Talkin' Slayer, Episode 09: Metal Moonlighting... Kerry King Joins Megadeth

Welcome to Talkin' Slayer: A Podcast and Half-@ssed Audiobook. Today's topic is Megadeth — and Slayer guitarist Kerry King's brief role in it.

Metallica fire their star and lead guitarist, Dave Mustaine. Mustaine swears vengeance, forms Megadeth, and stages a vendetta. When the hottest guitarist in thrash needs another guitarist who can hang with him, the successful candidate is Slayer's Kerry King. For King, playing with his hero is a learning experience... and a brief one.

SHOW NOTES, as referenced on this week's episode...

Killer video of a near-complete Megadeth set featuring Kerry King — the video says it's the first Megadeth show, though it is not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2XTzxgX3c0

From the killer documentary Get Thrashed, ex-Megadeth bassist Dave Ellefson bassist's take on Kerry's time in the band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rLw_Ro1IUo

Trailer for Murder in the Front Row, the thrash documentary you NEED: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiEQF2aXoY4

Trailer for Born in the Basement, Rat Skates' Overkill early days / thrash documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twLdbDKnqGY

Lyric video by Chupacabra, the UK blackened thrash badasses who play all the music you hear on the show: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cwV6sfVgXs⁠

Chupacabra on Bandcamp: ⁠https://chupacabrametal.bandcamp.com/album/fortified-with-ashes⁠

After some introductory episodes, Talkin' Slayer tells the story of the Los Angeles heavy metal institution, in chronological order: how the band happened, when things fell apart, how they put them back together, and what it all meant — no, MEANS.

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Every week, host D.X. Ferris presents another chapter — sometimes two or three — in the history of Slayer, from the groundbreaking group's pre-history in Chile to their hazy, fractured, mysterious end in 2019. Slayer was the first Big Four band to break up. Why? Well, it's a long story...

The Talkin' Slayer podcast program show is written, deeply researched, lightly edited, and mostly rehearsed, with some production value. This is an all-killer-no-filler podcast: The episode proper begins after roughly 60 seconds of introduction, tops. No need to skip the first 15 minutes. The music changes every week.

Ferris is an award-winning writer. He has worked for Rolling Stone, Alternative Press, The AV Club, and Decibel magazine. He is a fan. He has opinions. He is the author of something like nine books, depending how you count them. Two are about Slayer. The first one is an entire book about the classic thrash album Reign in Blood, which is part of the fairly prestigious 33 1/3 book series.

His bigger Slayer book, though, is the 2023 update of the full-on band biography "Slayer 66 & 2/3: A Metal Band Biography, POSTMORTEM Edition." (This is the third edition; it was previously known as "Slayer 66 & 2/3: The Jeff and Dave Years...."). And that book is mostly what he'll be talking about when we're talkin' Slayer. Most episodes are audio adaptations of chapters from that book. Some have original and/or bonus material.

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