Within the Spring of 2002, one of the vital not going rock crossover occasions in historical past happened as puerile Canadian pop punk heroes Sum 41 controlled to one way or the other wing a visitor look on certainly one of their tracks from a respected thrash steel icon. The track in query, titled What We are All About and transformed from one of the crucial band’s older cuts, used to be recorded for the soundtrack of that 12 months’s blockbuster, Sam Raimi-directed Spider-Guy film.
A goofy rap-rock bop that owed greater than a bit of to the Beastie Boys, the track’s video featured clips of Spider-Guy spliced in with photographs of Sum 41 enjoying a gig on a ceiling as their jubilant enthusiasts watch from underneath. Slightly below two mins in, alternatively, audience had been greeted with an almighty surprise: Slayer guitarist Kerry King striding into shot and nailing a solo because the track all at once lurches into galloping heavy steel.
“I have in mind my document consultant, he will have to were running on each bands, however he saved asking me to play a lead within the Sum 41 track,” King tells us as of late. “And I went, ‘Guy, I do not know.’ It wasn’t on account of Sum 41, it is because ‘I simply do not know if my enthusiasts are going to get it.’ And he saved asking, I saved pronouncing ‘I do not know…’
“After which in the future one fateful day,” King continues, “he got here to me and he stated, ‘You performed at the Beastie Boys [1986 classic No Sleep till BrooklynI]! I went, ‘Motherfucker, now you were given me. How can I now not do it? So then I were given on board to do it.”
That explains the how, however what in regards to the why? Specifically: why would King possibility the wrath of steel gatekeepers internationally by way of blending it up with a pop punk band? “Any time I do one thing like that I hope to higher Slayer in an international point of view,” the guitarist explains. “Possibly children seeing Sum 41, you understand, can see me play and say, ‘Whats up, who is that man? The place’d he come from?’ and possibly they will test us out for the primary time. In order that’s why I do stuff like that.”
Now not best did the revel in give King the danger to push Slayer onto an entire new target market, however he additionally had a merry outdated time capturing the video itself. “That used to be cool,” he confirms. “I would by no means been in a video at the moment with that more or less manufacturing. Assembly the [Sum 41] guys, i have in mind they had been enthusiasts – I don’t believe to the purpose of fanboying out like possibly I’d over Tony Iommi or one thing, as a result of that used to be that is an entire different tale – however they had been clearly enthusiasts and and stoked that I got here to be within the video. On the finish of the day I believe it is beautiful cool video!”
Watch Kerry speak about the video underneath. The Slayer guy has a hectic summer season forward, together with his first solo album, From Hell I Upward push, touchdown on Would possibly 17, and solo and Slayer are living dates deliberate during competition season.
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