During a conversation with Rolling Stone magazine, Slayer guitarist Kerry King talked about former Slayer drummer, Dave Lombardo, who was asked if he is still in touch with him.
Kerry said:
“No. Lombardo is dead to me. (Dave) went on that tirade when we were on a flight to Australia, and he knew we couldn’t retort for 14 hours, and he threw me under the bus. I was the only one keeping him in the band.
”Tom (Araya) wanted him out before that, and Jeff (Hannemann) had just gotten the spider bite (causing him to contract a flesh-eating bacteria, forcing him off the road), so he wasn’t playing with us much. I said, ‘We need (Dave).
”The fans won’t get it if we replace him right now.’ And then the Australia thing came up. He threw me under the bus, and I’m, like, ‘I’m the guy that kept you here.’ So I thought, ‘F*ck that guy.'”