Love it or hate it, Kerry King couldn’t care less about your thoughts on his solo album

The guitarist for Slayer talked extensively about his solo project and its debut album in a recent interview with Bruno Sutter of the “Bem Que Se Kiss” program on Brazil’s Rádio Kiss FM 92.5. It turns out that Kerry King doesn’t lose any sleep over other people’s opinions, which was brought up during the conversation about expectations.

The only thing I have to say to something like that, and it makes perfect sense — I want AC/DC to be AC/DC. I want Judas Preist to be Judas Priest. People want Kerry King to be Kerry King, I think. To me, it’s people that are just haters on the Internet. They have an opinion about everything, and no one gives a shit about their opinion.”

Regarding his intention with the record, King stated that he wasn’t attempting to overshadow his earlier work with Slayer.

I didn’t go out of my way to outdo Slayer. To me, it was honestly the next 12 or 13 songs, the ones we finished, the ones we felt good about. I do think that record’s got teeth. It’s fierce; it just rips out of the speakers. I never set out to do anything better than Slayer. I just wanted my next thing to be good.

He also spoke about the decision of naming his band with his name.

I still think of myself as a bandmember. Believe it or not, I never wanted to call [my new band] my name. I wanted to have a band name, but let me tell you something — you try to get a band name, see how far you get. I worked on it for years — years I had — and I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t do it. And then it became time to announce some of our first shows, and we had to call it something. So, everybody knew my name, the logo’s pretty cool, so we went with it. I still wish I could come up with a band name and maybe do like a Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow, because it’s really awkward for me when five of us are on stage and they’re just shouting for me… It’s weird. It’s weird. I’m not that kind of guy. I’m not that dude that needs my ego filled. I don’t need that at all. I want everybody else to get recognition too.