Metal
Slayer guitarist Kerry King will release “My War”, the first single from his second solo album, on Tuesday 17 November. He has shared a short teaser. The album, “The End Of All Gods”, is out on 12 February 2027 on Reigning Phoenix Music.
He talked about it recently on “100 Songs That Define Heavy Metal”, the podcast hosted by Metal Blade founder Brian Slagel: “Josh Wilbur’s doing it again, and my publicist would knock me […] out if I gave up too much. But I think it’s a wonderful extension of the first album. […] The intro, to me, is one of the best intros I ever made up.”
That first album, “From Hell I Rise”, came out in May 2024 on the same label. King wrote all the music and lyrics himself. Completing the line-up are Mark Osegueda (Death Angel) on vocals, Phil Demmel (Machine Head, Vio-lence) on second guitar, Kyle Sanders (Hellyeah) on bass and Paul Bostaph, who also drums for Slayer.
According to Independent Artist Group, the agency that represents Slayer and King’s band outside the US and Canada, the tour for the new album will start in early 2027. No dates have been announced yet.
Text by Roger Estivill