As part of an oral history on thrash metal available over at udiscovermusic.com, Slayer guitarist Kerry King revealed that there was a time during the late 90’s where the popularity of Limp Bizkit & nü metal made him want to stop playing music. He said of that:
“I was really jaded for a while back in the late 90s. I couldn’t understand why Limp Bizkit was big. It affected me–I didn’t want to play music. I thought, if this is the way that music’s going, then fuck this, I hate it. That’s why Jeff Hanneman wrote so much of our 1998 album ‘Diabolus In Musica‘, which is too funky for me.”
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It’s certainly not the first time King has shared his views on music during the late 90’s, but it is interesting to see him single out a band in particular. Previous comments have seen him refer to the ‘frat boy’ bands of that era as being the most infuriating.
[via MetalSucks]
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