Slayer Guitarist Praises Guns N’ Roses In New Interview with Talk is Jericho Podcast!

Slayer guitarist Kerry King was recently interviewed on the Talk is Jericho podcast where he discussed amongst many other things…Guns N’ Roses. He said the following

“We made our own path and just stuck with it. I’ve said it a million times – I think we’re the thrash metal AC/DC.

“And I think that’s a good thing because I never understood when people like bands but they say, ‘Yeah, but they don’t change.’ I’m like, ‘I don’t like a band because they change, I like the band because they sound like what I like about them.’

“I like Judas Priest because they sound like Judas Priest. Nobody sounds like Rob Halford. That’s important to me. And [Iron] Maiden – it’s Bruce [Dickinson].

I think a lot of bands become mega bands because they have the unique singer who sounds like no one else. Look at Axl Rose – Guns N’ Roses is one of the biggest bands on the planet because of that. And great songs, of course.

“My point was I like AC/DC because they sound like that and they made the same record for 40 years. We made the same record for 35 years, we’re getting there. [Laughs] But that’s why people like us. I don’t wanna be something else, this is the music I want to play and luckily people give a care about it.”