Guitarist Kerry King sat down with Frank Godla of Metal Injection for an interview where he spoke about Slayer’s upcoming reunion shows:

 “I turned (Slayer reunion offers) down for the longest time. You can imagine we’ve been turning down offers since December 1st, 2019. And at that point, I thought, ‘No, we’re never gonna play again.’ Tom (Araya) retired. So it’s written. And then offers keep coming, offers keep coming, the money goes up.

”And this one came around and it was when we were booking shows from my (solo) band, and I go to my manager. I’m, like, ‘Are we talking about my band or Slayer? What are we talking about here?’ He’s, like, ‘Slayer.’ And I’m, like, ‘Yeah, but that’s done. We hung that s*it up. I dropped the chains. Done.’ But then it started getting to where this is really gonna be the five-year anniversary of (Slayer’s) last tour. And I went, ‘That’s kind of cool. Three shows, five-year anniversary. Okay.’ That’s about all I thought about it.”

If there will be more Slayer shows in the future, even in Europe, Kerry King clarified:

“I’m trying to be real and definitely say, hey, we’re not gonna tour again,” he explained. “And we’re certainly not gonna record again, ’cause I have a means of doing that now with my band. (We’re doing) three shows for now.

”And I say ‘for now’ because I know Europe’s gonna come knocking, ‘Hey, man, you guys played America. Come see us.’ So it wouldn’t surprise me if something like that happened, but it’s certainly not on my books right now.”