Kerry King

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Kerry King live on stage in 2007

Kerry Ray King (* 3. June 1964 in Los Angeles , California ) is a guitarist , co-founder and co- songwriter of 2019 dissolved thrash metal - band Slayer .

Life

In 1981 King founded the band Slayer with his school friend Tom Araya . He also worked as a guitarist for Megadeth for a short time and had some guest appearances as lead guitarist on albums by other artists, such as:

However , he declined Max Cavalera's offer to join Soulfly .

Like many other metal musicians, he also had long hair, but had a bald head cut around 1993 due to the onset of hair loss, with tattoos on it. He is interested in ice hockey and American football , so he occasionally wears a jersey from his favorite teams, the Oakland Raiders and Los Angeles Kings, when performing. Another of his trademarks is a leather forearm halter, which is studded with long steel nails.

Kerry King has two sisters: Karen Wilson and Kathie Adams. He is married for the third time and has the daughter Shyanne Kymberlee King with his current wife. He currently lives in Anaheim and operates with KFK Industries an internet - mail order .

style

His lyrics are mostly based on satanic themes derived from his predilection for horror films . Many of his fans consider him a Satanist, but he claims to be more atheistic and says it is more fun to sing about Satan than about God.

equipment

Kerry King at Rock am Ring 2014

King performed his first finger exercises on his father's Gibson ES-175 , who then gave him a 1963 Fender Stratocaster . King's single coil pickups were too soft in pitch and his father gave him a '78 BC Rich instead . Since then, Kerry has been an avowed BC fan. Between 1990 and 1998 ESP had produced the Kerry King V Signature Guitar in collaboration with King , which was available in two price categories. When BC Rich went back into family hands, he had his own guitar built, a mixture of a Beast and a Speed-V. Back then King was still using a Fender Super Champ, which he still owns to this day. Already on his first appearances he used a Fender amplifier, the Super Champ, in combination with an MXR distortion pedal. It was only later that King used the Marshall amps, which still shape the band's sound and stage design today. King today used Marshall - guitar amplifier along with its designed by him BC Rich KKV ( Kerry King V ) guitar . There is also by the company EMG , a Kerry King Signature Tonabnehmerset consisting of the EMG 81 and EMG 85. In addition, he produced in collaboration with Marshall an electric guitar tube amps. This is a further development of the JCM800 (2203), the front panel of which was designed by Kerry Kings Tattoos and which has a different tube assembly than the standard model, as well as a "beast section" (this contains an alternative equalizer preset in addition to a noise gate ) has.

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