Metal Anarchy

During a fan Q&A session for Metal Hammer, Slayer’s Kerry King discussed his brief stint in Megadeth. The guitarist says if him and frontman Dave Mustaine “could have co-existed for four years, it would have been a very different band.”

King said the following when asked if there are any bands he would have liked to join:

“I was almost in Megadeth. I think if myself and Dave Mustaine could have co-existed for four years, it would have been a very different band. I’m not saying I’d have made them better – I’d have made them different.

It’s funny. I was backstage at Mercyful Fate’s show in Las Vegas and got talking to [guitarist] Hank Shermann, and said to him, ‘I thought you guys might come knocking’, and you could see his head explode. ‘It never fucking occurred to me!’ I’m a huge Mercyful Fate fan so I’d have done that in a heartbeat.

I’d also love to play with Judas Priest. That brief second where Richie [Faulkner] got sick and they suggested going out with one player, I thought if they called me and said, ‘Can you be that one guitarist?’, I honestly don’t think I could, because they’re such a dual guitar band. Thankfully they never did it, but if they’d have asked, I think it would have been the hardest ‘no’ of my life.”