{"id":2009,"date":"2025-05-16T16:54:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T16:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/2025\/05\/16\/kerry-king-on-nearly-joining-megadeth-why-it-wouldnt-have-worked-out-me-and-dave-wouldve-butted-heads-like-no-tomorrow\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T16:54:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T16:54:37","slug":"kerry-king-on-nearly-joining-megadeth-why-it-wouldnt-have-worked-out-me-and-dave-wouldve-butted-heads-like-no-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/2025\/05\/16\/kerry-king-on-nearly-joining-megadeth-why-it-wouldnt-have-worked-out-me-and-dave-wouldve-butted-heads-like-no-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"KERRY KING On Nearly Joining MEGADETH &#038; Why It Wouldn&#8217;t Have Worked Out: &#8220;Me And DAVE Would&#8217;ve Butted Heads Like No Tomorrow&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Before <strong>Slayer<\/strong> became one of thrash metal\u2019s most enduring forces, guitarist <strong>Kerry King<\/strong> flirted with a path that could have taken him down a very different road \u2013 one that led through the earliest days of <strong>Megadeth<\/strong>. Now, in a candid new interview with <strong>Gast\u00e3o Moreira<\/strong> of <em>Bangers Open Air<\/em>, <strong>King<\/strong> reflected on his brief but notable stint as <strong>Megadeth<\/strong>\u2019s second guitarist.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, I love <strong>Mustaine<\/strong> to this day. I think he&#8217;s one of the greatest guitar players out there \u2013 still,\u201d <strong>King<\/strong> shared (via <a href=\"https:\/\/blabbermouth.net\/news\/kerry-king-if-i-had-joined-megadeth-dave-mustaine-and-i-would-have-butted-heads-like-no-tomorrow\"><em>Blabbermouth<\/em><\/a>). \u201cSo when I caught \u2013 I don&#8217;t even remember how I heard that he wanted me to play second guitar to him. But I was flattered because even back then, I thought he was awesome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>King<\/strong>\u2019s involvement with <strong>Megadeth<\/strong> came at a formative time. He played the band\u2019s first five shows but never officially joined. Asked whether he was already a part of <strong>Slayer<\/strong> during this period, <strong>King<\/strong> confirmed, &#8220;Yeah, I think we were kind of in between records.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to imagine a timeline where <strong>King<\/strong> left one of thrash\u2019s \u201cBig Four\u201d to help build another, but when asked if he ever considered leaving <strong>Slayer<\/strong> for <strong>Megadeth<\/strong>, he offered a measured reflection:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sure I probably did, but <strong>Slayer<\/strong> is where I belong. And in hindsight, I absolutely made the right choice &#8217;cause me and <strong>Dave<\/strong> would&#8217;ve butted heads like no tomorrow. It&#8217;s just his personality. I mean, look how people have been in his band. Fifty? And that&#8217;s not me down-talking <strong>Mustaine<\/strong>. I like hanging with him for 20 minutes, and then you go away and &#8216;I&#8217;ll see you in a year.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In just a few words, <strong>King<\/strong> managed to acknowledge <strong>Mustaine<\/strong>\u2019s influence while also reinforcing why his destiny was always with <strong>Slayer<\/strong>. While it\u2019s fascinating to imagine a parallel metal universe where <strong>King<\/strong> remained a founding member of <strong>Megadeth<\/strong>, his instincts \u2013 however sharp-edged \u2013 ultimately aligned with the legacy he helped forge in <em>Show No Mercy<\/em> and beyond.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kerry King no epis\u00f3dio especial do Podcast Oficial do Bangers Open Air\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AegVXWRBruY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"zox-post-body left zoxrel zox100\">\n\t\t<strong style=\"display: block;margin: 0 auto;max-width: 660px;font-size: 1.625rem;\">Want More Metal? 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Now, in a candid new interview with Gast\u00e3o Moreira of Bangers Open Air, King reflected on his brief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}