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Watch amazing 1984 Megadeth video with Kerry King thrashing it up onstage

Author Jad - 27.3.2022

It’s impossible to imagine Slayer without guitarist Kerry King, but he temporarily jumped ship to join Megadeth right at the beginning of both band’s respective careers.

How good would that have been? Pretty amazing if YouTube footage of the gig King played with Megadeth at the Keystone in Berkeley, California on April 15, 1984 is anything to go by.

The quality may be fairly grainy, but even that can’t hide the fact that this is a band that’s absolutely on fire – and that crowd knows it.

Check it out below:

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