Kerry King
Kerry King ( born June 3, 1964 in Los Angeles, California ) is a guitarist, co-founder and co- songwriter of thrash metal band Slayer.
Life
In 1981, King, along with his school friend Tom Araya, the band Slayer. He was also briefly as guitarist for Megadeth active and had several guest appearances as lead guitarist on albums of other artists, such as:
- Beastie Boys - No Sleep Till Brooklyn on Licensed to Ill
- Hatebreed - Final Prayer on Perseverance
- Ice -T - Disorder on Judgment Night
- Rob Zombie - Dead Girl Superstar at The Bishop's Wife
- Pantera - Goddamn Electric on Reinventing The Steel
- Sum 41 - What We're All About ( The Original Version) from the soundtrack to Spider -Man
- Witchery - Witchkrieg on the eponymous album Witchkrieg
However, Max Cavalera's call to join Soulfly, he refused.
Like many other metal musicians he had long hair left, but intersect because of incipient baldness bald around 1993, can be seen on the tattoos. He is interested in ice hockey and American football and therefore contributes occasionally a jersey of his favorite team Oakland Raiders and Los Angeles Kings at performances. Another of his trademarks is a forearm leather holster, which is covered with long steel nails.
Kerry King has two sisters: Karen Wilson and Kathie Adams. He is married for the third time and has been with his current wife, the daughter Shyanne Kymberlee King. He currently lives in Anaheim and operates - in addition to his employment with Slayer - KFK Industries with an Internet mail order.
Style
His lyrics are mainly based on satanic themes, derived from his love of horror films. Many of his fans consider him to be Satanists, but he claims to have a more atheistic attitude and thinks it makes more fun to sing about Satan as God.
Equipment
The first finger exercises took King on the Gibson ES -175 his father, who then gave him a 1963 Fender Stratocaster. King was the single coil pickups too soft on the pitch here and his father gave him instead a '78 BC Rich. Since then, Kerry is an avowed B.C. fan. Between 1990 and 1998 ESP guitar was produced in collaboration with the King Kerry King Signature V, which was available in two price categories. As B.C. Rich passed back in family hands, he allowed himself to build his own guitar, a mixture of a Beast and a speed V. At that time, King still using a Fender Super Champ, which he has to this day. Even in his earliest appearances he used a Fender amp, the Super Champ, in combination with a MXR Distortion Pedal. Only later King used the Marshall amps that shape the sound and the stage of the band to this day. King now used Marshall guitar amplifier along with its designed by him BC Rich KKV (Kerry King V ) guitar. There is also the EMG Kerry King Signature pickup set one consisting of the EMG 81 and EMG 85 In addition, he produced in collaboration with a Marshall Guitar amp head tubes. This is a development of the JCM800 ( 2203 ), the front plate was kept in the design of Kerry Kings Tattoos and through another tube placement than the standard model, as well as a "Beast - section " ( this contains a noise gate, an alternative Equalizerpreset ) features.