Trouble in Slayer Land

[MetalIsArt]

Originally Posted by IrritatedTrout

The internal dynamics in Slayer seem terrible. Tom has gone on record saying he doesn't like touring and basically does it only for the money, Kerry pretty much says he doesn't even talk to Jeff and doesn't seem to even care if he comes back, and now Lombardo gets ousted.

Not good.

They all don't like touring, even Jeff said it on the "War At The Warfield" DVD. He does like the playing live itself.

[RampinUp46]

Originally Posted by Onioner

[MetalIsArt]

Lol but boring.

[gilpdawg]

Originally Posted by MPF

I'm guessing my joke is too old and went over a lot of people's heads.

I got it.


I don't know about John Dette being a permanent replacement. That didn't work so well before. Heck, didn't they fire him? I saw them with Dette and something seemed off. They weren't quite as tight as they are with Bostaph or Dave behind the kit. Not knocking Dette, I thought he was good in Testament. Maybe I just saw them on an off night.

Of course I'm getting way ahead of myself there, since we don't know what they are going to do yet.

[ravenheart]

Statement from Slayer (i.e. Kerry):

"Slayer confirms that Jon Dette will drum for the band on its Australian tour that starts this Saturday, February 23 in Brisbane. As regards [to] Dave Lombardo’s Facebook post, Slayer does not agree with Mr. Lombardo’s substance or the timeline of the events, except to acknowledge that Mr. Lombardo came to the band less than a week before their scheduled departure for Australia to present an entirely new set of terms for his engagement that were contrary to those that had been previously agreed upon. The band was unable to reach an agreement on these new demands in the short amount of time available prior to leaving for Australia. There is more to the account than what Mr. Lombardo has offered, but out of respect to him, Slayer will not be commenting further. Slayer is grateful to its Australian fans for their understanding of this unfortunate last-minute change, and very much looks forward to seeing them at these shows.”

[AnthG]

Kevin Talley is always available. Always.

[300%_Density]

More of Kerry King being himself or the "mastermind" as he calls it:

On drummer Dave Lombardo's current status with SLAYER:

Kerry: "This just happened a week ago… ten days ago… so I mean, I don't know… It's unfortunate that Dave couldn't be with us; I planned on him being here up until the Monday before I left. And then I saw trouble in paradise, and since I am the mastermind on making decisions like this, I was, like, 'Alright, I've got a backup plan. Just in case.' 'Cause I would have hated to have just Australia blown out. Can you imagine how shitty that would have been? So I did what I thought was best, and we pulled it off."

On whether he saw the dispute with Dave coming:

Kerry: "Tom [Araya, SLAYER bassist/vocalist] did. Tom's been on the fence about Dave for awhile and I was pretty much the one that said, 'Nah, I'm not comfortable moving on [without Dave].' And then it got thrust in our face and I took action immediately and I got a very lucky culmination of things that happened."

[hellawaits77ny]

SMH

Not exactly reassuring for Slayer to get back to normal.

[hellawaits77ny]

Kerry King quotes on the upcoming album:

"I've got 11 songs done. I don't know who's gonna do 'em — I don't know who's gonna produce it, I don't know who's gonna play it."

"Those two are done. The nine others I've just gotta teach whoever's gonna play 'em, and they're ready to go."

"I've been working on the new maerial a lot, and I worked on it a lot with [SLAYER drummer] Dave [Lombardo]. So I haven't decided — if we move on [without Dave] — I haven't decided if I play the new guy what we've done or just play him the guitar stuff that I made up and say, 'What do you think?' 'Cause I know what I want to be there, and I can tell him if it's going in the wrong direction. 'Nah, you've gotta play this.' I haven't even thought this far yet."

Full article here:
http://www.blabbermouth.net/news.asp...sitemID=186883

So he's essentially said noone else has had any part in the writing of the new album, the whole thing was written by him. So therefore, we all know the album will be straight t-rash.

Man, this sucks. I hope somehow this band can work everything out and the 4 true members of Slayer will play again.

[300%_Density]

Originally Posted by hellawaits77ny

Man, this sucks. I hope somehow this band can work everything out and the 4 true members of Slayer will play again.

At this point a Slayer with 3/4 of the band would be a moral victory IMO