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Left - Guitarist Bill Kelliher of Mastodon performs on stage during the Hellfest Open Air Festival on June 17, 2022 in Clisson, France;Right - Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield of the band Metallica perform at the 2024 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song on March 20, 2024 at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, DC

Mastodon's Bill Kelliher on how meeting his guitar heroes pushed him to improve his craft

By Janelle Borg published

Mastodon's Bill Kelliher also credits Slayer's Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman for changing his previously nonchalant attitude to warming up before a show

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Guitarist Kerry King of Slayer displays the Dean Guitars Kerry King signature model guitar at the Dean Gordon Guitars Space at Anaheim Convention Center on April 13, 2023 in Anaheim, California

You’ll never guess what guitar thrash metal pioneer Kerry King learned to play on

By Janelle Borg published

Kerry King’s first guitar is as far away from his hellishly barbed electric guitars as you can get

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Kerry King performs onstage with Slayer at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on November 27, 2019

“If you want to bench press 200lbs, you start at 80”: Kerry King on how to master thrash metal speed riffing

By Janelle Borg published

In a new interview with Total Guitar, the Slayer axeman demystifies his approach to light-speed riffing, and reveals what he loves about AC/DC

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St. Vincent performs onstage at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California on December 16, 2022

“This song presents a kind of revisionist history where guitar solos were cool after all in the early noughties”: February 2024 Guitar World editors' picks

By Michael Astley-Brown published

From neoclassical tapping clinics to cosmic, spaghetti western-esque guitar soundscapes, this month has provided an embarrassment of six-string riches

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Dean Guitars USA Custom Shop Kerry King Signature Overlord

NAMM 2023: Dean reveals Kerry King’s latest lux signature, the USA Custom Shop Overlord – and it is heaving with top-notch components and clever circuitry

By Matt Parker published

Dean’s handmade USA model helps Kerry King to make his points

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[L-R] Dave Mustaine and Kerry King

Dave Mustaine responds to praise from Kerry King: “It's not every day one of the most fearsome guitarists in the world gives you a compliment”

By Sam Roche published

The former Slayer guitarist calls the Megadeth frontman a “f**king great guitar player” in the latest issue of Metal Hammer

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[L-R] Kerry King and Deryck Whibley

Kerry King turned down his Sum 41 guest solo 10 times – here's what changed his mind

By Sam Roche published

The Slayer man on how his historic Beastie Boys guest spot led to him performing on the punk rockers' 2002 single What We're All About

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Kerry King says his first post-Slayer project will sound like Slayer and is coming soon

By Sam Roche published

“I won't be dragging my feet much longer,” says King, who says he has more than two records' worth of material for the unnamed project, and Paul Bostaph's services on drums

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Kerry King onstage with Slayer

Kerry King admits Slayer “quit too early”

By Matt Parker published

The guitarist reckons 2019 was too soon for a farewell and he has more left in the tank

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[L-R] Kerry King and Alexi Laiho

Kerry King: Alexi Laiho was a “guitar god”

By Richard Bienstock published

The Slayer guitarist also recalls touring with Children of Bodom in a new tribute

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