Metal Anarchy

During a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Kerry King opened up about his relationship with his former Slayer bandmate Dave Lombardo. Unfortunately, the guitarist says the drummer is basically “dead to [him].”

King said the following:

“Lombardo is dead to me. He went on that tirade when we were on a flight to Australia, and he knew we couldn’t retort for 14 hours, and he threw me under the bus. I was the only one keeping him in the band. Tom [Araya] wanted him out before that, and Jeff [Hannemann] had just gotten the spider bite, so he wasn’t playing with us much. I said, ‘We need [Dave]. The fans won’t get it if we replace him right now.’ And then the Australia thing came up. He threw me under the bus, and I’m, like, ‘I’m the guy that kept you here.’ So I thought, ‘Fuck that guy.’”

He also added:

“[Dave’s] super impressionable. He was listening to this woman that was his attorney at the time, and she thought we had Metallica money, which we’ve never had fucking Metallica money. So she’s just blowing shit in his ear, and he thinks he should be getting more than he should be getting. It’s like, talk to somebody that actually knows the situation and isn’t just blowing sunshine up your ass to make money in your commission.”