’re gonna be back next year and do it again.’ The chains took me through Slayer. I took them off, dropped them on stage, and I walked off, and that’s the end of Slayer for me.”
Back in 2022, we reported that King was preparing to launch his new band with Slayer’s Paul Bostaph on drums. Declining to unveil any more lineup details, the guitarist said that rehearsals had begun in March of last year and that the original plan was to tour as early as 2020. Instead, he waited for the pandemic to “run its course.”
Those comments came after King revealed that he was sitting on two albums-worth of material for the prospective band in 2020, so next year’s announcement could involve new music, a tour, or both.
Rumors suggested that Slayer/Exodus guitarist Gary Holt and singer Philip Anselmo were also part of King’s project, but that was before Anselmo resurrected Pantera. At this time, it is unclear who is part of the new band other than King and Bostaph.
Below you can see the teaser via Kerry King’s official new Facebook page.
