Will Slayer ever tour again? Guitarist Kerry King clarified regarding this topic during an interview with Jonathan Clarke, host of “Out Of The Box” on Q104.3 radio station.
The guitarist was asked how the reunion shows came five years after Slayer’s farewell tour, which seemed to be the end of the band’s career:
“I’ll put it in the perspective everybody can understand. We’ve been turning down offers since the beginning of 2020, pandemic and all. And then it started getting near the five-year anniversary of us stopping playing, so I’m, like, ‘You know what? This is a three-show package.
”I think it would be fun to do.’ It’s kind of a five-year anniversary of our last tour. We’re never gonna tour again, it ain’t gonna happen. We’re never gonna record again; that’s not gonna happen either. But to do commemorative shows, I think that’s kind of fun.
”I don’t have to be married to it for a long time. Kids don’t have to worry about it coming around on tour because we said we wouldn’t. There’s not a whole lot of weird diabolical s*it going on here. I think people have just gotta say, ‘Hey, it’s anniversary celebration shows.’ That’s gonna be the end of it.”