Kerry King Says Slayer Will Never Do Farewell "Sequels"

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LiveDaily recently conducted an interview with SLAYER guitarist Kerry King. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow:

On SLAYER's upcoming tour with MARILYN MANSON:

"It has the potential to be great — and hopefully it is. To me, it pretty much depends on what Manson plays. He can come out, guns blazing, and impress the hell out of our fans maybe, or he could come out playing something that our fans don't really get into as much. To me, the wild card is what Manson plays."

"[SLAYER's manager] was talking to me about [doing a tour with MARILYN MANSON] all the time. I was always on the fence because I didn't know where Manson was these days, [or] what he was going to bring to the show. I never met him. I just met him for the first time a couple of weeks ago. He's a very smart dude, as you can imagine, and he carries his own absinthe around, so me and him are going to get along fine."

"We're splitting production, stage, everything else. When we play, none of his stuff's on there. When he plays, none of our stuff's on there. He wanted to [go on after us]. I said, "Cool, man." I like not playing last all the time. We're playing the same amount of time so, essentially, we get to wear out the crowd. By the time we're done and he gets on stage, I'm already backstage and having a shot with my buddies."

On whether he has any plans to break up SLAYER:

"I don't have any idea when that's going to be. The only farewell plans we have is when we do it, we're going to do it and that's going to be it. We're not going to do the farewell tour sequel or anything like that. If you want to come see us, you better come now because we're not coming back. I just think it's so phony when people do that. How many times has KISS done it? How many times has everyone done it? Like, are you really going away this time, or do you want more of my money?"